Friday, April 26, 2019
Ink recounts how Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in London from Australia in 1969, bought the Sun, "a stuck-up broadsheet that…never once made a profit," and in a year's time made it a wildl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:53PM[SHARE]"Ink" recounts how Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in London from Australia in 1969, bought the Sun, "a stuck-up broadsheet that…never once made a profit," and in a year's time made it a wil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:23PM[SHARE]Kiss Me Kate, Alice by Heart, Smokey Joe's Cafe and Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations got the greatest number of nominations for the Chita Rivera Awards for dance and ch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2019
  Beetlejuicethe Broadway musical differs in crucial ways from Tim Burton's 1988 comic horror movie, as the character Beetlejuice himself (portrayed by Alex Brightman) makes clear fro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06PM[SHARE]Oklahoma and Tootsie lead in number of nominations for the 64th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2019
 Tootsie, the musical adaptation of the 1982 movie comedy about a difficult actor who becomes a beloved actress, begins bravely with an opening number in which bubbly ensemble members si…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18PM[SHARE]In Tootsie the movie, Michael Dorsey, an actor desperate to be cast in anything, auditions disguised as a woman he names Dorothy Michaels, and lands a role as a female hospital administrator…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PM[SHARE]Hadestown, Tootsie, and Oklahoma received the most nominations in the 69th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning. The winners will be announced on Monday, May 13th, with…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2019
Earth Day is officially April 22nd, but it's being celebrated on Broadway, Saturday April 27th, when the 30 blocks of Broadway between Union Square and Times Square will be closed to vehi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2019
Gary is a mess, deliberately so. Written by the downtown provocateur Taylor Mac making his Broadway debut, it stars three of the best comic stage actors in America as three minor characters …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:00PM[SHARE]"Gary" is a mess, deliberately so. Written by the downtown provocateur Taylor Mac making his Broadway debut, it stars three of the best comic stage actors in America as three minor character…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 20, 2019
On April 20, 1999 " 20 years ago today " two students killed 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Â Seven years later, New York Theatre Workshop pre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2019
The fifth Broadway production of My Fair Lady opened a year ago today, as good a time as any to wax nostalgic over not just Lerner and Loewe's 1956 musical, but over Pygmalion, the 1913 play…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2019
Hillary and Clinton is exactly the play we do not need right now, a well-acted but irrelevant middlebrow entertainment starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow as the presidential candid…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30PM[SHARE]"Hillary and Clinton" is exactly the play we do not need right now, a well-acted but irrelevant middlebrow entertainment starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow as the presidential cand…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2019
On Broadway, as Off, Hadestown is a hell of a musical. But it's changed. When it opened Off-Broadway three years ago, Anais Mitchell's concept album had been turned into an inventively s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39PM[SHARE]On Broadway, as Off, Hadestown is a hell of a musical. But it's changed. When it opened Off-Broadway three years ago, Anais Mitchell's concept album had been turned into an inventively st…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25PM[SHARE]Socrates was so annoying to his fellow Athenians that even some of those jurors who had voted to acquit him joined the majority to have him condemned to death during the penalty phase of his…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PM[SHARE]Below is the full list of the nominations for the 85th annual Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The nominees were announ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Can a Star Wars villain and a Soviet spy find love, sex and happiness together on Broadway? That's the question we're primed to ask in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's 1987 pla…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]Can a Star Wars villain and a Soviet spy find love, sex and happiness together on Broadway? That's the question we're primed to ask in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's 1987 pla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28PM[SHARE]What is a play " and what is its purpose? These questions come to mind after reading the 15 plays commissioned by T the New York Times Style Magazine in America 2024, a multimedia anthology …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2019
 Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury wins the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play, which was produced at Soho Rep and deals with issues of race and family " and one particular famil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:19PM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2019
With the TV series "Fosse Verdon" gaining them renewed attention, here are photographs from the illustrious Broadway careers of Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse (arranged more or less chronological…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2019
Below: an explanation of major New York theater awards. And before that, a calendar of this year's nominations and award announcements/ceremonies. Why was Sarah Bernhardt, one of the world's…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2019
I'm grateful for having first seen Daniel Fish's dark, hip and homey production of "Oklahoma!" at St. Ann's Warehouse last year, because I can see how much improved it is now that it has tra…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2019
I might go a great distance to watch Ben Whishaw strip off his suit and turn into Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe before our eyes. But I only had to travel to 30thStreet and 10thAvenue, in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35PM[SHARE]Â In a city with 1,200 cultural institutions, how do you create a new one that stands out? That was the question " and the charge " that then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg put 14 years ago to D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2019
For its first production in its new second home downtown in a spruced-up Greenwich House Theater, Ars Nova is presenting the latest devised piece by the much-praised ten-year-old company The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 7, 2019
The Lehman Trilogy, an inventively staged, extraordinarily acted, and historically blinkered theatrical epic, begins and ends with the collapse of the Lehman Brothers, the venerable financia…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:21PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 6, 2019
There's beauty in the suffering that comes from longing. That message comes through clearly in "Diary of One Who Disappeared." Everything else is elliptical in the production of this hundred…
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