Sunday, September 10, 2017
it would be to sum up the talent of composer, lyricist, dramaturg, artistic director, Â political activist and theater visionary Michael Friedman -- and how great the loss his early death.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:27AM[SHARE]Friday, September 8, 2017
Since 2015, 45,000 have taken my Hamilton quiz. Why not try the updated one, to find out whether you're Aaron Burr (originally portrayed by Leslie Odom Jr.) Thomas Jefferson (Daveed Diggs) K…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Sex and violence — also sex, drugs and rock n roll — are the subjects of several shows opening Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway in September (There are no Broadway openings.) Bu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 5, 2017
The New York theater season is officially underway  (Check out my Broadway 2017-2018 Preview Guide, and my Off-Broadway Fall 2017 Preview Guide) " and there are incentives to get our butt…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 3, 2017
Off-Broadway in the Fall promises a homoerotic dystopia (“A Clockwork Orange”); a revival of Harvey Fierstein’s breakthrough play starring Michael Urie (“Torch Song&#…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23PM[SHARE]Friday, September 1, 2017
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in August, a month full of controversies, and sad deaths? Answer these 10 questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 30, 2017
"Inanimate," a new play by Nick Robideau about a young woman who falls in love with a Dairy Queen sign, is most noteworthy for being the first play to be presented in the new building…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 29, 2017
The nation’s second-largest theater district, a 17-block area in the heart of downtown Houston, is among the casualties of Tropical Storm Harvey, the flooding from its torrential rain …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 26, 2017
In his new memoir Sense of Occasion, Hal Prince explains that Prince of Broadway, the new Broadway revue celebrating and sampling Prince's extraordinary 70-year career in the theater, "was e…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48PM[SHARE]In his new memoir Sense of Occasion, Hal Prince explains that Prince of Broadway, the new Broadway revue celebrating and sampling Prince's extraordinary 70-year career in the theater, "was e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:25PM[SHARE]Friday, August 25, 2017
Harold Prince's new memoir, “Sense of Occasion” (Applause Books, $29.99) — a conversational chronicle and candid analysis of his many hits, seminal musicals and occasional …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 22, 2017
What is your favorite show on Broadway that explores serious issues in an entertaining way? Below are some answers to this question, which I asked in a recent contest for tickets to a show, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AM[SHARE]Monday, August 21, 2017
My Broadway 2017-2018 Preview Guide has been updated, thanks to a flurry of new shows announced, a couple this past week: Denzel Washington will lead the 20-member cast for the fifth Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 20, 2017
What was the most underrated show you've ever seen on a New York stage? Below are the answers to that question, which I asked in a now-ended contest to win tickets to a show I feel fi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 19, 2017
Aaron and Wes have broken up, but Aaron can't seem to let go, in "Last Ditch Playlist," Brad Baron's semi-autobiographical play about his first love and his first breakup, which is running t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:55PM[SHARE]Friday, August 18, 2017
All 17 members of The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned today to protest President Trump’s comments on the events last weekend in Charlottesville, as The Wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:19PM[SHARE]Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway from September 2017 to January 2018 as of this writing, and they are lis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Below are the six most popular videos I shot of the performances during the six weekly concerts this 17th summer of Broadway in Bryant Park. Tagged: Andy Karl, Barrett Doss, Betsy Wolfe, Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:39PM[SHARE]Monday, August 14, 2017
This has been the week from Hell both in the larger world and in the world of New York theater, but for theater fans also a little bit of Heaven, with the announcements of new shows, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 13, 2017
The vain, reckless son of a rich man is suddenly thrust into power by a venal group of citizens marked by their "ugliness, stupidity, greed, cowardice, corruption and sheer unpleas…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:03PM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2017
Win two tickets to see Bandstand for free. Â I liked this show, about a 1940’s swing band made up of World War II veterans, for its thrilling choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, who…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2017
"The only hope until we kick him out of office is to discombobulate him," Michael Moore says near the beginning of his playful, pointed and partisan one-man show, as he stands in front of an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42PM[SHARE]In format, Michael Moore's live show has little in common with his funny but focused documentaries about specific issues,…It’s more like a scattershot variety show…But the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2017
 “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” will close September 3, 2017 on Broadway, having played 32 previews and 336 regular performances — a journey that began a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:40PM[SHARE]Barbara Cook, the self-proclaimed poor, naive Southern Belle who became the reigning soprano in the Golden Age of Broadway and then a cabaret and concert hall star of the first magnitude, ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Monday, August 7, 2017
Errol and Fidel, Generation Me, and Georama were among the big winners of the 2017 New York Musical Festival Awards for Excellence. Freedom Riders won for both outstanding music and ̶…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 6, 2017
Indecent ends today on Broadway, but Paula Vogel’s play was recorded Thursday for BroadwayHD streaming in January. Hamilton opened on Broadway two years ago today July Quiz August open…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 5, 2017
Michael Moore and Harold Prince have the month all to themselves, more or less, Â at the center of the two Broadway shows opening this month. It’s unusual to have any shows open on B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2017
I ran into Congressman John Lewis, one of the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, on my way to see "Freedom Riders," the inspiring gospel and soul-flavored musical about the courageous effo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 3, 2017
A musical written by Maurice Sendak, with a score by Carole King?! Why isn't it better known? That question would seem to make "Really Rosie," which is on stage at New York City Center throu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2017
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in July, a month full of controversies? Answer these 10 questions and see.
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