Sunday, December 7, 2014
Bradley Cooper is shirtless and in boxer shorts when we first see him on stage as John Merrick in director Scott Ellis’s competent production of Bernard Pomerance's play "The Elephant …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2014
During intermission for "The Illusionists – Witness the Impossible," which is a loud magic show making a six-week stop at Broadway's Marquis theater as part of a 32-city U.S. tour, I v…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:27PM[SHARE]Songs OVERTURE TENDER SHEPHERD I GOTTA CROW! NEVERLAND I'M FLYING! PIRATE MARCH VENGEANCE (a new song for Captain Hook) PIRATE MARCH (reprise) HOOK'S TANGO WENDY HOOK'S TARANTELLA I WON'T GR…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Scott Ellis, the director of “You Can’t Take It With You,” the soon to open “Elephant Man,” and the forthcoming “On The Twentieth Century,” is offer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:31PM[SHARE]Monday, December 1, 2014
Two Broadway shows " The Illusionists and The Elephant Man " are opening in December, as are a handful of Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway# plays and musicals. (The bulk of the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18PM[SHARE]There’s been so much promotion for Peter Pan that it feels as if we’ve seen it already — and of course, we have, starting back in December, 1904, with the first stage Peter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 30, 2014
How well were you paying attention to New York theater this month? Take these dozen questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 29, 2014
Emma Stone is making her Broadway debut performing as Sally Bowles  in Cabaret thru February 1, 2015. Stone, 26, is best known for her movie roles in The Help and the Amazing Spider…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:11PM[SHARE]Friday, November 28, 2014
My Broadway gift guide has proven popular enough in the past couple years that I am updating it for 2014, with information on theater tickets, theater subscriptions, play scripts, cast re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Broadway’s schedule is irregular this Thanksgiving holiday week. Below is the calendar, with links to my reviews. Only three shows will have a performance on Thanksgiving Day, but …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2014
A week full of openings, Great Britain celebrated #LoveTheatre Day, Â Elaine Stritch remembered, Mike Nichols mourned, and I’ve given into the promotional fever and include trailers …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2014
Glenn Close returns to Broadway after an absence of many years, as Agnes to John Lithgow’s Tobias, Â a wealthy middle-aged couple whose seemingly serene suburban existence is reveale…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Move over, Encores! In their second musical restoration after Sondheim and Lapine's Passion last year, the Classic Stage Company now brings us Rodgers and Hammerstein's Allegro, billed as th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2014
The rowdy brothers of Young Jean Lee's play "Straight White Men," play a board game called Privilege, where Jake draws a card that says: "What I said wasn't sexist/racist/homophobic because …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2014
Daisy and Violet Hilton, twin sisters permanently connected at the hip by a ribbon of flesh, were spectacularly popular entertainers in the 1920's, so it seems fitting that "Side Show," a mu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10PM[SHARE]Several years before Simon Stephens adapted "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" for the stage (now on Broadway), the playwright wrote the far more in-your-face "Punk Rock," a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 16, 2014
They've asked us not to reveal the ending of "The River," a play by Jez Butterworth (author of "Jerusalem") starring Hugh Jackman as a man who likes to fish. But I'm not sure what difference…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:37PM[SHARE]It took me nearly to the end of "Our Lady of Kibeho," a play by Katori Hall based on a true story about three Catholic schoolgirls in 1981 Rwanda who reported having a vision of the Virgi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for 4,000 years and has never succumbed,” John Steinbeck said, and I quoted on Twitter several times in the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:06PM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2014
My first Tweet as @NewYorkTheater, five years ago today: Check out New York Theater on Facebook too http://tinyurl.com/yzjyg7e — Jonathan Mandell (@NewYorkTheater) November 14, 2009 Fi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2014
Broadway Revealed: Behind the Theater Curtain, an exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center through January 31, offers an odd glimpse of what goes i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Heidi Schreck, the playwright of "Grand Concourse," is also an actress who performed in Annie Baker's "Circle Mirror Transformation" and served as actress and writer for the Showtime series …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2014
So much theater about theater has opened on Broadway in the last few weeks that it feels like a declaration of surrender – let’s just cater to the (ever-shrinking) in-crowd ̵…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2014
There are dangers in creating a fictional work for stage or screen about a real person, as playwright and screenwriter Doug Wright explains: “Whenever you write about a historical figu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2014
Pippin pops, Hugh Jackman bleeds, ageism is rampant, playwright Doug Wright doesn’t trust critics, and Cafe Edison is closing. But it wasn’t all bad news in the week in New Yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2014
Ozzie and Harriet's son David comes home from the Vietnam War blind and traumatized in David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones," a play written during the Vietnam War that is getting a starry revival…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:45PM[SHARE]What would you do if a Buddhist monk appeared at your door, claiming your three-year-old son was the reincarnation of a revered Tibetan Lama, and wanting to take him from you and raise him i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2014
For 58 years, Simon Wiesenthal hunted Nazis. By the time he retired in 2003, he had brought 1,100 of them to justice. "I'm not a lawyer, a detective or a government agency," he says in th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 2, 2014
The Library of America has just published “American Musicals: The Complete Books and Lyrics of 16 Broadway Classics, 1927"1969″ in a boxed set of two volumes. Here is what it inc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:43PM[SHARE]The newly announced Broadway transfer of “Hand of God” came accompanied with a sly advertising campaign to turn their “weaknesses” into strengths. But some of the bes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 1, 2014
They look as if they could be refugees from The Addams Family, dressed in black and standing under ghoulish white light in the middle of the stage at BAM's Harvey Theater, these six characte…
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