Tuesday, February 14, 2017
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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2017
Theater goes back thousands of years — driven home by newly available theater-related images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art — and overpriced Broadway ticket prices won…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 12, 2017
In "Beardo," we are back in Russia with Dave Malloy, the composer of "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812." Instead of a Broadway theater, the Pipeline Theater Company's new producti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 11, 2017
The Encores! production of "Big River" is a pleasant enough confection but with a bitter aftertaste. To understand why, it helps to know that, when he was 11 years old, Samuel Clemens discov…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2017
Below are theater-related images from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among them, a statuette of an actor from Attica, Greece 2,500 years old. Theater masks from first cent…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2017
Geoff Sobelle, self-declared "maker of absurdist performance art," is credited as the creator and performer of "The Object Lesson," but it at least co-stars thousands of boxes. These are box…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2017
"Fade" is a play about the bond that develops between a Mexican-born TV writer and a Mexican-American janitor at the studio. Its author, Tanya Saracho, is a Mexican-born TV writer/producer w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2017
From magazine and newspaper covers to posters and cartoons to Super Bowl commercials and Saturday Night Live skits, there is a growing graphic protest against Trump and his policies, much of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 5, 2017
The original Schuyler sisters of “Hamilton” – Phillipa Soo (soon to be back on Broadway in Amelie), Â Renee Elise Goldberry, and Jasmine Cephas Jones — Â will sin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 4, 2017
It's best to start your activism young, advises Celia Keenan-Bolger, an actress nominated three times for Tony Awards, who grew up in a family of activists. That way, "it's like your …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2017
How closely were you paying attention to the New York theater news on and off stage in January? Take these 10 questions and see. (The photograph of Mary Tyler Moore, from “Whose Life I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AM[SHARE]Below is my 2009 review of Superior Donuts, the play by Tracy Letts, which opened on Broadway on October 1, 2009, and closed on January 3, 2010. A new TV series of the same name, starring Ju…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Broadway this month will see the opening of two starry musical  revivals by two of the reigning composers of musical theater — Stephen Sondheim (86) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (68) …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Yen, a bleak British play that opens tonight Off-Broadway, stars Lucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated last week for his role in Manchester by the Sea, and Justice Smith, of the Netflix hip-hop dram…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36PM[SHARE]Yen, a bleak British play that opens tonight Off-Broadway, stars Lucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated last week for his role in Manchester by the Sea, and Justice Smith, of the Netflix hip-hop dram…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2017
Scenes from BroadwayCon 2017 Previews of Anastasia, Amelia, Come From Away, Significant Other etc.; A surprise Q and A with Lin-Manuel Miranda via live video from London, followed by the int…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 28, 2017
Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared at BroadwayCon 2017, via FaceTime from London. Do you have any advice for people pursuing theatre in college? Lin-Manuel Miranda: The answer is this: Study all th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:42PM[SHARE]Friday, January 27, 2017
“This has been a tough week, but we’re in a safe space,” said one of the organizers of BroadwayCon 2017, the second annual convention of theater fans, this time held in the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2017
In The Liar, the title character wonders whether, given his disposition, he should become a politician. But, if David Ives' version of Pierre Corneille's 1644 verse play may benefit from new…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:24PM[SHARE]In The Liar, the title character wonders whether, given his disposition, he should become a politician. But, if David Ives' version of Pierre Corneille's 1644 verse play may benefit from new…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Sales of George Orwell’s novel “1984 “ reportedly have soared after Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, talked about "alternative facts." It's not her…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PM[SHARE] “La La Land,” the musical tribute to Los Angeles, leads The Academy Award nominations with a record-tying 14, Lin-Manuel Miranda received an Oscar nomination for best o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2017
Love puzzles, and messes up, the dozen characters in Tell Hector I Miss Him, a play wonderfully acted by a cast that includes veterans of Orange is the New Black. If the play itself sometime…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24PM[SHARE]Love puzzles, and messes up, the dozen characters in Tell Hector I Miss Him, a play wonderfully acted by a cast that includes veterans of Orange is the New Black. If the play itself sometime…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31PM[SHARE]The theater community in New York and across the country countered a depressing week coming out of Washington D.C. (#potentialgrizzlies, #alternativefacts) with events signaling resistance b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2017
Eleven years after his death, playwright August Wilson answers Donald Trump's bleak depiction of "inner cities," with "Jitney," the first play Wilson wrote in his ten-play American Century C…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:21PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 21, 2017
People across the country, including New York artists, have gathered in myriad ways this month to declare their support for threatened American values. Click on the photographs below to see …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PM[SHARE]Friday, January 20, 2017
My 101-second video of the Ghostlight Project, in which people gathered in theaters in all 50 states to create light for dark times ahead. I focus on the small, moving ceremony outside the C…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2017
Wakka Wakka, the theater company behind Made in China, says the show is "inspired by true events." I suspect the true part doesn't include Mary and her neighbor getting sucked down her toile…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Wakka Wakka, the theater company behind Made in China, says the show is "inspired by true events." I suspect the true part doesn't include Mary and her neighbor getting sucked down her toile…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 17, 2017
The story of Inauguration Day, which arrives this Friday, has become almost as much about culture as politics. The list of performers who declined an invitation to perform at official…
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