Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge deliver back-to-back monologues in the only show opening on Broadway in August. After a promised Broadway run was scrapped, "Bat Out of Hell" is finally ope…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24AM[SHARE]Harold Prince died this morning at 91 years of age after a brief illness, in Reykjavik, Iceland. There will be no funeral, but a celebration of his life is planned. Â The lights of allÂ…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24PM[SHARE]Harold Prince died this morning at 91 years of age after a brief illness, in Reykjavik, Iceland. There will be no funeral, but a celebration of his life is planned. Â The lights of allÂ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:43PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to the theater news and views in July, from the Broadway Blackout to the Dunaway Dismissal? Answer these dozen questions and find out. Â
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AM[SHARE]Below is the list of nominations announced tonight for the 15th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater " aka Off-Off Broadway.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22PM[SHARE]Other New Yorkers may view midsummer, with its heat waves and general malaise, as time to get out of the city. Theatergoers know it as festival fever. These include some of the familiar annu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46AM[SHARE] The three shows reviewed below from this year's New York Musical Festival are all, each in its own way, naïve…or one of the near synonyms for the word naïve, each of which offer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:29PM[SHARE]It would be easy to make some wrong assumptions about this dinner theater production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Café Fae, given its title, its marketing, and the fact that it is co-p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AM[SHARE]Stephen Sondheim, now 89 years old, Â first began writing a musical about the real-life eccentric and significant Mizner Brothers when he was 23 years old; paused in his efforts when he le…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10PM[SHARE]Moulin Rouge, a $28 million jukebox musical that opens tonight at the Al Hirschfeld Theater, is adapted from Baz Luhrmann's 2001 movie of the same name, and expands its playlist to some 7…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:17PM[SHARE]The Theater Collection at the Museum of the City of New York contains over 190,000 objects that document theatrical performance in New York City from 1785 on. These include more than 30,000 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PM[SHARE]The actress Annie Golden (mute Norma in Orange Is the New Black) stars as the actress Annie Golden, who exchanges the humiliations of auditions for the thrills of a career kick-boxing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54AM[SHARE]The actress Annie Golden (mute Norma in Orange Is the New Black) stars as the actress Annie Golden, who exchanges the humiliations of auditions for the thrills of a career kick-boxing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32PM[SHARE]Â Therapists were busy reassuring theatergoers after seeing Dame Judi Dench in the trailer for the movie CATS. (See below.) Meanwhile, three shows opened Off-Broadway last week about real…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AM[SHARE]"These people recruit, rape and spread disease," Mama says about homosexuals, not realizing she's talking to one, in Chris Urch's play, which takes place in Uganda in 2010. That was the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26PM[SHARE]Paul McCartney has announced that, at the age of 77, he is writing his first musical " a stage adaptation of Frank Capra's 1946 movie "It's a Wonderful Life," a holiday evergreen in which Ji…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:18PM[SHARE]What would Euripides say about the liberties being taken with his tragedies in New York? Medea, one of his last and most-produced plays, has been turned into the harrowing tale of an undocum…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:18PM[SHARE]What would Euripides say about the liberties being taken with his tragedies in New York? Medea,one of his last and most-produced plays, has been turned into the harrowing tale of an undocume…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:05PM[SHARE]Halley Feiffer's loud, broad, hyperactive, foul-mouthed, unconventionally cast, aggressively playful and generally off-beat adaptation of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" was upstaged earlier this …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55PM[SHARE]Most everybody knows that Medea kills her children to take revenge on their two-timing father Jason. But "Mojada," playwright Luis Alfaro's modern-day adaptation at the Public Theater, zeroe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PM[SHARE]Every night from now until the end of the summer, you can watch a free movie somewhere outdoors in New York City  -- and whole movie series every weeknight except Tuesdays. The movi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PM[SHARE]The Week in New York Theater: Incredibly, the 2019 blackout that shut down the West Side Saturday night and shuttered 26 of 30 Broadway shows -- all but the four that begin with B (Be More C…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AM[SHARE]When MarÃa Irene Fornés died last October at the age of 88, the many theatergoers who knew nothing about her suddenly learned how pioneering , prolific and influential a theater artist s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:20PM[SHARE]A power outage in midtown shuttered more than two dozen Broadway shows. The casts of some of them took to the streets " See below Hadestown, Hamilton, Come From Away, Waitress… and Carnegi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:09PM[SHARE]Is a show that's in bad taste necessarily a bad show? Is a tasteful show always better? The three full productions from the first week of the 16th annual New York Musical Festival suggest…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]The first of six weekly Broadway at Bryant Park concerts this summer featured surprise performances by the cast of "Bat Out of Hell," a musical using Meat Loaf's hits that will be performing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:05PM[SHARE]The first commercial outdoor theater in the United States began in New York City, and while it no longer exists, there are several outdoor theaters this summer, not all of which are offering…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34AM[SHARE]Â Jerry Herman turns 88 today, which is the number of keys on a piano, an instrument he started playing more than eight decades ago, and led to his first musical 65 years ago, "I Feel Won…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PM[SHARE]Here are 14 new or forthcoming books about theater, listed under three general categories -- Scripts and Play Anthologies; Biographies and Memoirs; Theater History, Criticism and Reference -…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PM[SHARE]It's Summertime, and one of these mornings you're going to rise up singing " or at least hear some singing at the 16th annual New York Musical Festival, or at the free lunchtime  Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PM[SHARE]In the 16th annual New York Musical Festival, or NYMF, Â new musicals are inspired both by tall tales and true stories: A Native American sharpshooter who became a silent film actress; Â…
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