Sunday, May 21, 2017
Julie is young, pretty, literate and dying. At its best, "The Whirligig," a new play by Hamish Linklater, explores with humor and bite how her terminal illness affects the seven people aroun…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 20, 2017
Zainab Jah, who made an impressive Broadway debut as a sex slave turned soldier in Eclipsed, is back on a New York stage with another vivid portrayal of an exploited but strong African woman…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AM[SHARE]Zainab Jah, who made an impressive Broadway debut as a sex slave turned soldier in Eclipsed, is back on a New York stage with another vivid portrayal of an exploited but strong African woman…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48AM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2017
Ben Platt beat out dozens of other nominees to snag the 2017 Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance, Â at 23 the youngest winner in the League’s 83-year history. “Dea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Summer in the city offers theater that is cheaper (often free), more cutting-edge and even more abundant than what you can see during the regular theater season — thanks largely to the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2017
When a young playwright is audacious enough to commit publicly to a nine-play cycle, the most appropriate response is encouragement. Mfoniso Udofia plans to follow four generations over 40 y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:01PM[SHARE]Monday, May 15, 2017
Four major New York theater awards announced their winners this past week — and Oslo is doing very well, as is The Band’s Visit, even though it closed Off-Broadway in J…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 14, 2017
The Golden Apple, a 1954 Broadway musical, got the Encores! treatment at its most glorious over the weekend " with a sonorous 31-piece orchestra directed by Rob Berman, and a splendid 40-mem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 13, 2017
"Another happy day," Dianne Wiest exclaims as Winnie in Samuel Beckett's bleak, comic and compassionate play, written decades before Groundhog Day, but similarly focused on somebody who is t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PM[SHARE] "Another happy day," Dianne Wiest exclaims as Winnie in Samuel Beckett's bleak, comic and compassionate play, written decades before Groundhog Day, but similarly focused on somebody w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 11, 2017
The Theatre World Awards for outstanding New York stage debuts during the 2016-2017 theatrical season have been given to: Carlo Albán, Sweat Christy Altomare, Anastasia Denée Benton, Nat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2017
With his new play "Arlington," playwright and director Enda Walsh presents an unusual love story set against a future dystopian society, which might shock New York theatergoers who know Wals…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Here are the results of the survey in which I asked you to pick your personal preferences (not predictions) in 15 of the 24 categories in the 71st annual Tony Awards. Best Musical Nominated:…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:42PM[SHARE]Monday, May 8, 2017
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Oslo as the best play and The Band’s Visit as best musical. Special Citations: were given to Paula Vogel ,Taylor Mac and the ensemble cast …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PM[SHARE]Oslo won for new Broadway play, Come from Away for new Broadway musical in the 67th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. If I forget won for Off-Broadway play, The Band’s Visit for Off-…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 7, 2017
The Band’s Visit won best musical and Oslo the best play in the 32nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Outstanding Play: Oslo Outstanding…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:37PM[SHARE]The Tony nominations announced last Tuesday set off what will be five weeks of prediction, debate and suspense. But the suspense ends this week for many of the other major New York theater: …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 6, 2017
Make your pick for 15 of the 24 categories in the 71st annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 11th at Radio Music Hall in New York City. Mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AM[SHARE]Friday, May 5, 2017
In Power Struggle on Broadway: Escapist vs. Socially Conscious Shows in the 2016"17 Season, a piece I wrote for HowlRound, I point out that there were more socially conscious than escapis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 4, 2017
Watch videos from the four Broadway musicals nominated for the 2017 Best Musical Tony Award, listed alphabetically. Above each of the show’s video(s) is a link to a post with productio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Below are 2017 Tony Award nominees who spoke at the Meet the Nominees press reception the day after the announcement, grouped more or less show by show. Click on individual photographs to re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 leads the 2017 Tony Award nominations with twelve, followed by the Bette Midler-starring revival Hello, Dolly! with ten a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51AM[SHARE]The Tony nominations will be announced this morning, Tuesday, May 2, at 8:30 a.m., which will launch weeks' worth of predictions, preferences and objections. Let's start a few hours early! B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:16AM[SHARE]Monday, May 1, 2017
The nominations for the Tony Awards will be announced at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, making it the major event of the year that turns night people into morning people. Other things are happening R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49PM[SHARE]The Broadway musicals “Cats” and  “Bandstand” and the Off-Broadway revival of “Sweet Charity”  lead in the number of nominations for the Chita River…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:00PM[SHARE]May is a month when Broadway is on the brain, but not on the stage. Theatergoers focus on the Tonys and many other theater awards, but there are more than a dozen Off-Broadway and Off-Off Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 30, 2017
Test your knowledge of theater in April. Which play contains the lines of dialogue, which lyric belongs to which musical? Who got what award? In what show is a sexy rock star making his Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:18PM[SHARE]Now that the New York theater season has ended officially, the theater awards season steps up. Â What are all these awards? How do they differ? When will the various nominations and award…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 29, 2017
"Bandstand," a new musical about a group of traumatized World War II veterans who form a 40's jazz band with a Gold Star widow as their singer, attempts to combine an original score of perio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:54PM[SHARE]Summed up in a single photograph: April 29th marks the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency. Here are press accounts and comments. “The tradition of looking to that period as a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48AM[SHARE]Friday, April 28, 2017
There are moments in Bette Midler's Hello, Dolly that offer unsurpassed entertainment, demonstrating the ideal match between show and star that many people expected when they first heard tha…
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