Thursday, October 17, 2013
The Mobile Shakespeare Unit of the New York Public Theater will tour the following venues in all five boroughs of New York City with “Much Ado About Nothing” from November 4 to 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2013
The Romeo and Juliet from the Classic Stage Company, starring Elizabeth Olsen and newcomer Julian Cihi who look terrific together, is the third production of Shakespeare’s trage…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2013
new poster for Neil Patrick Harris in the revival of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” which opens April 22, 2014 at the Belasco Theater. Tagged: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Neil Patri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 13, 2013
They finally put Elmo in jail; Emma Thompson will debut on a New York stage as a murderer. The backstabbers in Brooklyn who do in Julius Caesar are all female. But the real crime is that the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:21PM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2013
Has anything like this been done before on television? “The Quarterback” was an hour-long episode of Glee where the characters mourn the death of the character Finn Hudson (frien…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 10, 2013
“A Night With Janis Joplin" ends with the singer, embodied by the astonishing Mary Bridget Davies, coming back out for an "encore," singing her blues song "Mercedes Benz" Oh Lord, won'…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:49PM[SHARE]Although he's dead, Elliot Leeds is living a virtually perfect life " his marriage better than it has been in years, his cutting-edge company worth $200 billion with 111,000 employees. He ow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Eric Bogosian is performing in a show entitled 100 at the Labyrinth Theater through October 25, selecting about a dozen different monologues each night from the 100 he wrote and performed in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2013
In "Bronx Bombers," a new play about the New York Yankees, Babe Ruth stands over a plate piled high with hot dogs at a dinner party given by Yogi Berra, and declares baseball  "the best g…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2013
Bryan Cranston, who just died as Walter White in Breaking Bad, will be making his Broadway debut this season reborn as President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the play All The Way. We know this b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 6, 2013
 "People want to see things beyond their imagination: Bigger than life," the carnival barker who’s a werewolf tells the cave-dwelling giant who becomes a titan of industry in “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27PM[SHARE]BIG FISH opens tonight, October 6 on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre. The production stars two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz as Edward Bloom, Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin as …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 5, 2013
Win two free tickets to see "Disaster,” a musical written by Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick  that spoofs 1970′s disaster movies. A 12-member cast including Mary Testa sing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PM[SHARE]Friday, October 4, 2013
At least 20 freshman members of the University of Mississippi football team heckled and used homophobic slurs during a performance they were required to attend of an on-campus production of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AM[SHARE]Ryan Steele, who made his Broadway debut in West Side Story (get the part on his first audition in his first trip to New York City) and went on to perform in Billy Elliott, Newsies and now M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2013
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news last month? Answer these ten questions and find out. This month’s quiz is especially tough, with questions ranging from Off-…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AM[SHARE]To promote their forthcoming performances on Broadway in Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which opens in November, famed British actors…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:16AM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2013
Chosen from some 2,000 Off-Off Broadway (aka independent) productions, the New York Innovative Theatre Awards nominated 134 individual artists, 60 different productions and 60 Off-Off-Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PM[SHARE]In a week that saw the opening of a much-praised Glass Menagerie on Broadway, a boozy and engaging if weirdly renamed Romeo and Juliet just three blocks down from the more turgid Romeo and J…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2013
There have been so many comparisons between the Breaking Bad TV series on AMC and the plays of William Shakespeare — Walter White frequently compared to Macbeth, though occasionally to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:57PM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2013
Krysta Rodriguez from First Date and Justin Guarini from Romeo and Juliet played host to a lunch-time concert presenting songs from eight musicals on Broadway. I’m going to post them a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2013
When we first see the Wingfield family together in the splendid production of “The Glass Menagerie” that has now opened on Broadway, Zachary Quinto is sitting at the dinner table…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Stages are turning into courtrooms this season, with A Time To Kill and The Winslow Boy on Broadway, and Arguendo, an actual Supreme Court case about strippers dramatized Off-Broadway. Many …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2013
This four and a half minute musical spoof of the Showtime drama — and of musical theater — by Elliot Glazer, “writer, comedian, and responsible pet owner,” made me la…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Do erotic dancers have a Constitutional right to dance nude? That was the question before the United State Supreme Court in  Barnes v Glen Theatre Inc et al — and it is the subject …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2013
Breaking Bad, with just one episode left, won outstanding drama series for the first time, although many were surprised that neither of its leads, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, won in th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 22, 2013
‘Romeo and Juliet” opened on Broadway last week (my review below), the first of two shows opening on Broadway in September; this week there’s The Glass Menagerie. There wil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2013
Romeo rides in on a motorcycle, swaggering in ripped dungarees and a leather jacket. Â Juliet, wearing white, swings on a swing child-like and timid. Â It is unclear why director David L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33PM[SHARE]The man they sat us next to at the 13th episode of Mike Daisey's 29-part theater piece All The Faces of The Moon had been to all 12 of the previous monologues, and was apparently planning to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:33PM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2013
Elmo looks shocked to be in the company of such aristocrats of the theater as Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen. It’s not the only odd pairing: Muhammad Ali’s friendship w…
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