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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The cast recording of the Broadway musical Beautiful will be released digitally by Ghostlight Records (Sh-K-Boom) April 1, 2014 and in stores May 13.  Beautiful - The Carole …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AM[SHARE]Monday, March 17, 2014
“I wish I could transmute my middle aged gay pain into some zombie vampire Lena Dunham comedy superhero reboot movie but I can't,” Mike Albo says in his one-man show “The J…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:52PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 16, 2014
Has an actor ever actually chewed the scenery? Is there a company that makes edible backdrops? Something tells me we’re going to find out in the next six weeks, where a new play opens …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:28PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 15, 2014
The cast and orchestra of Aladdin perform the songs together for the first time during the rehearsal period. That’s called Sitzprobe, a Broadway word adopted from the German; it litera…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2014
Halfway through Rocky, a crowd-pleasing musical that's a faithful stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1976 movie, the lights flicker to show Rocky Balboa, his face shrouded in a grey hoodi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 9, 2014
Bryan Cranston made his Broadway debut in All The Way, about LBJ, one of five shows I reviewed this week in a season that's heating up. Â Fiddler on the Roof will play once more on Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:34PM[SHARE]"If you went away for a week and I spent the whole time in bed with a photographer, would you be mad?" nosy neighbor Marge asks her husband Charlie in "The Bridges of Madison County," the ne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2014
“Everybody wants power; and if they say they don’t, they’re lying,” Bryan Cranston snarls in “All The Way,” Robert Schenkkan’s play about President …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2014
“Antony and Cleopatra,”which is being given a colorful and ambitiously reworked production at the Public Theater, has a tragic/romantic ending reminiscent of “Romeo and Jul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27PM[SHARE]“Hello, Dolly is a piece of shit.” This is the voice of Louis Armstrong, after the final concert of his life, as depicted in Terry Teachout's first play, "Satchmo at the Waldorf,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
David Letterman joined the chorus of those making fun of John Travolta’s mispronunciation of Idina Menzel’s name on the Academy Awards. You too can Travoltify your name, via Slat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47AM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2014
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Daniel Radcliffe in his third show on Broadway: The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh, opening at the Cort Theater on April 20, 2014. (Previe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16PM[SHARE]By the end of Stage Kiss, the man and the woman have kissed 288 times. This is according to the woman's husband, who is a banker and loves numbers, and has not been in on the kissing. In Sar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 2, 2014
Broadway was one of the winners of the 86th Academy Awards. Bobby Lopez won the EGOT — only the 12th person in history to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony in competitive categories …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:17PM[SHARE]On this, the 30th anniversary of This is Spinal Tap, I profile Michael McKean in New York Theatre Magazine. McKean is now playing the villainous J. Edgar Hoover in the Broadway play…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 1, 2014
In March, it's possible to attend a Broadway, Â Off-Broadway or Off-Off Broadway opening nearly every single day; many days, there are two; occasionally three! Below is a list, organized c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AM[SHARE]Did you know 2014 Oscar nominated director Martin Scorsese directed a musical on Broadway? It was called The Act, it featured music by Kander and Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago) and it starred Liza M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20AM[SHARE]Friday, February 28, 2014
How well were you paying attention to the theater news in February? Answer these 11 questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2014
John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902. He wrote Of Mice and Men, both the story and the play, which is being revived on Broadway starring James Franco, making his Broadway debu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Here is the poster for a newly announced show on Broadway. Five-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald will play Billie Holiday, for a 10-week limited engagement, in Lanie Robertson's Lady Da…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:56PM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2014
Fans of Bruce Lee, the martial artist and actor who died four decades ago at age 32, are likely to be delighted at the sheer physical excitement of  ”Kung Fu,” which has opene…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 23, 2014
Call it the Upper West Side Story: Â Lin-Manuel Miranda interviewed Rita Moreno about her Oscar-winning role in the 1961 film “West Side Story” before a screening of the film a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2014
Celebrated Comedian Takes on Villainous Role as J. Edgar in All the Way Wherever he goes, Michael McKean"actor, writer, comedian, … Read More →
SOURCE: nytheatremag.com at 12:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2014
“The Bridges of Madison County,” the new Broadway musical based on Robert James Waller’s bestselling novel about the brief affair between Francesa, Â an Italian-born Iowa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2014
At the end of Caryl Churchill's dazzling experimental play "Love and Information," theatergoers have spent two hours watching 15 actors portray 100-plus characters in more than 60 scenes, so…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2014
President Obama has nominated a new head of the National Endowment of the Arts, Sky the winner of the Westminster Dog Show was cast in Kinky Boots, and Elaine Stritch has started to Tweet. Y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:05PM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2014
Seventeen years after “Titanic: The Musical” won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, the musical will be presented by Manhattan Concert Productions Monday, February 1…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2014
Near the end of "Dinner With Friends," an insightful comedy that restores the word "adult" to its rightful meaning, Gabe confesses to his wife Karen that he's fallen out of love " not with h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Can any theater define love the way so many songs do? The musical “Aida” did for Starleisha Gingrich.  ”As an African American woman dating a man who is half Irish an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:30PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2014
Photos of the most memorable stage kisses stories told to Playwrights Horizons Theater exists only for a moment, but it also goes back for thousands of years. Â This week, Oscar Wilde and …
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