Wednesday, January 31, 2018
The two 17-year-olds are in love. Yet Chris (Tom Pecinka) is the son of the white patriarch from his hometown in Georgia, and Kay (Juliana Canfield) is the mixed-race daughter or another …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PM[SHARE]Monday, January 29, 2018
The third annual BroadwayCon demonstrated that theatergoers can be as creative as theater makers — witness above the trio of cosplay artists as (left to right) Natasha, Pierre and the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 28, 2018
Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda and original cast members of “In The Heights” sing some of the dozens of songs that Miranda wrote, but left out of, the Tony-winning Broadway musical, du…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 27, 2018
Speakers at three of the panels at BroadwayCon — Beyond the Heights: Latinx Representation in Theatre; Fan Tan Fantastic: Asian American Representation; and Being A Critic of Color …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PM[SHARE]Friday, January 26, 2018
“I wasn’t afraid of the risk; I don’t know why, maybe I’m stupid,” Anthony Rapp said in answer to an audience member’s question about the difficult of goi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 25, 2018
The third annual BroadwayCon, conceived by Anthony Rapp and fashioned after ComicCon, runs this Friday to Sunday at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Those attending really need to check o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway on January 26, 1988. A gala tonight (two days early) celebrates the 30th anniversary of the longest-running show in Broadway history. Watch the Red Ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" was nominated for 13 Oscars, just shy of the record, and Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman in history nominated for best director, for “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AM[SHARE]Monday, January 22, 2018
"Miles for Mary" is the Mad Ones theater troupe's spot-on, deadpan funny look at a year's worth of planning committee meetings for a local telethon at an Ohio high school. Originally present…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PM[SHARE]There was a touch of theater in the Women's March over the weekend, with protesters' signs adapting "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins to fit current events, and the retu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 20, 2018
Today, the first anniversary of the inauguration of Donald Trump, is Art Action Day. The day is organized by The Federation, founded last year to spread the message: Art is essential to demo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AM[SHARE]Friday, January 19, 2018
Nas, Dave East, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Aloe Blacc perform “Wrote My Way Out” the second of the promised monthly #Hamildrop series, which replace the initially proposed second vol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:55PM[SHARE]A white police officer shoots a black driver five times after pulling him over for a minor traffic violation. But things are not what they seem in "Black, White & Blue"by William Watkins…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Death is well-suited to the stage, according to a philosopher quoted in "The Undertaking," a play about death and dying written and directed by Steve Cosson, the artistic director of The Civ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Michael Luwoye takes over the title role of Hamilton on Broadway, on the same day that Sara Bareilles, the creator of Waitress, takes on the lead role as Jenna, Peter Jöback …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:32PM[SHARE]The Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archives of Arthur Miller, from his first play "No Villain" (1936), written when Miller was at the University of Michi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:55PM[SHARE]Monday, January 15, 2018
On Martin Luther King Day, many people read or listen once again to his most famous speech, from August, 1963,  I Have a Dream, But today, people are finding King’s speech bel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:05PM[SHARE]Thanks to such shows as Hamilton, The Color Purple, and Allegiance, the 2015-2016 New York theater season was the most diverse on record. That is the conclusion  of the latest annual repo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 14, 2018
John Lithgow, a Tony winner for his very first Broadway show in 1973, has decided to devote his 24th to the reading of two old short stories, Ring Lardner's "Haircut" and "Uncle Fred Fli…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:33PM[SHARE]John Lithgow, a Tony winner for his very first Broadway show in 1973, has decided to devote his 24th to the reading of two old short stories, Ring Lardner's "Haircut" and "Uncle Fred Flits B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 13, 2018
What makes us happy? The clear if indirect answer in "Pursuit of Happiness" is a lot of laughs, since that's what the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, a notoriously inventive downtown theater com…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 11, 2018
It’s New Year’s Eve 1969, and a dozen fans are in the balcony of the Fillmore East watching a concert by Jimi Hendrix and his electronic blues trio, Band of Gypsys, nine months b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04PM[SHARE]Rehearsals have begun for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which will open at the Lyric Theater on Broadway on April 22, following up on J.K. Rowling's characters 19 years after her last n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 10, 2018
The Prototype Festival, which showcases what it calls contemporary opera-theater and music-theater, opened its sixth season last night with an opera called "Acquanetta," inspired by a cult h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Enda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical Once, first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and inseparable …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30PM[SHARE]Enda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical “Once,” first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2018
In a program note for "Mankind," a fun comedy that turns berserk about a future world in which women are extinct, its playwright and director Robert O'Hara explains that he found insp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Broadway veterans who won Golden Globes: Rachel Brosnahan, James Franco, Allison Janney, Nicole Kidman, Martin McDonagh, Frances McDormand, Ewan McGregor, Elisabeth Moss, Benj Pasek…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 7, 2018
“If all theatres were demolished tomorrow, would anybody miss them, and for how long?” Several characters said that at different times throughout A Room in India, a theatre pi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:06PM[SHARE]When Andrew Schneider put on his trickster theater piece entitled "YOUARENOWHERE" in 2016, it was a mind-altering experience, changing not just one's perception of reality, but of what theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 6, 2018
"How To Be A Rock Critic" is a solo play depicting a day in the life of critic Lester Bangs shortly before he died of an overdose in 1982 at the age of 33. If we are to take the title litera…
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