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 (&…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 1, 2018
Sarah Bernhardt returns to Broadway, in the person of Janet McTeer, in a new play by Teresa Rebeck about the actress's pursuit in 1899 of the role of Hamlet. ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet” i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41AM[SHARE]Friday, August 31, 2018
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 30, 2018
Police in the United States shot and killed 36 unarmed black men in 2015; 18 in 2016; 19 in 2017, and 12 so far in 2018, according to the Washington Post. In "Scraps," Geraldine Inoa, mak…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Below is a list of movies opening from September to December, organized chronologically by release date. Among the movies featuring theater veterans: Oscar Isaac  in “Operation Fina…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 28, 2018
"Remnant," according to Theater Mitu's director Ruben Polendo, is a meditation on war, death and loss. It is Mitu's first piece in the first building that the 20-year-old company can call it…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PM[SHARE]Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon (nine minutes after the first, Neil Armstrong), 50 years ago next summer. "No one will think of them as 'the first men on the moon.'Neil wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2018
Playwright Neil Simon, who dominated Broadway with his many comedies for more than two decades, died on Sunday at the age of 91. His is the latest death of a theater artist in a week full of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 26, 2018
Lillian Hellman herself described "Days to Come," her 1936 play about labor strife and family conflict, as "an absolute horror of a failure." She wrote it two years after her first Broadway …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 25, 2018
Leonard Bernstein, who was born on August 25, 1918, was “the greatest pianist among the conductors, the greatest conductor among composers, the greatest composer among pianists,”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43PM[SHARE]Friday, August 24, 2018
Charlie Copeland is a Broadway fixer, who's worked on everything from "The Phantom of the Opera" to "Frozen," tangibly changing the experience for a generation of theatergoers. Copeland is n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 23, 2018
Philip Santos Schaffer pulls back the curtain and introduces himself as “your server and savior” to me and the only other member of the audience. After chatting idly for a while,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 21, 2018
The National Asian American Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy is unlike any you've seen in New York before. This is true largely because you are unlikely ever to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33PM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2018
For 20 years, August was the month when New Yorkers who hated the beach and couldn't afford to travel could have a "staycation" sampling some 200 shows at the New York International Fringe F…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, August 17, 2018
From its first moments, Gettin' The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot, uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, and clich…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54PM[SHARE]From its first moments, Gettin' The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show  on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot,  uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 16, 2018
Vivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04PM[SHARE]Vivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2018
With two Broadway shows opening this week — “Gettin The Band Back Together” and “Pretty Woman” — it’s hard to say we’re in the Dog Days of Aug…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 11, 2018
"Shakespeare in the Theater" is the not-quite-clever title of a festival at the Brick Theater that presents itself as an alternative to New York summer staples, Shakespeare in the Park and S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 9, 2018
To outsiders, Be More Chill is a hyper-energetic pop-rock musical opening tonight Off-Broadway, starring Will Roland (Dear Evan Hansen) as a high school student named Jeremy Heere who sees h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33PM[SHARE]To outsiders, “Be More Chill” is a hyper-energetic pop-rock musical opening tonight Off-Broadway, starring Will Roland (“Dear Evan Hansen”) as a high school student n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2018
For the 42nd summer in a row, the Theater for the New City’s touring Street Theater Company is presenting an original show for free in the streets and parks throughout New York City. (…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PM[SHARE]Alzheimer's, homophobia, transphobia, immigration, the 1960s, and emojis: These were some of the subjects in the 15th annual New York Musical Festival, or NYMF, which presented 30 musica…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Wearing t-shirts that said “Now showing: Truth,” Rosie O’Donnell and dozens of other performers who had traveled from New York for the day participated in the 22nd day of p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AM[SHARE]Monday, August 6, 2018
Ruthie Anne Miles performed for the first time after her terrible loss, Julia Roberts visited the musical adaptation of the movie that made her a star, Rosie O’Donnell is leading a bus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PM[SHARE]Four musicals in the 2018 New York Musical Festival tied for the most awards, five apiece: Between the Sea and the Sky, Emojiland, Interstate and Pedro Pan. Below the list of winners and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 5, 2018
Margaret, a widow and well-meaning mother, is dressed in pearls while making her special buttermilk biscuits for her daughter Laura, who's back home listless with severe memory loss after he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 4, 2018
"I am tall when I'm young but short when I'm old. What am I?" That's the first of the three riddles that Sam (short for Samantha) poses to the mysterious woman in white in order to free her …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2018
This week’s Broadway at Bryant Park was an all-Disney concert, with cast members from three Disney musicals on Broadway — Aladdin, Frozen and The Lion King — performing 10 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2018
When Mike Birbiglia announced that his fourth one-man show would be playing at the Cherry Lane, he wouldn't say what it would be about; he simply called it "The New One." (“I hate it w…
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