Monday, October 1, 2018
How well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in September? Answer these 13 questions to find out. Keep abreast of what’s happening with my weekly summari…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 30, 2018
Bob Dylan, Glenn Close, Daniel Radcliffe, and Gloria Steinem are all on a New York stage one way or another in October, always a good month for theater. This year's October is likely the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 29, 2018
How, one wondered, would British playwright Richard Bean, whose hilarious farce One Man, Two Guvnors made a star out of James Corden, create something as funny for Americans out of the Briti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PM[SHARE]How, one wondered, would British playwright Richard Bean, whose hilarious farce One Man, Two Guvnors made a star out of James Corden, create something as funny for Americans out of the Briti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PM[SHARE]At the very end of Bernhardt/Hamlet, a new play on Broadway by Theresa Rebeck, we see an actual 1899 film clip of the renowned 19th century actress Sarah Bernhardt on stage, in the role of H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:04AM[SHARE]Bernhardt/Hamlet, a new play on Broadway by Theresa Rebeck about Sarah Bernhardt deciding to perform as Hamlet, is being given a first-rate production, with a winning cast led by Janet McTee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2018
The latest odd hybrid by the Ensemble for the Romantic Century, combining a one-woman show about the poetry and life of Emily Dickinson with a chamber music concert of 19th century composer …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered on Vladimir Putin’s birthday in 2006, as if the assassins were giving him a present for getting rid of this woman deemed an “enemy̶…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Sarah Bernhardt remains the most famous stage actress of all time, the subject of the play Bernhardt/Hamlet on Broadway. But during her lifetime she had a rival, Eleanora Duse. The two didn'…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:08PM[SHARE]Follies at the Astoria Performing Arts Center was a big winner in the 14th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater  " aka Of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 24, 2018
Shakespeare knew Kavanaughs well: "Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true" The 2018-2019 Broadway season, launching in earnest this week with two plays, is shaping up after several …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 23, 2018
La Femme's revival of Tennessee Williams' late, little-known play about four women living and working and bickering with one another, offers something you won't find in A Glass Menagerie …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 22, 2018
As the family gathers for a Thanksgiving right before everything starts to fall apart, Knox (Russell Harvard) gives thanks for "three things I used to think weren't gifts at all: Deafness……
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 21, 2018
“Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2” tops the list of what will be the most produced plays nationwide among the 531 non-profit theaters that are part of the Thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2018
The devotion that Dorothea "Polly" Noonan (Edie Falco,) a foul-mouthed political operative, shows to Erastus Corning 2nd (Michael McKean,) the long-time mayor of Albany, is so intense th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:24PM[SHARE]As Polly Noonan, Edie Falco, late of The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie, can make almost any show more engaging than it would otherwise be, even a relatively sedate one like "The True,"… Ex…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Karma, a "dirty little hood rat" of 17, is looking for her missing former foster brother Terrell, though she didn't know him long and he didn't like her much. He was, however, all she had. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32PM[SHARE]Monday, September 17, 2018
2018 Theatre Hall of Fame inductees: Actors Rene Auberjonois, Christine Baranski, Cicely Tyson Playwrights Maria Irene Fornes, David Henry Hwang, Adrienne Kennedy Director Joe Mantello Produ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 16, 2018
Although billed as "an intimate immersive production," what "Stars in the Night" actually offers, at its best, is the exact opposite — a spectacular public setting. An audience of no m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 15, 2018
When Jenna Gavigan made her Broadway debut at age 16 as a member of the ensemble in the 2003 revival of Gypsy, she shared the stage at the Shubert Theater not just with stars Bernadette Pete…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM[SHARE]Friday, September 14, 2018
“I think there has been a growth in Trump fatigue,” says Tony Stinkmetal, who admits that he himself shares it — which is why it's surprising that he has created a show cal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2018
The full title of "Collective Rage," Jen Silverman's playful, bawdy, and episodic genderqueer/feminist/lesbian comedy about five women named Betty, is 47 words long. Only once does it includ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin will star on Broadway in “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” a new comedy marking the Broadway debut of acclaimed theater artist Taylor Mac.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2018
Sandbags and British flags abound in the air raid shelter where we have gathered, in the basement of London's Ambassador Hotel in 1940, in the midst of the Blitz of London. This is a fine se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 8, 2018
The Culture Wars in America began, according to a new show running from September 13-30 at La MaMa called "THE AЯTS,"  on May 18, 1989, when Senator Al D'Amato of New York ripped up an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2018
Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s glorious gospel musical, an inspired retelling of Sophocles’ "Oedipus at Colonus" as if it's an African-American Pentecostal church service, debute…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2018
Seven years after "War Horse" appeared on Broadway, New Yorkers are getting another British stage adaptation of another young adult novel by Michael Morpurgo about the horrors of World War I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Before Hershey Felder says or sings or plays the piano as Irving Berlin, there are signs that, in this one-man show about arguably the greatest of American songwriters, we're in for an eveni…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 4, 2018
The Village Voice shut down on Friday after 63 years. The Obie Awards, honoring Off & Off-Off Broadway, which the Voice launched in 1955 and still co-sponsored, will continue, acc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13AM[SHARE]Monday, September 3, 2018
It was while attending the current revival of Lillian Hellman's 1936 play "Days to Come," which is set during a strike at a brush factory in Ohio, Â that I suddenly wondered: Where are the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 2, 2018
Off-Broadway in the Fall promises a new musical with book by Conor McPherson and music by Bob Dylan (“Girl from the North Country”); Glenn Close  as Joan of Arc's mother (&…
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