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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2013
"A person isn't happy unless they're building something," says Dr. Dan Loggins, junior archaeologist, trying to explain why the people of a lost ancient Native American civilization buil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 16, 2013
Here are photographs from some of the shows opening on Broadway in Spring 2013: Ann, Cinderella, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Â Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. (More will be added as they bec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
Raina is a teenager kicked out of the Middle East, forced to live with her relatives in Brooklyn, for reasons that nobody will tell her cousin Tariq " so he hacks into her computer to find o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2013
"If everyone took antidepressants, Chekhov would have had nothing to write about," Sonia tells her brother Vanya in Christopher Durang's hilarious yet improbably moving play, now bumped up t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Those who have seen the previous gently-paced, meticulous, near miraculous collaborations between playwright Annie Baker and director Sam Gold — "Circle Mirror Transformation," "The Al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22PM[SHARE]Theater producer Alia Jones-Harvey is the only woman of color currently a lead producer on Broadway. Her company Front Row productions began with the revival of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2013
Two plays opened this past week that both could be considered political, in very different ways. "Ann" written by and starring Holland Taylor, offers a look at the improbable political caree…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2013
Is it possible for “Hit The Wall,” a new play, to say something fresh about the Stonewall riots that sparked the modern gay rights movement, now that the president of the United …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2013
Ann Richards, who has come remarkably back to life thanks to Holland Taylor's impressive impersonation of her at Lincoln Center, became a national celebrity and the governor of Texas after s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58PM[SHARE]Which shows are you most looking forward to seeing? Choose below among the 18 that are set to open between now and the cut-off deadline for eligibility for a Tony Award at the end of April. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Matilda, the hit musical from London  had its first preview on Broadway Monday night, March 4th. Matilda The Musical is written by playwright Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12AM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2013
Rodgers and Hammerstein's “Cinderella” opened this week for the first time on Broadway, marking the end of fallow February and the start of March and April madness. Over the next…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:20PM[SHARE]"To be an actress you have to love to suffer, and I only like to suffer," Abby says near the beginning of Amy Herzog's "Belleville," now opened at the New York Theatre Workshop, which is why…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 3, 2013
In the first-ever Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella," there is a big clock in the ballroom that speeds from 8 to midnight as Cinderella dances with Prince Charming…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2013
This month’s theater quiz is a special TV edition (Half the 10 questions have something to do with both television and theater.) See how well you were paying attention.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 28, 2013
At the beginning of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Passion," the first musical staged by the Classic Stage Company in its 46-year history, two of the three lovers of the story, Giorgio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08PM[SHARE]Is Jesse Eisenberg not just a movie star ("The Social Network") but his generation's Arthur Miller or Tennessee Williams or Alfred Uhry or Wallace Shawn? That is what Vanessa Redgrave implie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Kelli O'Hara first learned about Carousel when she performed in it in high school. "I fell madly in love with it. It remains a very favorite." John Cullum had heard songs from Rodgers and Ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Humor is the greatest weapon the powerless have against the powerful. When the powerful use it against the powerless, it’s evil. This was my thought the day after Oscar host Seth MacFa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:50AM[SHARE]Monday, February 25, 2013
In a tale told in David Henry Hwang's graceful and gorgeous early play, a father literally explodes when his son tells him he has become an actor. "Little bits of his skin are found hanging …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 24, 2013
Is Shia LaBeouf's sudden departure from what would have been his Broadway debut a boost for Broadway in what would normally be a fallow February? But this week actually has been fertile …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 23, 2013
Consider Marina " saved by pirates, who then sell her into a brothel, "but she had such a healing spirit that she convinced every man not to have sex with her," Tina Packer says to us, great…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08AM[SHARE]Friday, February 22, 2013
Yes, Charlie Sheen got more followers in a day than I got in three years. Ok, I had to write almost three Tweets for each Twitter follower I got " more words than are in the Bible, twice as …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:37PM[SHARE]In its Spring Theater section, the Times features five “new faces” with forthcoming "high-profile stage roles": Jonny Orsini who will play a naif taken in by Nathan Lane in "The …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AM[SHARE]“In the story over Shia La Beouf’s exit from “Orphans,” Michael Riedel in the New York Post reports a different version of events than the impression left by the rele…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2013
A dramaturg is a murderer in “Icarus,” the episode of “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” in which everybody thinks Cynthia Nixon playing a Julie Taymor-like figure…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PM[SHARE]This is a clip of the 1987 movie of “Orphans,” based on the 1983 play by Lyle Kessler that is being revived on Broadway this season.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Shia LaBeouf, the movie star (“Transformers”) who was to make his Broadway debut, has left Orphans, the three-character play co- starring Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge which was…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:13PM[SHARE]Will we have "Smash" to kick around any longer? Whatever else the backstage Broadway TV show has been, it's been an inspiration for many in the theater community " creating what you could al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Adele, Rufus Wainwright and Lady Gaga were the singer/songwriters picked most often in answer to the questions:Â Â What singer/songwriter would you like to see writing a show for Broadwa…
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