Saturday, September 29, 2012
Should audiences applaud celebrities at the beginning of a show? I was struck recently at the response at two different plays, when a handful of people started to applaud David Schwimmer (in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2012
A day before the opening on Broadway of "An Enemy of the People," which is a play about the efforts to silence a difficult man, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange lashed out at Obama in a vide…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The last three plays that I have reviewed have been about suffering, or at least about falling apart: Most directly (and, in my view, least successfuly), Job, an adaptation of the Bibl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:06PM[SHARE]Julia Roberts made her Broadway debut in "Three Days of Rain," Daniel Craig in "A Steady Rain," and now Jake Gyllenhaal is making his U.S. stage debut in a play that begins in a steady downp…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 22, 2012
A chat with the four-member cast of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which is opening on Broadway at the Booth Theater on October 13, 2012 — exactly 50 years …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2012
It is hard to know who to blame for the horribly wrong turn taken in Job, the Flea Theater's initially promising stage adaptation of the Biblical Book of Job, the text that long has offered …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:37PM[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…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 16, 2012
"The theater is not so much a profession as a disease, and my first look at Broadway was the beginning of a lifelong infection." So writes Moss Hart in "Act One," a memoir that, we're told, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 15, 2012
Lewis Black will be performing "Running on Empty," his stand-up act, at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway from October 9 to October 20, 2012 not coincidentally right before the 2012 Pr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:32PM[SHARE]Yale-bred playwright Lewis Black, more widely known as an angry "Daily Show" comedian and commentator railing against modern times, brings his act to Broadway in October.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 14, 2012
Anyone listening to Jason Robert Brown perform his songs at Below 54 realizes two things right away: He's as deserving as any other composer-lyricist of his generation to be called Mr. Broad…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:44PM[SHARE]Rob McClure as Charlie Chaplin walks a tightrope, plays the violin, roller skates with a blindfold on, does backflips into a handstand, Â and " most dexterous of all " carries…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2012
British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz adapts Ibsen’s timely classic. Arthur Miller hesitated before adapting Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People. He believed that t…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:24PM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2012
Showtime has posted the first 25 minutes of the Season 2 premiere of Homeland — which is a little like inviting somebody to dinner and just serving them the soup. Homeland Season 2 Pre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11AM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2012
Trey Parker and Matt Stone of the "Book of Morons" sing "We believe that musicals should be disgusting." Two competing Marilyn Monroes belt "Let Me Be Subpar" A bloated Matthew Broderick woo…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:46AM[SHARE]Friday, August 31, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Roscoe, the only male character in Sam Shepard's new, enigmatic play "Heartless," fondly recalls "my junkie days " Avenue D, 14th Street, Dunkin' Donuts, cops, transvestite fist fights, hook…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 26, 2012
In this poll, you can pick more than one choice. For details about the shows, see Broadway Fall 2012 Season Preview
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 25, 2012
Check out my complete preview of Broadway Fall 2012 – including summaries, video excerpts, Twitter feeds, and even a link to buy tickets.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:23PM[SHARE]You can look at the Broadway 2012-2013 season in terms of the movie stars that will be on the stage: Al Pacino and Katie Holmes and Debra Winger — or how about Paul Rudd, Michael Shann…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:46AM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2012
In the dog days of August, we glance at the Broadway 2012-2013 season in formation; so far, there is a list of some two dozen shows with theaters and set opening dates. We also learn the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 18, 2012
Bring It On is not just about cheerleading acrobatics, as the last summer concert of Broadway in Bryant Park 2012 made clear. Here are 40 seconds of Nicolas Womack as Twig rapping in the mid…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:49AM[SHARE]Friday, August 17, 2012
Stay tuned for a detailed preview of the whole Broadway season Bring It On: The Musical (August 1) Chaplin (September 10th) An Enemy of the People (September 27th) Grace (October 4th) Cyrano…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:35PM[SHARE]A Christmas Story, the 1983 movie in which Ralphie has to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect gift for the 1940′s, has been made int…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Jeremy Jordan, who has played Jack in Newsies since its pre-Broadway try-out, is leaving to focus on his role in the NBC television series Smash. Replacing him starting on September 5, 2012 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Those of us smitten two years ago by "The Orphan's Home Cycle," the Signature Theater Company's epic production of nine of Horton Foote's plays taking place in a small Texas town he called H…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:22PM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2012
This week in New York theater began in sorrow, and ended in absurdity. Inbetween were openings and glimpses of what's to come In the week ahead:  Noël Coward in New York Festival with …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 11, 2012
Former Congressman Anthony Weiner may wish to reconsider his reported plans to stage a political comeback, thanks to "Tail!Spin!" which eviscerates him and three other politicians at the cen…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:21PM[SHARE]Fringe show "Night of the Auk" is a campy revival of Arch Obler's 1956 drama about mankind's first trip to the moon, originally directed by Sidney Lumet.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:27AM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2012
Maxim de Winter brings his new wife home to his estate, Manderley. There she learns of the mystery of his first wife, now dead… Rebecca. Based on the classic novel by Daphne du Maurier …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:14AM[SHARE]Some 1,200 young men auditioned to be the newsboys of Newsies, the members of the ensemble who dance, act and sing. For Playbill, I profile two of the extraordinary performers who made it &#…
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