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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PM[SHARE] Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see “A Time To Kill,”  playwright Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of the first-ever of John Grisham’s bestselling novel to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2013
"Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play" Â could be called a musical based on "The Simpsons" animated TV series; that would be accurate, but it would miss the point. Â It is so much more than t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2013
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay), world heavyweight boxing champion, remains decades after his prime the embodiment of black pride, strength, and accomplishment. Stepin Fetchit (born Lincoln…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2013
Since his death at age 92, Horton Foote, who during his lifetime was known primarily for his Oscar-winning film adaptation of "To Kill A Mockingbird" and for his original screenplay for "Ten…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2013
The construction of One World Trade Center, formerly Freedom Tower, as it was constructed from 2004 to 2013. Tagged: Freedom Tower, One World Trade Center
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2013
They have their new Rocky They have their new (19th?) Sally Bowles. Michelle Williams and Il Divo are making their debuts; Neil Patrick Harris has set the date; Harvey Fierstein has a new pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 5, 2013
Ticket Giveaway: Win tickets to any two shows on the list of 20at20. The 20at20 program is a bi-annual celebration of Off-Broadway.  From now until September 22, 2013, some 4…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38AM[SHARE]New plays by both August Wilson and Horton Foote, both of whom have been dead for years? The return of Sarah Jessica Parker and Betty Buckley — and Mandy Patinkin — to the stage?…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2013
The director of "Amelie,"Â Jean-Pierre Jeunet said he was "disgusted" by the plans to turn his film into a Broadway musical, selling his rights only because he wanted to give the money to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AM[SHARE]Monday, September 2, 2013
Test how well you were paying attention to the New York theater news in August with these ten questions, culled from New York Theater blog's weekly summaries.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 1, 2013
Broadway Week, which runs September 2 to 15, and http://20at20.com/ 20 At 20, September 22 to 22, both offer theatergoers steep discounts. Also offering discounted tickets: Season of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51PM[SHARE]Seventeen of the most popular shows from the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival will be presented in two separate Encore series this year. Solo in the City at the Baruch Performing …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49AM[SHARE]Friday, August 30, 2013
“After tallying more than 27,000 public votes, The Humane Society of the United States is pleased to announce the winners of our Chimpanzee Art Contest. “ …”Brent is …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Architect Pam Campbell, who was in charge of the renovation of the Stephen Sondheim Theater, where The Trip to Bountiful is currently showing, takes us on a tour to point out the environment…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2013
The news that both Justin Bieber and the boy band One Direction have launched their own lines of perfumes  is not just odd, embarrassing and baffling. It’s also inspiring. If these …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:18PM[SHARE]On 28 August, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the following speech at the March on Washington: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demons…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 27, 2013
In his twenties, Ruben Santiago-Hudson saw "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," the first play by August Wilson that appeared on Broadway, and "I was smitten, captured, put in a spell,” he says…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PM[SHARE]Monday, August 26, 2013
Waiting for Waiting for Godot, a comedy about life on stage, was one of the three winners of the New York International Fringe Overall Play Excellence Awards, and Gertrude Stein Saints!, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AM[SHARE]“God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other…”~Julie Harris (1925-2013), often called the first lady of the American theater, who died on Saturday …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 24, 2013
Julie Harris has died at the age of 87. She was a veteran of film and television, and some three dozen plays on Broadway, for which she won an unprecedented five Tony Awards. “Joan of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03PM[SHARE]In Motown the Musical, his fifth Broadway show, Eric LaJuan Summers , plays six roles: a member of the Four Tops a member of the Contours songwriter Brian Holland a member of The Jackson 5, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45PM[SHARE]Friday, August 23, 2013
A day after Sardi’s restaurant unveiled the portrait of Cuba Gooding Jr., who made his Broadway debut in “The Trip To Bountiful,” the show announced he will give his final …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Many pick "Once" or "Phantom of the Opera" as their most romantic theatrical experience, but Lourdes Pagan picks Pippin and, after hearing her story, most would surely agree. She went to the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Zachary Quinto, who is about to make his Broadway debut in the 7th Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie,” offers a one-minute discourse on the di…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PM[SHARE]None of the cast of the new Broadway production of "The Glass Menageries" was impressed with Tennessee Williams' play when they first read it in school — not Zachary Quinto, not Ch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2013
Few would dispute how important the right cast is to a show. Would “The Nance” worked as well with Nathan Lane, or “Assembled Parties” without Judith Light and Jessic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PM[SHARE]Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time ~ Thomas Merton Spider-Man was back in the news this past week several times, and not, on balance, in a good way. “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 17, 2013
Mae West was born on August 17, 1893, and while she’s now known primarily as a movie star, she debuted on Broadway shortly after her 18th birthday, which was long before her Hollywood …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33AM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2013
Nearly every show I saw during the first week of the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival gave me a measure of satisfaction — unusual for the Fringe. In other words, I lucked ou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05PM[SHARE]Daniel Curry, 23, one of the nine dancers who dons a Spider-man costume in “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is reportedly in Bellevue Hospital in serious condition after his le…
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