"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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36PM[SHARE]"We must devote at least as much to our children's education and the health of the poor as we do to the care of our automobiles and the building of beautiful, impressive hotels," Martin Luth…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PM[SHARE]"You will hear an unbelievable true story," Â one of the three actors from the Republic of Slovenia on a stage designed to look like a makeshift bunker, tells us at the beginning of the pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:04PM[SHARE]"Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me." That's what Laura Linney as Lucy Barton tells us from he…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:54AM[SHARE]…"My Name is Lucy Barton" is a sometimes poignant, often tedious 90-minute monologue… The hope was that Laura Linney would do for it what France McDormand did in the HBO miniseries that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:51PM[SHARE]Ann Harada, who made her Broadway debut more than 30 years ago, is philosophical about the latest character she portrays. "Sometimes you get to play glamorous roles," she says, "and sometime…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:54AM[SHARE]They meet on a line for a movie; the man and the woman " each disfigured by childhood accidents " Â are used to be stared at, and they are used to being alone. Inspired by the late Uruguay…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:41PM[SHARE]Those theatergoers drawn to "Modern Maori Quartet: Two Worlds" for the authentic music and culture of the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand might feel blindsided by what seems like a La…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AM[SHARE]This 15 minutes of Virtual Reality offering the sensation of looking at, walking on and flying over the moon " created by performance artist Laurie Anderson and new media artist Hsin-Chien H…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:06PM[SHARE]The typical Broadway theatergoer is still a well-to-do , middle-aged woman from out-of-town, according to statistics presented in The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2018"2019, the 22n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:54PM[SHARE]Below are the nominations in 24 categories for the 92nd Academy Awards, Joker" led all films with 11 nominations, including for Best Actor Joaquin Phoenix and Best Director Todd Phillips, fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24AM[SHARE]Nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards will be announced tomorrow January 13, so it seems a good time to test your knowledge of the history of Broadway at the Oscars. (The 92nd Oscar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PM[SHARE]Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 21 through February 9 of 21 Broadway shows, from "Ain't Too Proud"…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35AM[SHARE]There was a time when people made a living by starving themselves in front of a paying audience " an art form that lasted for centuries, but one that was on the wane when Franz Kafka wrote o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:04PM[SHARE]The long arty title and the vague, grand description of the show in the Under the Radar festival listing are both misleading. "The Shadow" etc. has a straightforward subject and a clear poin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PM[SHARE]"Wild Dogs Under My Skirt," a rhythmic, exuberant and startling work of theater that is the first of three New Zealand plays at Soho Playhouse this month, resembles Ntozake Shange's choreopo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:30PM[SHARE]Two Broadway veterans " Taylor Mac, Tony-nominated playwright of "Gary" and Greg Kotis, the Tony-winning co-author of "Urinetown" " are back Off-Off Broadway this season, and why would that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:44PM[SHARE]Broadway and Off-Broadway were represented at the 77th annual Golden Globes; click on photographs for details. (Full list of 2020 Golden Globe winners and nominees.) Theater is an art form t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AM[SHARE]Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway from January through April 2020 as of this writing, and they are listed …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AM[SHARE]Genocide, suicide, murder, deportation, terror, kidnapping, mass explosion " those are some of the bleak subjects of the Off-Broadway shows I'm most looking forward to this season, listed be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49PM[SHARE]For all the Broadway lore and persistent hope that a show on the Great White Way will make new stars and break new ground, the appeal of Broadway increasingly has become its familiarity " fa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50PM[SHARE]Below is a selection of New York theater openings in January, organized chronologically by opening date.* Three shows are opening on Broadway this month " Laura Linney in "My Name Is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:13PM[SHARE]Watch the entire 90-minute concert "Celebrating Sondheim," performed by the New York Philharmonic live on New Year's Eve 2020, with host Bernadette Peters and guest vocalist Katrina Lenk sin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11AM[SHARE]In the decade just ended, there were unmistakable trends specific to the theater " teen musicals, for example, and celebrity bio jukebox musicals. Which of these trends will continue in 2020…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PM[SHARE]We celebrate the new decade by saluting  Broadway veterans who are aged 88 to 105, many of them still working. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption.  Â
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:07PM[SHARE]It would be hard to have put together these weekly summaries of New York theater news for the entire decade, as I have, without noticing: This has been a weird decade. Even the name of the d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21PM[SHARE]Â Below are the ten most popular videos posted in 2019 on my New York Theater Youtube channel, in order of popularity. Below that are the top five New York theater videos of the decade Be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AM[SHARE]Recall what happened in theater in 2019 by answering these 16 questions, many adapted from my monthly quizzes throughout the year.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PM[SHARE]Here are the 10 most popular posts of NewYorkTheater.me from 2019, and below that some good reads from the year. Then: the top five posts of the decade! 10 Most Popular Posts From 2019 Poll:…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AM[SHARE] Broadway lights will dim on January 7 at 6:45 p.m. for Jerry Herman, who died on Thursday at the age of  88, at the end of a year that saw the death of Carol Channing at its beginnin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PM[SHARE]Below is a list of theater books to read in 2020, most of which were  published in 2019*.  Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four …
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