Saturday, June 9, 2018
Now is the time when interest in Broadway is at its peak, piqued by the annual three-hour TV commercial for Broadway known as the Tony Awards broadcast. I regularly get asked for recommendat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29AM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2018
These three new short plays written by Eve Ensler about women and the use and abuse of their bodies arrive on stage just four months after her last play, In the Body of the World , turned me…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2018
Below are my preferences " not my predictions — for the 72nd Annual Tony Awards. See my article in DC Theatre Scene for an explanation for each of my choices. Best Musical Nominated: T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PM[SHARE]The 2018 Tony Awards will be presented Sunday, June 10 at 8pm (ET) on CBS. Despite the Broadway League's crowing about the 2017-2018 season being "the highest-grossing and highest-attended s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Do the Tony nominees feel like best friends from high school you've never actually met, given all the photographs and interviews and….celebrations over the past six weeks? It feels just li…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2018
At the 74th annual Theatre World Awards, luminous performers, including this year’s winners — a dozen honored for their New York stage debuts — talked about when they first…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:27PM[SHARE]Monday, June 4, 2018
Performers from some 20 current Broadway shows offered a free concert in Shubert Alley, to celebrate the Broadway season just past, and whet appetites for the Tony Awards on Sunday, June 10t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 3, 2018
SpongeBob SquarePants won best musical and Angels in America won best revival of a play in the 63rd annual Drama Desk Awards. Andrew Garfield and Glenda Jackson won outstanding actor …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 2, 2018
Broadway's focus is on the Tonys " no Broadway shows are opening this month " but Off-Broadway is bursting. It’s not just all the familiar faces that lure. As the list below makes clea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03PM[SHARE]Friday, June 1, 2018
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in May? Answer these 10 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2018
The boys are on Broadway, and they are fabulous. Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and the rest of the nine-member cast of The Boys in the Band look like they are enjoying themselve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:36PM[SHARE]The boys are on Broadway, and they are fabulous. Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and the rest of the nine-member cast of “The Boys in the Band” look like they are enjoyin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2018
The 2017-2018 Broadway season was "the best attended and highest grossing season in Broadway recorded history," according to The Broadway League, which presented its annual statistics today.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Yes, there are several theater awards still to be given out for the season just past " Drama Desk, June 3; Theatre Worlds, June 4; Tonys, June 10 " but summer theater in New York is pushing …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:07PM[SHARE]Monday, May 28, 2018
On Memorial Day, we remember those who died in U.S. wars. Memorial Day has its origins in the aftermath of the Civil War, which remains the bloodiest of U.S. wars in terms of American casual…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AM[SHARE]Friday, May 25, 2018
On the sixth anniversary of NewYorkTheater.me, a look at the six most popular photographs to be posted on the site since it began, and the most popular posts in each of the past six years. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Reaction occurs in three distinct stages to "The Beast in the Jungle," an unusual new show at Vineyard Theater, inspired by a novella by Henry James, with music composed by John Kander. The …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PM[SHARE]"We don't want you to suffer and die," one of her granddaughters says to Mary Frances (Lois Smith), as she lies in bed. "We just want you to die." "Yeah," agrees Mary Frances with a laugh. S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Eighteen minutes from The Band’s Visit, via NPR. The first Broadway musical ever to get the Tiny Desk concert treatment. SET LIST “Soraya” “Omar Sharif” “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48PM[SHARE]Monday, May 21, 2018
Rajiv Joseph's Describe the Night won the award for Best New American Play, and $1,000, at the 63rd Annual Obie Awards, celebrating Off and Off-Broadway Theater, which spread the love around…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PM[SHARE]The winners of the Drama League Awards and the Chita Rivera Awards were announced this past week (see results below), and the Obies will be held tonight. Â But they and all the other award…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 20, 2018
"What kinda f"in' world is this?" It is the first line in the first scene of "Our Lady of 121st Street," asked by a man in his underwear, ranting to a detective at the Ortiz Funeral Home in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 19, 2018
Harry and Meghan got married this morning. Prince Harry is now the Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton and Baron Kilkeel. Meghan Markle will be known as Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Susse…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AM[SHARE]Friday, May 18, 2018
In the original 2011 production of Jordan Harrison's prescient play, a married couple overwhelmed with the stresses and complications of their lives in the city, leave their high-powered job…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 17, 2018
Bump, a play by Chiara Atik that is as entertaining as it is informative, intertwines three different threads about pregnancy and childbirth " the most surprising of which turns out to be ba…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Summer begins next week in the city, theatrically speaking. That’s when the first of the summer theater festivals start presenting shows that are cheaper (often free), more cutting-edg…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Now that the hard-working, good-looking students of Stanton High School in dreary Stanton, Pennsylvania have put on the musical "Spring Awakening" Â in the season finale of "Rise," it will…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:07PM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2018
With the sudden countertrend of shows with long running times — “Light Shining at Buckinghamshire” at New York Theater Workshop (180 minutes), Â “Long Day’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 13, 2018
Christian Borle clowns like an old-time vaudevillian, Laura Michelle Kelly sings like a classic chanteuse, and director Warren Carylyle choreographs the topnotch cast like a 1930s showman; t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42PM[SHARE]By the end of the Broadway revival of Long Days Journey Into Night two years ago, when Jessica Lange as mother Mary Tyrone rejoins her family, she is an ethereal ghost, her mind and body num…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 12, 2018
By the end of the Broadway revival of Long Days Journey Into Night two years ago, when Jessica Lange as mother Mary Tyrone rejoins her family, she is an ethereal ghost, her mind and body num…
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