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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:10PM[SHARE]Monday, January 16, 2017
"Time of Women," a play in the Under the Radar festival based on the true story of three women journalists and activists imprisoned by the Belarusian dictatorship for protesting the fraudule…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 15, 2017
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." " Martin Luther King Jr. Below is a list of Anti-Inauguration activities R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2017
Below are some of the photographs by Martha Swope, who died Thursday at age 88. Â In a professional career that officially spanned from 1957 to 1994, she focused on ballet and Broadway. H…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 12, 2017
"Latin Standards," which is Marga Gomez's 12th solo show — and, she tells us, her "final farewell concert" — is a hilarious memoir, part of this year's Under The Radar festival. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2017
I once asked Luciano Pavarotti what "opera" means, a question that made him momentarily look lost. Opera in Italian literally means "work," he replied, but you don't need to define it. Farme…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2017
In the first public performance of the four surviving musicals commissioned by the U.S. Army during World War II to boost morale among the troops, "Blueprint Specials" could not be more deft…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]“Theater Nerds Everywhere”: Among the winners of Golden Globes Sunday night were a movie based on a play; a musical; and a stage full of theater people. Viola Davis won a Golden …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 8, 2017
About halfway through The Present, an adaptation of Chekhov's first play, Cate Blanchett, as a Russian general's widow celebrating her 40th birthday, shoots off a shotgun, dances atop a tabl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PM[SHARE]About halfway through The Present, an adaptation of Chekhov's first play, Cate Blanchett, as a Russian general's widow celebrating her 40th birthday, shoots off a shotgun, dances atop a tabl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 7, 2017
Each year, when snow begins to fall, New Yorkers ask one question — how bad will it get? — and New York theatergoers ask three more: Will the shows be canceled? Will shows offer …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10PM[SHARE]In this opening show at this year's Under the Radar festival, a Chicago-based theater company with the completely apt name of Manual Cinema allows the audience at the Public Theater to wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AM[SHARE]The strength of Confucius, a 90-minute dance piece featuring 60 performers from the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater, is not found in its efforts to present Confucian philosophy …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AM[SHARE]Friday, January 6, 2017
The strength of Confucius, a 90-minute dance piece featuring 60 performers from the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater, is not found in its efforts to present Confucian philosophy …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2017
Two Broadway shows are opening this month, and fewer than a half dozen Off-Broadway, but January is as usual one of the most robust months for theater in New York. That's because there are m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 4, 2017
The Spring 2017 season Off-Broadway offers new plays by Annie Baker, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, David Mamet, Sarah Ruhl; a new one-man show by John Leguizamo, “Latin History for Morons…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Broadway-style musicals commissioned during World War II by the U.S. Army and staged on an old aircraft carrier in the Hudson; Â and a do-it-yourself spy thriller at the Brooklyn Museum. A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:59PM[SHARE]Monday, January 2, 2017
After Mariah Carey blamed technical glitches for her disastrous New Year's Eve performance in Times Square seen around the world, she wrote a Tweet that can serve as a succinct summary both …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 1, 2017
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in the Spring 2017 as of this writing, and they are listed chronological…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 31, 2016
For those understandably saddened by the premature deaths of so many beloved performers in 2016, here is a gallery of a dozen beloved theater artists who are still living — some still …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23PM[SHARE]Among the worthwhile moments I saw on stage in 2016, a surprising number became more memorable because of off-stage events. It's impossible now to remember the Radio City Rockettes performin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AM[SHARE]Friday, December 30, 2016
Among the worthwhile moments I saw on stage in 2016, a surprising number became more memorable because of off-stage events. It's impossible now to remember the Radio City Rockettes performin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 29, 2016
Below is a list of theater books published in 2016 (or reissued in paperback this year, or just books I couldn’t resist listing.) I reviewed some of these books or interviewed th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Yes, it’s a year that many would like to forget. But, before you do, test how much you were paying attention to the theater news in 2016 by answering these 16 questions. Most of them w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PM[SHARE]As my best-read posts from 2016 below make clear, some theater trends stay strong year after year: Anything about “Hamilton” is still popular nearly two years after the musical f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 27, 2016
 Instant gratification takes too long. Two of the saddest words in the English language are, ‘What party?’ I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. Y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PM[SHARE] My annual New Year’s Eve guide features the Broadway show schedule for New Year's week, and other shows, parties, concerts, intimate dinners, cruises, outdoor events and quiet a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10AM[SHARE]Monday, December 26, 2016
All but a handful of Broadway shows are performing today, the day after Christmas, even though they usually don't on Mondays. Twenty-one of them are performing twice today " and one Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 25, 2016
What's most interesting about the century-old play "God of Vengeance" " and, let's face it, the reason why a new production of it is opening tonight, at La MaMa " is that it inspired …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 24, 2016
 The character Seth Cohen created the holiday that merges Christmas and Hanukah on the TV series The OC. But this year it seems especially apt, since Christmas and Hanukkah are celebrate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18PM[SHARE]Friday, December 23, 2016
Many New York theatergoers surely see 2016 as "the worst year ever, until next year" according to the title of an essay in the New Yorker by Jia Tolentino, who cited a Twitter meme that pict…
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