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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2016
The all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew in Central Park, with Janet McTeer as the macho Petruchio and Cush Jumbo as the shrew he starves into obedience, seems to be working hard…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2016
The all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew in Central Park, with Janet McTeer as the macho Petruchio and Cush Jumbo as the shrew he starves into obedience, seems to be working hard…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:17PM[SHARE]“Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” opened on June 14, 2011. It ran for a total of 1066 performances, closing on January 04, 2014. Below is my review upon its official opening. Sc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2016
Hamilton won 11 awards " best musical, book, score, lead actor of a musical, featured actor, featured actress, direction, set, costumes, lighting, and choreography — at the 70th annual…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 12, 2016
Hamilton won 11 awards and The Humans four, including best musical and best play respectively. Below are the winners of the 70th annual Tony Awards, listed in red with an asterisk* Also list…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PM[SHARE]An American-born suspect identified as Omar Mateen shot and killed 50 people early this morning at the Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The largest mass shooting in American histo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 11, 2016
My most popular Hamilton post has been Quiz: Which character in Hamilton are you? Also popular, my more general Hamilton Quiz — 20 questions that span the history of the show. My most …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2016
This is the time of year when people turn their attention to Broadway, for two reasons — it’s the summer, a good time to visit New York; and their interest is piqued thanks to th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PM[SHARE]Contrary to popular belief, more than one worthy show opened on Broadway this past season, although admittedly Hamilton has become a much-ballyhooed phenomenon in the culture at large. T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
An Indian summer, as a character defines it in Gregory S. Moss's play, is a time in late August when " the animals, the birds, even the plants" are "a little stunned that it’s still wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Don and Karla meet because their mothers share a room in a cancer hospital, in Halley Feiffer's bawdy and tender new play, which has two attention-grabbing aspects to it: Its title is 22 wor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PM[SHARE]New York Times drama critic Charles Isherwood inadvertently sparked a controversy when, in a discussion of the 2016 Tony Awards, he commented about Hamilton: "I do find it slightly puzzling …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AM[SHARE]The full 11-minute video of Late Late Show and Tony Awards host James Corden driving through traffic leading his guests Lin-Manuel Miranda, Audra McDonald, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jane Krak…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:21AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 5, 2016
Below are the winners of the 61st Annual Drama Desk Awards as they become available, with an asterisk and in red. The Humans and The Royale received Special Drama Desk Awards for Outst…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:23PM[SHARE]There is some theater opening in June in New York, but for another week the focus is elsewhere: Awards! Barbra Streisand will be a presenter at the Tony Awards next Sunday, which will be the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 4, 2016
Muhammad Ali, who died Friday at 74, was among “one of the most famous faces on Earth” as the world heavyweight boxing champion. Fewer know he also starred on Broadway. In 196…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:32PM[SHARE]Broadway knows how to finish a song, judging from these songs by ten current shows, sung at the 2016 Stars in the Alley concert by cast members from Aladdin, An American in Paris, Chicago, F…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2016
Actors train to get into character, but how do they get out of it? What happens at the end of a night's intense performance, or at the conclusion of a run? Watch the videos below for answers…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:51AM[SHARE]This you’ve got to see: @TheSavionGlover joins cast of @shufflealongbwy in tap dance on @MayaAndMarty showhttps://t.co/4rC4su5IPZ " New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) June 2, 2016 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Below is a schedule of June theater organized chronologically by opening date. Each show title is linked to a relevant website. Keep in mind that some of the hottest theater this month is at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2016
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in May? Answer these dozen questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:58PM[SHARE]Monday, May 30, 2016
In "Incognito," a pathologist steals Albert Einstein's brain; a man who has no short-term memory keeps on asking for his wife, whom he doesn't realize had died; two women meet on a blind dat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 29, 2016
This season's Broadway stats, according to The Broadway League: 13,317,980 visitors (up 1.6 percent from 2015) $1.373 billion gross (up .6 percent from last year) Average ticket price: $103.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2016
In “Paramour,” its first musical produced specifically for Broadway, Cirque du Soleil grafts a Hollywood love triangle onto its high-flying acrobatics. Jeremy Kushnier portrays …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Some two-thirds of the way through "The Total Bent," Marty Roy, the musical prodigy son of the charismatic gospel-singing, faith-healing, white-hating Papa Joe Roy, struts up on a stage that…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2016
For Ana Villafañe, the New York theater season just ended can be summed up in a line from “On Your Feet,” the show in which she stars: “This is what an American looks li…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32PM[SHARE]Monday, May 23, 2016
Rajiv Joseph's “Guards at the Taj “won Best New American Play and $1,000 at the 61st annual Obie Awards. The Humans won for playwriting and best performance. Eclipsed won for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13PM[SHARE]Has Hell ever sounded so thrilling? Hadestown, a sung-through musical derived from the myth of Orpheus and expanded from a concept album by Anais Mitchell, mixes sweet and sexy folk, rocking…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 22, 2016
The three short plays that Signature Theater is reviving together in a single production " Edward Albee's The Sandbox, Maria Irene Fornés' Drowning, and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37PM[SHARE]“What we do deeply, deeply matters,” George C. Wolfe, director and book writer of Shuffle Along, told a group of out-of-town theater owners and presenters in another week focused…
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