Wednesday, November 21, 2018
How will you celebrate Thanksgiving? In "The Thanksgiving Play," billed as a satire and running at Playwrights Horizons through December 2 (though not on Thanksgiving Day), playwright Lariss…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 20, 2018
This week in New York theater, I seem to have zigged while others zagged, even when it comes to zazz. To explain: 1. I don't completely understand the high level of snark about "King Kong." …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:07AM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2018
"The Prom" is really two musicals in one. One is a funny, knowing backstage comedy, satirizing the self-regard of theater folk. The other is a loud, fast high school musical. What ties them …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 18, 2018
Both King Kong and Olaf, the goofy snow man from Frozen, will loom large on Thanksgiving Day — but not on Broadway; neither current musical is one of the four Broadway shows performing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 17, 2018
We must be silent, here in this secret attic apartment where two Jewish families are hiding from the Nazis. And so, in "The Hidden Ones," a spare and chilling immersive theater piece, the se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:22PM[SHARE]Friday, November 16, 2018
Like a boxer faking out an opponent, Michael C. Hall as Thom Pain plays tricks on the audience: "Now I think would be a good time for the raffle," he says at one point, then shortly afterwar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PM[SHARE]Like a boxer faking out an opponent, Michael C. Hall as Thom Pain plays tricks on the audience in Will Eno’s one-character play….For Thom's jousts and jabs to feel like something…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2018
King Kong is spectacular — those dreamy eyes, that expressive sniffing of his nose, the earthquake of a roar. He is such a singular creature that, like Ann Darrow, the damsel he picks …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2018
The heart of Hansol Jung's play at the Public Theater is the relationship between two lonely, awkward people in South Korea who connect through an online dating site. But the play also featu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2018
In celebration of the Blue Wave " which has grown steadily in the week since Election Day — a silly observation: There have been 51 Broadway shows with "Blue" in the title. I'm relucta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AM[SHARE]Monday, November 12, 2018
“The New One “isn't literally new. Mike Birbiglia's solo show debuted Off-Broadway three months ago " where it sold out quickly. It's now on Broadway " same cast (i.e. Mike Birbi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 11, 2018
"The Female Role Model Project" is a pioneering work of theater by a new company called Transforma, in which artists and scientists collaborate to explore attitudes about women, and question…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 10, 2018
Afong Moy was the first Chinese woman in the United States. Brought to New York in 1834, she was put on display in a museum. Out of this true story, playwright Lloyd Suh has fashioned "Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:01PM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2018
My favorite character in Frozen on Broadway by far is Sven the reindeer. I’ve been a fan of Avenue QÂ before it opened Off-Broadway the first time. Does anybody doubt The Lion King…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2018
While anxiously waiting in a Miami police station for word of what happened to her son Jamal, an educated African-American woman named Kendra (Kerry Washington) talks with her estranged whit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:42PM[SHARE]While anxiously waiting in a Miami police station for word of what happened to her son Jamal, an educated African-American woman named Kendra (Kerry Washington) talks with her estranged whit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Today is Election Day! If you live in NYC, find your polling site here. If you live anywhere in America, you can go to Vote.org for some cool info — like, for example, what’s on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2018
When Torch Song opened Off-Broadway a year ago, I noted that the issues affecting gay people that it explored remained unfortunately relevant 35 years after the play had debuted on Broadway,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PM[SHARE]The 1982 Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy, starring Harvey Fierstein as Arnold Beckoff, a sometime drag queen and gay Jewish romantic searching for love and acceptance, could be cre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 3, 2018
"It's a terrible time to be alive. There's just nothing left to discover," says Jake (Noah Robbins) in the second half of Lewiston/Clarkston, two powerfully affecting plays by Samuel D. Hunt…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PM[SHARE]Friday, November 2, 2018
Food for the Gods is about the killing of black men; Exodus addresses the current refugee crisis; Blind is a solo work about disability. These may not sound like typical subjects for puppet …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2018
Six shows are opening on Broadway in November. And yes, one of them features a giant ape feeling unwelcome in New York City, and another marks the annual holiday stopover for a perennial…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2018
How well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in October? Answer these 10 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25AM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2018
This has been a wonderful week for theater " with openings for terrific Broadway shows The Ferryman, The Waverly Gallery, The Lifespan of a Fact. And not just on Broadway: The 21st New York …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 28, 2018
"India Pale Ale," a play by Jaclyn Backhaus running Off-Broadway, suddenly becomes shockingly timely with the killing of 11 Jews in a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Halfway through the play, a cha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 27, 2018
By the time “The Ferryman” has ended, we have been treated to a breathtaking mix of revenge action thriller, romance, melodrama, family saga, and a feast of storytelling " ghost …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2018
Elaine May is back on a Broadway stage after more than 50 years, and making the most of it in The Waverly Gallery, Kenneth Lonergan's meticulously observed, funny and sad play about a woman'…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PM[SHARE]Elaine May is back on a Broadway stage after more than 50 years, and making the most of it in The Waverly Gallery, Kenneth Lonergan's meticulously observed, funny and sad play about a woman'…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PM[SHARE]Last year, James Franco's lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to a theater that was going to present Kevin Broccoli's play "James Franco and Me," insisting they stop marketing the movie s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2018
The first fact that fact-checker Jim (Daniel Radcliffe) argues about in the essay by  magazine writer John (Bobby Cannavale) is how many strip clubs there are in Las Vegas. Adult Industry…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PM[SHARE]I take “The Lifespan of a Fact” personally. On the one hand, Cherry Jones, Bobby Cannavale and Daniel Radcliffe, are three of my favorite actors in the universe, performing in a …
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