Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Everybody loves Tom Hanks — and that includes nearly every theater award nominating committee. For his role in “Lucky Guy,” Hanks has been nominated for a Tony, Drama Desk,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:31PM[SHARE]Here are celebrities eligible for the 2013 Tony Award nominations who were not nominated: Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannaval, Jessica Chastain, Alan Cumming, Katie Holmes, Scarlett Joh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2013
“Kinky Boots” received the most nominations, 13, for the 67th annual Tony Awards, followed by Matilda with 12, Â at the New York Public Theater for the Performing Arts, chosen …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24AM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2013
The 2013 Tony Award nominations will be announced at 8:30 a.m. on April 30. To help prepare for the inevitable reaction — “Snubbed!” — here is a list of those eligibl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PM[SHARE]The Broadway season has ended and the awards season begun, when theater people turn from the art of theater to its mathematics. Here are the shows I reviewed last week, starting with my favo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PM[SHARE] “Giant” and “Hands on A Hardbody” got the most love this year from the Drama Desk Awards, each receiving nine nominations. The 58th Annual Drama Desk …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2013
“Buyer and Cellar,” which imagines a man (played by Michael Urie)  hired to work for Barbra Streisand at her Malibu home, is no more important than the lacquer on Streisan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:36PM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2013
It seemed like a stunt at first, inviting the audience on stage to see the set of "The Testament of Mary" " the live vulture (we're told his name is Pinhead), the cave underneath the stage w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08PM[SHARE]Russell Harvard decided to be an actor at the age of seven when he saw his cousin playing the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. That ambition was confirmed when his aunt took him…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2013
Pippin, the offspring of a king, takes a journey to find his corner of the sky in "Pippin," a musical Stephen Schwartz wrote before "Wicked" and Bob Fosse directed and choreographed before "…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2013
In "I'll Eat You Last," Bette Midler reads the phone book, to great laughter and applause. This particular phone book, the thinnest of scripts about Hollywood agent Sue Mengers, contains onl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Cicely Tyson has come home. As Carrie Watts, the old woman in Horton Foote's heartbreaking play "The Trip To Bountiful," she had been stuck all day every day with her hectoring daughter-in-l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of the Philippines, was known for two things in America "owning 3,000 pairs of shoes and dancing in discos. Â "Here Lies Love," Â David Byrne's inspi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Below is a list of the nominations for the Drama League Awards for 2011. (Unlike other theater organizations that give out annual awards, membership in the Drama League is open to the genera…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:19PM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2013
Six shows opened on Broadway in the last week. In the order in which I would recommend them, they are: The Assembled Parties The Nance Macbeth Orphans The Big Knife Jekyll and Hyde Four more…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PM[SHARE]The revival of Stephen Schwartz’s Pippin earned 11 Outer Critics Circle nominations, the most of any production of the season, Kinky Boots, nine; Chaplin: The Musical an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2013
When bloody, shirtless Alan Cumming recites the "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy on the stage of the Ethel Barrymore, I was floored: He would be great in "Macbeth" I thought. B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 20, 2013
In the New York City of 1937 re-created in "The Nance," Â Douglas Carter Beane's fascinating new play starring Nathan Lane, eating at the wrong restaurant could get you arrested — th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PM[SHARE]Jekyll and Hyde: A Tale of Two Views The critics hate it. The fans adore it. Jekyll and Hyde Review: Good vs. Bad on . .. – New York Theater 1 day ago … Me: The return of Frank W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2013
Me: The return of Frank Wildhorn's "Jekyll and Hyde" to Broadway, not a cause for celebration in my household, conjures up a vivid memory of the original Broadway production, when Robert Cuc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]In the much-publicized fracas over "Orphans," when Shia LaBeouf was fired after clashing with co-star Alec Baldwin and replaced by Ben Foster, the one actor in the cast barely mentioned was …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2013
All is forgiven, Richard Greenberg. The busiest playwright in New York this season bounces back from "Breakfast At Tiffany's" with “The Assembled Parties,” an original new play t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]“At The Ballet” from A Chorus Line, sung by Audra McDonald, Megan Hilty and Kelli O’Hara at the “Live from Lincoln Center” tribute to Marvin Hamlisch: One Singu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Question: When is the last time a movie star abandoned his lucrative Hollywood career because his wife asked him to? Answer: More recently than a violinist gave up his music for the chance a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that,” a quote by Martin Luther King Jr., was one of the many sayings projected onto the wall of the Brooklyn Academy of Mu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54AM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2013
Disgraced,” a new play by Ayad Akhtar, won the 2013 Prize for Drama. Directed by Kimberly Senior, at LCT3′s new home at Lincoln Center Theater, he Claire Tow Theater, Disgraced t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:08PM[SHARE]Ten shows will be opening on Broadway within the next ten days. The consensus on the two that just opened, “Matilda” and “Motown,” were starkly different — and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 14, 2013
It is easy to see "Motown: The Musical" as Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr.'s affectionate tribute to himself: He co-wrote the book (based on his memoir) and produced the show, which f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]How do you solve a problem like “Matilda”? How do you handle the juggernaut it's become? The quirky musical, about a neglected little girl with extraordinary powers, is based on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:06PM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2013
For its online auction, Playwrights Horizons has come up with dozens of items to bid on — some great; some elaborate; one a really, really bad idea. The theater’s fundraising onl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Matilda opens on Broadway April 11th, a musical based on the children’s novel by Roald Dahl about a little girl with extraordinary powers, but it is clearly not like your normal childr…
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