Monday, October 23, 2017
"Ferguson," a play by Phelim McAleer, presents verbatim testimony from the Grand Jury that declined to indict white Police Officer Darrell Wilson for the August 9, 2014 shooting death of bla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:00PM[SHARE]In honor of the opening tonight of the revival of Jesus Hopped the A Train, and the launch of the 2017-2018 Signature residency of Stephen Adly Guirgis, below is my April, 2011 review of Gui…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 19, 2017
“It's crazy”, says Michael Urie as Arnold, that "after all these years I'm still trying to justify my life." Arnold means his life as a gay man, and though he is talking specific…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04PM[SHARE]It's crazy, says Michael Urie as Arnold, that "after all these years I'm still trying to justify my life." Arnold means his life as a gay man, and though he is talking specifically to his mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Fifty years ago, Hair was the very first show to play in the old Astor mansion, which was transformed into Joseph Papp’s first year-round Public Theater. (even though it feels like the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Café Play is a site-specific work of theater that's being held at four different times of day in the back dining room at the Cornelia Street Café, with different food choices depending on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2017
In "Burning Doors," Belarus Free Theatre's latest arresting, arousing, athletic and anarchic play about state-sponsored injustice, one of the eight cast members strips naked as he tells the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18PM[SHARE]The Siege, a play dramatizing the 2002 siege by armed Palestinians of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, is in several ways the exact opposite of Oslo, the last drama about the Palesti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 15, 2017
The Siege, a play dramatizing the 2002 siege by armed Palestinians of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, is in several ways the exact opposite of Oslo, the last drama about the Palesti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2017
It took five minutes into the revival of "Time and the Conways" starring Elizabeth McGovern to realize this was no "Downton Abbey," Â the TV series that for six seasons featured McGovern a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AM[SHARE]Bruce Springsteen sings 15 songs, and reads from a teleprompter to tell stories that were also in his year-old memoir, "Born to Run," in a Broadway debut  that has the critics cheering; s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Nearly everything about "Androboros" makes it sound like a must-see show. It was America's first published play, printed in 1714, yet there is no record it has ever been publicly performed u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:24PM[SHARE]Playwright Annie Baker and multidimensional theater artist Taylor Mac are among the 24 winners of the 2017 Macarthur Foundation "Genius" Grants. Baker, 36, whose "The Flick" won the 2014 Pul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2017
There are moments in the "Measure for Measure" by experimental theater company Elevator Repair Service at the Public that offer the purest Shakespeare on any New York stage; this occurs when…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PM[SHARE]Monday, October 9, 2017
Even on Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus has largely gone out of favor " in America, and on stage. The closest recent nod to Columbus on a New York stage was a character named Before Colum…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 8, 2017
Theaterlovers will recognize the sample from the song "Maria," from West Side Story," — “Say it soft and it's almost like praying." Puerto Ricans will recognize the names of all …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Three performers who have collectively waited 179 years to make their Broadway debuts haven spent the time getting pretty well-known outside the Great White Way. For those unacquainted with …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 1, 2017
By Lin-Manuel Miranda Puerto Rico"my family's island, America's island"is in desperate need of supplies and resources. Like Texas and Florida, Puerto Rico was just devastated by a natural di…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 28, 2017
Bruce Springsteen makes his Broadway debut in a show that combines memoir with rock n roll, and that relatively few of his fans will be able to see. It is one of three shows opening on Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Late September is a time for…..weddings, apparently. Idina Menzel married her “Rent” co-star Aaron Lohr; Steven Pasquale married Phillipa Soo; and Andrew Keenan-Bolger annou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Max Posner's play is called The Treasurer because a grown man is forced to take responsibility for the finances of his aged, widowed mother. But the title also suggests that he will take sto…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12PM[SHARE]Max Posner's play is called The Treasurer because a grown man is forced to take responsibility for the finances of his aged, widowed mother. But the title also suggests that he will take sto…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]As Amy Herzog's gentle new play begins, Mary Jane is deep into idle chatter with the building's superintendent Ruthie, who's in the apartment to fix a clogged drain, when we hear a beep. It …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PM[SHARE]Monday, September 25, 2017
Saloon Theater’s mouthful of a play – “Six Translation of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time” — was a big winner in the 13th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01PM[SHARE]Alex, the sadistic, Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent at the center of Anthony Burgess' 1962 dystopian novel and Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, has returned, this time Off-Broadway, as sexy…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42PM[SHARE]Alex, the sadistic, Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent at the center of Anthony Burgess' 1962 dystopian novel and Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, has returned, this time Off-Broadway, as sexy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:10PM[SHARE]After seven books and eight movies, J.K. Rowling thought she was done with Harry Potter. “I genuinely, I didn’t want Harry to go onstage,” Rowling said in the video below. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 24, 2017
Below is a map showing the location of some 50 tables at today's 31st Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Click on it (several times) to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45AM[SHARE]Friday, September 22, 2017
KPOP, the wildly (and loudly) entertaining immersive theater piece offering the audience a tour of a Korean pop music factory, begins and ends with 15-minute concerts by the Korean boy group…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PM[SHARE]KPOP, the wildly (and loudly) entertaining immersive theater piece offering the audience a tour of a Korean pop music factory, begins and ends with 15-minute concerts by the Korean boy group…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:25PM[SHARE]Below is the list of the most-produced plays compiled by American Theatre Magazine of member theaters of Theatre Communications Group (in other words, non-profit theaters throughout the Unit…
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