Sunday, October 25, 2015
The title for Stephen Karam's new play “The Humans,” which takes place during a family's Thanksgiving dinner, may come from a line of dialogue by a character who talks about the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2015
At the curtain call it struck home what's special about the first Broadway production of Dames at Sea, the 1930's musical created in the 1960s: Only six performers take bows. Busby Berkeley …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42PM[SHARE]Fun and funny, full of rousing melodies and exciting bouts of tap dancing performed by six true talents, the revival at the Helen Hayes is, according to the show's website, "reimagined for t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Daphne Rubin-Vega, the original Mimi in the original Rent, is so good portraying the initially endearing Dolores and eight other characters in “Empanada Loca, “which has now open…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06PM[SHARE]Amy Carter is 47 years old now, but she is forever 12 in history, and also in First Daughter Suite, Michael John LaChiusa's fanciful musical at the Public Theater. In the musical, howeve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37PM[SHARE]First Daughter Suite, Â Michael LaChiusa’s musical focusing as much on the First Ladies Nixon, Carter, Ford, Reagan, and Bush as on their daughters, can be considered a sequel of sor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
In "Futurity," a genre-bending show created by the indie band The Lisps, a soldier during the Civil War contacts the daughter of a famous 19th century British poet to help him build "a machi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
At least one play a day is opening in the week ahead, as it has in the past two weeks of October, the busiest month of the Fall theater season. Check out Dames at Sea, First Daughter Suite, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 17, 2015
"I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world,” wrote Arthur Miller, who would have turned 100 today. Still one of the most-produced playwrights in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50AM[SHARE]Friday, October 16, 2015
Audiences are finding the revival of Cloud Nine at the Atlantic Theater uncomfortable, but not in the same way audiences did in 1981, when it was Caryl Churchill's second-ever play in New Yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2015
"Perfect Arrangement," a socially conscious comedy that marks playwright Topher Payne's debut in New York, is his take on what's come to be called the Lavendar Scare of the 1950's, an off-sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 14, 2015
The two characters in The Gin Game do little more than play card games and, once, (spoiler alert) dance. But they're portrayed by James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson " with some 130 years of a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:50PM[SHARE]Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years A Slave) is making her New York stage debut in ‘Eclipsed,’ a play by Danai Gurira (The Walking Dead) set in 2003 during the Liberian civil war, about fou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08PM[SHARE]The two characters in The Gin Game do little more than play card games and, once, (spoiler alert) dance. But they're portrayed by James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson " with some 130 years of a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:37PM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber commissioned this 360° music video for "You're in the Band," a number from his Broadway show, School of Rock " The Musical. If you use a Chrome browser, you can place …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Ugly Lies The Bone, a new play with Mamie Gummer as a severely injured veteran, recalls the original spirit of the Roundabout Theater, which began 50 years ago in the basement below a superm…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:27PM[SHARE]Ugly Lies The Bone, a new play with Mamie Gummer as a severely injured veteran, recalls the original spirit of the Roundabout Theater, which began 50 years ago in the basement below a superm…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2015
The October avalanche continues, with ten theater openings this coming week, including one on Broadway, The Gin Game. Check out October theater openings The Week in New York Theater Reviews …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 10, 2015
When it was first announced that a cast including Kathleen Turner and Deborah Cox would be performing in an Off-Broadway play about a woman in a lesbian relationship who is secretly transgen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16PM[SHARE]Now that Would You Still Love Me If… has opened at New World Stages, the decision by Kathleen Turner, a Tony- and Oscar- nominated actress, to invest her time and talents in this unskilled…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2015
Barbara's pill-popping, chain-smoking, whiskey-swilling, crack-addicted and foul-mouthed family has gathered in a public park with a surprise for her " they are planning an intervention " in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]Thirty years after Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love” closed Off-Broadway, with a young actor named Bruce Willis as the understudy, the short four-character play is making its B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2015
It must have seemed like a fabulous idea – Basil Twist, the puppeteer so inventive that he just won a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant, using his artistry in collaboration with seve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2015
In the lobby of the theater where Clive Owen is making his Broadway debut in a revival of Harold Pinter's 1971 Old Times, a t-shirt on sale is printed with the single word "pause." Â That'…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:10PM[SHARE]Old Times, starring Clive Owen in his Broadway debut and directed by Douglas Hodge, is opening tonight at American Airlines Theater. Given both his acting talent and his love of Pinter, dire…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
The New York theater season is heating up this coming week, with nine shows opening, two on Broadway: Cloud Nine, Schooled, Old Times, Fool For Love, Sisters Follies Between Two Worlds, Fool…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2015
October is the  busiest theater month in New York during the fall and winter, with more shows opening than there are days in the month. Six Broadway shows are opening, heavy on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2015
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in September? Answer these 11 quiz questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Three New York theater artists were awarded the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowships, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Just a few days earlier, Miranda offered a first listen and the entire lyrics fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda is one of three theater artists to receive a 2015 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award. The others were puppeteer Basil Twist and set designer Mimi Lien. The fu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:42AM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2015
During the intermission for the Elevator Repair Service's "Fondly, Collette Richland," at the same time that a noticeable number of theatergoers fervidly exited New York Theatre Workshop for…
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