Sunday, August 14, 2016
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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:57AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 13, 2016
"Flight" turns out to be a sort of sequel to "The Little Prince" told through three acrobatic performers, who use their bodies to create characters and creatures and contrivances in clever a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PM[SHARE]A program note by Maya Contreras, the playwright of "Let the Devil Take The Hindmost," explains that two specific days were significant in motivating her to write this play " the day that 12…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:03AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2016
"I always wanted to be a headliner, not a headline," says the first dead black man in "Black Magic." "I'm sorry I got hit with more bullets than birthdays," says a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15PM[SHARE]“Something Rotten” recently replaced most of its principal cast– Will Chase is now the sexy William Shakespeare, Rob McClure and Josh Grisetti the  Bard-envious Bottom B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PM[SHARE]How do you choose from 200 shows in two weeks (this year, August 12 to 28)? Practice. True, it can feel overwhelming to be one of 75,000 theatergoers attending the 2016 New York Internationa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2016
The 20th annual New York International Fringe Festival runs Friday, August 12h through Sunday, August 28th, 2016, with some 75,000 theatergoers expected for nearly 200 shows. (Enter th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:17PM[SHARE]With the Bernie Sanders campaign removing the taint connected to the word "Socialism" for a new generation of American voters, it seems an inspired time for Edward Einhorn's stage adaptation…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Carlos D., the bass player for the rock band Interpol, left the group at age 26. Â He’s now re-emerged as a theater artist, with a new solo play about his (former) obsession with roc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26PM[SHARE]Below is the list of nominations for the 12th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city’s independent theater  — aka Off-Off Broadway. H…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2016
There is one moment of abrupt physical violence in "Quietly," but it comes near the beginning of Owen McCafferty's piercing drama about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and it is neither cl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 7, 2016
Should a work of theater be an entertainment that allows us to escape from the world, or a piece of art that more or less forces us to engage in the world? Can it do both? That’s the q…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:39PM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2016
Below, cast members from the Broadway shows Beautiful and American in Paris, the Off-Broadway musical Avenue Q Â and the forthcoming Broadway musical Holiday Inn, perform at the August 4, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 4, 2016
Corbin Bleu sang “Cheek to Cheek” with Lora Lee Gayer. Bryce Pinkham sang “Blue Skies,” and Megan Lawrence sang "Shaking the Blues Away" in a preview of “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2016
The script of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two,” currently playing in London, sold more than 2 million print copies in North America in its first two days of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 2, 2016
How well were you paying attention to the theater news in July? Answer these 11 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:17PM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2016
When Hillary Clinton quoted the musical "Hamilton" at a climactic moment in her climactic acceptance speech as the Democratic candidate for the president of the United States, it capped a na…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 31, 2016
The first Broadway revival of Cats, which is neither wholly reimagined nor an exact replica of the original, is unlikely to turn off Cats-lovers, nor win over Cats-loathers. Those with an op…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24PM[SHARE]Gloria Estefan joined co-founder Bernadette Peters as the host of this year’s Broadway Barks. For the 18th year, Broadway stars snuggled up to dogs and cats looking for forever homes. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:51AM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2016
The Broadway cast of “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” — minus Josh Groban — sang three songs at the Broadway in Bryant Park lunch-time concert on Thursda…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59AM[SHARE]The most Broadway-heavy political convention in memory — with “Our Fight Song” video full of Broadway talent, and a performance of “What the World Needs Now” by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2016
Some 40 Broadway performers (and multi platform celebrities) such as Audra McDonald sang “What The World Needs Now” at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Pa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 27, 2016
So here we are, on our hands and knees in a public square as if we're religious penitents, but most of the people crawling up the steps of Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn are poets and performa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PM[SHARE]Theater stars like Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Idina Menzel, Ben Platt, and Billy Porter join in this video of Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song,” ins…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 26, 2016
See any and EVERY SHOW at the 20th anniversary New York International Fringe Festival for FREE. Win one of two “Fringe VIP” Passes, each a $500 value —  but priceless…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 24, 2016
This shirt (and song) from “Waitress” may sum up for many the week’s news outside New York theater. (See the Laura Benanti video below.) This week in New York theater saw o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 23, 2016
Below, cast members from the Broadway shows Les Miserables, Fiddler on the Roof, and Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, as well as the Marvelous Wonderettes Off-Broadway, sing and dance duri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PM[SHARE]Friday, July 22, 2016
"iLuminate," which is running at Theatre 80 through September 4, is a light show in which the lights are portrayed by 11 acrobatic dancers resembling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles who fell in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40PM[SHARE]The all-female Japanese theater company that is putting on Kander and Ebb's "Chicago" as part of the Lincoln Center Festival through Sunday, was founded in 1913 in Takarazuka, Japan by the p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 21, 2016
When "Motown the Musical" opened on Broadway in 2013, I fell for the show, because of the exciting performances by a cast impersonating many of the stars of Motown Records " Diana Ross and t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48PM[SHARE]Monday, July 18, 2016
Privacy,a play exploring the death of privacy, is inspired by Edward Snowden's revelations about surveillance. Snowden even appears on stage (via video.) But, for all its alarming info, the …
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