Friday, August 18, 2017
All 17 members of The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned today to protest President Trump’s comments on the events last weekend in Charlottesville, as The Wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:19PM[SHARE]Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway from September 2017 to January 2018 as of this writing, and they are lis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Below are the six most popular videos I shot of the performances during the six weekly concerts this 17th summer of Broadway in Bryant Park. Tagged: Andy Karl, Barrett Doss, Betsy Wolfe, Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:39PM[SHARE]Monday, August 14, 2017
This has been the week from Hell both in the larger world and in the world of New York theater, but for theater fans also a little bit of Heaven, with the announcements of new shows, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 13, 2017
The vain, reckless son of a rich man is suddenly thrust into power by a venal group of citizens marked by their "ugliness, stupidity, greed, cowardice, corruption and sheer unpleas…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:03PM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2017
Win two tickets to see Bandstand for free. Â I liked this show, about a 1940’s swing band made up of World War II veterans, for its thrilling choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, who…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2017
"The only hope until we kick him out of office is to discombobulate him," Michael Moore says near the beginning of his playful, pointed and partisan one-man show, as he stands in front of an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42PM[SHARE]In format, Michael Moore's live show has little in common with his funny but focused documentaries about specific issues,…It’s more like a scattershot variety show…But the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2017
 “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” will close September 3, 2017 on Broadway, having played 32 previews and 336 regular performances — a journey that began a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:40PM[SHARE]Barbara Cook, the self-proclaimed poor, naive Southern Belle who became the reigning soprano in the Golden Age of Broadway and then a cabaret and concert hall star of the first magnitude, ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2017
Errol and Fidel, Generation Me, and Georama were among the big winners of the 2017 New York Musical Festival Awards for Excellence. Freedom Riders won for both outstanding music and ̶…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 6, 2017
Indecent ends today on Broadway, but Paula Vogel’s play was recorded Thursday for BroadwayHD streaming in January. Hamilton opened on Broadway two years ago today July Quiz August open…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 5, 2017
Michael Moore and Harold Prince have the month all to themselves, more or less, Â at the center of the two Broadway shows opening this month. It’s unusual to have any shows open on B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2017
I ran into Congressman John Lewis, one of the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, on my way to see "Freedom Riders," the inspiring gospel and soul-flavored musical about the courageous effo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 3, 2017
A musical written by Maurice Sendak, with a score by Carole King?! Why isn't it better known? That question would seem to make "Really Rosie," which is on stage at New York City Center throu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2017
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in July, a month full of controversies? Answer these 10 questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Sam Shepard, a playwright who explored the dark side of the American West in such brutal, elliptical works as "Buried Child" and "True West," died last Thursday at the age of 73. The marquee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AM[SHARE]Monday, July 31, 2017
Director Lear deBessonet's production in Central Park of Midsummer Night’s Dream is star-studded and jazzed-up, but the first thought on passing through the gates of the Delacorte Thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 29, 2017
On the day I saw Nikki James give a star turn in "Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin," the Off Center Encores two-day revival of the musical by Kirsten Childs that is in part about t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:45PM[SHARE]Friday, July 28, 2017
"A Wall Apart," a production at the New York Musical Festival, has a catchy score by Graham Russell of the Australian rock group Air Supply, sung by an eminently watchable cast of steel-voic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 27, 2017
Six women inmates, in a Texas jail for crimes ranging from cattle rustling to murder, form a country music band in order to get on the radio, get famous, and get pardoned by the governor. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2017
A love triangle that lasts 35 years is at the heart of "To The End of the Land," but the lives of the three main characters of this Israeli play, being presented in Hebrew with Englis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Attention this week has focused on theater from abroad. The Canadian theater company Soulpepper is wrapping up its month-long residence at Signature. The first annual Immigrant Arts  in A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38PM[SHARE]Below is the list of nominations for the 13th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater  " aka Off-Off Broadway. The winners w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28AM[SHARE]Monday, July 24, 2017
"Greek tragedy meets Harlem ball scene. Fantastic," RuPaul Tweeted succinctly after seeing "And She Would Stand Like This." The Harlem-based Movement theater company's adaptation of Euripide…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 23, 2017
In "Spoon River," we meet a town full of drunks, hypocrites, home-grown philosophers, resentful husbands, frustrated wives, an arsonist, a killer, and dozens more " all of them dead…and al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 22, 2017
“Temple of the Souls,” a musical about a doomed, Romeo and Juliet romance in 16th century Puerto Rico between a Spanish conquistador's daughter and a Taino, begins with a thrill.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33AM[SHARE]Friday, July 21, 2017
The story of the Buddha informs this intriguing and well-produced musical at the New York Musical Festival about a modern-day female spiritual leader. But it's not until the last fift…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PM[SHARE]The cast of the Hamilton spoof, Spamilton, performed at the Broadway in Bryant Park concert this week a medley including "Lin-Manuel As Hamilton," "1776," "What Did You Miss,”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Watch the video below for highlights of the concert that concluded the Immigrant Arts in America Summit. The summit was a two-day event that included panel discussions, a speech by John Legu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 18, 2017
"We're the kind of people that Trump wants to keep out of the U.S.," John Leguizamo says in the video below, about his family, who immigrated to New York from Colombia ("the country, not the…
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