Friday, April 10, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2015
It'll be another three months before the American Revolution arrives on Broadway, with the hip-hop musical Hamilton. In the meantime, the Great White Way has been pledging allegiance to the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]It'll be another three months before the American Revolution arrives on Broadway, with the hip-hop musical Hamilton. In the meantime, the Great White Way has been pledging allegiance to the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Gigi, an imitation French confection of a musical starring High School Musical sweetheart Vanessa Hudgens, is based on a novella by Colette about two aging prostitutes grooming their illegit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]Gigi, an imitation French confection of a musical starring High School Musical sweetheart Vanessa Hudgens, is based on a novella by Colette about two aging prostitutes grooming their illegit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2015
In “Hand to God,” good-hearted teenager Jason is forced to confront Tyrone, a violent, foul-mouthed bully, who just happens to reside on Jason’s left arm. Tyrone is a hand …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 5, 2015
Of the 14 shows opening on Broadway in April, the most anticipated, according to my poll so far, are 1. Fun Home 2. Something Rotten 3. The King and I Last week, Skylight opened. This week, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55AM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2015
Performers from more than 70 countries have had gigs at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company since it began in 1961, but one could be excused for seeing this season as the perfect storm for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:34PM[SHARE]It wasn’t exactly an ambush, but the first question actor Bernardo Cubria posed to me as a guest on his theatre podcast was about a complaint that actors have about critics. I was his …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2015
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy), a successful and charismatic rest…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58PM[SHARE]Hamilton has received a record-breaking 12 nominations for the 30th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway.  The Off-Broadway League awards will be ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PM[SHARE]Fourteen shows are opening on Broadway this month. Take this poll to choose the one are most looking forward to. Arranged chronologically by opening date. For more details on the shows, chec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2015
A theater critic is a "malicious, cowardly" person who cannot see the beauty in a flower because she cannot put a label on it. That is what the ex movie star turned first-time Broadway direc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:54PM[SHARE]April is the month to binge-watch on Broadway.  Fourteen shows are opening on Broadway within 21 days — set in Paris, London, Bangkok and Moscow; and Cypress, Texas;  Airline …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in March? Answer these 12 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 29, 2015
The annual April Broadway marathon begins this coming week — 14 openings in 21 days, with two of these shows opening on the Tony eligibility cut-off date of April 23, 2015. The show…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 28, 2015
Jennifer Haley did not set out to become the first major playwright of the digital age, but that is what has happened. “The Nether,” which imagines a future where people lose …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25AM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2015
World Theatre Day, created in 1961, is celebrated annually on March 27. How will you be celebrating? The author of the Message of World Theatre Day 2015 is the Polish director Krzysztof W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2015
Restored after Katrina, Saenger Theater — built in 1927, shut down by flooding in 2005, re-opened in 2013 after a $52 million restoration — is beautiful…on the inside. Clic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
With the help of Tony-winner James Corden and lots of backdrops, Tom Hanks acts out the movies in which he has starred over the last three decades, from Splash (1984) to Saving Mr. Banks (20…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2015
This year’s American Theatre Critics Association conference is taking place in New Orleans, to coincide with the 29th annual Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, March 25 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 22, 2015
It's March Madness for theatrical birthdays. Good morning. Happy birthday. pic.twitter.com/PCXwjaZVMb — Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 22, 2015 Happy 100th Birthday, Patricia M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05PM[SHARE]It was only at the end of "Posterity," Doug Wright's new play that imagines the real-life encounter between Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen and a sculptor doing a bust of him, that the poin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 21, 2015
Melissa Hillman has written a new essay, The Lies We Tell About Audience Engagement, that is both inspiring and infuriating. One of the smartest theater writers on the Internet, Hil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2015
All that's right and wrong with “The Heidi Chronicles,” the 1989 play by the late playwright Wendy Wasserstein getting its first Broadway revival, is on display in a scene that t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Theatergoers in the know have already seen these four shows closing Off-Broadway by the end of March, 2015 " or meant to see them. This is the last chance in New York. (Two of them are going…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2015
Kristin Chenoweth may have paused at the new opening date for “On The Twentieth Century” – the Ides of March. Her co-star Peter Gallagher had been out sick, and Chenoweth h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35PM[SHARE]Train travel is hot again, at least at the (ironically named) American Airlines Theater, where "On The Twentieth Century" turns out to be one of the funniest and most entertaining shows on B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 14, 2015
In playwright Jennifer Haley's cleverly imagined, disturbing future — just a step or two ahead of our present — people lose themselves in a virtual world. "Your login reco…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2015
Ticket Giveaway: Win a pair of tickets to see The Lion starring Benjamin Scheuer, the much-praised solo show running through March 29th at the Lynn Redgrave Theater at Culture Project.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2015
“The Audience,” a middle brow British export starring the quick-change artistry of Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth, imagines what happens during Her Majesty's private weekly m…
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