Sunday, May 1, 2016
May may be seen as the month when theater people are awaiting the Tony Awards in June, but there are also nearly two dozen plays, musicals and “unique theatrical experiences” ope…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 30, 2016
"Shuffle Along is jazzy, tuneful, full of pep," says one of the rave reviews from 1921 printed on the curtain during intermission at the Music Box Theater, where George C. Wolfe has mounted …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:37PM[SHARE]"Shuffle Along is jazzy, tuneful, full of pep," says one of the rave reviews from 1921 printed on the curtain during intermission at the Music Box Theater, where George C. Wolfe has mounted …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:33AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2016
Below are two articles I wrote about Rent shortly after it opened on Broadway on April 29, 1996 (10,512,000 minutes ago.) The first article, published on May 12, 1996, is an interview with c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:10PM[SHARE]The Broadway season has officially ended, although the hoopla over it continues, with the Tony Award nominations to be announced on May 3. Other nominations have already been made public; mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2016
Jessie Tyler Ferguson, Mitchell on “Modern Family”, is starring on Broadway in Fully Committed, portraying Sam, a struggling actor who works as a reservations clerk at a trendy M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:27PM[SHARE]Jessie Tyler Ferguson, Mitchell on Modern Family, is starring on Broadway in Fully Committed, portraying Sam, a struggling actor who works as a reservations clerk at a trendy Manhattan resta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AM[SHARE]She Loves Me, American Psycho and Bright Star lead the nominations for the 61st annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2016
"None of us can help the things life has done to us," Jessica Lange says as Mary Tyrone. Mary is talking about one of her sons, a drunk, but she herself, a convent girl who married a matinee…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:38PM[SHARE]"None of us can help the things life has done to us," Jessica Lange says as Mary Tyrone. Mary is talking about one of her sons, a drunk, but she herself, a convent girl who married a matinee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
The members of the Tuck family spend two hours trying to explain why it's a curse to live forever, but it is only in the final 15 minutes of Tuck Everlasting that the musical drives home wha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50PM[SHARE]The members of the Tuck family spend two hours trying to explain why it's a curse to live forever, but it is only in the final 15 minutes of Tuck Everlasting that the musical drives home wha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2016
There is nothing idle about the gossip in  "The School for Scandal." That is clear from the very first scene, when the well-named Lady Sneerwell, portrayed by the estimable Frances Barber…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2016
There are good reasons to savor Waitress, the sweet and tart new musical confection about love and pie, deliciously performed at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater. Some of the reasons have …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:25PM[SHARE]There are good reasons to savor Waitress, the sweet and tart new musical confection about love and pie, deliciously performed at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater…It is being promoted…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 23, 2016
William Shakespeare is said to have died 400 years ago today, on April 23rd, 1616, at the age of 52, Â having written about death many times and in many ways, as the chart below makes clea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2016
As acclaimed as it is, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” will not sweep all the New York theater awards in 2016, most of which are awarded in May and June. “Hamilton…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2016
American Psycho, a musical about a fashion-conscious serial killer, is not the most misbegotten show ever on Broadway. It only feels that way for a couple of moments " such as the produc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:49PM[SHARE]“American Psycho,” a musical about a fashion-conscious serial killer, is not the most misbegotten show ever on Broadway. It only feels that way for a couple of moments " such as …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 2016 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The winners will be annou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
On one level, Alice Birch's weirdly named and audacious play, which has opened at Soho Rep, presents five vignettes of familiar every-day encounters: a man and a woman graphically flirting a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24PM[SHARE]She Loves Me and American Psycho lead with eight nominations apiece in the nominations for the 2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards. The winners will be announced on Monday, May 9th. OUTSTANDING…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38AM[SHARE]In one way, Hamilton Clancy has outlived William Shakespeare, who died 400 years ago this week at the age of 52. Clancy is older than that. But Clancy has also died many times, and it's all …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:45AM[SHARE] Few could have been surprised that the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama (and $10,000) was awarded to Lin-Manuel Miranda for the musical Hamilton, who after all has already won an astonish…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his musical “Hamilton.” The choice was widely expected. In my first review of Hamilton, Off Broadway, I wrote "Ham…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2016
The producers of Hamilton have agreed to give the musical's original cast members an unspecified share of the profits, which are reportedly some half a million dollars a week and sure to gro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 16, 2016
The Father, a deliberately disorienting new play starring Frank Langella, is the second work that I've seen on a New York stage in the last two months that focuses on a character struggling …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:56PM[SHARE]The Father, a deliberately disorienting new play starring Frank Langella, is the second work that I've seen on a New York stage in the last two months that focuses on a character struggling …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Nathan the Wise, a fascinating old play that recalls an era when Jews, Muslims and Christians got along, begins at Classic Stage with an acknowledgement of the present: All the actors are ar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39PM[SHARE]Nathan the Wise, a fascinating old play that recalls an era when Jews, Muslims and Christians got along, begins at Classic Stage with an acknowledgement of the present: All the actors are ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2016
"Hamilton The Revolution," published April 12, 2016, has a long subtitle on the frontispiece in the style of 18th century literature: “Being the complete libretto of the Broadway Music…
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