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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2015
In their Broadway acting debuts, Oprah wants to be happy; Bruce Willis is going for Misery. And much that happened this week in New York theater is somewhere in-between. Several days left to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2015
The captain of the slave ship, afraid that the sick woman would infect the rest of his cargo, lashed her to a chair and lowered the chair into the sea, drowning her. "After the captain threw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 7, 2015
Fish in the Dark,” which marks Larry David’s Broadway debut as a writer and performer " indeed his first stage performance since the eighth grade — feels like a couple of e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2015
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Chita Rivera and Roger Rees in The Visit, “a stunning tale of young love, timeless seduction, and sweet revenge.” The Visit marks the fina…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2015
In the dark about Fish in the Dark, Larry David’s new Broadway comedy about two brothers struggling to deal with the death of their father, which opens on March 5th at the Cort Theater…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:33PM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2015
The Sound of Music premiered in movie theaters 50 years ago today, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, an anniversary marked far more prominently than the opening of this Rodgers…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 1, 2015
Today is Justin Bieber’s 21st birthday, which he reportedly celebrated by renting out an island in the Caribbean (see below.) But now that he has reached his majority he surely will se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:23PM[SHARE]Four Broadway shows are opening in March, marking the return of Dame Helen Mirren after 14 years and Larry David’s first stage appearance since the eighth grade. Another 18 openings ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 28, 2015
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater-related news in February? Answer these 11 questions to find out. Some are theater-related questions involving the Grammys and the O…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:31PM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2015
“Into the Woods” director Rob Marshall introduces “She’ll Be Back,” the new song Stephen Sondheim wrote for the film adaptation of his musical — and expla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 25, 2015
If and when future theater nerds recall “Brooklynite,” the musical about superheroes in Brooklyn that has now opened at the Vineyard Theater, my bet is that we'll see it as an ea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 24, 2015
“Why can't white people and black people just get along?” Jaclyn asks her boss, who is secretly trying to get her fired. That this question remains so current surely explains how…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:46PM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2015
Even before it begins, the astonishing revival of "Big Love," one of Charles Mee's most popular plays, surrounds us with a soothing and soaring beauty. The set by Brett Banakis is, per Mee's…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]The first thing we know about Sally is that she likes guns. She also likes to read books about four figures in American history with whom she identifies — John Brown, Nat Turner, Harri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24PM[SHARE]Below is a transcript of the speeches by the writers of the Oscar-winning song “Glory,” from the film Selma: Lonnie Lynn (Common): First, I would like to thank God, who lives in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52AM[SHARE]Graham Moore, 33, Â in accepting the 2015 Oscar for adapted screenplay for The Imitation Game, gave the following acceptance speech: “When I was 16, I tried to kill myself because I …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2015
Below in red with an asterisk, are the winners (so far) of the 87th Academy Awards. BEST PICTURE American Sniper Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Pet…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PM[SHARE]Eleven of the 20 performers nominated for 2015 Oscars have performed (or will soon perform) on Broadway, one of the many ways that Broadway connects with Hollywood this year, as it does in a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 21, 2015
The leggy dame who has hired private investigator Ben Farrell wants him to find a missing person — Tommy Dickie, the chief writer for Murder Monthly, a crime magazine. But there are co…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]“A Chorus Line” original cast members, including Priscilla Lopez, and others talk about the beginnings of the landmark Broadway musical in this 25-minute video posted by filmmake…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 19, 2015
The Subtle Body is inspired by the actual historical figure of British physician John Floyer, who  came up with a method of taking a patient's pulse that is still standard practice hundre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 17, 2015
“Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking new musical about the life and times of the Founding Father whose face is on the ten dollar bill, is thrilling on at least three l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 15, 2015
Is it better to be dramatic than theatrical? That's what the thesaurus seems to be saying: Synonyms for “theatrical” in online thesaurus: affected, artificial, campy, exaggerated…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:21PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 14, 2015
Here is a list of Broadway shows, alphabetically, that have “love” in the title, more than 200 in all. The earliest is “Love for Love” by William Congreve in 1750, a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:58PM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2015
Leslie Odom Jr. was a huge fan of Rent when he was cast in the musical at the age of seventeen, the youngest performer ever hired for the Broadway production. "It was getting cast in that…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2015
Although she had already performed in four Broadway shows before she joined the cast of "Beautiful," Anika Larsen says that, without the Carole King musical, she would not now be 1. Pregnant…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2015
Playwrights Horizons has announced another promising season, which includes new works by Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns), Taylor Mac, Lucas Hnath, Jordan Harrison, Gregory S. Moss,  Danai Gu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 7, 2015
Animation of the cartoon by Alison Bechdel about seeing her graphic novel, Fun Home, turned into a musical.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Given the seven-week gap between the last Broadway opening and the next one, there’s an awful lot of talk about Broadway this week — talk (two weeks before it even opens a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2015
“I've gotten a lot of nice e-mails and phone calls congratulating me for being a great bad actor,” Jeremy Shamos says. “It makes me feel good. That was my job in the film.&…
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