Monday, November 6, 2017
"When did money become the thing – the only thing?" a character asks at the beginning of "Junk," a play by Ayad Akhtar, who seems to answer: In the 1980s. Akhtar, the playwright of "Di…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 5, 2017
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in September and October, some of which was pleasing, much of which was disheartening or worse? Answer these 11 questions and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 4, 2017
The bad news hits relentlessly, from the horrific — on Halloween, New York endures the worst terrorist attack since 9/11 Â — to the ugly — accusations of sexual harassmen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54AM[SHARE]Friday, November 3, 2017
That Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother is fated and " 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex " familiar. But Luis Alfaro's modern adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, set…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 1, 2017
“M Butterfly” has returned to Broadway after 30 years, not so much revived as revised. It was risky for playwright David Henry Hwang to tweak his career-making, Tony-winning play…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51PM[SHARE]In the five Broadway shows opening in November, Amy Schumer and Uma Thurman are making their Broadway debuts; playwrights Ayad Akhtar and Steve Martin are delivering new plays; and two shows…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 31, 2017
At one moment in "Stuffed," a scattershot play about our disordered relationship with food, Lisa Lampanelli talks with disdain about a skinny friend of hers who turned down dessert, saying '…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Monday, October 30, 2017
Before Hamilton, A Chorus Line, Hair, before Joseph Papp built the Public Theater into an institution, he was faced with a fight for survival of his newfound free Shakespeare in Central Park…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:05PM[SHARE]Before Hamilton, A Chorus Line, Hair; before Joseph Papp built the Public Theater into an institution, he was faced with a fight for survival of his newfound free Shakespeare in Central Park…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 29, 2017
Jason Alexander plays a Mama's boy who recently married a "Puerto Rican firecracker" half his age; Sherie Rene Scott, a twice-widowed Greek bombshell, is shacking up with a dumb, moon-struck…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 28, 2017
This is a tennis match? There's no net, no ball, no racquet, and no final score, although the set at Roundabout's Off-Broadway theater does include a scoreboard. There is only the whoosh or …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 26, 2017
Diller Island is back! Plans for Pier 55, Barry Diller's arts complex on the pier off 14th Street — with theatrical productions organized by such experienced hands as playwright George…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 25, 2017
"Drugs and alcohol have never let me down. They have always loved me," Emma (Denise Gough) tells the doctor at the rehab clinic, not quite halfway through Duncan Macmillan's play. Her commen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:41PM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2017
Two killers in adjoining prison cages face off about God in this killer revival of one of the earliest plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the streetwise New York playwright of such acclaimed rec…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PM[SHARE]Two killers in adjoining prison cages face off about God in this killer revival of one of the earliest plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the streetwise New York playwright of such acclaimed rec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]"Ferguson," a play by Phelim McAleer, presents verbatim testimony from the Grand Jury that declined to indict white Police Officer Darrell Wilson for the August 9, 2014 shooting death of bla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:00PM[SHARE]In honor of the opening tonight of the revival of Jesus Hopped the A Train, and the launch of the 2017-2018 Signature residency of Stephen Adly Guirgis, below is my April, 2011 review of Gui…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 19, 2017
“It's crazy”, says Michael Urie as Arnold, that "after all these years I'm still trying to justify my life." Arnold means his life as a gay man, and though he is talking specific…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04PM[SHARE]It's crazy, says Michael Urie as Arnold, that "after all these years I'm still trying to justify my life." Arnold means his life as a gay man, and though he is talking specifically to his mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Fifty years ago, Hair was the very first show to play in the old Astor mansion, which was transformed into Joseph Papp’s first year-round Public Theater. (even though it feels like the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Café Play is a site-specific work of theater that's being held at four different times of day in the back dining room at the Cornelia Street Café, with different food choices depending on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2017
In "Burning Doors," Belarus Free Theatre's latest arresting, arousing, athletic and anarchic play about state-sponsored injustice, one of the eight cast members strips naked as he tells the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18PM[SHARE]The Siege, a play dramatizing the 2002 siege by armed Palestinians of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, is in several ways the exact opposite of Oslo, the last drama about the Palesti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 15, 2017
The Siege, a play dramatizing the 2002 siege by armed Palestinians of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, is in several ways the exact opposite of Oslo, the last drama about the Palesti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2017
It took five minutes into the revival of "Time and the Conways" starring Elizabeth McGovern to realize this was no "Downton Abbey," Â the TV series that for six seasons featured McGovern a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AM[SHARE]Bruce Springsteen sings 15 songs, and reads from a teleprompter to tell stories that were also in his year-old memoir, "Born to Run," in a Broadway debut  that has the critics cheering; s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Nearly everything about "Androboros" makes it sound like a must-see show. It was America's first published play, printed in 1714, yet there is no record it has ever been publicly performed u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:24PM[SHARE]Playwright Annie Baker and multidimensional theater artist Taylor Mac are among the 24 winners of the 2017 Macarthur Foundation "Genius" Grants. Baker, 36, whose "The Flick" won the 2014 Pul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2017
There are moments in the "Measure for Measure" by experimental theater company Elevator Repair Service at the Public that offer the purest Shakespeare on any New York stage; this occurs when…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PM[SHARE]Monday, October 9, 2017
Even on Columbus Day, Christopher Columbus has largely gone out of favor " in America, and on stage. The closest recent nod to Columbus on a New York stage was a character named Before Colum…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 8, 2017
Theaterlovers will recognize the sample from the song "Maria," from West Side Story," — “Say it soft and it's almost like praying." Puerto Ricans will recognize the names of all …
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