Monday, April 23, 2018
Cristofer, one of the two bright but poor Bronx-born students who are vying for a scholarship in Lucy Thurber's play "Transfers," Â lashes out at one point at the advisor who has been tryi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Summer features 23 of Donna Summer's songs, including such dance hits as "Hot Stuff" and "Last Dance," that a talented cast performs in glitzy disco drag. That may be all some fans need f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 22, 2018
Five shows are officially opening on Broadway over the next five days, ending the 2017-2018 Broadway season April 22: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child April 23: Summer: The Donna Summer Mus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2018
Why was the great actress Sarah Bernhardt, who performed in and/or produced more than 40 shows on Broadway, never even nominated for a single Tony — nor any other major New York theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 84th annual Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The nominees were ann…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21AM[SHARE]Fifteen Broadway shows have opening dates in March and April, 2018, the bulk of the 2017-2018 season. Tickets are made available to them for as little as $10, but more often about $40, which…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2018
“The Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok wins the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. “The Minutes by Tracy Letts and “Everybody” by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins were selected…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:16AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2018
The new "Carousel" has the most glorious singing on Broadway, as well as thrilling choreography and picturesque sets and costumes that seem lifted from great American paintings by Thomas Eak…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AM[SHARE] The new "Carousel" has the most glorious singing on Broadway, as well as thrilling choreography and picturesque sets and costumes that seem lifted from great American paintings by Tho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 15, 2018
Elephants might become extinct in 20 years because of poaching for their ivory, we learn from "Mlima's Tale," the unusual new play by Lynn Nottage, the Pulitzer prize winning playwright of R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:05PM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2018
King Lear begins with a foolish ruler swayed by flattery, and ends with what Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Greg Doran calls "a strange, profound unease." Shakespeare's tragedy …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:00PM[SHARE]"King Lear" begins with a foolish ruler swayed by flattery, and ends with what Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Greg Doran calls "a strange, profound unease." Shakespeare's traged…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PM[SHARE]At the end of "Mean Girls," Cady, the new girl in high school who tries so hard to fit in that she’s become phony and superficial, tells her classmates that she's learned her lesson: "…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2018
The first Broadway revival of "Children of a Lesser God," the award-winning, boundary-breaking 1980 play by Mark Medoff about the romance and eventual marriage between a hearing teacher at a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44PM[SHARE]In "Dutch Masters," a new play written by Greg Keller and directed by Andre Holland, a young black man meets a young white man on the subway, with unexpected results. In "Dutchman," the 1964…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2018
"Miss You Like Hell," a new musical by "In The Heights" book writer Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes and singer-songwriter Erin McKeown, depicts the most American of adventures, the road trip. But th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2018
In "This Flat Earth," 13-year-old Julie (Ella Kennedy Davis) doesn't understand why the newspaper article about the school shooting that killed nine of her classmates has the word "Another" …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Hamilton takes home seven Olivier Awards " not a record (matched by Matilda and beaten by Harry Potter), but not a bad showing. More on the Oliviers below. The Week in New York Theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 7, 2018
In "Feeding the Dragon" — Sharon Washington's delightfully acted memoir about an enchanted childhood spent literally living in a branch of the New York Public Library — we learn …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 5, 2018
You can say that Harriet Smithson, a famous Shakespearean actress, is the star of the Symphonie Fantastique by composer Hector Berlioz; she is also in a way the star of the Symph…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2018
The nominations for 33rd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards are: Outstanding Play Cost of Living Produced by Manhattan Theatre Club in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival Written by Mar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2018
The theater community always takes April Fools Day seriously: “The Lion King Will Become First Musical to Play Seven Continents- Antarctic Production Will Open in 2019"Â BroadwayWorl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2018
Miss Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “Jesus Christ Superstar Live” on NBC on Sunday, April 1st? Watch it below:
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:41PM[SHARE]The nine shows opening on Broadway in the month of April include four musicals and five plays " the old ones among the most beloved (Carousel, My Fair Lady) or respected (by Eugene O’N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:20PM[SHARE]Jesus Christ Superstar Live, the Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andrew Rice musical that was broadcast live on NBC Sunday, April 1, 2018, has received ecstatic reviews — 100 percent on the tomat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 1, 2018
Below are a dozen images from the dress rehearsal of the NBC live broadcast tonight at 8 p.m. ET of “Jesus Christ Superstar” the rock opera about the final week in the life of Je…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 31, 2018
"I was tall and I was strong,"Â recalls the oldest woman in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, and you believe it, because it is Glenda Jackson, who commands even as she winces in pain or c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:21PM[SHARE]"I was tall and I was strong," recalls the oldest woman in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, and you believe it, because it is Glenda Jackson, who commands even as she winces in pain or cries…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2018
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in March? Answer these 14 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:05PM[SHARE]"Lobby Hero," which presents a quartet of characters (two security guards and two cops) in the lobby of a high rise apartment building in Manhattan, is more than just the modest comedy it in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 29, 2018
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar, NBC’s celebration of the the 70th birthday of the composer of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “Jesus Christ Supe…
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