Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Yes, we now debate theater nominations and await the awards, but the shows must go on in May. That includes just one play on Broadway — the first of the 2018-2019 Broadway season and s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Mean Girls’ and `SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical’ lead nominations for the 2018 Tony Awards, with 12 nods each, followed by Angels in America, The Band…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2018
The Broadway 2017-2018 season has ended, and the New York theater award season has begun. The Tony nominations will be announced tomorrow. The Week in New York Theater Reviews Ranked,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 29, 2018
Yes, Denzel Washington is the reason audiences are drawn to the fifth Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, just as the hopeless drunks who inhabit Harry Hope's saloon a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PM[SHARE]Yes, Denzel Washington is the reason audiences are drawn to the fifth Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, just as the hopeless drunks who inhabit Harry Hope's saloon a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 28, 2018
In the ninth Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," director Daniel Sullivan has assembled a skillful cast of 19 to offer what feels like a straightforward history lesson…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PM[SHARE]“Carousel” leads with six nominations for The Chita Rivera Awards for choreography and dance. The winners of the awards (formerly called the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards) wil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:18AM[SHARE]Friday, April 27, 2018
In the first scene of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties," the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, the Irish novelist James Joyce, and the Romanian avant-garde artist Tristan Tzara are all sitting…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2018
What if Harry Potter hadn't existed until now? What if Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the five and a half hour play now on Broadway about two generations of Potters and their friends and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:42PM[SHARE]Click on any photograph by Manuel Harlan or Matthew Murphy to see it enlarged and read the captions. What if Harry Potter hadn't existed until now? What if Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:18PM[SHARE]Carousel, SpongeBob Squarepants, and Mean Girls got the most nominations in the 63rd annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Lincoln Center's sumptuous fourth Broadway revival of "My Fair Lady," the supremely tuneful and witty 1956 Lerner and Lowe musical adapted from George Bernard Shaw's pointed 1913 play "Pygma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08PM[SHARE]"SpongeBob SquarePants"has received 11 nominations for 2018 Outer Critic Awards, more than any other show, followed by "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" with ten, and "My Fair Lady"…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04AM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2018
Summer features 23 of Donna Summer's songs, including such dance hits as "Hot Stuff" and "Last Dance," that a talented cast performs in glitzy disco drag. That may be all some fans need from…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:32PM[SHARE]Cristofer, one of the two bright but poor Bronx-born students who are vying for a scholarship in Lucy Thurber's play "Transfers," Â lashes out at one point at the advisor who has been tryi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Summer features 23 of Donna Summer's songs, including such dance hits as "Hot Stuff" and "Last Dance," that a talented cast performs in glitzy disco drag. That may be all some fans need f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 22, 2018
Five shows are officially opening on Broadway over the next five days, ending the 2017-2018 Broadway season April 22: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child April 23: Summer: The Donna Summer Mus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2018
Why was the great actress Sarah Bernhardt, who performed in and/or produced more than 40 shows on Broadway, never even nominated for a single Tony — nor any other major New York theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 84th annual Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The nominees were ann…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21AM[SHARE]Fifteen Broadway shows have opening dates in March and April, 2018, the bulk of the 2017-2018 season. Tickets are made available to them for as little as $10, but more often about $40, which…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2018
“The Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok wins the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. “The Minutes by Tracy Letts and “Everybody” by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins were selected…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:16AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2018
The new "Carousel" has the most glorious singing on Broadway, as well as thrilling choreography and picturesque sets and costumes that seem lifted from great American paintings by Thomas Eak…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AM[SHARE] The new "Carousel" has the most glorious singing on Broadway, as well as thrilling choreography and picturesque sets and costumes that seem lifted from great American paintings by Tho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 15, 2018
Elephants might become extinct in 20 years because of poaching for their ivory, we learn from "Mlima's Tale," the unusual new play by Lynn Nottage, the Pulitzer prize winning playwright of R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:05PM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2018
King Lear begins with a foolish ruler swayed by flattery, and ends with what Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Greg Doran calls "a strange, profound unease." Shakespeare's tragedy …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:00PM[SHARE]"King Lear" begins with a foolish ruler swayed by flattery, and ends with what Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Greg Doran calls "a strange, profound unease." Shakespeare's traged…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PM[SHARE]At the end of "Mean Girls," Cady, the new girl in high school who tries so hard to fit in that she’s become phony and superficial, tells her classmates that she's learned her lesson: "…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2018
The first Broadway revival of "Children of a Lesser God," the award-winning, boundary-breaking 1980 play by Mark Medoff about the romance and eventual marriage between a hearing teacher at a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44PM[SHARE]In "Dutch Masters," a new play written by Greg Keller and directed by Andre Holland, a young black man meets a young white man on the subway, with unexpected results. In "Dutchman," the 1964…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2018
"Miss You Like Hell," a new musical by "In The Heights" book writer Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes and singer-songwriter Erin McKeown, depicts the most American of adventures, the road trip. But th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2018
In "This Flat Earth," 13-year-old Julie (Ella Kennedy Davis) doesn't understand why the newspaper article about the school shooting that killed nine of her classmates has the word "Another" …
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