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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2019
James Earl Jones, 20-time Broadway veteran (most recently in The Gin Game in 2015) three-time Tony winner, was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi on January 17, 1931 – 88 years ago today.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Carol Channing, 12-time Broadway veteran, three-time Tony winner, who became a Broadway legend thanks to two roles — the gold-digging Lorelei Lee in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2019
Xander wore a different costume each of the three days of BroadwayCon 2019: Lola from Kinky Boots on Friday, Aubrey II and Seymour from The Little Shop of Horrors on Saturday (left), and Gus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 13, 2019
Cast members from several forthcoming Broadway musicals performed at “First Look,” one of the last sessions at the last day of BroadwayCon 2019. From left to right (and top to bo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57PM[SHARE]"I, I, I took the blows, in my face, and my body," Marin Ireland as Alison says dramatically falling to the floor of the church-run halfway house in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 12, 2019
In an extraordinary work of theater put together by Argentine director Lola Arias, six veterans who fought on opposite sides of the 1982 war between Argentina and Great Britain met and, unde…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AM[SHARE]Friday, January 11, 2019
If you're playing a character that somebody else originated, Anthony Rapp was saying, you respect the original but ..redecorate. "He built the house that I walk around in. But I find a wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PM[SHARE]Valerie Solanas, the mentally ill woman who shot Andy Warhol in 1968, has had a remarkably long run. Her SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men), which called for the overthrow of the go…
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