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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PM[SHARE]Three Broadway shows — The River, Side Show and A Delicate Balance – are opening in November, as are some two dozen Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway# plays and musicals.  …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22AM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2014
How well were you paying attention to the theater news in October? Answer these 10 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2014
Both Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal are making their Broadway debuts in 'The Real Thing," Tom Stoppard's trickster meditation on what is reality versus artifice in art, politics and abo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2014
When Amir was a child, he spit in the face of a Jewish classmate, a girl he had a crush on, he says in "Disgraced," Ayad Akhtar's bluntly provocative play that has now opened at Broadway's L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Lift, a play about a man and a woman stuck in an elevator after a terrorist attack, is written by Walter Mosley, who has had three decades of success as a novelist, especially with the Easy …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:45PM[SHARE]The first time I saw "Angels in America," the awe-inspiring 1993 play about intermingled lives during the AIDS crisis, I was thrilled by the confrontation between Louis, the Jewish word proc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21AM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2014
Both Tatiana Maslany and Keira Knightley announced they would be making their Broadway debuts, the rock star Sting made his debut this week as a Broadway composer, and an Off-Broadway play o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2014
Sting's songs are haunting and lyrical, the creative team is made up of Broadway royalty, the acting helps lend a sense of authenticity to this heartfelt tale based on the struggles of the s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:49PM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2014
The first photograph of Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher in Roundabout Theatre Company's On the Twentieth Century, which opens March 12, 2015 at the American Airlines Theatre. This will…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PM[SHARE]The Phantom of the Opera Art Gallery and Pop-Up Shop is open for business — as of noon, Friday October 24th — showcasing the 26 winners of the nation-wide contest “PHANTOM:…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Click on any photograph to see it enlarged "The Fortress of Solitude" begins with a sensory overload of song…the sounds of a Brooklyn block, circa 1975. That sets the tone for this ener…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:11PM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2014
"No killing, no dead body, no sex, no nothing. Just talk." That line is uttered near the end of "Billy & Ray," a play about the collaboration of director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Eugene O’Neill, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller and Angela Lansbury and Linda Lavin all had birthdays last week, “On The Town” was reborn on Broadway to the biggest raves since …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 19, 2014
Whatever else the great American writers Emily Dickinson and Dorothy Parker have in common, they are each by coincidence the subject of solo stage plays that are opening tonight, "The Belle …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 18, 2014
Theater producer Ken Davenport looked at the shows that won the Best Musical Tony over the past 20 years, sliced and diced facts about them, and produced the infographic below. Most interest…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18AM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2014
The “freaks” (cast) of Side Show, which opens at Broadway’s St. James Theater November 17th.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2014
The audience at "On The Town," the thrilling Broadway revival of the 1944 musical that brought us “New York, New York, it’s a helluva town,” doesn’t wait until the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Win a speaker from Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights, Hamilton), Christopher Jackson (The Lion King, In The Heights, Holla If Ya Hear Me) and the rest of the cast of Freestyle Love Su…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Davy Rothbart was having a weird day " his boss fired him; a mugger took his wallet and shoes; he couldn't get his car to start – when he found a slip of paper that changed his life……
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Outside, on a shingle hanging from the marquee of the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, Ben Brantley is quoted as saying: "Deliriously Dishy…It's a Hit." But inside, on the stage, Brantley is quo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:29AM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2014
While we wait for Stephen Sondheim’s new musical — which the Public Theater has already committed to producing, although there is not even a title yet (see “11” be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 12, 2014
Tonya, the cheeky daughter in "While I Yet Live," has a problem with God (He's "a wee bit passive aggressive, and vindictive") and the Bible ("It's the most violent book I've ever read.") an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 11, 2014
There are three shows on Broadway this season that are theater about theater — The Country House, It’s Only A Play, The Real Thing. What’s your favorite theater about theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:25PM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2014
The feud between the writers Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy began on public television, so it's fitting that the play about their quarrel, "Hellman v McCarthy," with the great Roberta Max…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2014
In Terrence McNally’s backstage comedy “It’s Only A Play,” bound for Broadway in 1978 and finally arrived there 36 years later, a group of stars — played by a g…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2014
The Broadway marquees will dim for two theater artists, Geoffrey Holder and Marian Seldes, who both died this week – tonight (Wednesday) for Seldes and Friday night for Holder.  …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2014
In their walk around Greenwich Village – the last artist walk of the Elastic City Walks Festival, which has a closing night benefit tonight – theater director Niegel Smith,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20PM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
Broadway  is one of the ten greatest streets in America in 2014, according to the American Planning Association, to which the average New Yorker might reply — “Just in 2014…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2014
Like the unusual character at its center, "The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time," a stage adaptation of a beloved book, overcomes a couple of daunting challenges to become….ex…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 4, 2014
To help explain how "The Country House" could be so mediocre despite an award-winning playwright's classic inspiration, a first-rate production and an exemplary cast, let's start with a scen…
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