Thursday, March 9, 2017
Sam Gold, the innovative director who won a Tony for Fun Home, has cast Sally Field in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie that doesn't include a glass menag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 8, 2017
At first glance, singing storyteller Ethan Lipton and his three-member band " the creators and entire cast of "The Outer Space" " look like middle-aged men who never outgrew their childhood …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:10PM[SHARE]Fifteen women have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. On this International Women’s Day, we celebrate them and their work. (Each play title is linked to an Amazon page where you can lea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 7, 2017
As Lin-Manuel Miranda did with "Hamilton," so Dave Malloy came up with the idea for his innovative hit Broadway musical, "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812," while reading a book u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:18PM[SHARE]Monday, March 6, 2017
March is a busy month for theater, as usual, but that’s not the only way madness seems to have taken hold. Luckily, there is help for stressed out theater people. Opening today:Â The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:00PM[SHARE]Jenny and Emily are both 14 years old, new friends in a small-town suburb in South Carolina in the 1980s; they both love horror movies; they both want to lose their virginity. In "All the Fi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 5, 2017
In "If I Forget," a well-acted, often funny and always engaging Jewish family drama by Steven Levenson (the book-writer for Dear Evan Hansen) we travel back to an era that no longer exists e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:38PM[SHARE]Friday, March 3, 2017
"Over a hundred thousand people died today," the character played by Michael Emerson (Lost, Person of Interest) tells us in "Wakey, Wakey," the latest ethereal, esoteric play by Will Eno, wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 2, 2017
In "Significant Other," Jordan is a gay man who has three best friends he met in college, all women, each of whom in the course of Joshua Harmon's play finds a mate and holds a fancy wedding…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 1, 2017
The Tooting Arts Club's exceptionally entertaining production of Sweeney Todd, Â Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's glorious murderous musical, began in 2014 in Harrington's, one of Londo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32PM[SHARE]Tooting Arts Club's exceptionally entertaining production of Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's glorious murderous musical, began in 2014 in Harrington's, one of London's olde…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Six shows are opening on Broadway in March, more than a dozen Off-Broadway, and plenty Off-Off Broadway as well, with a mix of exciting new work — by John Leguizamo, Lynn Nottage, and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2017
The Penitent, David Mamet's latest play, is about the ethical dilemmas facing a psychiatrist whose patient has gone on a killing spree. At least that's what it seems to be about, but audienc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PM[SHARE]The Penitent, David Mamet's latest play, is about the ethical dilemmas facing a psychiatrist whose patient has gone on a killing spree. At least that's what it seems to be about, but audienc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02PM[SHARE]It was a theater kind of movie night. (List of winners ) The best picture Oscar winner, Moonlight, was based on the play, Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, by Tarell Alvin McCraney (playwright…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 26, 2017
Theater fans can watch the 2017 Oscars just like sports views view the World Series. Three examples: 1. If Lin-Manuel Miranda wins an Oscar tonight for his song “How Far I’ll Go&…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to the theater in February? Answer these 13 quiz questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2017
"Art isn't easy," Jake Gyllenhaal as George sings in the fourth Broadway production of Stephan Sondheim and James Lapine's "Sunday In the Park with George," inspired by one of the most popul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]With "Everybody," Branden Jacobs-Jenkins adapts "Everyman," the 15th century morality play, for a modern secular New York audience. The idea here is inspired, and the world premiere producti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2017
There is one song by John Kander in Kid Victory that recalls the composer's collaboration with Fred Ebb in both Cabaret and Chicago " "What's the Point?" a jaunty, satiric tap-dance. It's on…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36PM[SHARE]There is one song by John Kander in Kid Victory that recalls the composer's collaboration with Fred Ebb in both Cabaret and Chicago " "What's the Point?" a jaunty, satiric tap-dance. It's on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2017
1 Theater artist Anna Deavere Smith received the George Polk Career Award, one of the top awards in journalism. "This was not a traditional choice for us, because she doesn't fit neatly in t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2017
Below is a photo essay of a century’s worth of stage depictions of American presidents. One thing seems certain about the most uncertain presidency in U.S. history — Donald Tr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AM[SHARE]In honor of Presidents Day, I resurrect my review of “Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson,” which opened on Broadway on October 13, 2010 and closed three months later, on January 2, 20…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2017
There was thunderous applause the night I saw "Sunset Boulevard" for Hillary Clinton as she took her seat right before the musical began. It would be snarky to observe it was the greatest ov…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2017
"The theatre is gone, but there are new things now," says Matthew Broderick in Wallace Shawn's chilling comedy, which imagines a dystopian but familiar society where former theatre people ha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18PM[SHARE]"The theatre is gone, but there are new things now," says Matthew Broderick in Wallace Shawn's chilling comedy, which imagines a dystopian but familiar society where former theatre people ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2017
There are three great reasons to see the New York stage debut of Man From Nebraska, without even knowing what it's about: Its author Tracy Letts (August: Osage County), its director David Cr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PM[SHARE]There are three great reasons to see the New York stage debut of Man From Nebraska, without even knowing what it's about: Its author Tracy Letts (August: Osage County), its director David Cr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Below are brief videotaped interviews with Barbara Barrie, Gideon Glick, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and Lindsay Mendez — four of the cast members of “Significant Other,” a play b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:27PM[SHARE]In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are 1. 25 photographs of kisses on stage over the past century, and 2. videos of five of Broadway’s most romantic love songs, Click on any photo…
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