Friday, March 16, 2018
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” begins previews tonight at the Lyric Theatre, which has been newly co-designed by Christine Jones and Brett J. Banakis. Click on any photograp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:04PM[SHARE]In "Admissions," an aggressively provocative play by Joshua Harmon at Lincoln Center, a white admissions officer (Jessica Hecht), who is committed to increasing diversity at an elite prep sc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2018
Escape to Margaritaville, the new Broadway musical with songs by Jimmy Buffett, promises much the same experience as the week long tropical resort vacation that it depicts — fun, relax…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:20PM[SHARE]Escape to Margaritaville, the new Broadway musical with songs by Jimmy Buffett, promises much the same experience as the week long tropical resort vacation that it depicts — fun, relax…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13PM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2018
In the week since the horrendous car crash in Park Slope that killed two young children, including the four-year-old daughter of Broadway actress Ruthie Ann Miles, and put her in the hospita…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:45PM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2018
Frozen, the Broadway musical based on the animated film, is currently in previews and will open March 22 at the St. James Theater. Below are photographic portraits of the five principal cast…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2018
Below are new photographs of the cast of Hamilton on Broadway as of March, 2018, three years after opening Off-Broadway at the Public Theater. It moved to Broadway, opening on August 6, 2015…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Modeled on an 18th century picaresque novel, Bruce Norris's "The Low Road" on stage at the Public Theater presents the improbable adventures of a scoundrel, one Jim Trewitt, to whom an adver…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33PM[SHARE]At the beginning of Martin McDonagh's "Hangmen," stout, bow-tied executioner Harry Wade is about to hang an unhappy man " unhappy not just because he's innocent, but because he'll be killed …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Amy, a movie lover with Down syndrome, is able to quote the most well-worn lines from the most familiar movies " "I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody" " and own them as her own…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41AM[SHARE]Monday, March 5, 2018
In queens, the latest resonant, heartfelt play by Martyna Majok, a Polish immigrant woman named Renia reigns over a crumby basement in the New York City borough of Queens, but she sees it as…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:00PM[SHARE]In “queens,” the latest resonant, heartfelt play by Martyna Majok, a Polish immigrant woman named Renia reigns over a crumby basement in the New York City borough of Queens, but …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 4, 2018
The lesson of #Oscars90 — Viva Mexico! " New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) March 5, 2018 “The Shape of Water,” written and directed by Mexican Guillermo Del Toro, won four…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PM[SHARE]Theater lovers tend to look for members of our tribe in whatever’s happening in the world. That means in Hollywood, of course, but it also means in Parkland, Florida. The theater veter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 3, 2018
How much theater did you see in the first two months of 2018? How well were you paying attention to the theater news? Test your theater IQ with these 11 questions, two of them about performe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2018
Six shows are opening on Broadway this month, including the much anticipated  “Frozen,” and starry revivals of both “Angels in America” and “Three Tall Women…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 28, 2018
"The Zoo Story" was Edward Albee's first play, and in a way mine too. He wrote it when he was 29, and the short one-act play launched his much-honored career as the American playwright most …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 27, 2018
The Black Plague has just claimed another victim among the 14th century acting troupe rehearsing "Noah's Flood," when the playwright comes on stage to explain what he's trying to do with "Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45PM[SHARE]Monday, February 26, 2018
Azeem is angry. The title character of "An Ordinary Muslim,"a British-born son of Pakistani immigrants, is angry at his wife Saima for her wanting to wear a hajib at her office, fearing that…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 25, 2018
It's hard to know what to call "Black Light." It’s an entertainment for certain. It’s also an act of healing and an act of warning in these turbulent times. It begins: What if I …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21PM[SHARE]It might sound unenlightened to call Relevance a catfight between two feminists. Jayne Houdyshell and Pascale Armand, after all, are portraying characters explicitly identified as "public in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:30PM[SHARE]It might sound unenlightened to call Relevance a catfight between two feminists. Jayne Houdyshell and Pascale Armand, after all, are portraying characters explicitly identified as "public in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 24, 2018
In "Is God Is," when twin sisters Racine and Anaia hear from their mother for the first time in 18 years, it is to urge them to find and kill their father " as revenge for the fire he set th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PM[SHARE]Friday, February 23, 2018
David Mamet has revealed in an interview in the Chicago Tribune that he has written a play about Harvey Weinstein. "I was talking with my Broadway producer and he said, 'Why don't you write …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2018
Jerry Springer the Opera is profane, vulgar, obvious, offensive and irresistibly entertaining " at least in the first act, when it offers a high art version of the TV talk show that has aime…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32PM[SHARE]Jerry Springer the Opera is profane, vulgar, obvious, offensive and irresistibly entertaining " at least in the first act, when it offers a high art version of the TV talk show that has aime…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 21, 2018
The announcement of forthcoming Broadway productions of Torch Song, a pioneering play about a gay character, and a stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a drama about a ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Eller (Deirdre O’Connell) is losing her mind, and thus lives in two worlds on stage in "Terminus," a lyrical, Southern Gothic stew of a play by Gabriel Jason Dean running through March…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]"There is one thing about which we all agree, left, right, center: Money has corrupted our politics," says Rep. Sydney Millsap (Eisa Davis), summing up the point and the plot of "Kings," a n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:07PM[SHARE]Monday, February 19, 2018
Below is my annual Presidents Day photo essay of a century’s worth of stage depictions of American presidents. Nearly every president has been depicted on the stage at one time or a…
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