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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2018
With two Broadway shows opening this week — “Gettin The Band Back Together” and “Pretty Woman” — it’s hard to say we’re in the Dog Days of Aug…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 11, 2018
"Shakespeare in the Theater" is the not-quite-clever title of a festival at the Brick Theater that presents itself as an alternative to New York summer staples, Shakespeare in the Park and S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 9, 2018
To outsiders, Be More Chill is a hyper-energetic pop-rock musical opening tonight Off-Broadway, starring Will Roland (Dear Evan Hansen) as a high school student named Jeremy Heere who sees h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33PM[SHARE]To outsiders, “Be More Chill” is a hyper-energetic pop-rock musical opening tonight Off-Broadway, starring Will Roland (“Dear Evan Hansen”) as a high school student n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2018
For the 42nd summer in a row, the Theater for the New City’s touring Street Theater Company is presenting an original show for free in the streets and parks throughout New York City. (…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PM[SHARE]Alzheimer's, homophobia, transphobia, immigration, the 1960s, and emojis: These were some of the subjects in the 15th annual New York Musical Festival, or NYMF, which presented 30 musica…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Wearing t-shirts that said “Now showing: Truth,” Rosie O’Donnell and dozens of other performers who had traveled from New York for the day participated in the 22nd day of p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AM[SHARE]Monday, August 6, 2018
Ruthie Anne Miles performed for the first time after her terrible loss, Julia Roberts visited the musical adaptation of the movie that made her a star, Rosie O’Donnell is leading a bus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PM[SHARE]Four musicals in the 2018 New York Musical Festival tied for the most awards, five apiece: Between the Sea and the Sky, Emojiland, Interstate and Pedro Pan. Below the list of winners and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 5, 2018
Margaret, a widow and well-meaning mother, is dressed in pearls while making her special buttermilk biscuits for her daughter Laura, who's back home listless with severe memory loss after he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 4, 2018
"I am tall when I'm young but short when I'm old. What am I?" That's the first of the three riddles that Sam (short for Samantha) poses to the mysterious woman in white in order to free her …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2018
This week’s Broadway at Bryant Park was an all-Disney concert, with cast members from three Disney musicals on Broadway — Aladdin, Frozen and The Lion King — performing 10 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2018
When Mike Birbiglia announced that his fourth one-man show would be playing at the Cherry Lane, he wouldn't say what it would be about; he simply called it "The New One." (“I hate it w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Two shows are opening this month on Broadway, one a musical adaptation of a 1990 Julia Roberts movie, “Pretty Woman,” starring Andy Karl and Samantha Barks; the other, “Get…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2018
I compared Shaina Taub's musical adaptation of "Twelfth Night" to a party and to a variety show when the Public Theater presented it in Central Park over Labor Day weekend in 2016. The unusu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:16PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in July? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2018
In "The House That Will Not Stand," Marcus Gardley's historically fascinating, lyrical and surprisingly funny play, nobody much cares for Beartrice Albans " not her three beautiful daughters…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01PM[SHARE]Soon after this… .@Lin_Manuel,Hollywood mogul? 1 Starring in @MaryPoppins 2. Directing movie Tick, Tick…Boom! 3. Executive producer on @FX TV series about Bob Fosse & Gwen Ve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 29, 2018
For all its high-energy hedonism featuring handsome half-clad bodies, "This Ain't No Disco," the rock opera at the Atlantic Theater set in the New York City club scene of the 1970s, doesn't …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 28, 2018
Before the musical "'68" begins, newspaper headlines are projected on the stage a, marking some of the tumultuous events in the year 1968 — the assassinations of Martin Luther K…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38AM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2018
There is a full-out gospel number, with swaying red choir robes, heavenly belting and devilishly deft dancing, in this last of this season's Encores Off-Center concerts. But, as directed and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2018
Head Over Heels is a mash-up that sounds weird and unworkable: It's a jukebox musical using 18 songs by the 1980s all-female L.A. punk band The Go-Go's. But it's also a loose adaptation of A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PM[SHARE]“Head Over Heels” is a mash-up that sounds weird and unworkable: It's a jukebox musical using 18 songs by the 1980s all-female L.A. punk band The Go-Go's. But it's also a loose a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:22PM[SHARE]Straight White Men, a thought-provoking play by Young Jean Lee with a terrifically entertaining cast of Broadway newcomers including Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and Paul Schneider as rowdy br…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 25, 2018
There are three major historical events in the early timeline of Nazi horrors that figure as personal turning points in the story of the corruption, perversion and destruction of the wealthy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda is making his film directorial debut in a movie version of “Tick,Tick…Boom!” an early, semi-autobiographical musical by “Rent” composer Jonat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PM[SHARE]Below is the list of nominations announced last night for the 14th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater " aka Off-Off Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16AM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2018
"Straight White Men," a thought-provoking play by Young Jean Lee with a terrifically entertaining cast of Broadway newcomers including Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and Paul Schneider as rowdy …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 22, 2018
Near the beginning of "Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller," the new Off-Broadway revival of the long-running Broadway musical revue, performer Jelani Remy does a double back …
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