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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:32PM[SHARE]For the fourth year in a row, the Trump budget proposes shutting down the National Endowment for the Arts, along with many other cultural agencies " the National Endowment for the Humanities…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11AM[SHARE]The audience is invited to sing and dance along with the performers in an actual fandango, which is a lively, spontaneous, communal musical celebration. But that's only after the 100 minutes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08PM[SHARE]Parasite was the biggest winner at the 92nd Academy Awards, and Broadway veterans were the biggest losers. Below is the list of the winners. (Check out the full list of nominations). An aste…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:08AM[SHARE]Ten of the 19 performers nominated for the Academy Awards in 2020 are Broadway veterans, four of them Tony winners. Click on the photographs below to learn details.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PM[SHARE]Trilobites were actual crab-like creatures of the sea who lived on earth 150 million years before the first dinosaurs " and, like dinosaurs, are long extinct. But they remain as sturdy fossi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:59PM[SHARE]God I blew that answer I blew that answer He hates my single-payer plan So sing the candidates in the Iowa Stage Theatre Company's production of "Adore Us! Line," a musical that uses A Choru…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:52PM[SHARE]Although Kirk Douglas, who died yesterday at the age of 103, was known primarily as a movie star, he was also a veteran of Broadway. (Obituaries in CNN, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times) B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PM[SHARE]As he's done for close to 40 years, Charles Busch sprinkles his latest campy melodrama with Oscar Wilde wit, Barbara Stanwyck grit, Marlene Dietrich glamour and Mae West shtick: "I don't usu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PM[SHARE]Fifty-two Senators, all of them Republicans, voted to acquit Donald Trump of abuse of power. The lone Republican who voted to convict, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, explained his reasons why …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:19PM[SHARE]"So you're doing a whole show on borders, huh?" says Border Patrol Special Agent Lopez, the first of 11 people whom Dan Hoyle impersonates over 75 minutes in "Border People," re-creating wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PM[SHARE]A film of "Hamilton," with its original Broadway cast, is coming to cinema screens across the U.S. and Canada on October 15, 2021, released by The Walt Disney Studios, (which reportedly paid…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in January 2020? Answer these dozen questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PM[SHARE]Below is a selection of New York theater openings in February, organized chronologically by opening date. There's just one show opening on Broadway this month, but it's a doozy: The fifth re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PM[SHARE]Our safety word was "stunt reporter," as Nellie Bly, one of the 19th century's most celebrated journalists, took along the 18 of us undercover to the mental institution at Blackwell Island f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PM[SHARE]From the get-go, the "Medea" on stage at BAM looks less like a modern update of Euripides' tragedy than a fashion shoot: Bobby Cannavale talks quietly with Rose Byrne against an empty, blind…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PM[SHARE]The Alexander in the title is Dr. Alexander Wiener, a pioneering scientist in the use of blood to identify individuals in ways similar to fingerprints, and co-discoverer of the Rh factor in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:12PM[SHARE]He's known as a  playwright ("Jeffrey" and "I Hate Hamlet") screenwriter ("Addams Family Values," "In & Out") novelist (Social Disease, I'll Take It) and essayist (I Shudder, Fierce P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:46PM[SHARE]Two-for-one tickets are on sale now for Off-Broadway Week, February 10 to 24, 2020. The following 33 shows are participating. Those with an asterisk are newly on offer. (Check out my Off…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:57AM[SHARE]All these Broadway veterans participated in the 62 Grammy Awards, where "Hadestown" won Best Musical Theater Album. The other nominated albums were "Ain't Too Proud: The Life And Times Of Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AM[SHARE]Casts from six shows opening this season on Broadway " including shows with music by Bob Dylan and Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Tony Kushner " performed at First Look at BroadwayCon 2020.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40PM[SHARE]In this gorgeous, enlightening and ambitious " Â if over-stuffed " hour-long theatrical collage, Theodora Skipitares uses the eerie visual splendor of puppetry to illuminate a serious subj…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:47PM[SHARE]A transcript and video of the closing arguments both Thursday and Friday by Representative Adam Schiff, the House impeachment manager for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37AM[SHARE]Charles Fuller's murder mystery, finally on Broadway in a fine production directed by Kenny Leon some four decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is so good that even if you've s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PM[SHARE]Charles Fuller's murder mystery, finally on Broadway in a fine production directed by Kenny Leon some four decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is so good that even if you've s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36AM[SHARE]"I think I would like a divorce," Jane Alexander as Nancy French says to her husband of 50 years,  played by James Cromwell. "All right," Bill replies. Blackout. More production photo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18PM[SHARE]"I think I would like a divorce," Jane Alexander as Nancy French says to her husband of 50 years, played by James Cromwell. "All right," Bill replies. Blackout. That's all the dialogue in th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PM[SHARE]Some shows you leave needing to tell people about; some shows you leave thinking about what you are going to have for dinner. A few shows ruin your dinner. If you're a drama critic, you are …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PM[SHARE]When did "theater" become an insult? With the impeachment trial scheduled to begin in earnest this week, the one thing that the right and the left, Democrats and Republicans, seem to agree o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26AM[SHARE]"Leaving the Blues" dramatizes the life of the amazing jazz, blues and Broadway singer/songwriter Alberta Hunter. I long thought her story was ideal for a musical, ever since I saw her aston…
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