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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:09PM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2014
The lives, loves and letdowns of women in an office in John Van Druten's 1931 play "London Wall" were presented a little differently at the Mint Theater earlier this year than on television …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2014
Finally, the Lear nobody's been waiting for, a Lear for people not in the mood for tragedy, a Lear Light, an economic Lear, cast with just eight actors, who not only portray multiple charact…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Some of the shows opening in October. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged. October is one of the three busiest theater months in New York, with some 40 shows opening sometime this mon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2014
In "Indian Ink," Tom Stoppard's complex, challenging beautifully acted and sometimes fascinating play about an Englishwoman in pre-independence India, Stoppard does something that sure…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:20PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to the theater news in September? Answer these 10 questions, mostly involving playwrights, and find out. Tagged: playwrights
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
At the age of seven, David Holthouse was raped by his teenage neighbor. Twenty-five years later, he decided to kill the man " both to avenge the crime, and to prevent any more from occurring…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 28, 2014
"Your family and mine … it just wouldn’t work." Alice, the most normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family in the old-fashioned crowd-pleasing comedy "You Can't Take It Wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19PM[SHARE]Above is a rare look at the map of the Broadway theaters in the sidewalk of Father Duffy Square, rarely visible through all the feet covering it. Below are links to the entire broadcast of S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PM[SHARE]Is this OUR Youth? His sister was murdered six years ago, his rich, abusive father has just kicked him out of the house, and 19-year-old Warren, portrayed by Michael Cera in the crackling Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2014
If there's a gimmick to "Love Letters," the Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney's two-character play about a man and woman writing to one another over half a century, it isn't the presence of a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:17AM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
Thrilled at intermission by the new stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from A Marriage," I poured out my enthusiasm about director Ivo van Hove's unusual staging to my ex, whom I h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58PM[SHARE] Here are the list of winners of the 10th annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards,  chosen from some 2,000 Off-Off Broadway (aka independent) productions.  Nominated this y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:09PM[SHARE]In "The Money Shot," a comedy by Neil LaBute whose humor rests largely on the playwright's contempt for the two Hollywood couples he has created, it takes more than an hour for the audience …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:35PM[SHARE]Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway on September 22, 1964 " 50 years ago today. Initially playing for eight years and some 3,300 performances, it's been back on Broadway four times, playe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2014
Emily Padgett and Erin Davie as the Hilton Sisters (attached twins and vaudeville performers) sing “Who Will Love Me As I Am” from Side Show, a musical that begins perform…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2014
Is it possible to lust after a statue? Of course, one of the curators of the Metropolitan Museum of Art says, as portrayed by a member of the theater company The Civilians inÂ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2014
In "To The Bone," an exquisitely acted and splendidly directed new play by Lisa Ramirez that’s part of the Theater:Village Festival, Reina greets her niece Carmen, who is newly arrived…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PM[SHARE]Win a free copy of the book Tradition by Barbara Eisenberg, subtitled The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Belove…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2014
The film adaptation of “Into The Woods,” the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical will be released nationally on December 25th, 2014.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2014
In the program for “Solitary Light,” one of the four shows in this year's Theater: Village Festival, there is a paragraph that describes the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, whi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2014
While the Fall season on Broadway officially has begun with the opening of the first show, “This Is Our Youth,” an exciting event this week in New York theater was the announceme…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2014
Keke Palmer, the 21-year-old actress and singers still best known for her starring role in the movie Akeelah and the Bee, has become the new Ella (aka Cinderella) in Rodgers and Hamme…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:45PM[SHARE]As the play "I Like To Be Here" begins, Devaj and Adela are in love, although they have never spoken to one another. He is South Asian; she is South American and barely speaks English. He wo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2014
All three stars – Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and the 18-year-old fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson – Â are making their Broadway debuts, as is playwright Kenneth Lonergan, in the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2014
In the first of Robert O'Hara's ten scenes about growing up black and gay, a young child named Sutter asks his mother some uncomfortable questions, including why she and his grandmother call…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PM[SHARE]How did Juarez, a Mexican border town said to be the birthplace of the burrito and the margarita, become labeled the Murder Capital of the World, specializing in violence against young women…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Win the chance to see theater in New York for an entire year, by entering this first-ever giveaway contest for a membership to Play-By-Play. As they explain on their website, Play-By-Play is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:09AM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2014
What’s fun about Broadway in September — the marquees go up for the Fall season, even if the shows won’t be opening for months. The Week in New York Theater, S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:21PM[SHARE]CBS announced today that James Corden will be the new host of The Late Late Show starting in 2015. New York theatergoers know him mostly for his roles in two shows on Broadway —…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54AM[SHARE]There was a party on stage at the Delacorte this weekend — Big Bird, shirtless capoeira acrobats, horn-players on stilts, a loud four-piece rock band , ballerinas dressed in white, Ind…
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