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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 31, 2019
My childhood friend Wendy has always had two particular gifts " or rather, one gift and one affliction. She understands every word of any Shakespeare play, however or wherever it is performe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:41PM[SHARE]On a break from an improv class, Kim Katzberg gets a phone message from her father and calls him back to learn that he has pancreatic cancer and is dying. "I feel so sad AND excited," she te…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 30, 2019
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in March? Answer these dozen questions and find out. Â
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2019
Andy Warhol was a Broadway producer " the lead producer of a musical that opened at Broadway's Little Theater (now called the Hayes) in 1975. It's a mind-boggling story that, like many Andy …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2019
You need not have read Darwin or watched any of the Planet of the Apes movies to suspect that chimpanzees come closest to humans in the animal kingdom. Scientists have discovered over the pa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2019
"Welcome to African-American Airlines, where if you broke & black, we got yo back" " those are the first two messages painted on the wall as we walk up the staircase in the Public Theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:38PM[SHARE] Today is World Theatre Day. Created in 1961,it  is celebrated annually on March 27. How will you be celebrating? Below, ten facts about theater, and this year's World Theatre Day mes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2019
"Time is the longest distance between two places." " Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911, and died in 1983. Barely a season goes by where on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:54PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2019
Ephraim Sykes in Ain't Too Proud, Corbin Bleu in Kiss Me Kate, Daveed Diggs in White Noise: These are some of the black breakout stars in shows that opened last week on Broadway or Off Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2019
In "Fosse Verdon," an eight-part series that begins on April 9th on FX, current Broadway royalty and a cast of Broadway regulars (see below) tell the story of a king and queen of Broadway wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 23, 2019
Nantucket Sleigh Ride is an old whaling term, as one of the characters explains in John Guare's crafty new play. "Sailors would harpoon a whale. The whale would drag the sailors on a frantic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:17PM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2019
The most exciting moment in this fourth Broadway production of Cole Porter's backstage musical riffing on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew comes at the top of Act II, when the cast at f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:02PM[SHARE]Â The most exciting moment in this fourth Broadway production of Cole Porter's backstage musical riffing on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew comes at the top of Act II, when the cast…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:29PM[SHARE]Today Stephen Sondheim turns 89 and Andrew Lloyd Webber turns 71. Â Sondheim made his Broadway debut at the age of 26 in 1956 , Lloyd Webber at 23 in 1971, and, along with John Kander (who…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2019
In the six decades since The Temptations began, as we're told near the end of the latest Broadway jukebox musical "Ain't Too Proud," Â 24 men have performed at one time or another as membe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Leo (Daveed Diggs) makes an outrageous request of his best friend Ralph (Thomas Sadoski) in Suzan-Lori Parks' bizarre, disturbing and in some ways brilliant new play, White Noise, at the Pub…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:00PM[SHARE]Leo (Daveed Diggs) makes an outrageous request of his best friend Ralph (Thomas Sadoski) in Suzan-Lori Parks' bizarre, disturbing and in some ways brilliant new play, "White Noise," at the P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25PM[SHARE]Raja Feather Kelly is one of the busiest choreographers Off-Broadway, with a half dozen shows currently or soon to be on stage. All but one of them are straight plays. As I detail in my prof…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26AM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2019
A dozen shows will be opening on Broadway over the next six weeks, ending the 2018-2019 season. Two-thirds of them have already announced their policies for official discounted tickets " rus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2019
Near the end of "The Mother," her son strangles the title character to death. But not really. The mother (Isabelle Huppert) is imagining it, or dreaming it. There is a change of lighting, he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 16, 2019
By the end of "Holy Day," two hours without intermission or let-up of gothic horror set in 19th century Australia, the audience has been made witness to a missing child, an abduction, both h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PM[SHARE]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…
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