Hadestown won best musical and seven other awards, The Ferryman best play, the Boys in the Band best play revival of a play, Oklahoma best musical revival musical at the 73rd Annual Tony…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:39PM[SHARE]The American Theatre Wing's 73rd Annual Tony Awards, with host James Corden, will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS Â tonight, Sunday, June 9, 2019 from 8:00 to 11:00 PM,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AM[SHARE]In her stage version of Louisa May Alcott's beloved 19thcentury novel, Kate Hamill promises a "radical adaptation" and a "conscious explosion" of "the archetypes found in the novel."Â But…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:24PM[SHARE]Following up on her play "The Cake," about a baker in North Carolina who struggles to accept her lesbian goddaughter, playwright (and "This Is Us" producer-writer) Bekah Brunstetter now give…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PM[SHARE]Now is the time when interest in Broadway is at its peak, piqued by the three-hour TV commercial for Broadway known as the 2019 Tony Awards. Get tickets to attend the Tony Awards in person! …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:23PM[SHARE]This was an adventurous year for Broadway, with several unconventional works that seemed a more comfortable fit Off-Broadway or even Off-Off Broadway. This is a welcome development, albeit a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PM[SHARE]Below are my preferences " not my predictions " for the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. See my article in DC Theatre Scene for an explanation for each of my choices, and shout-outs to other nominee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23PM[SHARE]In its ultimately lovely if overlong Broadway revival, "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" begins with loud grunting and shrieking, amid glimpses of breasts and buttocks in the dim lig…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02PM[SHARE]Casual theater lovers might think that there's nothing else happening beside the Tony Awards in June. They would be wrong! June calendar of theater openings: Stonewall 50 on Stages! Fairview…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:51PM[SHARE]A dozen luminous first-time New York stage performers, plus Nathan Lane, were honored at the 75th annual Theatre World Awards. Some spoke on the red carpet about when they first realized the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01AM[SHARE]Christopher Shinn's "Dying City," which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama after it received an admired production at Lincoln Center in 2007, is being revived here at the same t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19PM[SHARE]The Play On! Festival is presenting staged readings through June 30 of all 39 of William Shakespeare's plays "translated" into "contemporary modern English" by 36 American playwrights. Their…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19AM[SHARE]The Ferryman and The Prom were winners for best play and best musical of the 64th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PM[SHARE]Broadway is busy with the Tony Awards on June 9th, but June is bustin' out all over with new shows on other New York stages. A good number of the openings mark the 50th anniversary of the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:06PM[SHARE]"Underground Railroad Game," a much-praised 2016 play from Ars Nova that is being revived for just two weeks, is inspired by an actual game that co-creator Scott Sheppard was forced to play …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and previews in the month of May? Answer these 10 questions to find out. Â
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:49PM[SHARE]Before he was a poet, Walt Whitman, who was born two hundred years ago today " on March 31, 1819 " was a theatergoer, and an opera fan, and a drama critic…and, some argue, a dramatist. "I …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AM[SHARE]Can life be lived offline anymore? That's what the eight characters are exploring as part of an Internet addiction support group in "Octet," a beautifully sung a cappella chamber musical by …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PM[SHARE]Yeah that was Lin-Manuel Miranda as Bob Fosse, at the end of "Fosse Verdon," sort of. In the finale of the eight-episode series on FX, Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) is writing and directing "All …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PM[SHARE]As the theater awards season enters the home stretch " what's left: Drama Desk Awards, Theatre World Awards, the Tonys " the question arises once again:How does one determine, or even define…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09AM[SHARE]Fosse Verdon, the FX TV series about the marriage and artistic collaboration between Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, ends its eight-episode run on May 28, 2019. What other theater couples from th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PM[SHARE] On Memorial Day, we remember and honor the approximately 1.1. million Americans who have been killed in U.S. Wars  Memorial Day has its origins in the Civil War, which incurred the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AM[SHARE]We first said goodbye to Avenue Q in 2009 when the surprise Tony-winning hit musical announced it was about to close on Broadway after six years. But it got an immediate reprieve, moving to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PM[SHARE]Two things distinguish Loveville High, a new musical that takes place on prom night in a high school in Loveville, Ohio. First: The cast of 13 is comprised of some of the most talented young…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52AM[SHARE]Below are the seven most popular posts in the seven years since I began NewYorkTheater.me in May 2012. Below that  are the seven most popular reviews, and below that 10 of the profile por…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM[SHARE]Sean O'Casey was 43 years old and had worked his whole life as a laborer, when he finally had a play accepted in 1922 by the founders of Dublin's famed Abbey Theater, the dramatist Lady G…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PM[SHARE]In the first play of Clubbed Thumb's 24thannual  Summerworks festival at the Wild Project " the first summer theater festival of the season " the cast faces us a la A Chorus Line, exce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29AM[SHARE]The Ferryman, a feast of Irish storytelling in a breathtaking mix of genres, opened on Broadway seven months ago, and since then it's gotten nine Tony nominations, best play awards from the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12PM[SHARE]The Ferryman, a feast of Irish storytelling in a breathtaking mix of genres, opened on Broadway seven months ago, and since then it's gotten nine Tony nominations, best play awards from the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33PM[SHARE]In Episode 7 of Fosse Verdon, Gwen fights to assert her own creative vision on Chicago, challenging Bob's increasingly dark approach to the musical. Â Just one more episode to go! More ab…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:33PM[SHARE]The 64th Annual Obie Awards, celebrating Off and Off-Off-Broadway Theater We're live at the 2019 #ObieAwards hosted by @Racheldoesstuff https://t.co/CHOOYEdiLX " Obie Awards (@obieawards) Ma…
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