Tuesday, April 15, 2014
"The theatre is not so much a profession as a disease, and my first look at Broadway was the beginning of a lifelong infection," playwright and director Moss Hart wrote in Act One, his long-…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2014
Annie Baker’s The Flick has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Here is my review of The Flick. Citation: “Awarded to “The Flick,” by Annie Baker, a thoughtful …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:04PM[SHARE]Eight Broadway shows are opening in the next ten days. Two opened last week, Bullets Over Broadway and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. It’s tax time, which may be why there …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:21AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2014
click on any photo to see it enlarged Audra McDonald is the same age as the Billie Holiday she is depicting in the first Broadway production of "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill," a remar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 2014
“Bullets Over Broadway,” based on Woody Allen’s 1994 movie about a novice playwright in the 1920s whose show is saved by a mobster, is opening tonight at the St. James Thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2014
If/Then with Idina Menzel, A Raisin in the Sun with Denzel Washington and The Realistic Joneses  with Michael C. Hall opened on Broadway; Adrian Lester gives a star turn portrayi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 6, 2014
In "The Realistic Joneses," a kind of "Endgame"Â reoriented to the American suburbs, Michael C. Hall and Marisa Tomei as a couple named Jones pay an unexpected visit to introduce themselve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 5, 2014
"Me and my family…we are very plain people," Denzel Washington says in "A Raisin in the Sun," at the start of a monologue that by the end " "we are very proud people" — is one of the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2014
In "If/Then," Idina Menzel portrays two different versions of the same character Elizabeth, and at the beginning of the musical, I was feeling like two versions of myself as well. Elizab…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:46PM[SHARE] Ed Iskandar talked with God. Then it was Lucifer's turn. Now he was addressing Adam and Eve. "The audience has just paid $50 to watch the Bible, so bite the fuck out of the apple and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2014
In April, there are more than 30 shows opening on Broadway, Â Off-Broadway or Off-Off Broadway, at least one for each day of the month, although the schedule is more chaotic than that. (Ge…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Here Lies Love; Fun Home, and Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 received the most nominations for the 2014 Lucille Lortel Awards celebrating Off-Broadway, presented by the Off-Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:57PM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2014
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in March, 2014? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03PM[SHARE]When Ira Aldridge played Othello in London, they were still debating whether it was a good thing to end slavery in the British colonies. Aldridge is the real-life African-American actor port…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2014
In “If/Then,” the new musical by the team that created Next To Normal, Idina Menzel returns to Broadway after a nine-year absence, playing Elizabeth, a city planner who returns t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:44PM[SHARE]We saw the poster of Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig – a close-up of his face with a little mascara and lipstick — but now we’re getting him in full dress — or full …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 29, 2014
In the calm before the April avalanche — with 13 shows opening on Broadway alone within the next four weeks, Â piling up to open as close as possible to the Tony Awards cut-off deadl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:43PM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Kevin Spacey doesn't strangle a dog within the first few minutes, nor become President of the United States in the last few, but "Breathing Time," a play by Beau Willimon, the creator…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PM[SHARE]World Theatre Day, created in 1961, is celebrated annually on March 27. How will you be celebrating? International Message by Bretty Bailey The 2014 World Theater Day International Message i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2014
"Time is the longest distance between two places." — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911 — he would be 103 years old today ̵…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PM[SHARE]Toni Braxton and Babyface are the guest stars of the Broadway musical After Midnight, which offers an evening of the kind of entertainment that was in Harlem’s Cotton Club in the 1930s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11AM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2014
In "Mothers and Sons," Terrence McNally's well-acted, sometimes touching new play, Tyne Daly as Katherine Gerard pays an unexpected visit to Cal (Frederick Weller) the lover of her son Andre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09PM[SHARE]Broadway’s big guns fired the first volley this week of what will be a month-long assault — 13 more shows are opening within the next month, ending the 2013-14 Broadway season. B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PM[SHARE]The Book of Mormon opened three years ago today. It won 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Costing about $9.1 million to mount, it has earned nearly $250 million on Broadway alone (with…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 23, 2014
When the grim-faced actors in the revival of “Les Miserables” man the barricades and wave the red flag at the Imperial, to my surprise, I didn't just see red. For this third prod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 22, 2014
Stephen Sondheim turns 84 today, and in honor of his birthday, a poll that shows the extraordinary range of Broadway plays and musicals, world-famous and completely obscure, with which he ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32AM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2014
Idina Menzel, who is starring on Broadway in the new musical “If/Then,” which opens on Sunday, Â is on the cover of Billboard next week. It says: “It’s taken her 18…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2014
In Aladdin, the new Disney musical on Broadway, the genie grants theatergoers the first of their wishes " to be entertained. The genie is James Monroe Iglehart, and he is the one who provide…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Peter Michael Marino once got hit in the face with a garbage can in Stomp — but that was nothing compared to the damage caused by his first musical. The musical he wrote based on th…
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