Monday, August 29, 2011
The Fringe Festival ended two days earlier than planned because of Hurricane Irene, which knocked out the closing night party, and the last-second chance to see shows with big buzz. Eighteen…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:41PM[SHARE]Lea Michele Sarfati was born a quarter-century ago today, August 29, 1986. As Lea Michele, she debuted on Broadway at age eight as Young Cosette in Les Miserables, and subsequently had roles…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 20, 2011
Writer and performer Ali Kennedy Scott portrays five survivors of a natural catastrophe in Australia, but her delineation of character needs to be deeper and more distinct.
SOURCE: Backstage at 09:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2011
OK, yes, we first see the creator of the Spider-Man musical Julie Taymor " renamed Julie Paymore (get it?) " in a straitjacket and mask a la Hannibal the Cannibal in "Silence of the Lambs." …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:31PM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2011
In Nathan Cuckow and Beth Graham's new play, two twins read and act out a macabre tale that is better written than it is performed and funnier than it is terrifying.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 14, 2011
The two site-specific plays that make up "HotelMotel" take place around a bed in a back parlor of The Gershwin Hotel, which is right next door to the Museum of Sex, and that seems an especia…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:38PM[SHARE]Three shows in New York explicitly describe themselves as both theater pieces and as circus acts: "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark," Cirque de Soleil's "Zarkana," and, now, "Traces," which com…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:32AM[SHARE]Nicholas Billon's subtle, unsentimental play is inspired by the recent discovery of an island off the coast of Greenland and imagines the story of the man who discovered it and his family.
SOURCE: Backstage at 01:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2011
Like the motorcyclists who tattoo Harley-Davidson onto their arms, some theatergoers treat "Rent" as an indelible part of their lives, something that has become almost sacred. This may help …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:48PM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2011
The first official photograph of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises” comes with a question: Is Catwoman some kind of rite of passage for good actresses (Halle Be…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:12AM[SHARE]The first official photograph of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises” comes with a question: Is Catwoman some kind of rite of passage for good actresses (Halle Be…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 2, 2011
The 2011 New York Innovative Theater Award nominees, announced August 1st, include 166 individual artists, 55 different productions and 45 Off-Off-Broadway theater companies. Winners will be…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 24, 2011
The replica of the Stratford-upon-Avon theater that the Royal Shakespeare Company has built inside the Park Avenue Armory looks from the outside like the bottom half of a rocket ship, which …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 03:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 17, 2011
I saw "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" on the same day as Shakespeare in the Park’s "All's Well That Ends Well" and was struck by their similarities: Both are dark, both …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2011
The Broadway shows announced so far for Fall, 2011, include a revival of a Stephen Sondheim musical, and the debut of a new Woody Allen play; a play imagining the night before Martin Luther …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:51AM[SHARE]The Broadway shows announced so far for Fall, 2011, include a revival of a Stephen Sondheim musical, and the debut of a new Woody Allen play; a play imagining the night before Martin Luther …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2011
Tyne Daly has said she didn't think she was a fit to play the great and tragic opera diva Maria Callas, when playwright Terrence McNally asked her to take on the role in the current revival …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Broadway vet David Chase explains this vital position As a young man, David Chase told a Broadway dance arranger he wanted to move to New York and become a dance arranger himself, eve…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2011
Speaking before Harvard's Secret Court investigating the crime and embarrassment of homosexuality on campus, an undergraduate named Stanley Gilkey explains that the only reason he associated…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:12PM[SHARE]Speaking before Harvard's Secret Court investigating the crime and embarrassment of homosexuality on campus, an undergraduate named Stanley Gilkey explains that the only reason he associated…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2011
This new play about the courtship of two residents of a nursing home follows a predictable course but is also fresh and lively, thanks to two veteran actors.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:32PM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2011
At the beginning of the second act of Spider-Man 2.0, the evil Green Goblin explains how he was transformed from scientist Norman Osborne to genetic mutant: It took weeks and cost $65 millio…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 12, 2011
Below is the list of winners for the 2011 Tony Awards, so far. (Winners will be indicated, as they are announced throughout the evening, in bold face with *). (Scroll to the bottom for early…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:08PM[SHARE]“The Book of Mormon” has won the 2011 Tony for Best Musical and eight other awards, and “War Horse” has won for best play, and in four other categories, in a ceremony…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2011
Even in his most popular work, Tennessee Williams offered a hint of what the New York Times recently called (in an editorial about Anthony Weiner) the "profoundly squalid and offensive." It …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 5, 2011
"Lysistrata Jones," a new musical being staged in a church gymnasium, should be very annoying. It takes Aristophanes' bawdy anti-war comedy out of Greece and turns it into "Grease." The sold…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:27PM[SHARE]Mario Fratti's four short "gay-themed" plays all end with a twist, but the biggest twist is how little any of them say about contemporary gay life.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:07AM[SHARE]Monday, May 30, 2011
Quiz: What musical has won most theater awards so far this season? How is Daniel Radcliffe being a good sport? John Malkovich will appear on stage in a musical about a serial killer, true or…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2011
The finale to This season’s finale of American Idol, which crowned 17-year-old Scotty McCreery after tallying an unprecedented 122 million votes, included a number of guest performers,…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2011
It has 75 performers, 88 crew members, stunts with names like “Wheel of Death,” and even a plot of sorts — and it opens in June. The difference between “Spider-Ma…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:40PM[SHARE]Monday, May 23, 2011
Tony Nominee Derek McLane’s approach to set design
What you notice first in Derek McLane's studio are not the scale models of his theatrical sets—he has designed almost two dozen…
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