Friday, September 27, 2019
The same playwright who gave us The Father with a demented Frank Langella and The Mother with a depressed and possibly deranged Isabelle Huppert now offers us…dead Jonathan Pryce and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:03PM[SHARE]The same playwright who gave us "The Father" with a demented Frank Langella and "The Mother" with a depressed and possibly deranged Isabelle Huppert now offers us…dead Jonathan Pryce and E…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2019
Ethereal, stylized and visually stunning, Japanese director Satoshi Miyagi's production of "Antigone," at the Park Avenue Armory through October 6, fuses several theatrical traditions, some …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2019
The artist known as Dyalekt (pronounced dialect) greets us looking like a young Allen Ginsberg in his Yippie Uncle Sam phase, holding up a bucket labeled "dead words," asking us for words th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:12PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2019
 The city has announced plans  to build a performing arts center dedicated to Immigrants. The proposed Immigrant Research and Performing Arts Center will go up in Inwood, the north…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 22, 2019
Billy Porter won an Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for "Pose." " the first openly gay black man to win the lead actor in a drama category "The category is love, y'all. Lov…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PM[SHARE]Below is a map showing the location of the more than 50 tables at today's 33rd Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Â Beneath that are t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 21, 2019
There are three ways of looking at Mac Wellman's "The Invention of Tragedy" that offer some satisfactions " as a political parable, as a metaphor for Western theater, Â or as entertaining …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2019
Taping live Broadway shows for the screen is no longer seen as an experiment. It's a routine practice, and it's moved from movie theaters to home computers.
Life is not all that's gone onli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2019
How do people care for one another in dangerous times? That's the still-relevant question underlying this beautiful, sad, enraging, uplifting, and awesomely staged theater piece that sweeps …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55PM[SHARE]"A Doll's House, Part 2" by Lucas Hnath and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens have tied as the most produced plays scheduled for the 2019-2020 season, accor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Exactly seven weeks after Harold Prince died at the age of 91, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has opened the exhibition "In The Company of Harold Prince: Broadway produc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Long before our current cultural moment, when major new Hollywood films depict them as pure evil, and scientists try to explain why so many people find them creepy, my college guidance…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47PM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2019
Below is the complete list of winners of the 15th annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards, honoring outstanding work Off-Off Broadway. Â Multiple-winning shows include "Eight Tales of Pe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01PM[SHARE]"As Much As I Can," a show that illustrates the continuing AIDS crisis among African-American men, exists on two different planes, which are not in complete alignment with one another. It is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:57PM[SHARE]Phyllis Newman, 86, has died. Â She was an entertainer from the age of 4; veteran of 11 Broadway shows (Tony winner for Subways Are For Sleeping, pictured); daughter of a fortune teller an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2019
In his Broadway debut, Derren Brown performs some dozen mind games and magic tricks over 150 minutes that depend on audience participation, all of which are meant to provoke us to ask: "How …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 14, 2019
Talmudic scholars and kung fu movie fans will both find something familiar in this singular hour-long hybrid by the eight-year-old theater company Meta-Phys Ed., in which four performers…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:19PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2019
In my article for TDF Stages, I look at three new plays that focus on AIDS " "The Inheritance" by Matthew Lopez, which begins performances on Broadway September 27, opening in November; and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2019
Who should do a cabaret act? That was a question posed in a recent ticket giveaway contest for the cabaret 54 Below. Here are some of the responses, listed alphabetically by performer, follo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2019
On the surface, "American Moor," written by and starring Keith Hamilton Cobb, Â is about a veteran African-American actor auditioning to play Othello for a clueless young, white director. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Some of the most thrilling theater in New York this Fall, and certainly much of the weirdest, promises to be Off-Broadway. There are revivals Off-Broadway of Tony Kushner's first play, one o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:08PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2019
The 2019-2020 Broadway season has begun, with the first Fall Broadway opening  of 15  scheduled from September through December,  and the first of the Fall previews, some coverin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 8, 2019
The audience creates the show in "Play!" The audience is the show in "Theatre in the Dark: Carpe Diem." Â Those are the uncomfortable ideas embedded in the two latest theater pieces, openi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 7, 2019
 To appreciate these first two productions of the five-play Mac Wellman festival at The Flea, entitled "Perfect Catastrophes," it helps to know that Wellman " the 74-year-old co-found…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2019
Theatrical showman was born 120 years ago today, and, though he died in 1966, he lives on through The Billy Rose Theatre Division of The New York Public Library at Lincoln  Center, one of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 5, 2019
There was a huge line to see the fourth Broadway production of Harold Pinter's 1978 play about an adulterous triangle. The enthusiasm, I had assumed, was because the cast includes the mo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03PM[SHARE]Harold Pinter's 1978 play about an adulterous triangle, which is being revived on Broadway starring Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox and Zawe Ashton,  is one of the most accessible and most…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Win two tickets to see the show of your choice at Feinstein's/54 Below  for free " plus $50 in food credit! Feinstein's/54 Below, a cabaret that calls itself Broadway's Supper Club, opene…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2019
At the beginning of this eye-opening musical written, Â composed, directed and largely performed by artists of Filipino descent, Felix Starro has returned from the Philippines to San Franc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09PM[SHARE]"Hercules," a stage adaptation of the 1997 Disney cartoon, is the latest free, Labor Day weekend spectacle at the Delacorte in Central Park by the Public Theater's Public Works, which for se…
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