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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2016
Politics has invaded New York — and New York theater — even more so than usual this week. The Stop Cats movement is a prank " as (Andrew Briedis)Â Annoying Actor Friend explain…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2016
Joel Grey, he tells us in "Master of Ceremonies," is "one of only eight people to win both the Tony and the Academy Award for the same role" " in his case the Emcee in "Cabaret." It's the ro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43PM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2016
Anne Washburn's new play sounds like the premise for the movies The Big Chill and The Return of the Secaucus Seven " a group of old friends reunite in a bucolic ranch house in the Texas Hill…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 3, 2016
August Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein were among the winners in the UK’s 40th anniversary Olivier Awards, named aft…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PM[SHARE]Are theatergoers fools for April? Â We’ve survived some dopey April Fool’s Day jokes (Google’s Mic Drop; Brokelyn’s promise of a free Hamilton concert) and one hila…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 2, 2016
What Andrew Schneider achieves on stage literally using smoke and mirrors leaves theatergoers as astonished as 19th century audiences must have felt watching Lumière’s "Arrival of the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53AM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2016
This month only seven shows will open on Broadway — “only” because April is usually the most intense of theater-going months. (Last April there were 14 Broadway openings.) …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2016
Of some 100 productions of The Crucible scheduled this year in the U.S., director Ivo van Hove's eerie, often enigmatic but periodically powerful Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's most fre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10PM[SHARE]Alexander Hamilton is not a character in "1776" " and John Adams, the central character in "1776" is not a character in "Hamilton." But both are entertaining history lessons about the foundi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2016
The Humans received the most nominations this year, six. Futurity, Guards at the Taj and John all received five. The 31st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in March? Answer these ten questions to find out. Tagged: Akosua Busia from Eclipsed, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patty Duke R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:54AM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2016
In Head of Passes, Phylicia Rashad portrays Shelah, a woman so religiously devout she objects to Deviled eggs. Her faith is tested in the Public Theater's well-acted, richly atmospheric prod…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:07PM[SHARE]In Head of Passes, Phylicia Rashad portrays Shelah, a woman so religiously devout she objects to Deviled eggs. Her faith is tested in the Public Theater's well-acted, richly atmospheric prod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2016
World Theatre Day messages: “The very act of theatre-making is a fundamentally utopian act….[P]erformance is creating community. . In this time of profound discord..how do we …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2016
After collaborating on two bluegrass albums, Steve Martin and singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, two celebrated Texas-born talents, decided to create a musical around the songs. The result is …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Dry Powder is a play about a private equity firm that tries to buy a luggage company, but it is not as dry as it sounds, and not just because its cast includes John Krasinski (formerly of Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33PM[SHARE]Dry Powder is a play about a private equity firm that tries to buy a luggage company, but it is not as dry as it sounds, and not just because its cast includes John Krasinski (formerly of Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 20, 2016
Is falling in love just a chemical response that you can recreate in the laboratory? That's one of the fascinating questions addressed in The Effect, a play about two volunteers in a clinica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PM[SHARE]Hamilton, Taylor Mac, Broadway Black, Lupita Nyongo in Eclipsed, Playwrights Horizons, Mark Rylance, Timothee Chalomet in Prodigal Son, Cynthia Erivo in The Color Purple, Lois Smith — …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59AM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2016
"Shock," Michelle Williams says, as Jeff Daniels rushes her into the messy break room of an antiseptic corporate office, alarmed. It's the first word in "Blackbird," a play by David Harrower…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
I left the Roundabout's largely terrific revival of "She Loves Me" at Studio 54 singing most of the beautiful songs in my head. I'll confess that I also entered Studio 54 singing those songs…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17PM[SHARE]In "The Way West," Mona Mansour's timely black comedy at Labyrinth Theater Company about bankruptcy and the American way, Dierdre O'Connell plays a mother who likes to tell her two grown dau…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Darja, the central character in Ironbound, never leaves a barren bus stop on an ugly stretch of post-industrial New Jersey, but Martyna Majok's rich play about a poor immigrant feels always …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:58PM[SHARE]Darja, the central character in Ironbound, never leaves a barren bus stop on an ugly stretch of post-industrial New Jersey, but Martyna Majok's rich play about a poor immigrant feels always …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Disaster is a campy spoof of 1970s disaster movies mashed up with well-sung snippets of dozens of 1970s pop hits in order to produce moments of hilarity. I counted at least seven such moment…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PM[SHARE]In It Can't Happen Here, one of the candidates for president of the United States declares "the people are sick to death of political chatter…It's time to ACT" — and promises to "bui…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AM[SHARE]"This is definitely the room where it happened," President Barack Obama said at the beginning of the daylong visit to the White House of the cast of the Broadway musical Hamilton. The presid…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:38AM[SHARE]Monday, March 14, 2016
Near the end of the bluegrass musical "Southern Comfort," a character named Lola Cola visits the parents of her lover Robert Eads to tell them that he has died. "Get off our property," says …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2016
In the revival of "The Robber Bridegroom," a bluegrass musical folk tale, there are two sides to the character played by Steven Pasquale, an 18th century Mississippi Robin Hood " both a Sout…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:38PM[SHARE]Friday, March 11, 2016
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Bright Star for free. Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's new musical Bright Star opens at Broadway's Shubert Theater on March 24, 2016, with a country a…
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