Monday, April 27, 2015
The last two weeks were the busiest of the entire year in New York theater, with the opening of the last TEN shows of the Broadway season. Below reviews of those shows, plus one high-p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:37PM[SHARE]Fun Home is, yes, a musical about a lesbian cartoonist whose closeted father killed himself, but it is also about how we try to figure out the puzzle of our parents; about how we reassemble …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 26, 2015
"Grounded," a play directed by Julie Taymor and starring Anne Hathaway as a drone pilot, could not be more newsworthy: It is opening at the Public Theater just days after the news that a U.S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 25, 2015
"Living on Love," which marks opera singer Renee Fleming's Broadway debut, portraying a temperamental Diva married to a oversexed Maestro, has some of the best-delivered songs on the Great W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:09PM[SHARE]What’s easiest to predict about the Tonys this year is that the predictions and objections will start as soon as the nominations are announced, which this year is on Tuesday, April 28,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
Airline Highway, Lisa D'Amour's loving look at the makeshift family of misfits that hang out at a seedy motel along the old Airline Highway in New Orleans, is not a musical, but it is full o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50PM[SHARE]Airline Highway, Lisa D'Amour's loving look at the makeshift family of misfits that hang out at a seedy motel along the old Airline Highway in New Orleans, is not a musical, but it is full o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39PM[SHARE]When the wealthiest woman in the world returns to her bankrupt hometown in The Visit, reactions range from "Her dress, her jewels…like a great film star!" to "half-Jewish, half-gypsy, 100%…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]When the wealthiest woman in the world returns to her bankrupt hometown in The Visit, reactions range from "Her dress, her jewels…like a great film star!" to "half-Jewish, half-gypsy, 100%…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PM[SHARE]Hamilton and An American in Paris received the most nominations for the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
There is a musical number early in Something Rotten that thoroughly delivers what the show's title, cast, creative team, and poster art have promised — Monty Python subversive sillines…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]By the end of the show, despite the cleverness of its concept, Something Rotten as executed simply hasn't added up to a completely satisfying musical. Its choreography seems too repetitive, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2015
I had hoped that a major benefit of winning the Cold War would be no longer having to sit through a show like Doctor Zhivago, a musical adaptation of Pasternak's novel that presents the Russ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]I had hoped that a major benefit of winning the Cold War would be no longer having to sit through a show like Doctor Zhivago, a musical adaptation of Pasternak's novel that presents the Russ…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]Seventy women including Rita Wilson, Mamie Gummer and Kathleen Chalfant promote gender equality in the arts and entertainment through this three-minute #MakeItFair Video. (They sing at the e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PM[SHARE]Below is the full list of the nominations for the 2015 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The winners will be annou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19AM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2015
From the very first moments of Lincoln Center's ravishing The King and I, it feels like a privilege just to be sitting in the audience. First the 29 musicians play Rodgers and Hammerstein's …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:21PM[SHARE]Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirguis has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, In another one of Stephen Adly Guirguis's quintessential plays about New Yorkers on the margi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:07PM[SHARE]Nominations for the 65th annual Outer Critics Circle awards will be announced today starting at 11 a.m. in the following categories: OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MU…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2015
"My Dad and I both grew up in the same small Pennsylvania town. And he was gay and I was gay,” Alison explains in the remarkable musical Fun Home. Â "And he killed himself, and I ……
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2015
The King and I, starring Ken Watanabe and Kelli O’Hara, is the fifth Broadway production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about British schoolteacher Anna Leonowens, who becomes …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Is it pointless to pan Peter? Are we helpless in the face of the massive Peter Pander/Pandemic/Pandemonium (pick your Peter Pan pun.) Shortly after Peter and the Starcatcher and Peter Pan Li…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]Is it pointless to pan Peter? Are we helpless in the face of the massive Peter Pander/Pandemic/Pandemonium (pick your Peter Pan pun.) Shortly after “Peter and the Starcatcher” an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2015
The singular accomplishment of "It Shoulda Been You," a musical comedy about a wedding that tries hard to be a farce, is that it abruptly swerves in a completely unexpected direction, and ye…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:41PM[SHARE]Actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theatre in Washington,D.C. on April 14, 1865. Wilkes had access to the theater because of his profession. He was a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 12, 2015
Both Gigi and An American In Paris are adapted from Oscar-winning 1950's movie musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron. Both take place in Paris. Both have revised b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]Both Gigi and An American In Paris are adapted from Oscar-winning 1950's movie musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron. Both take place in Paris. Both have revised b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:32PM[SHARE]Opening this week on Broadway: An American in Paris It Shoulda Been You Finding Neverland The King and I Check out April openings for details. The Week in New York Theater Reviews Hand to Go…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 11, 2015
For an evil sock puppet who eventually bites a teenager's ear off, Tyrone is quite the philosopher. In the prologue in Hand to God, Robert Askin's funny, filthy, violent and sensitive pl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2015
“Tremble:your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now”~Judith Malina Judith Malina died this morning at age 88. Malina and Julian Beck began the Living Theatre in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:35PM[SHARE]What would be your ideal theater critic? What makes a critic “professional” these days? What is the proper training for a critic? Should a critic write about a show if he or she …
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