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…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:38PM[SHARE]“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” “You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2011
Spider-Man's composer Bono tells Nightline that he and The Edge agree with the negative reviews of Spider-Man. “We really should have known that this is an incredibly difficult thing t…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2011
Steven Spielberg is working on a Broadway musical — sort of. He is the executive producer of “Smash,” a TV series on NBC in the fall about the making of a musical about Mar…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Below are the winners of the 2011 Obie Awards, given for 56 years by the Village Voice for achievement Off-Broadway Performance F. Murray Abraham, sustained excellence of performance André …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:23AM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2011
Tony nominee Todd Rosenthal designs “The Mothef**ker With the Hat”
More complicated than telling people the name of The Motherf**ker With The Hat is describing the set, especiall…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:57PM[SHARE]This 70-minute drama, about a baseball player refusing to sing the national anthem after the death of his brother in Iraq, promises provocation but winds up largely an unsurprising sports …
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:45AM[SHARE]The resumption of previews for “Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark,” with a new Playbill cover (the one at far right) managed not to upstage much else this week in New York theater, si…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:30AM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2011
By most accounts, the Broadway 2010-2011 had a high number of quality plays and musicals. But there were, by common agreement, some real clunkers too. There are SO many theater awards for qu…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2011
A minister with a terminal illness presides over a Christmastime gathering of his estranged family in a play with appealing characters but marred by an overly slow pace.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2011
As soon as the Tony Award nominations were announced at the top of this week in New York theater, theatergoers hurrahed and griped, sliced and diced. Some were delighted that The Scottsboro …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 03:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 8, 2011
What does a woman want? What does a marriage mean? Is Socialism the answer? Was "My Fair Lady" a fluke? These are the questions raised by "A Minister's Wife," a musical adapted from one of G…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:00PM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2011
Arthur Laurents died Thursday at the age of 93. A playwright, director, librettist, screenwriter, gay role model, and inspiration for generations, he was involved in 23 productions on Broadw…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Below is the list of nominations for the Tony Awards for 2011. The Book of Mormon has the most nominations at 14. The Scottsboro Boys has the second-most at 12 — and may be the most ev…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:21AM[SHARE]Two members of the New York Neo-Futurists bought two storage lockers at auction in the Bronx and piece together the lives of the former owners in this intriguing but overstuffed play.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2011
The Broadway theater season has ended, and the theater awards season begun. Of the 18 shows that opened on Broadway in the Fall, only two are still playing — Lombardi and Rain. But 21 …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 30, 2011
The Broadway season that just ended featured 40 plays and musicals — 18 in the Fall and 22 in the Spring. Many of them with magical moments. Here is a selection of just 12, not all fro…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:21PM[SHARE]Below is a list of the nominations for the Drama League Awards for 2011. (Unlike other theater organizations that give out annual awards, membership in the Drama League is open to the genera…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:22AM[SHARE]Below is a list of the nominations for the 2011 Outer Critics Circle Awards, which honor the best in Broadway and Off-Broadway theater. Winners of the awards will be announced May 16. The an…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:09AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2011
Below is the full list of nominees for the 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards, honoring excellence in Broadway, off-Broadway, and non-profit New York theater. The winners will be announced at a c…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2011
One of the jokes in "The People in The Picture," a Broadway musical starring Donna Murphy as both a young Yiddish theater star and an elderly grandmother, has a man harassed by two thugs off…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2011
"Baby, It's You," a jukebox musical featuring nearly three dozen pre-Motown pop songs and a thoroughly inept script, must have struck its creator (Floyd Mutrux, creator of " Million Dollar Q…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:48PM[SHARE]Theatergoers leaving "The Normal Heart," a revival of the 1985 play about the AIDS crisis, were greeted by activist Larry Kramer handing out a leaflet from the curb. He was not urging a boyc…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:01PM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2011
"For once could you let my emotions come out?" Edie Falco as Bananas says to Ben Stiller as her husband Artie Shaughnessy in the David Cromer-directed revival of "The House of Leaves," as Ar…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:23PM[SHARE]In the busiest week on Broadway all year, I saw three plays involving nuns, three involving drug dealers " and one with both a nun and a drug dealer. Two performers debuted on Broadway and b…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2011
Whatever else its charms, "Born Yesterday" is most noteworthy for having made a star out of Judy Holliday, and for having given the dumb blonde joke a novel twist. Its latest revival with Ji…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 23, 2011
"War Horse" is a touching love story between a boy and his horse, it is a shocking war story, but above all, it is a breathtaking work of stagecraft, employing theatrical ingenuity at the se…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:08PM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2011
"Take some more tea, " the March Hare says to Alice. "I haven't had any yet, so I can't take more." "You mean you can’t take LESS,’ says the Mad Hatter: “It’s very ea…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 06:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2011
In the very first moment that Mark Rylance appears on the stage and in the very last, "Jerusalem" soars from his daredevil performance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron, a fiery spirit about to be e…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Patina Miller, the newly-discovered diva making her Broadway debut as star of "Sister Act," doesn't thank God in her Who's Who bio, and thank God for that. She thanks Whoopi Goldberg and her…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2011
"High," a play starring Kathleen Turner as a tough nun who tries to save a drug addict, is playing on a street of Broadway that has become a drug corner: Right next door is "The MotherF**ker…
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