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.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30AM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2012
Winners of the 66th annual Tony Awards for the best of Broadway will be announced on Sunday night, June 10th. Winners will have asterisks in the list of nominees below. The links are to my r…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 3, 2012
Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Broadway competed in the 57th annual Drama Desk Awards. The winners are in boldface with an asterisk. OUTSTANDING PLAY David Henry Hwang, Chinglish Dan LeFranc…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 2, 2012
This La MaMa revival of H.M. Koutoukas' odd tale of three clowns menaced by a panther-baboon is surreal and often soporific yet redeemed by its language.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Wonderful performances enhance this eerie stew of a story cooked up around fascinating real-life Japanese theater and school of male impersonators Takarazuka.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 27, 2012
This minor August Strindberg comedy about a love triangle is adapted for an all-black cast and set on Martha's Vineyard in the 1920s.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 26, 2012
Political columnist Joseph Alsop, a New Deal liberal and a Cold War hawk, is embodied by Tony Award winner John Lithgow in a new Broadway play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 12, 2012
Would the movie Forrest Gump make a great musical, or must this never happen? How good a Broadway musical could be made from the movies Mean Girls or Moulin Rouge? Clue or Clueless? Those ar…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The 2012 Theatre World Awards for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2011-2012 theatrical season are: Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow) Phillip Boykin (The …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 6, 2012
The Lucille Lortel Awards represent the best on Off-Broadway, chosen from 91 eligible shows (50 new plays, 17 musicals, 24 revivals).Here is the complete list of nominations for the 2012 Luc…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:42PM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2012
In a word cloud for articles about the Tony Award nominations, which were announced on Tuesday, the word "snub" would be just about as big as "Broadway" or "Hugh Jackman." Annually, without …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The nominees for the 66th Annual Tony Awards have been selected in the 22 competitive categories. There are also four special Tony categories. The 2012 nominees are: Best Play Clybourne Park…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:42AM[SHARE]A large cast of kids gives impressive performances in “Up to You,” a musical from Tada! Youth Theater that insufficiently dramatizes its theme of bullying.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:23AM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2012
The people of Italy see America's 44th president as their potential savior in Claudio Angelini's incoherent and unfunny would-be satire "Obama in Naples."
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 28, 2012
Below is what I would want to see nominated for Tony Awards in a few of the 26 categories. This is not my prediction of what the Tony nominating committee will actually announce Tuesday morn…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:11PM[SHARE]Friday, April 27, 2012
Here are the nominations for the 2012 Drama Desk Awards: OUTSTANDING PLAY David Henry Hwang, Chinglish Dan LeFranc, The Big Meal Members of the Plastic Theatre, Unnatural Acts Itamar Moses, …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2012
Timing is everything in farce, but it isn't the fault of the people behind "Don't Dress For Dinner," that it has the bad timing to be arriving at the very end of the Broadway season shortly …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:38PM[SHARE]"Leap of the Faith" is the latest of three Broadway musicals with Alan Menken's songs; one of five shows featuring religion; one of seven that were originally movies, and one of countless pa…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2012
He was one of the nation's most influential newspaper columnists for decades, a cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt, close friends with President Kennedy and even closer with Jackie. But Joseph Also…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:41PM[SHARE]Nominees in six categories have been announced for the 2nd Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The Off Broadway Alliance is an organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general mana…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Given the talent assembled to fashion a new musical out of 21 of George and Ira Gershwin's durably tuneful and witty songs, it should come as no surprise how entertaining "Nice Work If You C…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:41PM[SHARE]The Drama League Awards bills itself as the oldest theatrical honors in America. They are also widely viewed as the least significant — chosen by audience members who have paid to beco…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:37AM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2012
Ghost grossed half a billion dollars and won an Academy Award for Whoopi Goldberg and for its screenplay, so perhaps it was inevitable the 1990 film would eventually be made into a musical. …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:30PM[SHARE]Linda Lavin, twice divorced, thrice-married, five times Tony-nominated (one of which she won), nine years as the star of the sitcom Alice, is at age 74 performing her 16th role on Broadway i…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:30PM[SHARE]The Outer Critics Circle announced the first of this year’s New York theater award nominations. The winners will be announced May 24th at Sardi’s. OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY T…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 22, 2012
Tennessee William long wanted to see "A Streetcar Named Desire" cast with African-American actors, according to the director who now has brought a multi-racial production to Broadway:
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
The most breathtaking of the ironies connected to "Clybourne Park" is not one playwright Bruce Norris presents in the comedy itself, which is a clever update of "A Raisin in the Sun…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2012
"One Man, Two Guvnors" asks us some tough questions: Is it funny to see an old waiter repeatedly knocked down a flight of stairs? A fat man eat an envelope? A member of the audience humiliat…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:34PM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2012
Below are the shows currently on Broadway or about to open. To see a schedule of the new Spring shows and read reviews of those that have opened, see Broadway’s April Avalanche. ANYTHI…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 15, 2012
The story of "Peter and the Starcatcher" is improbable enough " a sprawling adventure involving orphans and pirates, mermaids and deadly mollusks that has landed on Broadway with inventive u…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:27PM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2012
Six decades after her death, three decades after her canonization on Broadway, Evita is back, as immense as a Cathedral, as intimidating as a fascist rally. A sing-through opera as popular a…
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