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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:15PM[SHARE]Don't call him a drag queen. "I'm a celebrity tribute artist," Charles Busch says, in the role of his latest creation, Jimmy, who has lost his job at the Flamingo Hotel's Boys Will Be Girls …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:23AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 9, 2014
"Reforms in Russia are very tragic, Â but they always end in a farce," says a character in the first play by Oscar Wilde, who, as it turns out, had plenty to say about oppression in Russia…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:49PM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2014
“…when I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. He told me to lay on my stomach and play …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2014
You almost have to admire the chutzpah of the producers of "Bronx Bombers," a dramatically inert play about the Yankees that was poorly received when it ran briefly Off-Broadway but neverthe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Almost, Maine, returning triumphantly to New York City for the first time since it flopped here in 2006, is one of those plays that has reached such legendary status that it's a must-see for…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35PM[SHARE]Win two tickets to see The Realistic Joneses, by Will Eno, which the New York Times called “a tender, funny terrific new play with the Spring’s most enticing cast” — …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AM[SHARE]Pete Seeger and Philip Seymour Hoffman both died this week, one’s life more than twice as long as the other; one the quintessential optimist, the other an unwavering pessimist; both ta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 2, 2014
Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the most talented stage and screen actors of his generation, was found dead in his Greenwich Village apartment today, at the age of 46. The cause of death is a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:18PM[SHARE]More than 100 million people will be watching the 2014 Super Bowl game: How many will be watching for the ads? Here are some Super Bowl XLVIII commercials: Animals Puppy Love — Budweis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 1, 2014
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news in January? Answer these 10 questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2014
"Intimacy," the latest provocation by Thomas Bradshaw, begins with promise and ends in pornography. A fresh-faced teenager, Matthew (Austin Caldwell), delivers a heartfelt monologue about hi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PM[SHARE]February a fallow month for theater? Feh. While it’s true there are only two plays scheduled to open in February on Broadway, there are far more Off-Broadway, part of a vibrant Off-Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2014
"Pool Play" is immersive theater taken to a literal extreme " everybody, actors and audience, is immersed in water. Conceived and directed by Erin B. Mee, the fully-scripted play will take p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01AM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2014
Click on any photograph to see it enlarged "Stop Hitting Yourself," playful chaos brought to you by the acclaimed Austin theater collective Rude Mechs, is the first stage show I could call c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:14PM[SHARE]It’s that time of year: trees thrown out, critics on overseas trips, snow covering cityscape, few shows opening " and ticket bargains! Now through Feb 6 — #BroadwayWeek. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 26, 2014
If you didn't speak English, or could somehow turn off the sound of "Outside Mullingar," John Patrick Shanley's charming, wonderfully acted and overly weird romantic comedy, the final scene …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33AM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2014
Win two tickets to see the Valentine’s Day broadcast of the Broadway production of “Romeo and Juliet,” starring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad. Â The film will run in m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2014
Broadway responds satirically to official LGBT discrimination in Russia, and a specific Russian law, enacted in June, 2013, punishing citizens “who disseminate information aimed at min…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
As I wrote during the blizzard scare earlier in January, dubbed Hercules: The two questions theatergoers want answered whenever a big snowstorm threatens are: Will the shows be canceled? Wil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:46AM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2014
Disney is turning its animated film “Frozen” into a Broadway musical, and NBC has chosen “Peter Pan” as the successor to “The Sound of Music” for its Dece…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 19, 2014
Has there ever before been such a touching love scene between poultry? A young rooster named Odysseus Rex, played by Bobby Moreno like an angry punk with a knife, is introduced to Lucky …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 18, 2014
"Why does sex exist?" asks Isabella Rossellini, the Parisian-bred actress, model and director, the glamorous daughter of the Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman and the European filmmaker Roberto …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:16AM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2014
Click on any photograph to enlarge it As King Lear, Frank Langella goes through four distinct and remarkable phases. He begins, brightly lit, in gold crown and red robe, in voice and gesture…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2014
Machinal, now opened in a stunning production at the American Airlines Theater, is the first Broadway revival of Sophie Treadwell’s haunting 1928 play, inspired by the murder trial of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11PM[SHARE]Best Picture American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska Philomena 12 Years a Slave The Wolf of Wall Street Best Director David O. Russell – American Hustl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2014
"We do hope we stay open, because we do save lives," Â said the intake receptionist at Interfaith Hospital said. "We do serve a purpose." "Promises, nothing more. I am personally sick of p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50AM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2014
Valisia LeKae has left the cast of Motown to focus on her battle against ovarian cancer, but the cast hasn’t left her. Here they sing “I Am Here,”a song written by Julius T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:00PM[SHARE]“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science”~ Albert Einstein Broadway Sp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2014
The creators of "Beautiful," the beautifully performed and tuneful new entertainment now opened on Broadway about Carole King's early songwriting career, faced a challenge — the same c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35PM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2014
January is the month for theater festivals in New York – more than at any time other than the summer - and the stars are out this year in them: Muhammed Ali and Mike Tyson,…
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