Monday, September 8, 2014
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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 7, 2014
John and Julie meet in the kitchen of what we eventually learn is a private sm sex party; he turns out to be an intern for her Dad, who's a famous artist. He's 31, she's 20. She discovers he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2014
The four busboys who work in the kitchen of a tony Upper East Side restaurant in the well-acted, superbly directed new play by Elizabeth Irwin, "My Manana Comes," bring home a cruel irony of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PM[SHARE]A.R. Gurney was surprised at the Signature Theater's choice for the opening play in his playwright-in-residence season with them. "The Wayside Motor Inn was dismissed by the critics when it …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:52PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 31, 2014
A look at the Broadway Fall 2014 Season Preview Guide and especially the Off-Broadway Fall 2014 Season Preview Guide show promise of a rich and varied season. Starting tomorrow …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:41PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to the theater news in August, some of which was quite silly, some quite sad. Answer these 11 questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 30, 2014
Lin-Manuel Miranda, eating a banana, posed in front of a succinct summary of the 2014-2015 season at the Public Theater – including (fifth from the top) “Hamilton,” an orig…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:13PM[SHARE]Friday, August 29, 2014
Monday, August 25, 2014
In "And I And Silence," a challenging play by Naomi Wallace, two women, Dee and Jamie, one white, the other black, meet in prison when they are teenagers, and after they are released …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:13PM[SHARE]Winners of the Fringe Excellence Awards, 2014: Overall Play: Absolutely Filthy The Three Faces of Dr. Crippen This is Where We Live Overall Musical: Jump Man: A Mario Musical King of Kong Ur…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 24, 2014
These are supposed to be the dog days of August, but too much is going on — maybe because so many theater people are pouring ice water on their heads, or because we’re looking at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PM[SHARE]It wasn’t supposed to be on Broadway at all. Then it was only going to run for five months. But “Newsies” lasted more than 1,000 performances over two and a half years. And…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 23, 2014
Sixteen of the most popular shows from the 2014 New York International Fringe Festival will be presented at the 10th annual Fringe Encore series,September 4 to October 5, which (lik…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:24AM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2014
Listed below, chronologically by opening dates, are the shows officially scheduled so far on Broadway in the 2014-2015 season, with basic information and my two cents for the Fall shows. Bot…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2014
There are 16 shows scheduled to open on Broadway between September and December, 2014 (as of this writing). Take this poll: Which one are you most looking forward to? The shows are organized…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48PM[SHARE]Newsies (half-naked) The Lion King The Book of Mormon Once Tagged: Newsies, Once, The Book of Mormon, The Lion King
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:17AM[SHARE]In "Kunstler," a fascinating play at the New York Fringe Festival about radical lawyer William Kunstler's most significant cases, playwright Jeffrey Sweet strives to present a balanced portr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Andrew Rannells replaces Neil Patrick Harris in the lead role of Hedwig and the Angry Inch tonight (August 20th) through October 12th. Harris won a Tony for his portrait of the “girlyb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Eugene O'Neill wrote "Abortion" exactly a century ago, shortly after he had decided to become a playwright. Director Heather Lanza and producer Taryn A Wisky have chosen to "adapt" O'Neill's…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:21PM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2014
Death was an unfortunate theme this week, with the passing of two performers , Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall, as comfortable on stage as on screen. We are midway through the 18th annua…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 17, 2014
"Poor Behavior," Theresa Rebeck's comedy at Primary Stages, revolves around a basic question: "What is goodness?" The play begins in the middle of a debate on the subject by two characters w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06PM[SHARE]In the first-ever revival of "I'll Say She Is," the Marx Brothers' first-ever Broadway musical, Harpo honks once again; Chico puns, Zeppo courts; and Groucho, cigar in hand, says things like…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 16, 2014
"Sex With Strangers," a comedy about a coupling with complications, stars two performers " Anna Gunn, Bryan Cranston's wife Skyler in "Breaking Bad," and Billy Magnussen, the boy-toy Spike i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29AM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2014
Mamma Mia opened on Broadway in 2001, just a few months after the first Broadway in Bryant Park, a weekly summer series of free lunch-time concerts featuring current Broadway casts. Cast mem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2014
Cast members from the new revival of the musical “On The Town” presented three songs in the last Broadway in Bryant Park lunch-time concert of this summer. Tony Yazbeck and two u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
It is easy to feel bewildered by a title that sounds as if it is translated from the Icelandic. But as it turns out, the dialogue and the lyrics sound that way as well. "Revolution in the El…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:46PM[SHARE]Actress Lauren Bacall has died at age 89. Best known as a sultry siren of the silver screen, having made more than 40 films,  Bacall was also a six-time Broadway veteran, winning Tony …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2014
Robin Williams is reported to have died today at age 63. He was such a strong performer that his brilliance shines through even when he was just voicing a cartoon character, as in this scene…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:22PM[SHARE]A hundred years ago, our tour guide was saying, New Yorkers were such idiots that they stopped throwing away their garbage, and the city disappeared under a pile of rubbish, mostly coffee cu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2014
Making art, and sport, out of Taylor Swift's love life is far from original; the popular singer-songwriter has done so herself many times; it's easy to argue that her career is largely built…
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