Monday, September 17, 2018
2018 Theatre Hall of Fame inductees: Actors Rene Auberjonois, Christine Baranski, Cicely Tyson Playwrights Maria Irene Fornes, David Henry Hwang, Adrienne Kennedy Director Joe Mantello Produ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 16, 2018
Although billed as "an intimate immersive production," what "Stars in the Night" actually offers, at its best, is the exact opposite — a spectacular public setting. An audience of no m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 15, 2018
When Jenna Gavigan made her Broadway debut at age 16 as a member of the ensemble in the 2003 revival of Gypsy, she shared the stage at the Shubert Theater not just with stars Bernadette Pete…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM[SHARE]Friday, September 14, 2018
“I think there has been a growth in Trump fatigue,” says Tony Stinkmetal, who admits that he himself shares it — which is why it's surprising that he has created a show cal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2018
The full title of "Collective Rage," Jen Silverman's playful, bawdy, and episodic genderqueer/feminist/lesbian comedy about five women named Betty, is 47 words long. Only once does it includ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin will star on Broadway in “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” a new comedy marking the Broadway debut of acclaimed theater artist Taylor Mac.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2018
Sandbags and British flags abound in the air raid shelter where we have gathered, in the basement of London's Ambassador Hotel in 1940, in the midst of the Blitz of London. This is a fine se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 8, 2018
The Culture Wars in America began, according to a new show running from September 13-30 at La MaMa called "THE AЯTS,"  on May 18, 1989, when Senator Al D'Amato of New York ripped up an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2018
Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s glorious gospel musical, an inspired retelling of Sophocles’ "Oedipus at Colonus" as if it's an African-American Pentecostal church service, debute…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2018
Seven years after "War Horse" appeared on Broadway, New Yorkers are getting another British stage adaptation of another young adult novel by Michael Morpurgo about the horrors of World War I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Before Hershey Felder says or sings or plays the piano as Irving Berlin, there are signs that, in this one-man show about arguably the greatest of American songwriters, we're in for an eveni…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 4, 2018
The Village Voice shut down on Friday after 63 years. The Obie Awards, honoring Off & Off-Off Broadway, which the Voice launched in 1955 and still co-sponsored, will continue, acc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13AM[SHARE]Monday, September 3, 2018
It was while attending the current revival of Lillian Hellman's 1936 play "Days to Come," which is set during a strike at a brush factory in Ohio, Â that I suddenly wondered: Where are the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 2, 2018
Off-Broadway in the Fall promises a new musical with book by Conor McPherson and music by Bob Dylan (“Girl from the North Country”); Glenn Close  as Joan of Arc's mother (&…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 1, 2018
Sarah Bernhardt returns to Broadway, in the person of Janet McTeer, in a new play by Teresa Rebeck about the actress's pursuit in 1899 of the role of Hamlet. ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet” i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41AM[SHARE]Friday, August 31, 2018
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 30, 2018
Police in the United States shot and killed 36 unarmed black men in 2015; 18 in 2016; 19 in 2017, and 12 so far in 2018, according to the Washington Post. In "Scraps," Geraldine Inoa, mak…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Below is a list of movies opening from September to December, organized chronologically by release date. Among the movies featuring theater veterans: Oscar Isaac  in “Operation Fina…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 28, 2018
"Remnant," according to Theater Mitu's director Ruben Polendo, is a meditation on war, death and loss. It is Mitu's first piece in the first building that the 20-year-old company can call it…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PM[SHARE]Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon (nine minutes after the first, Neil Armstrong), 50 years ago next summer. "No one will think of them as 'the first men on the moon.'Neil wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2018
Playwright Neil Simon, who dominated Broadway with his many comedies for more than two decades, died on Sunday at the age of 91. His is the latest death of a theater artist in a week full of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 26, 2018
Lillian Hellman herself described "Days to Come," her 1936 play about labor strife and family conflict, as "an absolute horror of a failure." She wrote it two years after her first Broadway …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 25, 2018
Leonard Bernstein, who was born on August 25, 1918, was “the greatest pianist among the conductors, the greatest conductor among composers, the greatest composer among pianists,”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43PM[SHARE]Friday, August 24, 2018
Charlie Copeland is a Broadway fixer, who's worked on everything from "The Phantom of the Opera" to "Frozen," tangibly changing the experience for a generation of theatergoers. Copeland is n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 23, 2018
Philip Santos Schaffer pulls back the curtain and introduces himself as “your server and savior” to me and the only other member of the audience. After chatting idly for a while,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 21, 2018
The National Asian American Theatre Company's production of Shakespeare's Henry VI trilogy is unlike any you've seen in New York before. This is true largely because you are unlikely ever to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33PM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2018
For 20 years, August was the month when New Yorkers who hated the beach and couldn't afford to travel could have a "staycation" sampling some 200 shows at the New York International Fringe F…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, August 17, 2018
From its first moments, Gettin' The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot, uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, and clich…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54PM[SHARE]From its first moments, Gettin' The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show  on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot,  uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 16, 2018
Vivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04PM[SHARE]Vivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hi…
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