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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2019
Nicole Fosse learned things about her parents, the choreographer and director Bob Fosse and the dancer Gwen Verdon, by watching the making of the TV series "Fosse Verdon," which begins on FX…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:54PM[SHARE]People are gushing about Heidi Schreck's play as if it's another Hamilton, and in some ways it is. No, it's not a groundbreaking hip-hop musical. Indeed, "What the Constitution Means …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2019
As King Lear, Glenda Jackson enters with a casual swagger, giving off a scent of power that's lasted a lifetime. But Lear is portrayed by an 82-year-old woman, lean and light and, at 5'6…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30PM[SHARE]As King Lear, Glenda Jackson enters with a casual swagger, giving off a scent of power that's lasted a lifetime. But Lear is portrayed by an 82-year-old woman, lean and light and, at 5'6…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PM[SHARE]The nominations for 34th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards are: Outstanding Play Mlima's Tale Produced by The Public Theater Written by Lynn Nottage Pass Over Produced by Lincoln Center Theater/L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Ashe is a play based on the true story of a pyromaniac who terrorized a Norwegian town by torching homes for a month until he was unmasked as the son of the fire chief. Itis a haunting work …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2019
The first of the April Avalanche on Broadway begins Thursday with the opening of King Lear, starring Glenda Jackson, and ends on April 25 (the Tony eligibility cut-off date) with Beetlejuice…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:12PM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2019
The ten shows opening on Broadway in April include six plays and four musicals. Several are familiar titles presented in unfamiliar ways: Glenda Jackson as King Lear; an avant-garde, diverse…
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