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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2018
"Emojiland," an entry in the 2018 New York Musical Festival, is set inside a smart phone, with the resident emojis facing a "textistential" crisis —Â the phone is due for a software…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:33PM[SHARE]Billie is a published poet and a professor, who has been married to her husband Marvin for 25 years. She can't sleep. She has trouble finding her things, and blames Marvin for rearranging th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Son: What is a traitor? Lady Macduff: Why, one that swears and lies. Son: And be all traitors that do so? Lady Macduff: Everyone that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged. Son: Who must …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2018
During the 1911 fire that burned Coney Island's Dreamland amusement park to the ground, one of the animal attractions, a black lion, with his hind quarters ablaze, scrambled up the stair…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:44AM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2018
Starting today, your public library card gives you free admission to some three dozen cultural institutions  through “Culture Pass.” It’s mostly museums now, but the lis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2018
Those who doubted that a Yiddish-language production of "A Fiddler on the Roof," directed by Joel Grey, would turn out to be a great joy ("a shtik naches") might react to Jackie Hoffman'…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PM[SHARE]"Interstate," an entry at the New York Musical Festival, is about two New Yorkers who form a band called Queer Malady and tour the country: Dash is a Chinese-born trans man and spoken word p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 14, 2018
The Theater Collection at the Museum of the City of New York contains over 190,000 objects that document theatrical performance in New York City from 1785 on. These include more than 30,000 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2018
The title of this musical, a selection of the 2018 New York Musical Festival, comes from Operacion Pedro Pan (Operation Peter Pan), Â which between 1960 and 1962 brought more than 14,000 c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2018
In her actual medieval memoir, which was rediscovered in the 1930s, Margery Kempe seems almost as extreme in her devotion as her 15thcentury contemporary, Joan of Arc. The English woman tell…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13PM[SHARE]Six actresses — from Tatiany Maslany of “Orphan Black” making her New York stage debut, to Tony winner Blair Brown — play the title character in “Mary Page Marl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46AM[SHARE]One of the real people that The Civilians theater troupe interviewed to put together "Gone Missing" resists the assignment, which is to tell them stories about objects she has lost, such as …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway between now and the end of December 2018, as of this writing, and they a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2018
“I had one of the all time best conversations with a Condescending Theatergoer Who Sat In Front Of Me at intermission of My Fair Lady,” Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote in the first of a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2018
There’s more to life than online binging, and plenty to do in New York now that summer is here in full force: Free outdoor movies every day of the week Free Broadway concerts New theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2018
The title alone would lead you to expect a stiletto-sharp political satire; why else would a theater in Tribeca present a solo play about the wife of George W. Bush, routinely ranked  as …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:28PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 7, 2018
You can watch a free movie outdoors in New York City every night this summer from now on — and whole movie series every weeknight except Tuesdays. The movies vary widely: current block…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56AM[SHARE]Friday, July 6, 2018
Below are a dozen new or forthcoming books about theater, plus a bonus of two books likely to be of interest to theatergoers, which I list under the category Theater Adjacent. Not all these …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2018
"Borders," we're told in the program, was the most "decorated play" at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and will have been performed on five continents by the end of 2018. The play was "in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 4, 2018
The United States of America was founded in protest and resistance; most of the text of the Declaration of Independence is a protest against the actions of the British Crown. It is Americans…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 3, 2018
On the Eve of the Fourth of July, my biannual poll:Â What is your favorite Broadway musical that takes actual American history as its subject.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:59PM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2018
Summer’s here, it’s time for theatergoers to take stock of the 2018-2019 Broadway season line-up taking shape; to attend NYC summer theater festivals or to plan thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 1, 2018
Two shows are opening on Broadway in July — Young Jean Lee's “Straight White Men,” which marks the Broadway debuts of Armie Hammer and Josh Charles, among others; and ̶…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2018
Jason Robert Brown was in his twenties when he composed his first musical, "Songs For A New World," its first production in New York lasting just 12 performances and changing people's lives.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18PM[SHARE]Friday, June 29, 2018
In a country whose president marries younger models and reportedly hires government officials based on their looks, we could certainly benefit from some insights into Americans' obsession wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2018
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news in June, including the 72nd annual Tony Awards? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2018
When Carmen Jones opened on Broadway in 1943, one critic hailed it as "something more than a major theatrical event." Seventy-five years later, the Classic Stage Company is presenting what i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:59PM[SHARE]When Carmen Jones opened on Broadway in 1943, one critic hailed it as "something more than a major theatrical event."Â Seventy-five years later, the Classic Stage Company is presenting wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2018
In "Cyprus Avenue," Stephen Rea portrays Eric Miller, a proud, profane bigot from Belfast, Northern Ireland who considers himself "exclusively and non-negotiably British." He is shock…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40AM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2018
Near the beginning of Log Cabin, four old LGBT friends are so struck by their sudden societal acceptance that one of them jokes "It's here, the gay takeover we've been plotting all this time…
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