Tuesday, September 3, 2019
"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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:31PM[SHARE]Coming to Broadway this season:  Katrina Lenk and Patti Lupone will star in a "re-gendered" revival of "Company" (which was a hit in London), opening at Bernard Jacobs Theater on March…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AM[SHARE]Monday, September 2, 2019
 Where are the American plays about unions, or workers, or even just workplaces? Of some 200 new plays I've seen or read  since I first asked that question exactly a year ago, on the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 1, 2019
 In this eclectic opening month of the New York Fall theater season laid out below, legendary theater artists Mac Wellman (74),JoAnne Akalaitis (82), and Peter Brook (94) each get showca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 31, 2019
"Something didn't make sense," Celia Keenan-Bolger as Scout Finch tells us, the first words in Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation of Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird." She's talking about th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:23PM[SHARE]Friday, August 30, 2019
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these 14 questions and find out!
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 29, 2019
Theater Mitu's latest devised theater piece is a 70-minute tech-heavy sensory bombardment, a collage  of disparate images, monologues, songs and sounds that are focused (if that's the rig…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Win two tickets to see "Fiddler on the Roof" Â for free I loved this production directed by Joel Grey, which is in Yiddish with both English and Russian Supertitles. I loved it when it was…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Below is a list of movies opening in the U.S. from September to December, organized chronologically by release date. Among the movies of interest to theater lovers: Finn Wittrock (Death of A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42PM[SHARE]Monday, August 26, 2019
 Good Morning America host Lara Spencer laughed at Prince George (aged 6), the future King of England, for taking ballet classes. The best thing about her ignorant comments is the suppor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 25, 2019
Two books, one a novel and one non-fiction, bring us back to New York in the 1950s and the effect of the Red Scare on the theater.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 24, 2019
Watch director Richard Nelson's much lauded production of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" here online. It was broadcast last night on WNET Channel 13 as part of the TV series Theater Close Up, which…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21PM[SHARE]Friday, August 23, 2019
The Labyrinth Theater Company's new show, which it has entitled "Installation on America" and calls a weekend-long "guerilla theater/pop-up performance art/installation that unmasks the horr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 22, 2019
The 2019 Henry Hewes Design Awards have been given to scenic designer Charlie Corcoran for The O'Casey Trilogy, at Irish Repertory Theatre; costume designer Montana Levi Blanco for Ain't No…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM[SHARE]Win two tickets to see "The Play That Goes Wrong" for free I'm holding this contest to help promote 20at20, a terrific program that offers $20 tickets to 20+ Off Broadway shows, 20 minutes b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway from September through December 2019 as of this writing, and they are li…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Rebel Verses, an exciting and thought-provoking show presenting artists ages 13 to 19 from some dozen youth theater companies, Â was almost as impressive for what was not on stage as for w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2019
The dog days of August turn out to be full of theater news " even about dogs; these comfort dogs were watching Billy Elliot at the Stratford Festival, reportedly to practice what it's lik…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2019
Seven Broadway and Off-Broadway shows are closing today: King Kong, The Cher Show, Pretty Woman Mojada, Broadway Bounty Hunter, Puffs, and the way she spoke  Then closing August 24th: Wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 17, 2019
The timing in broadcasting a two-year-old play about gun violence may seem right, but it's terribly wrong. The WNET series Theater Close-Up has chosen to broadcast "On The Exhale," Martin Zi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2019
"Like most people of color, black people in the New World, I came by my passion for literature in a circuitous way, a night journey marked by music, movement, improvisation, and smells of pe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2019
"Make Believe" begins with a child on stage silently playing with a Cabbage Patch Doll in an attic playroom; after a while her sister calls out "Mom?" a dozen times off-stage. Â Then her b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 14, 2019
What is a gay play? These three very different plays in the first week of the new Rave Theater Festival could all arguably fit the label, but it would mean stretching the definition beyond t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:11PM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2019
They installed metal detectors in the Al Hirschfeld Theater, the new home of "Moulin Rouge," during the same week that panicking pedestrians a block away mistook a motorcycle backfiring for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 11, 2019
It was uncanny how much "Noirtown" made me feel as if I was living inside a film noir classic like "The Maltese Falcon" or "The Big Sleep" " stylish, seductive, tough-talking and unfathomabl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2019
For the 43rd summer in a row, Theater for the New City is touring a free original outdoor musical in streets, playgrounds and parks throughout all five boroughs (See schedule below.)Â As …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36PM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2019
"Moulin Rouge" was thrilling from the moment I entered the theater… until about ten minutes after it began. That's because the brightest star in this stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's 200…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:16PM[SHARE]Bat Out of Hell is a frequently enjoyable jukebox musical running at New York City Center through September 8, using the muscular rock opera anthems from singer Meat Loaf's trilogy of bes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48AM[SHARE]It's not at all baffling why these two modest monologues by different playwrights were yoked together into a single show at the Public Theater earlier this year. There's an even simpler expl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2019
Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal are certainly the reason why "Sea Wall/A Life" has now moved uptown to the Hudson… In the lobby of the Hudson, for $20 you can buy a quartet of magnets wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PM[SHARE]"Bat Out of Hell"Â is a frequently enjoyable jukebox musical running at New York City Center through September 8, using the muscular rock opera anthems from singer Meat Loaf's trilogy of b…
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