Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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]Monday, March 2, 2020
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]Sunday, March 1, 2020
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]Saturday, February 29, 2020
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]Friday, February 28, 2020
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]Thursday, February 27, 2020
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]Wednesday, February 26, 2020
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]Tuesday, February 25, 2020
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]Monday, February 24, 2020
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]Sunday, February 23, 2020
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]Saturday, February 22, 2020
"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]Friday, February 21, 2020
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]Thursday, February 20, 2020
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]Wednesday, February 19, 2020
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]Tuesday, February 18, 2020
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]Monday, February 17, 2020
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]Friday, February 14, 2020
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]Thursday, February 13, 2020
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]Wednesday, February 12, 2020
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]Tuesday, February 11, 2020
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]Monday, February 10, 2020
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]Sunday, February 9, 2020
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]Saturday, February 8, 2020
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]Friday, February 7, 2020
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]Thursday, February 6, 2020
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]Wednesday, February 5, 2020
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…
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