Saturday, January 23, 2016
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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PM[SHARE]Friday, January 22, 2016
Our Mother's Brief Affair begins with Linda Lavin in a mother's deathbed confession to her grown gay twin children, but by the end, two hours later, playwright Richard Greenberg has sprung s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:08PM[SHARE]Our Mother's Brief Affair begins with Linda Lavin in a mother's deathbed confession to her grown gay twin children, but by the end two hours later playwright Richard Greenberg has sprung sev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Early Monday morning, January 11th, on the day that the cast of "Lazarus" was due to record David Bowie's songs for an album, Bobby Moreno, who performs in the show, got a text on his smart …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PM[SHARE]Kecia Lewis is nearly heroic as Mother Courage in the Classic Stage Company's production of Brecht's anti-war epic " not the way she's playing the character, but the actress herself, because…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Kecia Lewis is nearly heroic as Mother Courage in the Classic Stage Company's production of Brecht's anti-war epic " not the way she's playing the character, but the actress herself, because…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PM[SHARE]Dominique Morisseau was moved to write Skeleton Crew, her compelling play about a group of Detroit auto workers, after the playwright met a woman who was reduced to living in her automobile …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:57PM[SHARE]Dominique Morisseau, the author of Skeleton Crew, the compelling final play in her Detroit trilogy which focuses on a group of Detroit auto workers, won the 2015 Steinberg Playwright A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Meteorologists are warning that the season's first significant winter storm may be arriving in New York City as early as this Friday, January 22, 2016. (Weather Channel forecast) Although it…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:47PM[SHARE]Monday, January 18, 2016
Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have A Dream speech. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lin-Manuel Miranda went back to his elementary school for his second indoor #Ham4Ham: Here's his first…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 17, 2016
Dorothée Munyaneza grew up in Rwanda listening to a popular Saturday morning variety show on the radio called Samedi Detente. When she was 12 years old, in 1994, 800,000 of her fellow Rwand…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 16, 2016
David Lawson is a New York theater person, which is to say he makes his art for the stage, but, like thousands of others, he makes his living doing something else. He hands out flyers in Tim…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AM[SHARE]Friday, January 15, 2016
How far is too far to get your art out to the public? What if it meant collaborating with Joseph Stalin? That is the black comedy at the heart of "Collaborators," a first play by John Hodge …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 14, 2016
Slamming doors and plates of sardines were all I could recall from the last time I saw Noises Off, and that's a good summary of the third Broadway production of Michael Frayn's slapstick bac…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45PM[SHARE]Slamming doors and plates of sardines were all I could recall from the last time I saw Noises Off, and that's a good summary of the third Broadway production of Michael Frayn's slapstick bac…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Best Picture The Big Short, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger Brooklyn, Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey Mad M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 13, 2016
"Key Change," we're told, is a theater piece "devised" by women inmates in a prison in the north of England called Her Majesty's Prison Low Newton, although a playwright, Catrina McHugh, is …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42PM[SHARE]Elmore James, who will be singing with two Jewish blondes and another African-American man in the "Soul to Soul" concert this Sunday, grew up in Harlem and made his Broadway debut in the bla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 12, 2016
“This is history!” Steven Spielberg scribbled. “No words — just exaltation,” wrote Oprah. "The best show ever! (Outside The Producers)" – Mel Brooks. &…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51PM[SHARE]Monday, January 11, 2016
David Bowie, the most theatrical of rock stars, died two days after his 69th birthday, while his first musical, Lazarus, is still being performed at the New York Theatre Workshop. Of the 18 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:58PM[SHARE]"The Changeling," a gory and convoluted play that takes place in a Spanish castle and in an insane asylum, should intrigue students of Shakespeare, if for no other reason than that it was wr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 10, 2016
There are several things worth knowing upfront about MDLSX, the visually spectacular solo show starring Silvia Caderoni, a member of the Italian experimental troupe Motus that is playing at …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04PM[SHARE]Amid the infomercials, dating videos, and YouTube love diaries presented as part of "The Art of Luv (Part One): Elliot" at the Under the Radar Festival, is one by a college student who expre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 9, 2016
The offending gesture in Mac Wellman's dizzying new play "The Offending Gesture" was the Nazi "Heil Hitler" salute, but it was the Nazis who were offended. In the incredible true story, whic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:41PM[SHARE]The first shows of both the Under the Radar and COIL festivals " two of the dozen or so winter festivals that bring experimental theater from around the world to New York in January " began …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 7, 2016
There are some 50 wars or armed conflicts happening somewhere in the world right now, at least a dozen of which each caused thousands or tens of thousands of deaths in 2015 alone. Wat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 5, 2016
If at first glance January seems a relatively fallow time for theater in New York " just two shows opening on Broadway this month, some half dozen Off-Broadway " the truth is that it is one …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35AM[SHARE]Monday, January 4, 2016
Plan your new year of theatergoing, and theater reading with guides to the Broadway season, the Off-Broadway season, the winter New York theater festivals, a good theater book list for 2016,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 3, 2016
As Hamilton director Thomas Kail makes clear this season, Broadway may beckon, but Off-Broadway is the room where it happens. Kail is directing two plays Off-Broadway – “Dry Powd…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 2, 2016
A liberal has a respectful conversation with a white supremacist in "Confirmation,” while a feminist artist interviews ‘the Internet’s most infamous misogynist’ in &#…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PM[SHARE]Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in the Spring 2016 as of this writing, and they are listed chronological…
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