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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:09PM[SHARE]Friday, February 15, 2019
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent an agent to see the out-of-town tryout of "A Raisin in the Sun" to determine if the play had Communist content. The FBI did not do this with every show that…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2019
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are Broadway plays about love dating back to 1750,  photographs of stage kisses dating back to 1887, and recaps of some of my love and kisses po…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2019
For the next two days (February 13th and 14th), the following productions are offering free tickets for certain seats at various future performances, courtesy of Goldstar’s Comp Train,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Playwright Young Jean Lee wrote an Op-Ed this week about the advantages of affirmative action in education and diversity in the theater. Looking at some of the faces below of the people who …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08AM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2019
Off-Broadway Week starts today, offering two tickets for the price of one to 34 shows playing Off-Broadway, through February 24th. The shows range from musicals that have been running for de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 9, 2019
Watch musical numbers from each of the nominees for the Grammy for best musical theater album of the year: The Band’s Visit, Carousel, Jesus Christ Superstar, My Fair Lady, and Once on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Friday, February 8, 2019
Paul Zimet came up with the idea for Talking Band’s 57th show, “City of No Illusions,” when he met two sisters who own a funeral parlor in Buffalo, New York. “They ta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2019
The strange doings in Virginia have brought blackface back in the news. Reaction to the unearthing of a photograph on the 1984 medical school yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam att…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2019
More than half a century has passed since the Berrigan brothers, both of them priests, along with seven other Catholic activists, broke the law to protest the Vietnam War. On May 17, 1968, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Theater is not the only activity vulnerable to bad reviews. A sportswriter called last Sunday’s football game “the worst Super Bowl ever…” (“boring, lame, no…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18AM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2019
No other company went as full-Broadway as Skittles, which, in lieu of a commercial during the Super Bowl, staged on Super Bowl Sunday a one-day, 40-minute live “Skittles Commerc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 3, 2019
"My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black," says Keyonn Sheppard as Bayard Rustin, close adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr.,  main orga…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2019
This month there are no Broadway openings, but ample glamour Off-Broadway. Freestyle Love Supreme, the improvisational hip-hop group that Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail conceived  …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2019
In the first Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's 1980 play, Ethan Hawke portrays Lee, a drifter, a drinker, and a thief who disrupts the life of his younger brother, Paul Dano's Austin, an Ivy…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36PM[SHARE] In the first Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's 1980 play, Ethan Hawke portrays Lee, a drifter, a drinker, and a thief who disrupts the life of his younger brother, Paul Dano's Aust…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23PM[SHARE]Most wouldn’t see a link between stone-cold killer Chris Partlow from HBO’s The Wire, flashy pimp-turned-porn-star Larry Brown on HBO’s The Deuce and Tom Robinson, a black …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 30, 2019
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in January? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 29, 2019
It was a good week to test your view of New York — the 1990s Bohemia  presented in Rent Live on Fox (which was largely Rent Recorded), or the grittier view expressed by the cityR…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:42PM[SHARE]To the seven young performers who tell the stories of their lives in "Generation NYZ," New York means subways and pizza and opportunity, but also cops and catcalling and homelessness. They a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PM[SHARE]Monday, January 28, 2019
“Rent Live” was seen by just 3.574 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings, and received mostly negative reviews, according to Rotten Tomato, which gave it a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14PM[SHARE]When at the age of 17 composer Richard Rodgers met 24-year-old lyricist Lorenz Hart in 1919, he instantly acquired “a career, a partner, a best friend and a source of permanent irritat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:07PM[SHARE]In the month before Rent opened Off-Broadway in January, 1996, Idina Menzel was singing "The Wind Beneath My Wings" at a bar mitzvah at Leonard's of Great Neck for the thousandth time; Daphn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PM[SHARE] I had worried that, in Rent Live, Fox television would ruin Jonathan Larson's musical about bohemian life in the East Village of the 1980s by bowdlerizing it. I felt it worth watc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 27, 2019
Below is a selection of the songs from the musical “Rent,” a version of which will be broadcast live on Fox tonight January 27, 2019, Â 8 to 11 p.m. The song titles are linked …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 26, 2019
Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" gets a spin-off of sorts in the play "White Shoes" by York Walker, when Beneatha, Walter Younger's sister, is approached in school by the wealt…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2019
Elizabeth Keathley moved to the United State from the Philippines, married an American, and three years later registered to vote, even though she was not yet a citizen. As a result, the gove…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Near the end of Colin Quinn's stand-up comedy, which promises to "lay bare the absurdities…on both sides of the political divide," the Saturday Night Live alumnus manages to insult every s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PM[SHARE]The same week that Carol Channing died at the age of 97, Steven Spielberg announced that 17-year-old Rachel Zegler, a high school student in New Jersey, would be the new Maria in the film re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AM[SHARE]Oscar nominations for the 91st annual Academy Awards, which will be broadcast February 24 on ABC. "Roma"(on Netflix!) and "The Favourite" each received 10 Oscar nominations. Best Picture: "B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57AM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2019
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, celebrating what would have been the civil rights leader's 90thbirthday, and it's easy to find articles that ask: What would he say about what's happenin…
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