Friday, March 15, 2019
On the Ides of March, exactly 2,063 years ago, Julius Caesar was smug, at least according to Shakespeare. "The ides of March are come," he tells a soothsayer in Act III. "Ay, Caesar," the So…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2019
Playwright Matt Williams, who is credited with creating, producing and/or writing such once-popular TV series as Home Improvement, The Cosby Show, and Roseanne (tells us in the program that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Hugh Jackman will star as Harold Hill in "The Music Man." Directed by Jerry Zaks, with choreography by Warren Carlyle, the fourth Broadway production of Meredith Wilson's musical about a tra…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2019
"I'm not obsessed with sex; I just can't stop thinking about it," says Phoebe Waller-Bridge in "Fleabag" " both the "Fleabag" that's a funny and sad BBC TV series, currently available on Ama…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PM[SHARE]"I'm not a girl, not yet a woman…I'm in between," Britney Spears sang some two decades ago, and it could almost be the new anthem (gender-adjusted) for Broadway. The opening of Be More Chi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2019
Somebody wrote "NYC Loves BMC" in chalk on the sidewalk outside Broadway's Lyceum Theater, the new home of Be More Chill, the high energy, high decibel pop-rock musical that stars Will Rolan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:58PM[SHARE]Somebody wrote "NYC Loves BMC" in chalk on the sidewalk outside Broadway's Lyceum Theater, the new home of Be More Chill, the high energy, high decibel pop-rock musical that stars Will Rolan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 9, 2019
In "The Cake," Debra Jo Rupp (the mother on "That 70s Show") portrays Della, a Christian baker in North Carolina who refuses to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding. If the story is inspired by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2019
I recently saw Hamilton again on Broadway, during a rare open captioned performance, and it was a revelation in several ways. Â When I had last seen Hamilton, about two years ago, the las…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2019
In "The B-Side," three men sing along with an album on a record-player "Â or, as people prefer to say these days, a vinyl on the turntable. But there's a reason why the Wooster Group's en…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2019
March is designated Women's History Month and there is no better example of a theater woman on the march this March than Dominique Morisseau, who is 1. curating "50 in 50: Letters to Our …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2019
"Daddy," a play by Jeremy O. Harris, who made his Off-Broadway debut a few months ago with his controversial "Slave Play," could be accurately described as a porn melodrama about a love/hate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:32PM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2019
Simon, 15 years old and an aspiring comic book creator, is disappointed. His neighbor Jim in Apartment 4-B can't walk through walls, and has no secret cave; he doesn't even drive a "super ki…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 3, 2019
Near the beginning of "Good Friday," a play by Kristiana Rae Colon produced at The Flea with an all-female cast, crew and creative team, there's something I've never seen on stage before: Af…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 2, 2019
The actors portraying Boesman and Lena move slowly through the audience, carrying their life's possession on their heads and shoulders, looking around in fear and fatigue, until they make th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03PM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2019
Four shows are opening on Broadway in March. Two of them are transfers from Off-Broadway that thrilled audiences in very different ways: "Be More Chill" and "What The Constitution Means To M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 28, 2019
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in February? How about Broadway's presence at the Oscars? At the Grammys? Answer these 13 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2019
In Madeleine George's often  hilarious, ultimately pointed comedy, the Greek god of agricultural and theater has decided to save the planet, after retreating for several centuries from th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 26, 2019
 In this latest musical inspired by Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,"  Alice (Molly Gordon) is a British teenager in 1941 who takes shelter in the Underground with o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PM[SHARE]The launching of The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, with the opening tonight of "Alice By Heart," Â is the latest "new, state-of-the-art complex" (as MCC is calling it) " with several…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PM[SHARE]Monday, February 25, 2019
Mary Seacole, though little known in the United States, was almost as celebrated in her time as Florence Nightingale, and for much the same reason " for nursing the sick and wounded during t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 24, 2019
Green Book won best picture, Rami Malek of "Bohemian Rhapsody" lead actor and Olivia Colman of "The Favourite" lead actress at the 91st annual Academy Awards. Ruth E. Carter and Hannah Beach…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PM[SHARE]It takes Henry Higgins six months to transform Eliza Doolittle from a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe" in "My Fair Lady" to a lady who can pass as a duchess at the Embassy Ball. Now, ten months …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 23, 2019
Bill Rauch, who last February was appointed the first artistic director of the performing arts center at the World Trade Center in New York, was sitting in a theater near his home some 3,000…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:09AM[SHARE]Friday, February 22, 2019
With what's billed as its re-imagined production of "Merrily We Roll Along," Fiasco Theater Company has taken on their second Sondheim in four years. Fiasco, a ten-year-old ensemble that gai…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2019
There's one way that the Yiddish language "Fiddler On The Roof" directed by Joel Gray and starring Steven Skybell is strikingly different now that it's moved uptown to the Shubert's Off-Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2019
"The Price of Thomas Scott," Elizabeth Baker's play about a small shop owner struggling with his conscience, marks the launching of the Mint Theater's ambitious "Meet Miss Baker" series. Wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2019
As the season heats up, Off-Broadway is showcasing plenty of screen stars — or maybe it’s the other way around. Click on the photographs to learn the show and the theater, then c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54AM[SHARE]Monday, February 18, 2019
Nearly every president has been depicted on the stage at one time or another. There are currently three on Broadway — in a single show, “Hamilton” which opened Off-Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 17, 2019
"I love you," Stephen says to his wife Amy. "I love you," Amy replies. "Please don't respond verbally," Stephen admonishes her. He is a cognitive neuroscientist conducting an experiment. He …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 16, 2019
Some of the theater posters Frank Verlizzo designed hang on the famous flop wall of Joe Allan's restaurant. Some hold a prominent place in the homes of grateful Broadway stars. But many are …
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