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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48AM[SHARE]The lyrics to “Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher” offered a dilemma after the former British prime minister’s death at age 87. So merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher May God̵…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:34AM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2013
Hands on a Hardbody, the musical about a sadistic contest where ten people try to win a pick-up truck by keeping their hands on it, has announced it’s closing on April 13th, aft…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PM[SHARE]“Bombshell,” the Marilyn Monroe musical that fans of Smash will have  been following for 26 episodes, promises to open on April 20th in an episode entitled, appropriately, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:33PM[SHARE]Lucky Guy and Kinky Boots opened on Broadway last week, Matilda is opening this week — one of a dozen Broadway shows still to open this month, to finish the Broadway Spring 2013 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 6, 2013
Encores! Off-Center, a new series from New York City Center, will begin this summer with the intent to do for old Off-Broadway musicals what its Encores! series has done for old Broadway sho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2013
Did Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” feature a real bear? We know that “Gypsy” had a little lamb, “Legally Blonde” both a chihuahua and a bul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PM[SHARE]The League of Independent Theater held its first political candidate forums last month, and is planning to make endorsements in New York City political races. With some 50,000 independent th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PM[SHARE]Nobody is sure how applause began, or when — babies applaud; applause is mentioned in the Bible — but we all know where it wound up: In the theater. In The Atlantic, Megan Garber…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2013
Is it a shock to say that "Kinky Boots" just isn't kinky enough? It could have been. Harvey Fierstein wrote the book, he who began his career as a 300-pound teenage drag queen on the Lower E…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08PM[SHARE]The 2013 theater award season began with the announcement on April 3 of the nominees for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring Off-Broadway. Both Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Redgrave rece…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:57AM[SHARE]Halfway through "Detroit," Lisa D'Amour's funny, dark and timely new play with a pitch-perfect cast that includes David Schwimmer and Amy Ryan, a character named Sharon explains that she has…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:16AM[SHARE]The main character of "The Whale" is 600 pounds, but one of the many pleasures of this funny and affecting new play by Samuel D. Hunter, being given a splendid production with a universally …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2013
One reason to regret what seems at the moment to be the inevitable — that the second season of Smash, the backstage theater TV series, will be its last. In this duet, Bernadette Peters…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PM[SHARE]Playwright Richard Greenberg, whom I profile in Playbill this month, has three plays opening nearly simultaneously in New York: Breakfast At Tiffany’s opened March 20 at the Cort Theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2013
How well were you paying attention to what was happening in New York theater in March? Find out with these ten questions The questions are all based on posts from this blog in March, 2013. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26AM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2013
“Journalists aren't nearly as interesting as they think they are," David Eisenhower once said, a quote that Nora Ephron cited favorably in her final media column for Esquire in 1977. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 31, 2013
As March madness turns into April avalanche, the marathon begins. In the next 25 days, 15 shows will open on Broadway, much of the Spring 2013 Broadway season. This coming week, Tom Hanks de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2013
The Signature and Sondheim and Shakespeare in the Park; new theaters like Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow and old ones like the Belasco on Broadway; playwriting legends like Edward Albee a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2013
World Theatre Day has been celebrated every March 27th since 1961. How? Playwright Dario Fo has created a World Theatre Day message, the English version of which is below. New York City will…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see "Orphans," the play by Lyle Kessler that stars Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge that tells the story of two orphaned brothers living a rough…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2013
Broadway's been so weird lately that you don't even have to mention Rebecca, or a cat getting fired, or Alec Baldwin to come up with ten questions in a Weird Theater Quiz Spring 2013. The ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:49PM[SHARE]To celebrate its tenth anniversary, the Brick Theater Company in Brooklyn is mounting some 20 world premieres of plays by 13 major playwrights, including Neil LaBute, Greg Kotis, Mike Daisey…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2013
In response to reaction to Annie Baker’s The Flick, Playwrights Horizons artistic director Tim Sanford sent the following e-mail to the theater’s subscribers: Dear Friend, The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 23, 2013
This has been a very weird theater season. See how weird by answering the following ten questions. (Notice there’s not even a question about a cat being fired from a show — there…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:24PM[SHARE]Yesterday, Buzzfeed posted The 33 Hottest Hunks of Broadway, but whether or not they are “of” Broadway, more than half of them aren’t  on Broadway anymore. They’ve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2013
"Hands on a Hardbody," an odd but tuneful new musical based on a 1997 documentary film about a sadistic endurance contest to win a pickup truck in Texas, might as well be called "American Id…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2013
When Holly Golightly sits on the fire escape strumming a guitar and singing, those watching  "Breakfast at Tiffany's" at the Cort Theater may temporarily feel in familiar territory, even …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Defying the long-held superstition about the dangers of saying the name “Macbeth” inside a theater, Alan Cumming replied to my inquiry: “I am going to say Macbeth everywher…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The community of ex-cons, junkies and crackheads crowding into the Bank Street Theater are surrounded by love, laughter and wild applause. They are the characters peopling  Stephen Adly G…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38PM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2013
“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” has opened on Broadway, a move nearly universally applauded. See my review below. Other shows opened this week that I reviewed: Lanford Wils…
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