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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 17, 2013
A debate over whether actors and other artists must be narcissists and opportunists, sparked by yet another story about Lena Dunham of "Girls"; a new report on the racial make-up of performe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:08PM[SHARE]Many people in Laramie, Wyoming don't think that Matthew Shepard was murdered in their town in 1998 because he was gay — that he wasn't the victim of a hate crime, according to the ext…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2013
"No more rejection, rejection, rejection," the ex-actress tells Ivy and Sam in front of Amy's Bread in the second season premiere of Smash. She has left the theater and gone into "stationery…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Alan Cumming accompanied the installation of the marquee for “Macbeth” The stars were not present when Orphans went up All four shows are opening in April: &…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:51PM[SHARE]Should the stage reflect the demographics of the city in which it is located? That is the assumption of the second annual report from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, the AAPA…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that "the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36PM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2013
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see “Kinky Boots,” the Broadway musical based on the 2005 film that tells the true story of a man who saves his family’s shoe factory by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:53PM[SHARE]Best Musical Theater Album:Â Once: A Musical, Steve Kazee & Cristin Milioti, principal soloists; Steven Epstein & Martin Lowe, producers (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, compos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 10, 2013
New York City was lucky this time. The blizzard that the Weather Channel dubbed Nemo saved the worst of its ire for other regions, allowing all Broadway and most Off-Broadway shows to remain…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 9, 2013
I have just reviewed two plays for Backstage that could both be called Spanish plays, although they could not be more different. One, “Fuenteovejuna,” at Repertorio Espanol, w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:00PM[SHARE]Some theaters are offering snow deals Roundabout Theater: Picnic and the Mystery of Edwin Drood, as well as Tally’s Folly at the Roundabout’s Off-Broadway Laura Pels Theater, wil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PM[SHARE]Here is a picture of Father Duffy Square in Times Square at 6 a.m., February 9, 2013. Manhattan clearly was not the hardest-hit by Winter Storm Nemo (as the Weather Channel insists on callin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07AM[SHARE]‘Lucky Guy’: From left to right: Christopher McDonald, Peter Scolari, Tom Hanks making his Broadway debut, Maura Tierney, Richard Masur, Courtney B. Vance and Peter Gerety. The l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:08AM[SHARE]Friday, February 8, 2013
“….there is no end to this accursed snow…” “…until the snow is cleared, you must shovel…” “I dreamed a dream in time gone by when snow w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PM[SHARE]The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for New York City and the metropolitan region for today and tomorrow, predicting heavy snow of up to 14 inches and strong winds, an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2013
“These are the cookies my mom is serving at her #Smash party in Pittsburgh. She’s a diva, “Andy Mientus Tweeted before the premiere of  the second season of Sma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Al Pacino stars with Helen Mirren in HBO film “Phil Spector,” written and directed by David Mamet, about the legendary music producer (Wall of Sound, the Beatles, Ike and Tina Tu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:14PM[SHARE]If ever a TV series did not need professional reviews, it’s Smash, the backstage musical about Broadway that begins its second season tonight on NBC at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. I’d n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:39PM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2013
http://www.nbc.com/smash/video/meet-jeremy-jordan/n31999 Jeremy Jordan, who made a splash on Broadway in “Bonnie and Clyde” and especially “Newsies,” plays Jimmy, an …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PM[SHARE]The beer commercial that made grown men cry. A little background: The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company owns six teams of horses, which they call The Budweiser Clydesdales, that they use for pr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 3, 2013
While it is true that there is not a single Broadway show scheduled to open in the month of February, and there will surely be more new commercials broadcast during the Super Bowl than stage…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 2, 2013
By the end of the first scene of the first-ever revival of "Moose Murders," which attained legendary status as the worst flop in Broadway history, I thought to myself: This is really not any…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:06PM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2013
Clockwise from top left: Phantom of the Opera, Scarlett Johansson in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, Barry Manilow, scene from Picnic, Rebecca producer Ben Sprecher
Tak…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2013
Mayor Michael Bloomberg did not address the theatergoers at City Center on the first night of the Encores! appealing if not thrilling production of the 1959 musical "Fiorello," and he did no…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Anton Chekhov was born today in 1860, and died at age 44. He was a Russian physician, a short story writer and a playwright, whose best-known plays, written in the last few years of his life…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AM[SHARE]Before Randi Zuckerberg spoke at the second annual TEDx Broadway, offering some  suggestions at how to use technology to transcend the limitations of Broadway, the former official a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:39AM[SHARE]Monday, January 28, 2013
Vincent Gassetto does not work in the theater; he is the principal of a middle school in the Bronx, M.S. 343. Yet he had something worthwhile to say at today's day-long conference about Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28PM[SHARE]When Daniel Day-Lewis won the Screen Actors Guild award for his leading role in "Lincoln" " having already won a slew of other awards for it as well as an Oscar nomination — I wondered…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2013
Two plays I just reviewed for Backstage, Mat Smart’s "The Steadfast," a play about American soldiers through the ages, and Judith Malina’s "Here We Are," a theater piece about…
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