Saturday, November 5, 2016
“Heisenberg” is a play starring Mary-Louise Parker as a wacky 42-year-old American who kisses a 75-year-old stranger on the neck in a London train station, setting off an improba…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2016
Like Grapes of Wrath, Lynn Nottage's Sweat offers a devastating look at social and economic breakdown, told not with rants or statistics, but through a riveting tale about good people in a b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PM[SHARE]Like Grapes of Wrath, Lynn Nottage's Sweat offers a devastating look at social and economic breakdown, told not with rants or statistics, but through a riveting tale about good people in a b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Three of the four Broadway openings  in November are for shows, with limited (holiday) runs, are rightly categorized more as entertainments than theater.  Ah, but the fourth… …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2016
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in October? Take these 10 questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2016
Dangerous Liaisons indeed. In American politics, an October Surprise is an unexpected event that could well influence the outcome of the Presidential election; we've had more than one this m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:43PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 29, 2016
I was the host for the luminous Mandy Gonzalez, who plays Angelica Schuyler in the Broadway production of Hamilton, Â at the annual Sardi’s luncheon of the American Theatre Critics A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:52PM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2016
Edwin Booth, the most celebrated American actor of the 19th century, had come back from self-imposed exile in Europe after his brother had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, with an idea. He had …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2016
"This is not a story about war; it's a story about falling in love," the playwright tells us at the outset of "Vietgone," a play by Qui Nguyen that manages to be both as puckish as a comic b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Laura Osnes and Will Swenson will star in Frank Loesser’s “lost” World War II musicals on board the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, as part of the Public Theater̵…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:56PM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2016
For the first half of Adam Bock's "A Life" — before its life-changing coup de theatre — David Hyde Pierce as Nate sits on his Eames sofa and seems to be taking stock of his life.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16PM[SHARE]It was one of those weeks when "theater" gets redefined in the post-modern media age, thanks to several events in a row: Broadway for Hillary fundraiser, livestreamed The third and final deb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:08PM[SHARE]The best way to sum up the fourth Broadway revival of The Front Page, the 1928 play about Chicago newspapermen, is the way their ads do: Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Jefferson M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AM[SHARE]The best way to sum up the fourth Broadway revival of The Front Page, the 1928 play about Chicago newspapermen, is the way their ads do: Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Jefferson M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 23, 2016
Of all the crazed, destructive, female characters that the stage has given us, Susan Traherne may be among the least interesting, at least as performed by Rachel Weisz in the Public Theater …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31PM[SHARE]Of all the crazed, destructive, female characters that the stage has given us, Susan Traherne may be among the least interesting, at least as performed by Rachel Weisz in the Public Theater …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 22, 2016
If you missed “Hamilton’s America” on the PBS TV series Great Performances, you can watch the documentary here on their website. If much of the 82-minute documentary about …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:07AM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 2016
Forty-one years after The Rocky Horror Show ran for 45 performances on Broadway, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show became a cult movie that is still being shown in movie theaters at midnight…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2016
When Diane Lane, returning to Broadway after nearly four decades, enters on stage in the Roundabout's ambitiously reinterpreted production of The Cherry Orchard, her Lubyov seems an impossib…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:09PM[SHARE]When Diane Lane, returning to Broadway after nearly four decades, enters on stage in the Roundabout's ambitiously reinterpreted production of The Cherry Orchard, her Lubyov seems an impossib…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:42PM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Renee Elise Goldsberry will sing a song from Hamilton, “The World Was Wide Enough” at tonight’s Broadway for Hillary fundraiser at Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2016
“War Paint," a musical about real-life rival cosmetic queens,with Patti LuPone as Helen Rubenstein and Christine Ebersole as Elizabeth Arden, is set to open in Broadway’s Nede…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 13, 2016
Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." He is the first American to win since Toni Morr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda was host of Saturday Night Live this week, which sparked unusual attention on Broadway not only in the show, but during the commercials. The Week in NY Theater Reviews A 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25AM[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 2016
I was surprised at how little I laughed during Oh, Hello on Broadway, a comedy act by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who have been called "two of the hottest voices in comedy." They portray Gi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:16PM[SHARE]I was surprised at how little I laughed during Oh, Hello on Broadway, a comedy act by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who have been called "two of the hottest voices in comedy." They portray Gi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 9, 2016
The eerie true story of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre's encounter with the elusive Mayoruna tribe while lost in the Amazon rainforest is made stranger still in Simon McB…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:25PM[SHARE]The eerie true story of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre's encounter with the elusive Mayoruna tribe while lost in the Amazon rainforest is made stranger still in Simon McB…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:18PM[SHARE] As the host of Saturday Night Live, Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared in some half-dozen sketches (see photo collage below with links to the videos.) None were more satisfying than his  …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52AM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2016
Get out of my face, the cop in riot gear screams in my face. He then pummels me to the ground. Actually, it's my avatar that gets hits. I get a message: Because I was angry, I …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2016
It is possible to enjoy Holiday Inn, subtitled "The New Irving Berlin Musical," although there is little new about it. The Broadway adaptation of the 1942 Crosby/Astaire movie features a har…
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