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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2013
At 44, Richard Blanco was the youngest poet chosen for the inaugural poem in U.S. history. He is also the first only gay man and the first Hispanic to read the inaugural poem. “One Tod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11PM[SHARE]President Barack Obama Inaugural Address Monday, January 21, 2013 Washington, DC Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, Members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 20, 2013
This week in New York theater: January 14, 2013 Big Fish, a new musical based on the 2003 film, Â is opening on Broadway's Neil Simon Theater on October 6 directed by Susan Stroman a with …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 19, 2013
The producers of the new Broadway play “Lucky Guy” have listened to the criticism, and changed the marquee at the Broadhurst Theater, getting rid of the billboard (left) with the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2013
"Cat On A Hat Tin Roof" with Scarlett Johansson and Benjamin Walker could not possibly be so dull, I said during the first intermission; I just must be tired. The couple next to us left duri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2013
"Well, for all of you 'SNL' fans, I'm 50! I'm 50! You know, I need to do that without this dress on, but you know, maybe later at Trader Vic's, boys and girls. What do you say? I'm 50! You k…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31AM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2013
Bette Midler's return to Broadway after three decades is one of three new Broadway shows announced this week, a week in which only one show announced its closing, even though it’s Janu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 13, 2013
Are all single women to be pitied? Would an undisciplined drifter in the 1950's have a torso with a sculpted six-pack? Did William Inge's "Picnic" really deserve the Pulitzer Prize for Drama…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 12, 2013
It has been less than two years since I saw The Other Place Off-Broadway, yet what I remembered of it was just the spellbinding performance by Laurie Metcalf (still best-known as Roseanne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 10, 2013
Why isn't Harold Arlen as well-known as George Gershwin? It is a question that provokes debate among connoisseurs of what has become known as the Great American Songbook, or the Golden Age o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PM[SHARE]Lincoln leads with 12 Oscar nominations, including best adapted screenplay by Tony Kushner (playwright of “Angels in America”). Les Miserables, the movie of the stage musical, sn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Laura Osnes as Cinderella and Santino Fontana as the Prince in “Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella” beginning previews January 25, and opening March 3, 2013
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 8, 2013
January is the month for theater festivals in New York, more than at any time other than the summer. Â The offerings tend toward the avant-garde and the international and indeed many of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40PM[SHARE]When Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes’ “Water By The Spoonful” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama last year, the standard response I heard was: What? Who? The play had never been prod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40PM[SHARE]Monday, January 7, 2013
A 22-song album of the music from "Bombshell" will be released on February 12, a week after the Tuesday, February 5th premiere of the second season of Smash. The first season of this Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 6, 2013
This week in theater includes news about “Wicked,” and about an older musical by the same composer; the longer life of “Peter and the Starcatcher,” a hoped-for life f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 5, 2013
“Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy”, 90-minute documentary by Michael Kantor (Broadway: The American Musical.) aired on PBS New Year’s Day Here’s the link Wat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52AM[SHARE]Friday, January 4, 2013
Vanessa Redgrave paired with Jesse Eisenberg ("The Social Network") in a play he's written? A new musical by David Byrne of Talking Heads fame about ex-dictator spouse Imelda Marcos, famous …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 3, 2013
Theater, the original social media, meets its digital counterparts in form-breaking new live/virtual experiments: "As a theatre artist, I love space," Whit MacLaughlin is saying as we leave …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Tom Hanks, Shia LaBoeuf, and Cyndi Lauper are all making their Broadway debuts, and Scarlett Johansson returns, during Spring 2013, a season that promises at least two big hits, both of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 1, 2013
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 " exactly 150 years ago. There is no greater evil in U.S. history than slavery, with the possible exception …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AM[SHARE]Monday, December 31, 2012
Here are the ten most-read articles from this blog this year: Will Slings and Arrows Return To TV? I uncovered startling news for the many fans of "Slings and Arrows," the cult Canadian T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 30, 2012
It is hard not to be sentimental about the theater at the end even of a so-so year. There ARE Broadway shows with performances on New Years Eve: Mary Poppins, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 29, 2012
“Bullying is an unfortunate part of our society,” writes Ahmed Shayef,  seventh-grader at M.S. 577 in Brooklyn, who won a walk-on role in A Christmas Story as a result o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:17AM[SHARE]Friday, December 28, 2012
"What to do on New Year's Eve is always the puzzlement," Harvey Fierstein wrote this week. "But I think pot luck here at the barn with friends sound sanest. Music. Giggles." But what about N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 26, 2012
How much you were paying attention to New York theater this month… and this year? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 25, 2012
In 1885, at the age of 20, Wilson Alwyn Bentley hooked up a large camera with a microscope and photographed his first snowflake.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:21AM[SHARE]Monday, December 24, 2012
People the world over know tomorrow as Christmas. But Les Miz fans know it as the U.S. release of the movie Les Miserables. My review of the movie. It is never too late to give a gift for th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 23, 2012
Playwright Tony Kushner (“Angels in America”) wrote the screenplay of Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg. He talks about it with Bill Moyers, in-between clips from the movie.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 22, 2012
This Oscar-winning 2002 documentary about America’s romance with gun violence is centered on the mass shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. The film is funny, sad, insig…
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