Sunday, July 15, 2012
For the 14th year in a row, Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore were hosts of Broadway Barks, the organization they founded that involves Broadway performers encouraging people to adopt d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 14, 2012
In playwright-director Yoshvani Medina's "Probation," at Repertorio Español, first-rate acting rescues a half-baked plot about Cuban immigration to America.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:43AM[SHARE]My @BackStageCast review of @RioTheMusical from @NYMF: Propulsive beat, but has Capeman-like problems bit.ly/LOK2VM — Jonathan Mandell (@NewYorkTheater) July 13, 2012
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:01AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2012
The cast of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess presented three songs on July 12th as part of the first of six Broadway in Bryant Park concerts this summer, every Thursday through mid-…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2012
As part of the summer Thursday lunchtime concert series in Bryant Park, the Broadway cast of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark sang three songs on July 12. 1. Bouncing Off the Walls 2. Ris…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PM[SHARE]Cast members from “Phantom of the Opera,” the longest-running show in the history of Broadway, performed today in Bryant Park, the first of a six-part concert series on Thursdays…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PM[SHARE]"Rio," at NYMF, a tuneful musical with a propulsive beat that sets the story of "Oliver Twist" in the slums of Brazil, is undermined by errant stagecraft.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2012
"Every moment at the theater is magical," Anna Kivela wrote, one of more than 100 theatergoers who responded to the question: "What was the most magical moment you have witnessed on a New Yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2012
For the seventh year on the lawn at Bryant Park, the most popular as well as the newest shows on Broadway, and several Off-Broadway, will offer a series of six free weekly concerts over the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:21AM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2012
This week saw some beginnings — Â the New York summer theater festival season, Real Raging Bull Jake LaMotta going thespian to thespian with Mike Tyson — but too many endings: …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:28PM[SHARE]Marty Pakledinaz, who died on Sunday at the age of 58, designed costumes for 35 Broadway shows over the last three decades, his work nominated ten times for a Tony Award, and winning twice, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2012
Ernest Borgnine, best-known for the title role of Oscar-winning 1955 film “Marty,” for the 1960′s TV show ‘McHale’s Navy,” and for being married to Ethel …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PM[SHARE]Friday, July 6, 2012
Daphne Rubin-Vega is playing her fifth role on Broadway, as Stella in Tennessee Williams’ “Streetcar Named Desire,” 16 years after her first and still best-known part, as M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2012
Even New Yorkers who get out of town every summer know at least three of the most celebrated summer theater festivals in New York City (and the three do not include the New York Musical Thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Since 2004 when it began, the New York Musical Theatre Festival has produced some 300 new musicals, including a few that went on to great fame and popularity, such as Next to Normal, Altar B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PM[SHARE]Daphne Rubin-Vega made an iconic Broadway debut in Rent. She's back in another famous role in the revival of A Streetcar Named Desire — and there are more classic characters on her…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Here is how Broadway is shaping up so far for Fall 2012. This WILL change: First, a quick chronological list by opening date (if there is one), then alphabetical, with a bit more description…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Win 2 Ghost The Musical Tickets AND Star Richard Fleeshman's ShirtDetails of my latest ticket giveaway contest are on my New York Theater Facebook page Continue reading →
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 24, 2012
Peggy Stafford's "Motel Cherry," from Clubbed Thumb and New Georges and part of Summerworks 2012, mixes "Grand Hotel" with halfhearted fairy tales.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30AM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2012
There’s nothing nicer, Patti LuPone was saying with a long sardonic face to Meryl Streep, than to have a bunch of drunks singing Happy Birthday to you in a bar. Nevertheless, sing we d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2012
The Central Park production of “As You Like It,” starring the luminous cross-dressing Lily Rabe, astonishing double dukes Andre Braugher, outrageous jester Oliver Platt, is not t…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:27PM[SHARE]New York theater doesn’t close up shop after the Tony Awards each year. There actually may be more to see, what with the various theater festivals. In any case here are my reviews of s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:42PM[SHARE]What many theatergoers know and don't love about "Harvey" is that this comedy about a 6'3 1/2" invisible rabbit won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1945, beating out Tennessee Williams' "The…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Sister Act has just announced that it will close on August 24th. Godspell will shutter June 24th. Jesus Christ Superstar said earlier this week that it will play its last performance on July…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:21PM[SHARE]The news sparked reactions ranging from stunned to amused to outraged: Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will make his Broadway theater debut " as will Spike Lee " in the one-man…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Megan Hart's first full-length play about a writer's first novel is too sketchy, and isn't saved by strong performances from Richard Masur and Michelle David.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:15AM[SHARE]Monday, June 18, 2012
When Annie Baker, playwright of the exquisite “Circle Mirror Transformation” and her frequent collaborator, super-star director Sam Gold (“Seminar,” “Look Back …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2012
In what can only be called a follow-up to my scoop that the creators of “Slings and Arrows” want to create a fourth season, the National Post of Canada quotes Slings star Paul Gr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2012
In this still from a photo essay in Vogue magazine, Jeremy Jordan, star of Newsies, prepares for the 66th annual Tony Awards. Newsies won two Tony Awards, including best choreography and bes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2012
Ethan Lipton's enigmatic send-up of urban life, "Luther," in Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks festival, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, needs more decisiveness.
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