Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Here is a song from Fun Home, in which the three Bechdel children, whose father is (among other things) a funeral director, make up a commercial for the establishment, which they have nickna…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59PM[SHARE]Christian Borle plays William Shakespeare as a kind of Elizabethan Era Elvis in “Something Rotten.” Here he is performing “IT’s Hard to Be The Bard” at the Star…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2015
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is coming back to Lincoln Center, more relevant than ever. From June 10 to 21, Â the company will perform such works as: After the Rain Pas de Deux b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56PM[SHARE]“When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense," Robert De Niro said in a commencement address this past week to graduates of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Tw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
Why the recent boom in theatre about theatre? Patrick Stewart has portrayed a spaceship captain, a mutant, Scrooge, and Macbeth, but the character he’s performing this season on Broad…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PM[SHARE]It is Patrick Stewart’s skills as a performer - his life in the theater — that offer some of the major pleasures in the Broadway version of this slight, sweet, slow, sentimental …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]The only problem with “La Bete,” which has now opened on Broadway, is what certainly shot it down in 1991 — the play itself, an imitation Moliere comedy set in 17th century…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]Thanks primarily to the impressive performances of Lauria as the explosive coach and Light as his wife, “Lombardi” is nowhere near as bad as might be assumed by those who cannot …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Elf” the musical, a harmless and occasionally charming stage adaptation that has now opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theater and runs just until January 2, more or less replicates t…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]If it frustrates our expectations, “A Free Man of Color” - ambitious, inventive, daring — is an honorable failure with much to recommend it, even while it is difficult to s…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]To the extent that “Elling” works, it is not due to the wisps of plot, which are even more incidental than they are implausible. The entertainment comes from the well-pitched per…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]Artists discuss their responsibility to historyBy JONATHAN MANDELLWelcome to Part 2 of our two-part look at how Broadway is currently staging history. Today, we talk to Broadway artists abou…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PM[SHARE]Not the end of the line? Though the Scottsboro Boys found only a short welcome on Broadway, there's already talk that their musicalized adventures might become a feature film.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:58PM[SHARE]With wine and song, three performers push the genre envelopeIt would be wrong to call Three Pianos a jukebox musical, even though it is a stage show created around a series of old songs. Aft…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PM[SHARE]How Spider-Man’s mishaps reflect the long history of stage safety Even before Christopher Tierney plummeted some 30 feet off a platform to become the fourth cast member with serious in…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PM[SHARE]Soldiers during World War II line up to visit a prostitute, and one eventually does, in this intermittently intriguing but underdeveloped exercise.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]This modest, somewhat clichéd play with a few Latin songs takes place in a barbershop in Washington Heights and is told almost entirely in Spanish and from a Dominican perspective.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Caridad Svich's stage adaptation of Julie Alvarez's poetic and sorrowful novel chronicling the real-life story of the murder of the revolutionary Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic do…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]But it is hard to judge the script alone when the production has so much going for it — the fine performances, a six-member cast that includes Estelle Parsons as Margie’s babysit…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]A mysterious but familiar stranger visits a multigenerational household of struggling black men in Jackie Alexander's sometimes insightful play, which is undermined by a vague, predictable p…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 24, 2015
Excerpts from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s commencement speech at Wesleyan College, where he graduated in 2002, in which he mentions the genesis of In The Heights, and quotes from Hamilton. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:05PM[SHARE]Make your pick for 15 of the 24 categories in the 69th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall, and will be broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 23, 2015
“Tisch graduates, you made it,” actor Robert De Niro said Friday in his NYU Commencement address. “And you’re f—ed.” But, as he makes clear in his 15-minu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2015
The woman is speaking directly to me, an arm's length away, as if we know each other: "I'm not blaming you for missing anything, I know it's not your fault," she says, looking right into my …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2015
Al Hirschfeld drew the stars of Hollywood and Broadway for more than eight decades. He drew Hollywood mogul David O Selznick in 1922, when Hirschfeld was 19 years old, and Broadway performer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
"Permission," a play about "Christian Domestic Discipline" (i.e. spanking your wife) is written by Robert Askins, who is also the author of "Hand to God," the Tony-nominated play about a Chr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Ticket giveaway: See On The Town on June 4th, 2015 for free. The revival, which I love, does justice to a show that made history on Broadway — marking the Broadway debuts of Leonard Be…
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