Thursday, August 8, 2019
"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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Actors Equity went on strike for the first time on August 7, 1919 " one hundred years ago today. Stars like Ethel Barrymore, W.C. Fields and Marie Dressler joined hundreds of their fellow un…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2019
It makes sense that George Abbott is the first theater artist profiled in "The 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre" (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 288 pages, publication date…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:30PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2019
I spent much of the week in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, attending the week-long 16th biennial National Black Theatre Festival, which presented 30 plays and musicals from black theaters in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2019
Three mass shootings in a single week " in Gilroy, California last Sunday leaving three dead; in El Paso,Texas leaving at least 20 dead Sunday: in Dayton, Ohio, leaving at least nine dead " …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 3, 2019
Harold Prince, the consummate Broadway producer and director who died on Wednesday at the age of 91, had his first Broadway credit in April 1950, as an assistant stage manager for "Tickets, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55AM[SHARE]Friday, August 2, 2019
In "Hannah Senesh," a play running through August 18th at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the title character is a Jewish teenager in Europe in the 1930s who starts keeping a diary at age 13.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2019
Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge deliver back-to-back monologues in the only show opening on Broadway in August. After a promised Broadway run was scrapped, "Bat Out of Hell" is finally ope…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Harold Prince died this morning at 91 years of age after a brief illness, in Reykjavik, Iceland. There will be no funeral, but a celebration of his life is planned. Â The lights of allÂ…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24PM[SHARE]Harold Prince died this morning at 91 years of age after a brief illness, in Reykjavik, Iceland. There will be no funeral, but a celebration of his life is planned. Â The lights of allÂ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2019
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and views in July, from the Broadway Blackout to the Dunaway Dismissal? Answer these dozen questions and find out. Â
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2019
Below is the list of nominations announced tonight for the 15th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater " aka Off-Off Broadway.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22PM[SHARE]Other New Yorkers may view midsummer, with its heat waves and general malaise, as time to get out of the city. Theatergoers know it as festival fever. These include some of the familiar annu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 28, 2019
 The three shows reviewed below from this year's New York Musical Festival are all, each in its own way, naïve…or one of the near synonyms for the word naïve, each of which offer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 27, 2019
It would be easy to make some wrong assumptions about this dinner theater production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Café Fae, given its title, its marketing, and the fact that it is co-p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2019
Stephen Sondheim, now 89 years old, Â first began writing a musical about the real-life eccentric and significant Mizner Brothers when he was 23 years old; paused in his efforts when he le…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2019
Moulin Rouge, a $28 million jukebox musical that opens tonight at the Al Hirschfeld Theater, is adapted from Baz Luhrmann's 2001 movie of the same name, and expands its playlist to some 7…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2019
The Theater Collection at the Museum of the City of New York contains over 190,000 objects that document theatrical performance in New York City from 1785 on. These include more than 30,000 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PM[SHARE]The actress Annie Golden (mute Norma in Orange Is the New Black) stars as the actress Annie Golden, who exchanges the humiliations of auditions for the thrills of a career kick-boxing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 23, 2019
The actress Annie Golden (mute Norma in Orange Is the New Black) stars as the actress Annie Golden, who exchanges the humiliations of auditions for the thrills of a career kick-boxing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32PM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2019
 Therapists were busy reassuring theatergoers after seeing Dame Judi Dench in the trailer for the movie CATS. (See below.) Meanwhile, three shows opened Off-Broadway last week about real…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 21, 2019
"These people recruit, rape and spread disease," Mama says about homosexuals, not realizing she's talking to one, in Chris Urch's play, which takes place in Uganda in 2010. That was the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 20, 2019
Paul McCartney has announced that, at the age of 77, he is writing his first musical " a stage adaptation of Frank Capra's 1946 movie "It's a Wonderful Life," a holiday evergreen in which Ji…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:18PM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2019
What would Euripides say about the liberties being taken with his tragedies in New York? Medea, one of his last and most-produced plays, has been turned into the harrowing tale of an undocum…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:18PM[SHARE]What would Euripides say about the liberties being taken with his tragedies in New York? Medea,one of his last and most-produced plays, has been turned into the harrowing tale of an undocume…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2019
Halley Feiffer's loud, broad, hyperactive, foul-mouthed, unconventionally cast, aggressively playful and generally off-beat adaptation of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" was upstaged earlier this …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Most everybody knows that Medea kills her children to take revenge on their two-timing father Jason. But "Mojada," playwright Luis Alfaro's modern-day adaptation at the Public Theater, zeroe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Every night from now until the end of the summer, you can watch a free movie somewhere outdoors in New York City  -- and whole movie series every weeknight except Tuesdays.
The movi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2019
The Week in New York Theater: Incredibly, the 2019 blackout that shut down the West Side Saturday night and shuttered 26 of 30 Broadway shows -- all but the four that begin with B (Be More C…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 14, 2019
When MarÃa Irene Fornés died last October at the age of 88, the many theatergoers who knew nothing about her suddenly learned how pioneering , prolific and influential a theater artist s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2019
A power outage in midtown shuttered more than two dozen Broadway shows. The casts of some of them took to the streets " See below Hadestown, Hamilton, Come From Away, Waitress… and Carnegi…
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