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 …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:02PM[SHARE]"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, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 17, 2016
What is the most magical moment you ever witnessed on stage? Answer to win a chance for two free tickets to Wicked on Broadway. New York Musical Festival preview The Week in New York Theater…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 16, 2016
“Oslo,” a fascinating play about the surprising story behind the first peace accord between the Israelis and Palestinians, arrives at Lincoln Center at a time when we can use som…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:54PM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2016
An icon sings about an icon. AÂ self-declared "ghetto-hippie-Arab-commie"China doll"Â sings about her mysterious Muslim father. Tinkerbell stars in one musical. Another is based on a rea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2016
"Small Mouth Sounds," Bess Wohl's play about six characters who are attending a silent retreat , contains almost no dialogue, but it speaks volumes. It is a satire, but it treats its subject…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Wicked for free. The long-running Broadway musical tells the story of "The Wizard of Oz" from the witches' perspective, more specifically from the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:24AM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2016
On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr engaged in their deadly duel " recreated nightly on Broadway for the foreseeable future. Four members of the original cast of Hamilton hav…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 9, 2016
The original cast of “Hamilton” is breaking up. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and Phillipa Soo play their final performances in “Hamilton” today. (Jonathan Grof…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:19PM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2016
Below is the overture and opening number of the Roundabout’s Broadway production of “She Loves Me,” as live streamed by BroadwayHD on June 30, 2016. The musical starring La…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2016
Now, 38 years after that its Broadway run " and six months after Swados' death at the age of 64 " Runaways has been revived as part of Encores Off Center, the summer version of the long-runn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:23PM[SHARE]Monday, July 4, 2016
Broadway musicals that take American history as their subject have been called a "vastly underexplored genre"…until recently. Which is your favorite?
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 3, 2016
Four New York museums are taking advantage of a certain Broadway musical's success to offer summer-long exhibitions and programming focused on Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton is not the only sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 2, 2016
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel," Samuel Johnson famously said in 1775, one year before America's first Fourth of July, the day that Congress officially adopted the De…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:51PM[SHARE]Friday, July 1, 2016
The list below includes two Broadway shows but only a handful Off-Broadway. If July looks sparser than most months, that's because the list below doesn't the summer theater festivals, the FR…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 30, 2016
Barbara Cook, who is now 88 years old " the exact number of keys on a piano " has three distinct stories to tell in her new memoir, "Then and Now" (HarperCollins.) The first is about a poor,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
How well were you paying attention to the theater news in June? Answer these 11 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2016
For the 16th year in a row, Bryant Park will be the site of free lunchtime concerts of current Broadway shows — and forthcoming Broadway musicals (this year, Holiday Inn; Natasha, Pier…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29AM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2016
Bette Midler made her New York stage debut in Tom Eyen's "Miss Nefertiti Regrets" at La MaMa in 1965. Photographs of her performance, and of a young Sam Shepard, and Harvey Fierstein and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:59PM[SHARE]Grey's Anatomy actor Jesse Williams, in accepting BET's Humanitarian Award on Sunday, gave a speech about racist oppression and appropriation, police violence and even the Magical Negro. The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2016
The 46th annual Gay Pride Parade, aka LGBTQ March, comes exactly two weeks after a man shot dead 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and the marchers carried pictures of the de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:05PM[SHARE]Shuffle Along, Fun Home and An American in Paris all announced their closing dates this week — all, in my view, prematurely, Shuffle Along shockingly so. Three more Broadway shows are …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 25, 2016
In the video below, President Barack Obama announces he is designating the area around the Stonewall Inn in New York City as the country’s first national monument to lesbian, gay, bise…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02AM[SHARE]Friday, June 24, 2016
New York Spectacular, a new summer show at Radio City Music Hall that features the Radio City Rockettes and some terrific sets, aims to tap into a similar demographic as Broadway, where more…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:00PM[SHARE]New York Spectacular, a new summer show at Radio City Music Hall that features the Rockettes and some terrific sets, aims to tap into a similar demographic as Broadway, where more than two-t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2016
We peek at the new Broadway season, which promises Cate Blanchett’s Broadway debut; Â the last remaining play from August Wilson’s celebrated American Century Cycle to make it …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Below is 2016 Kilroy list of 32 plays by women and trans writers that are not produced but should be, according to a survey of 230 theater professionals. This is the third annual list by the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:55PM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2016
In Israel Horovitz's new play, four women who were sexually involved with the same man at some point over the past 65 years gather at his Parisian loft  for his funeral, after he has died…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:52PM[SHARE]In response to the June 12 Orlando shooting at a gay nightclub called Pulse, the worst mass shooting in American history, some 70 Broadway stars gathered on June 15 to sing “What The W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 19, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Phillipa Soo announced this week that they will leave "Hamilton" on July 9; Miranda's long-time alternate Javier Munoz will take over the title role on July 11. "I'm l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2016
The following five shows are closing within the next ten days. Each of them I found worth seeing for one reason or another. Eclipsed – closing June 19 Oscar winner Lupita Nyo…
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