Thursday, February 18, 2016
“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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Hamilton won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, Lin-Manuel Miranda accepting the award with – what else? — a rap: That the winner of the musical theater catego…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PM[SHARE]Monday, February 15, 2016
The cast of Hamilton will perform their show’s opening number live via satellite from the Richard Rodgers Theater sometime during the 2016 Grammy broadcast, which will air starting at …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PM[SHARE]"Hamilton" the musical currently presents three U.S. presidents every night " George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison " but nearly every one of the 43 presidents has been portr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 14, 2016
Kiss Me Kate; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Stage Kiss: There sure are a lot of kisses in the theater. Below: Elizabeth Taylor kisses John Culllum in Private Lives in 1983, and Tallulah Bankhead…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 13, 2016
Robert Sean Leonard was 20 years old when he portrayed one of the boarding school students inspired by teacher Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poets Society. In Prodigal Son, John Pa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:21PM[SHARE]Robert Sean Leonard was 20 years old when he portrayed one of the boarding school students inspired by teacher Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poets Society. In Prodigal Son, John Patrick S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 11, 2016
Below is a two minute video from Papermill Playhouse’s world premiere production of A Bronx Tale: The Musical, with music by Alan Menken (Newsies, Aladdin, Little Shop of Horrors,) whi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:39PM[SHARE]Five years after the Gershwin brothers debuted Porgy and Bess, a Gershwin protégée born Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky (aka Vernon Duke) composed the all-black musical Cabin in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:26AM[SHARE]Five years after the Gershwin brothers debuted Porgy and Bess, a Gershwin protégée born Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky (aka Vernon Duke) composed the all-black musical Cabin in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Allee Willis has a special interest in the cast album of the Broadway revival of The Color Purple that will be released on February 12th. She wrote the music and lyrics, along with two fello…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
A stage adaptation of Frozen, the highest-grossing animated film of all time, will arrive on Broadway in 2018, Disney Theatrical announced. The stage musical, featuring the songs of the husb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:29PM[SHARE]Monday, February 8, 2016
The Woodsman, a nearly wordless play with puppets that tells the story of how the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz lost both his human body and his heart, arrives at New World Stages after seve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 7, 2016
If you were to donate your brain to science, science would return it. So stop it.” So says Dame Helen Mirren, before taking a sip from a bottle of Budweiser. Tagged: Budweiser commerci…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42PM[SHARE]Those looking to unlock the secret to the success of "Then She Fell," the Third Rail Projects' immersive take on Lewis Carroll and his writings now entering its fourth year, might start with…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 6, 2016
The Alving Estate, an intriguing and instructive if ultimately unsatisfying experiment, promises an immersive staging of Ibsen's Ghosts. The two companies that conceived the show, Journey La…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:24PM[SHARE]“Sleep No More” is Punchdrunk Theater's staging of Macbeth, as if retold by Alfred Hitchcock and Isadora Duncan. It has been running since 2011 in a formerly abandoned club in Ch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 3, 2016
"The Grand Paradise" can be a fun, hip and sensuous two-hour holiday with a cast of 20, all attractive, some barely clad, in a cleverly designed beach resort from the hedonist 1970s. It can …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Late Late Show host and Tony winner James Corden will be the host of the 70th Tony Awards June 12th. He won his Tony for One Man, Two Guvnors. Grease Live, the fourth live television …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PM[SHARE]Monday, February 1, 2016
Actor Forest Whitaker and playwright Stephen Karam make their separate Broadway debuts this month in the only two Broadway shows opening in February — a revival of Eugene O’Neill…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:40PM[SHARE]Grease Live was so smartly cast and so inventively staged — and so much communal fun — that it was easier to forgive the fact that it was still Grease, a dopey, dated, leather-de…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 31, 2016
Below is the tracklist for Grease live broadcast on Fox today January 31, 2016, 7 to 10 p.m. The song titles are linked to lyrics as performed either in the original 1972 Broadway production…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 30, 2016
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in January? Answer these dozen questions —  about BroadwayCon and the blizzard and Hamilton and which Al P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AM[SHARE]Friday, January 29, 2016
In "Sojourners," a curious kind of love story among oddly carved characters, a man visits the hospital room of a woman he just recently met who's given birth to the child of her absent husba…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 27, 2016
I and You, Lauren Gunderson's two-character play that now has opened in New York, has been produced in some 20 theaters around the country (including Olney Theatre Center), receiving awar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:51PM[SHARE]I and You, Lauren Gunderson's two-character play that now has opened in New York, has been produced in some 20 theaters around the country (including Olney Theatre Center), receiving awar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 26, 2016
‘When the New York Times published a photograph of the cast of Grease Live this week, Noah Robbins posted it on his Facebook page and noted: "I'm on the far right, apparently practicin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AM[SHARE]Monday, January 25, 2016
Undeterred by the second biggest blizzard that New York has experienced since 1869 " which shut down the city and Broadway too —Â they came from Canada and Florida, Las Vegas and dow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 24, 2016
The blizzard that attacked New York City on Saturday, deposited 26.8 inches of snow in Central Park, making it the city’s second-largest blizzard since 1869. But that’s all hi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:07AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 23, 2016
The shutdown of public transportation during the blizzard has caused the Broadway League to cancel all performances of Broadway shows for Saturday, January 23, 2016, both matinee and evening…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:25PM[SHARE]On Day 1 of Year 1 of BroadwayCon, being held for three days at the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan, we learned: “It’s like Comic Con but with more jazz hands and green face pa…
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