As local news of the spread of the coronavirus grows more alarming (with Governor Cuomo having declared a state of emergency in New York over the weekend), the theater community has been …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:20PM[SHARE]Bob Avian's memoir begins with a list of 32 "leading ladies," including Barbra Streisand, Katharine Hepburn and Patti LuPone, which might be misleading in a couple of ways. Dancing Man: A Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PM[SHARE]A man in a hazmat suit came on stage, to give us the usual spiel about the location of the exits and turning off our cell phones, and I thought: Ok, yes, the governor has declared a state of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM[SHARE]Below is the hour-long video and audio of the TCG Webinar, in which various experts, such as a professor of epidemiology based in Seattle and the director of theater at the National Endow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07PM[SHARE]It's been a battering couple of weeks, what with abandonment, abduction, desperation, murder, genocide, and pandemic " all but the last one happening on New York stages. So although I saw it…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:34PM[SHARE]The odd pairing of old Bob Dylan songs with Irish playwright Conor McPherson's new script about desperate lives during the Great Depression worked well enough when I saw it Off-Broadway in 2…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42PM[SHARE]"Girl from the North Country" is largely the same slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece I saw Off-Broadway. But my reaction to it has changed, for better and for wor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]The first of the many surprises in "The Headlands," the latest, cleverly crafted play in New York by trickster San Francisco playwright Christopher Chen, comes after Henry (Aaron Yoo) introd…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PM[SHARE]With the first reported case of COVID-19 in Manhattan, there is increased concern about the virus among New Yorkers, and that includes theatergoers. New York Governor Cuomo said yesterday th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40AM[SHARE]How do you put genocide on stage? Lauren Yee starts with a rock band, which is playing so loudly when we enter that the theater management offers ear plugs for any who request it. A rock con…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33PM[SHARE]A rock concert may seem an odd, even inappropriate, way for a play about genocide to begin, but what comes next is even more jarring in this disorienting, genre-bending show that shifts tone…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34PM[SHARE]Below is a selection of the abundant New York theater openings in March, organized chronologically by opening date*. Seven shows are opening on Broadway, a jarring mix of royalty and penury,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in February 2020? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PM[SHARE]Molly Brown, a socialite, social activist and survivor of the Titanic disaster in real life " turned into a Tony-winning Tammy Grimes on stage and Debbie Reynolds at her pluckiest on screen …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:32PM[SHARE]Molly Brown, a socialite, social activist and survivor of the Titanic disaster in real life " turned into a Tony-winning Tammy Grimes on stage and Debbie Reynolds at her pluckiest on screen …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PM[SHARE]What's most remarkable about Ivo van Hove's shake-up of West Side Story is, for all the Belgian director's ruinous choices " chief among them, an overabundance of distracting video projectio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54PM[SHARE]What's most remarkable about Ivo van Hove's shake-up of West Side Story is, for all the Belgian director's ruinous choices " chief among them, an overabundance of distracting video projectio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PM[SHARE]Eighteen thousand New York City public school students went to Madison Square Garden this afternoon to watch a performance of "To Kill A Mockingbird," becoming reportedly the largest audienc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:08PM[SHARE]We're all in pain " because of loneliness or loss, betrayal or illness " and playwright Young Jean Lee wants to offer us some comfort. This might not be immediately apparent, given the t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:12AM[SHARE]We're all in pain " because of loneliness or loss, betrayal or illness " and playwright Young Jean Lee wants to offer us some comfort. This might not be immediately apparent, given the title…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Natalie Portman is Keyonna's imaginary friend, and also her crush. The 16-year-old has other crushes " all white actresses, pictures of whom she has cut out of magazines and pasted into a co…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PM[SHARE]As Black History Month comes to an end, a new edition of a book about the white supremacy of Broadway musicals (with the too obviously ironic title of The Great White Way) has been published…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PM[SHARE]Below are some of the latest posts from the few still active New York City theater bloggers: About Last Night and Broadway Journal tell two different West Side Stories; Broadway and Me analy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26AM[SHARE]"Generator" is part art installation, part dance theater that evokes the evolution of life forms on earth. It starts with performers as single cell organisms dressed in hazmat suits, playing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AM[SHARE]In the course of his four-decade career, the Belgian director Ivo van Hove has created more than 100 productions of theater, opera, and movies  throughout the world, with more of them in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:48PM[SHARE]This fifth Broadway revival of "West Side Story," opening tonight, is different from the previous productions of the modern-day version of Romeo and Juliet, with its multiracial cast of 50 (…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:54PM[SHARE]Are Broadway musicals covert vehicles for white supremacy? That's more or less the argument that theater writer Warren Hoffman made in his 2014 book. The title apparently proved popular enou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PM[SHARE]The calendar for the 74th annual Tony Awards,: Thursday, April 23rd:Â Official cut-off for 2019-2020 Tony Eligibility Tuesday, April 28th: Nominations announced April 30th: Meet the nomine…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35AM[SHARE]The current president of the United States has been depicted largely satirically on out-of-the-way New York stages, Â but nearly every past president has made it to Broadway over the last …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02AM[SHARE]Twists on "Romeo and Juliet" are big this month in New York " in West Side Story on Broadway, of course, but also Beyond Babel, and Romeo and Bernadette, and Juliet and her Romeo It's …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:39PM[SHARE]How much do you know about the 41 Broadway theaters? In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Broadway Up Close , a company that gives a variety of walking tours of these theaters, foun…
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