Friday, December 15, 2017
Fiasco Theater offers a Twelfth Night for theatergoers who've never seen Twelfth Night or Fiasco Theater before. Â For almost a decade, the ensemble company has been praised for its bare-b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AM[SHARE]Fiasco Theater offers a Twelfth Night for theatergoers who've never seen Twelfth Night or Fiasco Theater before. For almost a decade, the ensemble company has been praised for its bare-bones…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 14, 2017
For all the Broadway box office records set in 2017, the year in New York theater felt tentative, in transition, as if both theater artists and audiences were trying to figure out how to dea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Welcome to my sixth annual Worst Broadway Show poll. Pick the show you thought was the worst to open on Broadway in 2017. I chose these ten nominees; this is my Bottom 10 list this year (a c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:46PM[SHARE]From December 13 to 15th, get free tickets to live theater, and other live events — dance, comedy, opera — through Goldstar’s Comp Train promotion. You pay a small service …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 12, 2017
To outsiders, a rock musical that presents a long-dead public official as a tragic villain, and a disagreement over public policy as high drama, might sound ludicrous from the get-go. But th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:11PM[SHARE]In "Hundred Days," a musically engaging autobiographical concert by The Bengsons, Abigail and Shaun Bengson tell us they met one another at "the first rehearsal of a massive anti-folk folk-p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AM[SHARE]Monday, December 11, 2017
The “virtual choir” put together by Dear Evan Hansen’s musical supervisor Alex Lacamoire and sound designer Nevin Steinberg, which puts a real-world spin on the rapidly spr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PM[SHARE]As if to underscore what a demoralizing year this has been, theater lovers can't just snuggle up with the rash of new openings, usual holiday season sentimentality and end-of-year assessment…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 10, 2017
The first Broadway revival of "Once on This Island," a stunning storybook production of a Caribbean-flavored folktale, begins in the aftermath of a natural disaster, as a story of love and l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:55AM[SHARE]Friday, December 8, 2017
"SpongeBob SquarePants" ends with a cascade of confetti…AND crepe paper streamers…AND soap bubbles…followed by beach balloons. This more or less sums up the approach of the Broadway mu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39PM[SHARE]Reverting to his early-career wackiness, Â Steve Martin enlists four phenomenal performers, including Amy Schumer making her Broadway debut, for a joke-filled, overlong, trickster comedy s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AM[SHARE]Reverting to his early-career wackiness, Â Steve Martin enlists four phenomenal performers, including Amy Schumer making her Broadway debut, for a joke-filled, overlong, trickster comedy s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 7, 2017
In its forty-seventh year, Mabou Mines is inaugurating its first permanent home, the ninety-nine-seat Mabou Mines Theater in the East Village, with a newly devised piece called Glass Guignol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Uma Thurman and Josh Lucas neither kill a dog nor bed an FBI agent in The Parisian Woman, a tame, tidy, talky and only superficially timely play about a D.C. power couple engaged in politica…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:04PM[SHARE]Uma Thurman and Josh Lucas neither kill a dog nor bed an FBI agent in The Parisian Woman, a tame, tidy, talky and only superficially timely play about a D.C. power couple engaged in politica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Playwright Rajiv Joseph aims high in this ambitious, pertinent, resonant, sometimes compelling but often confusing drama that sprawls over 90 years (and three hours), taking place in Poland,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:10PM[SHARE]You are not alone. That was the message o  the Town Hall on sexual harassment in the theater that was held on Monday at the Public Theater, which included both comments from dozens of peo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 3, 2017
In September, 1976, at least 20 young men charged into Washington Square Park and swung bats, chains and pipes at any African-Americans and Latinos they found there, as they shouted racial e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:28PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 2, 2017
"Who are you?" Billy Crudup asks near the end of "Harry Clarke," as he looks in an imaginary mirror, a tight spotlight on his face, the rest of him in darkness. It's the question animating D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:39PM[SHARE]Friday, December 1, 2017
The death from AIDS of theater artist Michael Friedman in September at the age of 41 was a shocking reminder that, yes, people still die from AIDS — and yes it is still affecting th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:16PM[SHARE]Four shows are opening on Broadway in December, two musicals and two plays, placing Mark Rylance in 18th century Spain, Lea Salonga in the Caribbean of the 19th and 20th centuries, and a mix…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 29, 2017
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in November? Answer these 12 questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 28, 2017
On this sixth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters and theater companies.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AM[SHARE]Monday, November 27, 2017
Cyber Monday deals are not just for gadgetry. They extend to shows, as offered by theaters and ticket services. This week in New York Theater: Broadway stars give Thanksgiving greetings, Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 23, 2017
The 91st annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade had two big balloons that are also Broadway shows  " and performances by such Broadway shows as Dear Evan Hansen (with the new Evan Hansen, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 22, 2017
The holiday show tradition in New York ranges way beyond Radio City Music Hall and family entertainment, to include shows that are offbeat and others that are decidedly not for children. Let…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AM[SHARE]My sixth annual Broadway gift guide below includes links and information on shopping for theater tickets, theater subscriptions, cast recordings, play scripts, librettos and new and cheri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:37AM[SHARE]Monday, November 20, 2017
Ben Platt left “Dear Evan Hansen,” the Tony-winning musical that made him a star. That was yesterday. Tomorrow marks the publication of the  behind-the-scenes book and librett…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 19, 2017
Readers who cherish Jane Austen's 1813 novel "Pride and Prejudice" can certainly enjoy Kate Hamill's stage adaptation, now at the Cherry Lane, as long as they accept that the tone has been r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PM[SHARE]In his dressing room at "Dear Evan Hansen," Ben Platt has kept an anonymous letter from a fan: "You stopped me from letting go." That letter kept him going when "I don't want to cry, and sin…
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