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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:07PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2016
I've only sat through nine hours of A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Taylor Mac's outrageous, outlandish, offensive, embarrassing, raunchy, insightful, inspired, clever, sometimes hilar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 2016
Theater has been represented for thousands of years by the tragedy and comedy masks — and this week, by Grumpy the cat’s one-night gig in Cats and the opening of Judith LightR…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 1, 2016
October is stuffed — to use the title of one of the many shows opening this month. There are seven shows opening on Broadway alone (eight if you count a concert with a week-long run.) …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2016
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in September? Answer these 11 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2016
President George W. Bush was convicted of war crimes at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, on the night I attended The Trial of an American President, an earnest, informative and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:08PM[SHARE]President George W. Bush was convicted of war crimes at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, on the night I attended The Trial of an American President, an earnest, informative and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Those of us who have followed her splendid career since Judith Light returned to the New York stage in 2010 welcomed the news that she would be appearing in a new solo play written by Neil L…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16PM[SHARE]Those of us who have followed her splendid career since Judith Light returned to the New York stage in 2010 welcomed the news that she would be appearing in a new solo play written by Neil L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PM[SHARE]There are two ways to take "5 Guys Chillin'," Peter Darney's play in the Fringe Encore series that takes place among five half-naked gay characters at a drug-fueled sex party. One is as a se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Denzel Washington’s movie adaptation of “Fences,” August Wilson’s 1987 play, will be in movie theaters nationwide on December 25, 2016. Below is a first movie trailer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56AM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2016
“The Golfer” and “Broken Bone Bathtub” (pictured) were among the big winners of the 2016 New York Innovative Theatre Awards, which honor excellence Off-Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25PM[SHARE]Nat Turner in Jerusalem, a new play by Nathan Alan Davis at New York Theatre Workshop, is yet another retelling of Nat Turner's 1831 slave insurrection, a story that has been told and retold…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:07PM[SHARE]Nat Turner in Jerusalem, a new play by Nathan Alan Davis at New York Theatre Workshop, is yet another retelling of Nat Turner's 1831 slave insurrection, a story that has been told and retold…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02PM[SHARE]The National Museum of African-American Culture and History officially opened this past weekend in Washington D.C. Among the almost 37,000 objects in its permanent collection are photo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PM[SHARE]Political theater gets new meanings — and new attention — just six weeks before the Presidential election….and less than three weeks before the cut-off for voter registrati…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 25, 2016
Below is a map showing the location of some 40 tables at today’s 30th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Click on it (several time…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 24, 2016
The National Museum of African-American Culture and History officially opens today in Washington D.C. Among the almost 37,000 objects in its permanent collection are photographs, programs…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2016
A play starring a demonic hand puppet tops American Theatre Magazine’s annual survey of the most popular plays that will be produced by non-profit theaters throughout the country in th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:14AM[SHARE]Sister Act ran on Broadway between March 4, 2011 and August 26, 2012. Patina Miller went on to a Tony-winning performance in Pippin. Below is my review the night it opened, April 20, 2011: P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Win two tickets to see “Miss Saigon: The 25th Anniversary Performance” in a movie theater near you on September 22. “Miss Saigon” returns to the Broadway stage …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2016
Broadway theater marquees will dim at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday in honor of Edward Albee. Albee, 1928 to 2016, was a provocateur, both in his many plays (the photographs are of recent New York …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2016
What Did You Expect?, the second installment of Richard Nelson's trilogy at the Public subtitled The Gabriels: Election Year In The Life Of One Family, is literate (the characters tell a sto…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23PM[SHARE]What Did You Expect?, the second installment of Richard Nelson's trilogy at the Public subtitled The Gabriels: Election Year In The Life Of One Family, is literate (the characters tell a sto…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:14PM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2016
“Edward Albee, one of the most innovative playwrights of his generation, whose raw, unnerving dramas " and even the few comedies " scraped at the veneer of American success and happine…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2016
In "Missed Connections," a lively 75-minute revue that turns Craigslist ads into 25 songs, one of the six attractive and musically gifted cast members sings about a dead moose. He offers it …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Whenever the two stars of "Marie and Rosetta" sing, it's all that matters: Kecia Lewis swinging and soulful as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a gospel singer and guitarist who filled stadiums and in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Broadway shows closing, new ones announced; much about theater on screen. But the news for individual theatergoers on a budget are the discount programs in effect now or in the near…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21PM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2016
In “Aubergine,” an appealing, lyrical family drama by Julia Cho, life boils down to two essentials — food and death. Each of the characters deals with both, in unexpected w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 11, 2016
The nine teenage girls who are members of The Wolves soccer team in Sarah DeLappe's impressive first professional play do occasionally gossip about one another, or whine about their substitu…
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