Sunday, December 15, 2013
How does one become one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century? The answer is not directly forthcoming in "How I Learned What I Learned," the memoir written and performed by August …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Watson was the name of both Sherlock Holmes' fictional assistant and Alexander Graham Bell's real one, as well as the IBM supercomputer (named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson) that beat t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2013
10. Kinky Boots StageGrade: B+ This show has become more beloved since yahoos condemned it during Thanksgiving. I always found it entertaining, in a Busby Berkeley sort of way, but it’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2013
Let’s face it, the live TV broadcast of The Sound of Music overshadowed whatever exciting news about Broadway itself this week– Â new leads for Bullets Over Broadway and Act On…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 7, 2013
Before she portrayed an action hero, an astronaut, an activist or an alien on the screen, actress Sigourney Weaver says, "I was always doing new plays Off-Off Broadway. The spaces were alway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03AM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2013
Win two tickets to see La Soiree, a theatrical spectacle that Entertainment Weekly called “a mesmerizing hybrid of sideshow, vaudeville & burlesque” and Flavorpill said…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2013
Does this sound like The Sound of Music to you? The Sound of Music is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical with no overture. Instead there is the first of 22 songs (see song list at b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49PM[SHARE]“It always seems impossible, until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela, who led the emancipation of South Africa from white minority rule and served as his country's first black pre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Christmas cheer is a cut-throat business, something I learned from the composer of Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer, Johnny Marks, who pointed out to me that the success of his little ditty and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:58PM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2013
This has been an eventful holiday week, and not just because The Lion King celebrated another benchmark — as did, more oddly, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. (scroll to 27 and 30, below…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:12PM[SHARE]Six by Sondheim, a documentary that debuts on HBO on Monday, December 9th, looks at six of Stephen Sondheim’s landmark songs: “Something’s Coming” from West Side Stor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 1, 2013
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news in November? Answer these ten questions to find out. As always, the questions are based on my weekly summary of New York theater n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 30, 2013
My gift guide from 2012 proved so popular that I am updating it for 2013. Call them theater lovers or theatre lovers or drama queens or Broadway Babies: If you have somebody in your life who…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:11PM[SHARE]Friday, November 29, 2013
The performance of a number from the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade had America all a-Twitter. It had the bigots out in force, at least ju…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AM[SHARE]Sign up here for my new New York Theater Weekly Email Newsletter, which will have a quick rundown of New York theater news and reviews, plus special offers and contests. A sample of the firs…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Win a pair of tickets to either Bedlam’s Hamlet or St. Joan. The  much-lauded Bedlam theater company employs just four actors playing all the roles (more than 50), offering &#…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:55PM[SHARE]2013 has been an amazing year in theater in New York City, and, rather than waiting another month, Thanksgiving seems the right time to express one’s gratitude with a top 10 list. As i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2013
With the lines blurring between professional and amateur drama critics, and indeed between anointed critics and avid theatergoers, we thought it worth hearing from more alternative voices. H…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30PM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2013
After the Tony Awards broadcast, the Thanksgiving Day Parade is probably the best opportunity for television viewers to see performances by current casts of Broadway shows. But the week of T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 24, 2013
The Broadway production of “Waiting for Godot” sells itself, which is a relief, since it means I won't have to sell it. Its two stars, British actors Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 23, 2013
In “Regular Singing,” the fourth, final and most emotional play in Richard Nelson's pioneering Apple Family series, a character says that the assassination of JFK was one of the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:54PM[SHARE]Friday, November 22, 2013
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago today, an event that will be memorialized around the country — a solemn ceremony in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, where…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 21, 2013
The three male witches are the stars of the Lincoln Center production of Macbeth on Broadway, even though Ethan Hawke plays the title character, according to several of the reviews on openin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Small Engine Repair feels like an hour-long acting lesson, full of fast, tough and jocular exchanges. The problem is that John Pollano's play is 70 minutes long " and the last ten minutes tu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Kissing Spider-Man goodbye: Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark will close January 4, 2014, after a tumultuous three years of breaking all sorts of records nobody would want to break " as well as …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:41PM[SHARE]The 271 words of the Gettysburg address, which President Abraham Lincoln delivered on November 19, 1863 (150 years ago today), are read in this Ken Burns video by 25 people: Presidents Barac…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21PM[SHARE]Win the original cast album and  two free tickets to see Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, a musical adaptation of a scandalous slice of Tolstoy’s War and Peace by …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04AM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2013
All The Way, the play about LBJ starring Bryan Cranston that has announced it will open on Broadway this season, doesn’t have a Broadway theater or an opening date yet, but it does hav…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 17, 2013
Jefferson Mays dies eight times in "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a musical now opened on Broadway whose story is familiar to those who have seen the 1949 Alec Guinness movie, "Ki…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PM[SHARE]Friday, November 15, 2013
Aladdin, Disney's new stage musical with music by Alan Menken (Newsies, etc.) currently playing in Toronto, will begin performances on Broadway at the New Amsterdam on February 26, an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Billy Crystal reprises his autobiographical one-person show, 700 Sundays, through January 5, that he presented on Broadway in 2004. Many of the reviews are positive, although some feel the s…
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