Tuesday, January 16, 2018
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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:05PM[SHARE]Thanks to such shows as Hamilton, The Color Purple, and Allegiance, the 2015-2016 New York theater season was the most diverse on record. That is the conclusion  of the latest annual repo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 14, 2018
John Lithgow, a Tony winner for his very first Broadway show in 1973, has decided to devote his 24th to the reading of two old short stories, Ring Lardner's "Haircut" and "Uncle Fred Fli…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:33PM[SHARE]John Lithgow, a Tony winner for his very first Broadway show in 1973, has decided to devote his 24th to the reading of two old short stories, Ring Lardner's "Haircut" and "Uncle Fred Flits B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 13, 2018
What makes us happy? The clear if indirect answer in "Pursuit of Happiness" is a lot of laughs, since that's what the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, a notoriously inventive downtown theater com…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 11, 2018
It’s New Year’s Eve 1969, and a dozen fans are in the balcony of the Fillmore East watching a concert by Jimi Hendrix and his electronic blues trio, Band of Gypsys, nine months b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04PM[SHARE]Rehearsals have begun for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which will open at the Lyric Theater on Broadway on April 22, following up on J.K. Rowling's characters 19 years after her last n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 10, 2018
The Prototype Festival, which showcases what it calls contemporary opera-theater and music-theater, opened its sixth season last night with an opera called "Acquanetta," inspired by a cult h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Enda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical Once, first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and inseparable …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30PM[SHARE]Enda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical “Once,” first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2018
In a program note for "Mankind," a fun comedy that turns berserk about a future world in which women are extinct, its playwright and director Robert O'Hara explains that he found insp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Broadway veterans who won Golden Globes: Rachel Brosnahan, James Franco, Allison Janney, Nicole Kidman, Martin McDonagh, Frances McDormand, Ewan McGregor, Elisabeth Moss, Benj Pasek…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 7, 2018
“If all theatres were demolished tomorrow, would anybody miss them, and for how long?” Several characters said that at different times throughout A Room in India, a theatre pi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:06PM[SHARE]When Andrew Schneider put on his trickster theater piece entitled "YOUARENOWHERE" in 2016, it was a mind-altering experience, changing not just one's perception of reality, but of what theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 6, 2018
"How To Be A Rock Critic" is a solo play depicting a day in the life of critic Lester Bangs shortly before he died of an overdose in 1982 at the age of 33. If we are to take the title litera…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PM[SHARE]Friday, January 5, 2018
"If all theatres were demolished tomorrow, would anybody miss them, and for how long?" Several characters said that at different times throughout A Room in India, a theatre piece that had a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 4, 2018
When snow begins to fall, New Yorkers ask one question " how bad will it get? " and New York theatergoers ask three more: Will the shows be canceled? Will shows offer a snow day discount?…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 3, 2018
The Spring 2018 season Off-Broadway promises some thrilling shows, as the preview guide below should make clear. There are new plays by superstar playwrights — Caryl Churchill (about r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Just one Broadway show is opening this month, Â but January is as usual one of the most robust months for theater in New York, thanks in large part to the January theater festivals. Togeth…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:43PM[SHARE]Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in the Spring 2018 as of this writing, and they are listed chronological…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55AM[SHARE]Monday, January 1, 2018
Is Mariah Carey our modern Cassandra, prophesizing the future? At the beginning of 2017, Carey, having blamed technical glitches for her disastrous New Year's Eve performance in Times Square…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 31, 2017
Here again, celebrating the new year by saluting a dozen Broadway veterans, aged 91 to 105. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption. Why, you may ask, is Betty White,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PM[SHARE]The dozen videos below were the most viewed of those I posted on my YouTube channel, New York Theater, in 2017. Anastasia , Once Upon a December Anastasia highlights Jordan Fisher on making …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 30, 2017
Who wants to remember 2017, much less answer questions about it? To make this quiz slightly easier to take, references to Donald Trump have been (largely) avoided (and put into a separate qu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:12PM[SHARE]Friday, December 29, 2017
Below is a list of theater books, most of which were published in 2017. Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four categories: 1. Scripts, i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 28, 2017
It might be a stretch to say that the theater community has a special relationship with Donald Trump, or even a special antipathy. But in my looking over the theater news of the past year, i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:55PM[SHARE]There were so many memorable theater-related moments this year that were not part of any scripted show that they threatened to upstage any moments on stage. Even some of the most encouraging…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AM[SHARE]There were so many memorable theater-related moments this year that were not part of any scripted show that they threatened to upstage any moments on stage. Even some of the most encouraging…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Anything about "Hamilton" was still popular on NewYorkTheater.me in 2017, nearly three years after the musical first opened, Off-Broadway. 5 BEST-READ POSTS IN 2017 1. The 50 Best Plays of T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 26, 2017
My annual New Year’s Eve last-minute guide features the Broadway show schedule for New Year's week, and other theater, as well as parties, concerts,intimate dinners, cruises, and…
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