Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Rebel Verses, an exciting and thought-provoking show presenting artists ages 13 to 19 from some dozen youth theater companies, Â was almost as impressive for what was not on stage as for w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2019
The dog days of August turn out to be full of theater news " even about dogs; these comfort dogs were watching Billy Elliot at the Stratford Festival, reportedly to practice what it's lik…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 18, 2019
Seven Broadway and Off-Broadway shows are closing today: King Kong, The Cher Show, Pretty Woman Mojada, Broadway Bounty Hunter, Puffs, and the way she spoke  Then closing August 24th: Wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 17, 2019
The timing in broadcasting a two-year-old play about gun violence may seem right, but it's terribly wrong. The WNET series Theater Close-Up has chosen to broadcast "On The Exhale," Martin Zi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2019
"Like most people of color, black people in the New World, I came by my passion for literature in a circuitous way, a night journey marked by music, movement, improvisation, and smells of pe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2019
"Make Believe" begins with a child on stage silently playing with a Cabbage Patch Doll in an attic playroom; after a while her sister calls out "Mom?" a dozen times off-stage. Â Then her b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 14, 2019
What is a gay play? These three very different plays in the first week of the new Rave Theater Festival could all arguably fit the label, but it would mean stretching the definition beyond t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:11PM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2019
They installed metal detectors in the Al Hirschfeld Theater, the new home of "Moulin Rouge," during the same week that panicking pedestrians a block away mistook a motorcycle backfiring for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 11, 2019
It was uncanny how much "Noirtown" made me feel as if I was living inside a film noir classic like "The Maltese Falcon" or "The Big Sleep" " stylish, seductive, tough-talking and unfathomabl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2019
For the 43rd summer in a row, Theater for the New City is touring a free original outdoor musical in streets, playgrounds and parks throughout all five boroughs (See schedule below.)Â As …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36PM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2019
"Moulin Rouge" was thrilling from the moment I entered the theater… until about ten minutes after it began. That's because the brightest star in this stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's 200…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:16PM[SHARE]Bat Out of Hell is a frequently enjoyable jukebox musical running at New York City Center through September 8, using the muscular rock opera anthems from singer Meat Loaf's trilogy of bes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48AM[SHARE]It's not at all baffling why these two modest monologues by different playwrights were yoked together into a single show at the Public Theater earlier this year. There's an even simpler expl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2019
Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal are certainly the reason why "Sea Wall/A Life" has now moved uptown to the Hudson… In the lobby of the Hudson, for $20 you can buy a quartet of magnets wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PM[SHARE]"Bat Out of Hell"Â is a frequently enjoyable jukebox musical running at New York City Center through September 8, using the muscular rock opera anthems from singer Meat Loaf's trilogy of b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Actors Equity went on strike for the first time on August 7, 1919 " one hundred years ago today. Stars like Ethel Barrymore, W.C. Fields and Marie Dressler joined hundreds of their fellow un…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2019
It makes sense that George Abbott is the first theater artist profiled in "The 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre" (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 288 pages, publication date…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:30PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2019
I spent much of the week in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, attending the week-long 16th biennial National Black Theatre Festival, which presented 30 plays and musicals from black theaters in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2019
Three mass shootings in a single week " in Gilroy, California last Sunday leaving three dead; in El Paso,Texas leaving at least 20 dead Sunday: in Dayton, Ohio, leaving at least nine dead " …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 3, 2019
Harold Prince, the consummate Broadway producer and director who died on Wednesday at the age of 91, had his first Broadway credit in April 1950, as an assistant stage manager for "Tickets, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55AM[SHARE]Friday, August 2, 2019
In "Hannah Senesh," a play running through August 18th at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the title character is a Jewish teenager in Europe in the 1930s who starts keeping a diary at age 13.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2019
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]Wednesday, July 31, 2019
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]Tuesday, July 30, 2019
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]Monday, July 29, 2019
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]Sunday, July 28, 2019
 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]Saturday, July 27, 2019
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]Friday, July 26, 2019
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]Thursday, July 25, 2019
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…
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