Wednesday, December 19, 2018
"Fabulation, or The Re-education of Undine," Lynn Nottage's play about a fashionable public relations executive's Job-like descent into poverty and ascent into moral clarity, is the first in…
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Galt MacDermot, who died Monday a day before his 90th birthday, is best known as the composer of the musical Hair, which helped define a generation, and changed the sound of Broadway, where …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03AM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2018
With two weeks left in 2018, it’s a time for assessments of the year in New York theater, for better and for worse. Top Ten Lists of Top 10 New York Theater 2018 "The Ferryman" …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 16, 2018
"Springsteen on Broadway" begins with The Boss explaining what it takes to play before "80,000 screaming rock n roll fans," but the two-hour show is mostly a lesson in intimacy. This was tru…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:32PM[SHARE]“The Ferryman” was the most popular play or musical among critics whose top 10 lists for 2018 are featured below, followed by “Angels in America” and “Harry Pot…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:17PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 15, 2018
Choose your favorite 2018 Broadway cast recording from among the 15 in the list, ordered alphabetically. Note: A couple of the albums won’t be officially released until January,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09AM[SHARE]Friday, December 14, 2018
In Erin Mallon's sweet, modest play, an unlikely rooftop friendship develops between a 75-year-old man and a nine-year-old girl. Richard Masur is terrific (as always) in portraying Bernard, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2018
Welcome to my seventh annual Worst Broadway Show poll. Pick the show you thought was the worst to open on Broadway in 2018. I chose these ten nominees; this is my Bottom 10 list this year (a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2018
"Nassim," a play by Iranian playwright and performer Nassim Soleimanpour, is deliberately disorienting, both for the audience, who's told virtually nothing about the show beforehand, and for…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:03PM[SHARE]Get free tickets to live theater, and other live events " dance, comedy, opera " through Goldstar's 24-hour Comp Train promotion — today and tomorrow, December 12th and December 13. Yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PM[SHARE]What did movie reviewers think of Lin-Manuel Miranda in "Mary Poppins Returns?" Below are relevant excerpts, in order more or less from most to least positive, and links to the full reviews.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2018
At the very end of their Christmas show, running through December 30th at the Imperial Theater on Broadway, Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken together sing the 19th century Christmas carol "O Ho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:16PM[SHARE]Monday, December 10, 2018
Nominees for the Grammy for best musical theater album of the year: The Band’s Visit (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel My Fair Lady (…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 9, 2018
“Slave Play,” which marks the Off-Broadway debut of playwright Jeremy O. Harris, Â begins, as one would expect from the title, in a plantation in the Antebellum South. It invol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18PM[SHARE]"When does a place become a home?" Â It's a question asked by Ammir Haj Ahmad as Safi, a refugee from Syria who is one of the residents of The Jungle. That was the name given to the extrao…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 8, 2018
Nobody can do a nervous breakdown like Bryan Cranston. As Howard Beale, long-time network news anchor gone mad, he sits in front of the camera, unable to speak, his face a dramatic repertoir…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:06PM[SHARE]Nobody can do a nervous breakdown like Bryan Cranston. As Howard Beale, long-time network news anchor gone mad, he sits in front of the camera, unable to speak, his face a dramatic repertoir…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PM[SHARE]Friday, December 7, 2018
The Cher Show, the new Broadway jukebox musical that offers a whirlwind tour of the music, life and six-decade career of the entertainer and self-proclaimed  "goddamn Goddess Warrior," is…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PM[SHARE]“The Cher Show,” the new Broadway jukebox musical that offers a whirlwind tour of the music, life and six-decade career of the entertainer and self-proclaimed  "goddamn Goddes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2018
With "The Cher Show" now opened on Broadway, it seems a good time to test your Cher I.Q. by answering these dozen questions about her life and career.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Many events have been marking the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I, including several on New York stages " among them, the solo play "Private Peaceful," the "docudrama"/concer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Novels are routinely turned into Broadway musicals, several currently running " Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, Once on This Island " but turning a Broadway musical into a novel is…novel. De…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2018
The current president of the United States did not attend the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors last night (which will be broadcast on CBS on December 26). But the first U.S. president…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 2, 2018
She says she's been working on it for ten years, but you could argue that Heidi Schreck's extraordinary show about the United States Constitution " funny and infuriated, analytical and confe…
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 1, 2018
Today is World AIDS Day. Since last World AIDS Day, there have been some 38,000 new HIV infections in the United States alone. More than 1.1 million people in the US are living with HIV, acc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PM[SHARE]Three shows opening this month on Broadway bring to the stage  adaptations of three landmarks of American culture: “To Kill A Mockingbird,” “Network,” and “T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2018
The hard problem in Tom Stoppard's latest erudite play, his first full-length work in nearly a decade, is the challenge facing those who study the brain: How do scientists account for the mi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 29, 2018
Below is the music video of “Loser Geek Whatever,” the previously unrecorded song from the musical “Be More Chill.” In an informal introduction (originally presented …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in November? Answer these dozen questions to find out. Buy tickets to The Band’s Visit via TodayTix Buy tickets to …
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