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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16PM[SHARE]My local supermarket just e-mailed me their weekly deals on raspberries and sushi rolls with the subject head "Always Remember, September 11th." They were not trying to be crass, of course, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 10, 2016
A quarter century after she gained infamy among right-wing critics as the obscene, nude "chocolate smeared woman," performance artist Karen Finley is on stage every Sunday at the Laurie Beec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2016
"Caught" messes with your head in the most exquisite of ways. In part a send-up of the art scene " the conceptual artist as con artist — it is itself a form of conceptual art, and a se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2016
"Spamilton," an often clever if uneven spoof of the musical "Hamilton," is like the 26th edition of "Forbidden Broadway," the show that “Spamilton”author Gerard Alessandrini crea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Mike Daisey has put a script of “The Trump Card,” his latest monologue, on his blog to encourage people to perform it without seeking his permission or paying royalties. I saw Da…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The first shows of the New York theater season actually opened months ago — one has already closed — but now’s the time theatergoers pay attention. So here is my Broadway 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AM[SHARE]Monday, September 5, 2016
During the Fall 2016 season, three of the most celebrated playwrights in America are offering some acclaimed plays: Anna Deavere Smith, Lynn Nottage and Suzan-Lori Parks. That the three are …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 4, 2016
For the fourth year in a row, some 200 New Yorkers from all five boroughs are performing this Labor Day Weekend on stage at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park as part of what the Public T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2016
Politics is in the air, Â and it inevitably lands on the New York stage, with some half-dozen shows opening in September that one could call political theater, including an American presid…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2016
For the last #Ham4Ham, Rory O’Malley brought Renée Elise Goldsberry with Alex Lacamoire and the band to perform “Congratulations,” a song that was in Hamilton at the Pu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 30, 2016
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these dozen questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:34PM[SHARE]Monday, August 29, 2016
Below are the shows at the 11th anniversary of the Fringe Encore Series, from September 9h to October 29th, 2016 at the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street), selected from both the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:16PM[SHARE]Mother Emanuel, a celebration of the lives of the nine gunned down in a South Carolina church, and The Radicalization of Rolfe, which looks at the  Sound of Music from the point of view o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 28, 2016
Yes, the summer is winding down, but the theater season is gearing up. Witness the news below of new casts on Broadway, new shows Off-Broadway, and some tantalizing maybes. It’s not to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 27, 2016
"Mother Emanuel" is an earnest, lively play filled with rousing music that celebrates the lives of the nine people who were shot dead at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2016
Barbra is a mother with a mission in Kevin R. Free's cartoonish, cleverly convoluted and uncomfortable comedy, "Night of the Living N Word." A daughter of the Confederacy who grew up on an i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins used to refer to the city as a gorgeous mosaic. That phrase came to mind for a couple of reasons while I watched "Black and Blue," an ultimately comp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2016
“The Sound of Music” told from the point of view of a gay Nazi; biographies of three African-American men — W.E.B. Du Bois, Stokely Carmichael, and Richard Pryor. These are…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 21, 2016
On her 95th birthday, Muriel Mandell reviews Hamilton and other Broadway shows. “I understand a five-year-old has been reviewing theater, and so I thought, well, why can’t I?R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 20, 2016
In his solo show about comedian Richard Pryor, Â Khalil Muhammad has figured out a novel way both of presenting the man's life and giving a taste of his comic approach. Muhammad doesn't po…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AM[SHARE]Friday, August 19, 2016
John McDonagh calls his solo show "Cabtivist" because he's been driving a New York City taxicab for 35 years, and because he's been a political activist for almost as long. Maybe he's named …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2016
There are few Americans who made a greater contribution to the nation's cultural, civic and intellectual life in the 20th century than William Edward Berghardt DuBois, who lived an extraordi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Her daughter Rani has turned 16, and so Chameli is haggling with a customer over the price of what she calls Rani's "first sale" " the first time she will work as a prostitute. "This her hon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:50PM[SHARE]One can count it as a missed opportunity that a show with the title "Power! Stokely Carmichael" tells us so little about the life of Stokely Carmichael, who was the activist credited with po…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2016
After all those sequels and prequels and back stories based on "The Wizard of Oz" and "Peter Pan," isn't it time somebody did the same for "The Sound of Music"? Playwright Andrew Bergh remin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2016
The Fringe is HOT. Thanks to the heat wave that accompanied the opening weekend, this was literally true at the Fringe outdoor block party over the weekend, which offered teasers from a hand…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:07PM[SHARE] I hated Evan Zes even before I entered the theater to see his solo show, entitled "Rent Control," advertised as being about his true experiences making money off illegal sublets and A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29PM[SHARE]"The Gorges Motel" is a collection of nine sketches and vignettes, each written by one of six established playwrights, that all take place on the same day in a (presumably fictional) run-dow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 14, 2016
The Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Broadway is named after Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, renowned partners on stage in more than two dozen productions and married to one another for 55 years. Mar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:41PM[SHARE]David Leeper, who plays five characters in a gay bar over five decades in "At The Flash," is an impressive mimic, the kind of quick-change artist that could surely do a credible job portrayi…
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