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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2016
"The Royale" is a 90 minute blast of inventive staging that is "loosely inspired" (as we are told in the program) by the life of Jack Johnson, the first African-American to become hea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 9, 2016
In the Heights opened on March 9, 2008 — eight years ago today. By the time it closed exactly 34 months later, it had won five Tony Awards including best musical, and launched the Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2016
The arts operate at the core of human identity…After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place ~ Cate Blanchett An apt comment for Arts Advocacy Day But is it gravi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:13PM[SHARE]Today begins Americans for the Arts two-day Arts Advocacy Day, #AAD2016. Hundreds of advocates travel to DC to persuade Congress that the arts matter. Here is a graphic that American for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 6, 2016
What's most impressive about the Broadway production of Eclipsed, Danai Gurira's forceful drama about the effect of war on five women in Liberia, is that it is opening on Broadway at all. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:40PM[SHARE]What's most impressive about the Broadway production of Eclipsed, Danai Gurira's forceful drama about the effect of war on five women in Liberia, is that it is opening on Broadway at all. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 5, 2016
In a Presidential campaign year that includes headlines like CNN's recent "Donald Trump defends size of his penis,"Â one welcomes the premise behind Richard Nelson's new three-play cycle,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:09PM[SHARE]In a Presidential campaign year that includes headlines like CNN's recent "Donald Trump defends size of his penis," one welcomes the premise behind Richard Nelson's new three-play cycle, The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:22PM[SHARE]Friday, March 4, 2016
Near the end of his alarming and charming rap guide to climate change, Baba Brinkman, who describes himself as a Canadian tree-hugger and the world's only peer-reviewed rapper, stops his rap…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2016
Danai Gurira is best known for slicing off the heads of zombies in The Walking Dead, but that is about to change. Her play Eclipsed is opening on Broadway March 6, starring Oscar-winner …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42PM[SHARE]Danai Gurira is best known for slicing off the heads of zombies in The Walking Dead, but that is about to change. Her play Eclipsed is opening on Broadway March 6, starring Oscar-winner Lupi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Why would Trevor Nunn, director of the musicals Les Miserables and Cats, choose one of Shakespeare's least-revived plays as the first he's staged with an American company, for an audience in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:46PM[SHARE]The news that Tracy Letts’ play, “Superior Donuts,” which was on Broadway in 2009, is being adapted as a TV series starring Broadway regular and Spotlight co-star Bri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2016
The season is suddenly in bloom. Six shows are opening on Broadway in March, including a musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell; the next installment of Arthur Miller as interpreted by av…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:39PM[SHARE]When Anna Deavere Smith’s one-woman show “Let Me Down Easy” opened at Second Stage Theater in 2009, there was no more timely play — and now that, as she announced tod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:51PM[SHARE]Monday, February 29, 2016
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in February? Take this quiz — which includes questions involving winners of the Oscars, the Grammys, the Tonys, and the P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 28, 2016
Seven of the 20 performers up for Academy Awards have been " or are about to be " on Broadway: (Click on any photograph to see it enlarged) Actor in a Leading Role Bryan Cranston, nom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 27, 2016
April Reign created the #OscarsSoWhite Twitter hashtag that resonated with so many people that it helped foment a national debate over the issue of inclusion in Hollywood. She’s been s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PM[SHARE]Friday, February 26, 2016
There are two main differences between the candidate debates on TV and the one in Old Hats, in which Bill Irwin and David Shiner don too-white teeth and try to one-up each other: 1. These cl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:28PM[SHARE]There are two main differences between the candidate debates on TV and the one in Old Hats, in which Bill Irwin and David Shiner don too-white teeth and try to one-up each other: 1. These cl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:19PM[SHARE]The most intriguing element in the new production of O'Neill's Hughie, which marks Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut, is Christopher Oram's set. This is not just because the hotel lobby is me…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
The most intriguing element in the new production of O'Neill's Hughie, which marks Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut, is Christopher Oram's set. This is not just because the hotel lobby is me…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2016
“Dot” is the fourth play that has opened recently that includes an elderly character suffering from Alzheimer’s " the others are The Humans, Her Requiem,  and Smokefa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Today, Bobby Lopez turns 41, which seems as good a time as any to resurrect this article I wrote about him and Jeff Marx on September 10, 2009, just as their hit Tony-winning musical Avenue …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PM[SHARE]"Her Requiem," Greg Pierce's improbable if skillfully acted new drama, now at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater, is supposedly about a 17-year-old high school student's decision to take a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30AM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2016
There is an unintentionally funny sign posted at the Signature Center outside "Angel Reapers," a show by Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry about the 18th century religious movement known as the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03PM[SHARE]"Smokefall," a fable-like play by Noah Haidle about a family from Grand Rapids, Michigan, feels influenced by the work of Thornton Wilder, with its mix of the homespun and the metaphysical. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2016
The Humans, Stephen Karam's nuanced slice-of-life drama that unfolds during a family's Thanksgiving dinner, has transferred intact to the Helen Hayes, in a production that has become even mo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42PM[SHARE]The Humans, Stephen Karam's nuanced slice-of-life drama that unfolds during a family's Thanksgiving dinner, has transferred intact to the Helen Hayes, in a production that has become even mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24PM[SHARE]“Circle Mirror Transformation” ran at Playwrights Horizons, opening on October 13, 2009 and closing after several extensions on January 31, 2010. It was a remarkable debut for pl…
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