Sunday, July 6, 2014
Who is an artist – and who gets to decide? Â Is it the IRS? Do you have to make a living at it? Do you have to have a degree in it? Do you have to be better than average at it? Do yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PM[SHARE]Friday, July 4, 2014
Musical theater that takes American history as its subject has been called a “vastly underexplored genre.” Here are some of the best known. Which is your favorite?
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2014
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in June — a lot of it oddness coming out of the Tony Awards? Answer these ten questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2014
Forty-five years after the Stonewall Riots launched the modern gay rights movement, the annual LGBTQ Pride Parade has grown into a celebration with some 300 different “marching conting…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 28, 2014
Worrying enhances creativity, some new studies suggest, which is surely a cause for celebration in the back stages, posh offices, warren holes, wait stations and (at least in one case) polic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2014
Shia LaBeouf was handcuffed and removed by police during intermission of a performance of Cabaret,and charged with one count of criminal trespassing and two counts of disorderly conduct. He …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
This American Life’s “The Radio Drama Episode” a the Brooklyn Academy of Music in June, 2014 included a performance from “21 Chump Street: The Musical,” perform…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 21, 2014
“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for 4,000 years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.”-John Stein…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 19, 2014
Eighteen years after his murder at the age of 25, Tupac Shakur has made it to Broadway, in a show that has taken on the awesome challenge of weaving 21 songs and poems by the charismatic rap…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2014
In a Master Class at Sardi's with a group of drama teachers, Stephen Sondheim revealed some of the changes that Disney is making to its film adaptation of the stage musical "Into The Woods."…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:00PM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2014
This is the “Kilroy” list: “Each play is either unproduced or has had one professional production.” Authors include Theresa Rebeck, Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vog…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:11PM[SHARE]1st half – Act 1 2nd half – Act 2 Offside – Upstaging Extra time – mega mix Penalties – curtain call Half time – intermission Coach – dance captain …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 15, 2014
Neil Patrick Harris and the rest of the cast from the Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch perform the song “Sugar Daddy.” Hedwig won four Tonys in 2014: Best Revival of a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:21PM[SHARE]Old soldiers never die and neither do old Tony winners " at least judging from the omission of the In Memoriam video from the Tony broadcast last week. Complaints against this snub were drow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 14, 2014
"The sometimes ugly rhetoric that people use about older audience members is in part fueled by resentment over their dominance and power. It is also, let us be frank, because there is a high…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2014
Randy Harrison is winning a new generation of fans thanks to Netflix, which is streaming all five seasons of Queer As Folk, a television series that ran on Showtime from 2000 to 2005,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Jersey Boys opened on Broadway on November 6, 2005, a surprise hit musical telling the true story about four young men from New Jersey with promising careers as juvenile delinquents who form…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08AM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2014
This is the video that was not shown at the 2014 Tony Awards that shows the people who died since the last Tony awards show. Here’s the full list: Jack Aaron Lamar Alford Cosmo Allegre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 8, 2014
The winners of the 68th annual Tony Awards as they are announced. (An asterisk besides the winners) Best Play Act One by James Lapine All The Way by Robert Schenkkan Casa Valentina …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Will Audra McDonald win her record-breaking sixth Tony? Will Bryan Cranston's Broadway debut performance, as LBJ, break good for him? Â Will more people watch Neil Patrick Harris perform a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Warren Carlyle, the Tony Award-nominated director-choreographer of After Midnight, won the Astaire Award for Outstanding Choreographer for a Broadway show, while After Midnight c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2014
Outstanding Play Nell Benjamin, The Explorers Club Steven Levenson, Core Values Conor McPherson, The Night Alive Richard Nelson, Regular Singing Bruce Norris, Domesticated Robert Schenkkan, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27PM[SHARE]Tyne Daly (nominated for Mothers and Sons), Sutton Foster (Violet), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (A Raisin in the Sun), Idina Menzel (If/Then), Jessie Mueller (Beautiful – The Carole Kin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:35AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 31, 2014
How well were you paying attention to the theater in May? Answer these 10 questions to see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20AM[SHARE]Somebody should launch the New York Dramamine Awards — for shows that put us to sleep? That’s about the only *theater award that hasn’t been thought up yet — most …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:21AM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2014
At this year's TED Conference in Vancouver, Sting performed songs from his Broadway-bound musical The Last Ship, which tells the story of the songwriter’s experiences growing up in the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Here are the winners of the fourth annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards: Best New Musical Disaster! * Fun Home Heathers: The Musical Murder for Two What's It All About? Bacharach Re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins won the best new American play Obie for both “Appropriate” and “An Octoroon”, and Sydney Lucas became the youngest recipient ever of a perfo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10AM[SHARE]Monday, May 19, 2014
Actress Kelli O’Hara, songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Jeanine Tesori and “Wicked” book writer Winnie Holzman are among the women in the theater being honored at the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AM[SHARE]Friday, May 16, 2014
A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER" NAMED DISTINGUISHED MUSICAL Â "ALL THE WAY" NAMED DISTINGUISHED PLAY Â "HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH" NAMED DISTINGUISHED REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL Â …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 15, 2014
LaChanze, a Tony Award-winning Broadway performer whose husband Calvin Joseph Gooding was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, sang an a cappella version of “Amazing Grace” …
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