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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2018
The mass shooting on Valentine's Day at a Florida high school is the latest in a long line of school shootings, some of which are instantly identifiable: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 14, 2018
"Nice to meet you, Kevin. Do you want me to actually kiss Kevin, or Kevin, do you mind if we kiss? You look young, I don't want to traumatize you." That's what the actress says to her direct…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2018
President Donald Trump’s 2019 budget proposes ELIMINATING the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:05PM[SHARE]Monday, February 12, 2018
Remarkable changes are underway to make Broadway more accessible " hastened by technology, hindered by public attitudes as I explain in an article in HowlRound based on the Broadway Acces…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 10, 2018
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Encores! concert series at City Center is doing something in "Hey Look Me Over" that it's never done before " and, judging from the results, probably s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AM[SHARE]Friday, February 9, 2018
I went to The Tank for a show that wasn't playing until the next night; I'd gotten the dates mixed up. So, since I'd made the trip, I asked if there was anything else playing in the theater.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Perhaps you'd think it chutzpah that in "In The Body of the World," the latest solo show by Eve Ensler, best known for "The Vagina Monologues," she merges her story of her fight against uter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 6, 2018
It’s always sad to have to say goodbye to an artist whom we’ve loved, so how thrilling to welcome one into the world. Int. Hospital Room. Night. [The screams reach a delirious cr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PM[SHARE]Monday, February 5, 2018
Hands down the most watchable commercial during the Super Bowl 2018 game was the “Dirty Dancing" sequence starring Eli Manning and Odell Beckham, Jr. of the New York Giants, in what mu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:02PM[SHARE]Joni's rock star boyfriend Noah breaks up with her on stage in front of an arena full of his fans at the beginning of "Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill," an often fun, over-the-top comedy …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 1, 2018
Fire and Air could not have looked more promising –a starry cast performing a new play by Terrence McNally about one of the most celebrated of dance companies, the Ballets Russes. Pica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51PM[SHARE]Fire and Air could not have looked more promising –a starry cast performing a new play by Terrence McNally about one of the most celebrated of dance companies, the Ballets Russes. P…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:45PM[SHARE]No shows are opening on Broadway in February, but there are many snippets of Broadway musicals all on one stage — a 25th anniversary celebration of Encores! concert series creates a ne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 31, 2018
The two 17-year-olds are in love. Yet Chris (Tom Pecinka) is the son of the white patriarch from his hometown in Georgia, and Kay (Juliana Canfield) is the mixed-race daughter or another …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PM[SHARE]Monday, January 29, 2018
The third annual BroadwayCon demonstrated that theatergoers can be as creative as theater makers — witness above the trio of cosplay artists as (left to right) Natasha, Pierre and the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 28, 2018
Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda and original cast members of “In The Heights” sing some of the dozens of songs that Miranda wrote, but left out of, the Tony-winning Broadway musical, du…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 27, 2018
Speakers at three of the panels at BroadwayCon — Beyond the Heights: Latinx Representation in Theatre; Fan Tan Fantastic: Asian American Representation; and Being A Critic of Color …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PM[SHARE]Friday, January 26, 2018
“I wasn’t afraid of the risk; I don’t know why, maybe I’m stupid,” Anthony Rapp said in answer to an audience member’s question about the difficult of goi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 25, 2018
The third annual BroadwayCon, conceived by Anthony Rapp and fashioned after ComicCon, runs this Friday to Sunday at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Those attending really need to check o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway on January 26, 1988. A gala tonight (two days early) celebrates the 30th anniversary of the longest-running show in Broadway history. Watch the Red Ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" was nominated for 13 Oscars, just shy of the record, and Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman in history nominated for best director, for “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AM[SHARE]Monday, January 22, 2018
"Miles for Mary" is the Mad Ones theater troupe's spot-on, deadpan funny look at a year's worth of planning committee meetings for a local telethon at an Ohio high school. Originally present…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PM[SHARE]There was a touch of theater in the Women's March over the weekend, with protesters' signs adapting "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins to fit current events, and the retu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 20, 2018
Today, the first anniversary of the inauguration of Donald Trump, is Art Action Day. The day is organized by The Federation, founded last year to spread the message: Art is essential to demo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AM[SHARE]Friday, January 19, 2018
Nas, Dave East, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Aloe Blacc perform “Wrote My Way Out” the second of the promised monthly #Hamildrop series, which replace the initially proposed second vol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:55PM[SHARE]A white police officer shoots a black driver five times after pulling him over for a minor traffic violation. But things are not what they seem in "Black, White & Blue"by William Watkins…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Death is well-suited to the stage, according to a philosopher quoted in "The Undertaking," a play about death and dying written and directed by Steve Cosson, the artistic director of The Civ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Michael Luwoye takes over the title role of Hamilton on Broadway, on the same day that Sara Bareilles, the creator of Waitress, takes on the lead role as Jenna, Peter Jöback …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:32PM[SHARE]The Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archives of Arthur Miller, from his first play "No Villain" (1936), written when Miller was at the University of Michi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:55PM[SHARE]Monday, January 15, 2018
On Martin Luther King Day, many people read or listen once again to his most famous speech, from August, 1963,  I Have a Dream, But today, people are finding King’s speech bel…
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