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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Two shows are opening this month on Broadway, one a musical adaptation of a 1990 Julia Roberts movie, “Pretty Woman,” starring Andy Karl and Samantha Barks; the other, “Get…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2018
I compared Shaina Taub's musical adaptation of "Twelfth Night" to a party and to a variety show when the Public Theater presented it in Central Park over Labor Day weekend in 2016. The unusu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:16PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in July? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2018
In "The House That Will Not Stand," Marcus Gardley's historically fascinating, lyrical and surprisingly funny play, nobody much cares for Beartrice Albans " not her three beautiful daughters…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01PM[SHARE]Soon after this… .@Lin_Manuel,Hollywood mogul? 1 Starring in @MaryPoppins 2. Directing movie Tick, Tick…Boom! 3. Executive producer on @FX TV series about Bob Fosse & Gwen Ve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 29, 2018
For all its high-energy hedonism featuring handsome half-clad bodies, "This Ain't No Disco," the rock opera at the Atlantic Theater set in the New York City club scene of the 1970s, doesn't …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 28, 2018
Before the musical "'68" begins, newspaper headlines are projected on the stage a, marking some of the tumultuous events in the year 1968 — the assassinations of Martin Luther K…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38AM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2018
There is a full-out gospel number, with swaying red choir robes, heavenly belting and devilishly deft dancing, in this last of this season's Encores Off-Center concerts. But, as directed and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2018
Head Over Heels is a mash-up that sounds weird and unworkable: It's a jukebox musical using 18 songs by the 1980s all-female L.A. punk band The Go-Go's. But it's also a loose adaptation of A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PM[SHARE]“Head Over Heels” is a mash-up that sounds weird and unworkable: It's a jukebox musical using 18 songs by the 1980s all-female L.A. punk band The Go-Go's. But it's also a loose a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:22PM[SHARE]Straight White Men, a thought-provoking play by Young Jean Lee with a terrifically entertaining cast of Broadway newcomers including Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and Paul Schneider as rowdy br…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 25, 2018
There are three major historical events in the early timeline of Nazi horrors that figure as personal turning points in the story of the corruption, perversion and destruction of the wealthy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda is making his film directorial debut in a movie version of “Tick,Tick…Boom!” an early, semi-autobiographical musical by “Rent” composer Jonat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PM[SHARE]Below is the list of nominations announced last night for the 14th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater " aka Off-Off Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16AM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2018
"Straight White Men," a thought-provoking play by Young Jean Lee with a terrifically entertaining cast of Broadway newcomers including Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and Paul Schneider as rowdy …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 22, 2018
Near the beginning of "Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller," the new Off-Broadway revival of the long-running Broadway musical revue, performer Jelani Remy does a double back …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2018
"Emojiland," an entry in the 2018 New York Musical Festival, is set inside a smart phone, with the resident emojis facing a "textistential" crisis —ĂÂ the phone is due for a software…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:33PM[SHARE]Billie is a published poet and a professor, who has been married to her husband Marvin for 25 years. She can't sleep. She has trouble finding her things, and blames Marvin for rearranging th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Son: What is a traitor? Lady Macduff: Why, one that swears and lies. Son: And be all traitors that do so? Lady Macduff: Everyone that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged. Son: Who must …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2018
During the 1911 fire that burned Coney Island's Dreamland amusement park to the ground, one of the animal attractions,ĂÂ a black lion, with his hind quarters ablaze, scrambled up the stair…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:44AM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2018
Starting today, your public library card gives you free admission to some three dozen cultural institutions ĂÂ through “Culture Pass.” It’s mostly museums now, but the lis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2018
Those who doubted that a Yiddish-language production of "A Fiddler on the Roof," directed by Joel Grey,ĂÂ would turn out to be a great joy ("a shtik naches") might react to Jackie Hoffman'…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PM[SHARE]"Interstate," an entry at the New York Musical Festival, is about two New Yorkers who form a band called Queer Malady and tour the country: Dash is a Chinese-born trans man and spoken word p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 14, 2018
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 12:37PM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2018
The title of this musical, a selection of the 2018 New York Musical Festival, comes from Operacion Pedro Pan (Operation Peter Pan), ĂÂ which between 1960 and 1962 brought more than 14,000 c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2018
In her actual medieval memoir, which was rediscovered in the 1930s, Margery Kempe seems almost as extreme in her devotion as her 15thcentury contemporary, Joan of Arc. The English woman tell…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13PM[SHARE]Six actresses — from Tatiany Maslany of “Orphan Black” making her New York stage debut, to Tony winner Blair Brown — play the title character in “Mary Page Marl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46AM[SHARE]One of the real people that The Civilians theater troupe interviewed to put together "Gone Missing" resists the assignment, which is to tell them stories about objects she has lost, such as …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway between now and the end of December 2018, as of this writing, and they a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2018
“I had one of the all time best conversations with a Condescending Theatergoer Who Sat In Front Of Me at intermission of My Fair Lady,” Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote in the first of a…
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