Thursday, June 27, 2019
Near the beginning of David Cale's shocking autobiographical one-man show, he gets a laugh when he explains that Luton, the industrial town where he grew up 30 miles north of London "had…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08PM[SHARE]For the 19th year in a row, Bryant Park is the site of free lunchtime concerts by cast members of current Broadway (and some Off-Broadway) shows  on Thursdays in July and August between 1…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2019
A starry cast of 18, including Annette Bening and Zachary Quinto, performed "The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts", a 77-minute adaptation of the Mueller Report by Pulitzer-…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05AM[SHARE]At the 11th annual Jimmy Awards, Ethan Kelso won Best Performance by an Actor  as Will Bloom in Big Fish at Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Ekele Uke…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:31AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2019
An all-star cast will perform a live reading of The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts, Robert Schenkkan adaptation of the Mueller Report. This one-night only event, beginning…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 23, 2019
The 2019-2020 Broadway season is still in formation, but there's enough exciting already scheduled to offer this preview: Lin-Manuel is producing his hip-hop improv group on Broadway, and re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 22, 2019
"Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes," by the freewheeling Philadelphia-based group called The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, is being presented as part of La MaMa's celebration this…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:43PM[SHARE]Friday, June 21, 2019
"Avenue Q" is no more, the Bil Baird Marionette Theater died decades ago, but there is plenty of puppetry in New York, as I detail in my article for TDF Stages, 5 Theatres You Need to Know: …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2019
Toni Stone was the first woman to play big-league professional baseball. She succeeded Hank Aaron playing second base for the otherwise all-male Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American Lea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54PM[SHARE]Toni Stone was the first woman to play big-league professional baseball. She succeeded Hank Aaron playing second base for the otherwise all-male Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American Lea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2019
"The Secret Life of Bees" " first a 2001 best-selling novel, then a 2008 all-star movie, now a musical written by theatrical all stars Lynn Nottage (Sweat, Ruined), Duncan Sheik (Spring Awak…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2019
The first publicity shot from Steven Spielberg's movie remake of "West Side Story," planned for December 2020, came on the same week as the death of Franco Zeffirelli, whose 1968 film of "Ro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35AM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2019
"A Strange Loop" is a musical about a big, gay black guy who is struggling to write a musical about a big, gay black guy who is struggling….. Michael R. Jackson, the musical's talented boo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 16, 2019
The stunning production of "Fairview," Jackie Siblies Drury's challenging play, is now being remounted with the same extraordinary cast and creative team at the Theatre for a New Audience in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PM[SHARE]"….I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes," Molly Bloom says, the l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:34AM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2019
Moira Buffini's inspired, inventive play about Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher " two women born six months apart and forced to deal with one another for the 11 years …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2019
In 1944, when FDR was running for an unprecedented fourth term as President, the Democrats kicked out his then-Vice President, Henry Wallace, and nominated Missouri Senator Harry Truman to r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2019
For the next three days (June 12th to 14th), you can get free tickets for certain seats at various future performances of live theater, concerts, dance, and comedy, courtesy of Goldstar's…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2019
As Beatrice in the Public Theater's all-black production of "Much Ado About Nothing," Danielle Brooks proves herself a Shakespearean actress of a high order " and at the same time redefines …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2019
From Ali Stroker tearfully dedicating her Tony to "every kid who is watching tonight who has a disability" to Elaine May's wry explanation for her win to Andre De Shields' three rules of lon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AM[SHARE]"This award is for every kid who is watching tonight who has a disability, who has a limitation, who has a challenge, who has been waiting to see themselves represented in this arena. You ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2019
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]Saturday, June 8, 2019
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]Friday, June 7, 2019
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]Thursday, June 6, 2019
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]Wednesday, June 5, 2019
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]Tuesday, June 4, 2019
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…
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