Thursday, July 30, 2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers featured the six minute scene and song from Fun Home, when Medium Alison (Emily Skeggs), a freshman college student, kisses a classmate, Joan (Roberta Colindrez),…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2015
“Claudio Quest,” about a super-hero on a mission to overcome killer eggplants; “Single Wide,” about a single mother living in a trailer park with her own single mothe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2015
The Associated Press film and video archives, put up last week on YouTube, means 1.7 million stories to choose from, including these involving Marilyn Monroe; a demonstration by Broadway per…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:24AM[SHARE]A 14-year-old boy is reported missing, and eventualy found dead. Chuck DeSantis, who worked the case as a tough-talking detective "in a half-ass town down the Jersey shore," begins to tell u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:18AM[SHARE]Monday, July 27, 2015
Jerry Maguire, hang up your cell phone; Ari Gold, park your Ferrari. Make room for the super sports agent of "King Liz," portrayed vibrantly by Karen Pittman in a new play by Fernanda Coppel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 26, 2015
Although it doesn't open until August 6, Hamilton couldn't be doing better at the box office, with more than 100 percent attendance, and 110 percent of "gross potential." Securing an afforda…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 25, 2015
Manuel Versus the Statue of Liberty, we are told, is inspired by the true story of Dan-el Padilla Peralta, an undocumented and once-homeless immigrant from the Dominican Republic who got …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PM[SHARE]Friday, July 24, 2015
In the first season under the new artistic director Niegel Smith, the Flea is offering new works by in-your-face playwright Thomas Bradshaw (whose previous play include the sex-explici…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:33PM[SHARE]When he was in the cast of “Jersey Shore” (and making $100,000 an episode) Vinny Guadagnino described himself on his Twitter profile in six words: “I get paid to be me.R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Taye Diggs returned tonight to a New York stage after a ten-year absence to star as the title character in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” the Tony winning best musical revival. The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 21, 2015
“The Broadway community is one that stands for freedom and civil rights, and human rights really,” Brandon Uranowitz, Tony nominee for An American in Paris, explains in the video…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 16, 2015
To see President Obama break into "Amazing Grace" at the June funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney was to witness the continuing force of a hymn written more than two and a half centuries ago.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:37PM[SHARE]To see President Obama break into "Amazing Grace" at the June funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney was to witness the continuing force of a hymn written more than two and a half centuries ago.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Take this quiz and find out whether you’re Aaron Burr (Leslie Odom Jr.) Thomas Jefferson (Daveed Diggs) King George III (Jonathan Groff) George Washington (Christopher Jackson) or Alex…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:53AM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2015
It didn't seem possible to like Hamilton more than I already do — until they announced that there would be a ten dollar lottery for front-row seats at every public performance on Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2015
Bernadette Peters and Andrew Rannells play host to Broadway Barks 17 on July 11, 2015, with dozens of Broadway stars helping local animal rescue and adoption agencies find permanent homes fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 11, 2015
Roger Rees, the Tony winning actor and director, died on July 10 at age 71, after a short illness. A familiar face on television — he was the snobbish Robin Colcord on  “Cheer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2015
In some ways, the Pan Asian Repertory Theater's wonderfully choreographed and beautifully designed production of "Sayonara" could not be better timed. The 1987 musical, adapted from James Mi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57PM[SHARE]Instead of looking back at my life in years since I graduated from college, I look at them in terms of those four shows,” Matt Shingledecker says in the video below, recorded after he …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2015
"Well, where can I charge it?" the theatergoer at Hand to God allegedly asked after the usher gave him back his phone. It had been confiscated because he had tried to plug it into a (fake) o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2015
Shows for Days, starring Patti LuPone as a ruthless regional diva and Michael Urie as a sweet stand-in for playwright Douglas Carter Beane, dramatizes Beane's memories of his introduction to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 5, 2015
It is her 41st birthday, and Jess Stockton, who never thought she would live so long, has invited her two younger sisters and their mates to spend the weekend at their famous dead father's C…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 4, 2015
There seems to be a resurgence in interest in American history on stage, although musical theater that takes American history as its subject has been called a "vastly underexplored genre.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2015
It’s hard to come up with a comprehensive list for July — not because there are so little to see, but so much — summer theater festivals, FREE theatrical concerts like the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AM[SHARE]Tony winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell reflects on bringing On Your Feet, the Estefan story, to Broadway. This is the fourth in a series of 12 videos that offer a behind-t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Jennifer Hudson makes her Broadway debut as Shug Avery in the revival of The Color Purple, which is scheduled to open at the Bernard B. Jacobs on December 10. The production originated at Lo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2015
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in June? Take these 13 questions and find out. Tagged: 2015 Tony Awards, Annaleigh Ashford, Barack Obama song, Broadway and ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20AM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2015
Shows For Days is a new play by Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Jerry Zaks. with a six-member cast including Patti LuPone and Michael Urie, based on the Beane’s fond memories of h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46PM[SHARE]In "Happy Days," Samuel Beckett's bleak but compassionate 1961 play being given a witty, compelling production at The Flea, Brooke Adams as Winnie is buried in a mound of dirt, sometimes wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2015
The day-long New York City Gay Pride Parade presented in 90 seconds in this video.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 27, 2015
In the midst of this week of momentous change, the New-York Historical Society has opened an exhibition, Art As Activism, of graphic art from the 1930s to the 1970s that promoted various cau…
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