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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2017
Laurie Metcalf is the fifteenth actress since 1889 to portray Nora Helmer on Broadway, the character in Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House who slams the door on her husband and three childre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:31PM[SHARE]Laurie Metcalf is the fifteenth actress since 1889 to portray Nora Helmer on Broadway, the character in Henrik Ibsen's play “A Doll's House” who slams the door on her husband and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Hello, Dolly, Anastasia, and Come From Away lead the 62nd annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 26, 2017
"The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare; neither knew chocolate." That insight by Sandra Boynton (author of "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion") helps explain why w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Near the end of Six Degrees of Separation, Allison Janney, portraying the first rich white victim of a young black con man, tells her husband that she doesn't want to turn the experience…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31PM[SHARE]Near the end of Six Degrees of Separation, Allison Janney, portraying the first rich white victim of a young black con man, tells her husband that she doesn't want to turn the experience int…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]The Broadway season is not over until the end of this week, but the awards season has already begun. The Week in Theater Awards Sound design Tony categories reinstated for next year They fou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:06PM[SHARE]“Anastasia” and “Hello, Dolly!” lead in the number of nominations for the 2017 Outer Critics Circle Awards, with 13 and 10 respectively, followed by “The Band&#…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AM[SHARE]Monday, April 24, 2017
Pity Terrence McNally, Tony-winning playwright, charged with fashioning the book of a Broadway musical out of a 1997 cartoon, which turned the Russian Revolution into a fairytale, grinding a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02PM[SHARE]In dramatizing the legend surrounding the youngest daughter of the last Czar, the show has created a new villain, a Soviet official named Gleb….Anastasia winds up promoting nostalgia f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 23, 2017
So there was Andy Karl, the star of "Groundhog Day," on stage in what's supposed to be a seduction scene, but he was proudly showing off the elaborate black knee-brace on his bare outstretch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:15PM[SHARE]Friday, April 21, 2017
Now we call it racism, sexism and domestic abuse, but it's just everyday life in "The Little Foxes," Lillian Hellman's 1939 play about a rapacious Southern family, which is being given an en…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2017
In her first performance in a Broadway musical in 50 years, Bette Midler opens tonight as the 15th Dolly Gallagher Levi on Broadway, Â in the fifth Broadway production of "Hello, Dolly.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 2017 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The winners will be annou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:29PM[SHARE]The gay couples at the heart of two separate plays currently running Off-Broadway have been together for years, and yet, neither are married because one partner in each of the relationships …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 18, 2017
There are many reasons to find deep satisfaction in the arrival on Broadway of the play “Indecent,” a fascinating tale wondrously staged about a century-old Jewish drama that fea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:03PM[SHARE]Monday, April 17, 2017
Over the next ten days, nine shows will open on Broadway " four new musicals (plus one musical revival), two new plays (plus two play revivals.) How to Get Discount Tickets to Broadway’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 15, 2017
Today's matinee of Groundhog Day has been canceled, and the evening performance will go on with an understudy, after the show's star Andy Karl injured himself at its Friday evening performan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:55PM[SHARE]Friday, April 14, 2017
There are 14 shows opening on Broadway in April, 2017, which are available for as little as $30, even though their full-priced can be 500 percent more than. How? Â Below, listed alphabetic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 13, 2017
Last year, “Oslo,” a fascinating if talky play about the surprising story behind the first peace accord between the Israelis and Palestinians, ran for a couple of months Of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 12, 2017
In "War Paint," Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole are sharing a Broadway stage for the first time in their careers, portraying rival cosmetic industry pioneers Helena Rubinstein and Elizab…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PM[SHARE]Monday, April 10, 2017
Lynn Nottage has won her second Pulitzer Prize in Drama for the play Sweat. Hilton Als, the theater critic for the New Yorker, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism The cit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PM[SHARE]When the Pulitzer Prizes are announced at 3 pm today, it will move us even further into a theater awards season that began last week with the announcement of nominations for Lucille Lortel A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 9, 2017
"Every night, I had to kill myself," said Daniel Durant, who made his Broadway debut in the recent revival of Spring Awakening portraying Moritz, a character who commits suicide. "I had to g…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 8, 2017
Judging from the last few minutes of "Amélie," when the two adorable eccentrics Amélie and Nino finally kiss, the new musical feels like a charming and almost traditional romantic comedy, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 6, 2017
"War Paint" depicts the feud that changed the face of America's women. The cosmetics industry was born from the rivalry between two immigrants turned entrepreneurs: Elizabeth Arden, a WASP f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 5, 2017
After a decade's absence from Broadway, Kevin Kline returns as the aging matinee idol in Present Laughter. Kline, the swashbuckler of Pirates of Penzance and the hunk of On The Twentieth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48PM[SHARE]After a decade's absence from Broadway, Kevin Kline returns as the aging matinee idol in Present Laughter. Kline, the swashbuckler of Pirates of Penzance and the hunk of On The Twentieth Cen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Hadestown and Sweeney Todd each led the Lucille Lortel Award nominations this year, with seven apiece, including Outstanding Musical and Outstanding Revival respectively.  Swe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 4, 2017
One might argue that, given the new administration in Washington, every day is April Fool's Day, but the theater community treats April 1st with particular glee.. "COME FROM AWAY’s Gan…
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