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.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Sam Shepard, a playwright who explored the dark side of the American West in such brutal, elliptical works as "Buried Child" and "True West," died last Thursday at the age of 73. The marquee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AM[SHARE]Monday, July 31, 2017
Director Lear deBessonet's production in Central Park of Midsummer Night’s Dream is star-studded and jazzed-up, but the first thought on passing through the gates of the Delacorte Thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 29, 2017
On the day I saw Nikki James give a star turn in "Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin," the Off Center Encores two-day revival of the musical by Kirsten Childs that is in part about t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:45PM[SHARE]Friday, July 28, 2017
"A Wall Apart," a production at the New York Musical Festival, has a catchy score by Graham Russell of the Australian rock group Air Supply, sung by an eminently watchable cast of steel-voic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 27, 2017
Six women inmates, in a Texas jail for crimes ranging from cattle rustling to murder, form a country music band in order to get on the radio, get famous, and get pardoned by the governor. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2017
A love triangle that lasts 35 years is at the heart of "To The End of the Land," but the lives of the three main characters of this Israeli play, being presented in Hebrew with Englis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Attention this week has focused on theater from abroad. The Canadian theater company Soulpepper is wrapping up its month-long residence at Signature. The first annual Immigrant Arts  in A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38PM[SHARE]Below is the list of nominations for the 13th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city's independent theater  " aka Off-Off Broadway. The winners w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28AM[SHARE]Monday, July 24, 2017
"Greek tragedy meets Harlem ball scene. Fantastic," RuPaul Tweeted succinctly after seeing "And She Would Stand Like This." The Harlem-based Movement theater company's adaptation of Euripide…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 23, 2017
In "Spoon River," we meet a town full of drunks, hypocrites, home-grown philosophers, resentful husbands, frustrated wives, an arsonist, a killer, and dozens more " all of them dead…and al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 22, 2017
“Temple of the Souls,” a musical about a doomed, Romeo and Juliet romance in 16th century Puerto Rico between a Spanish conquistador's daughter and a Taino, begins with a thrill.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33AM[SHARE]Friday, July 21, 2017
The story of the Buddha informs this intriguing and well-produced musical at the New York Musical Festival about a modern-day female spiritual leader. But it's not until the last fift…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PM[SHARE]The cast of the Hamilton spoof, Spamilton, performed at the Broadway in Bryant Park concert this week a medley including "Lin-Manuel As Hamilton," "1776," "What Did You Miss,”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Watch the video below for highlights of the concert that concluded the Immigrant Arts in America Summit. The summit was a two-day event that included panel discussions, a speech by John Legu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 18, 2017
"We're the kind of people that Trump wants to keep out of the U.S.," John Leguizamo says in the video below, about his family, who immigrated to New York from Colombia ("the country, not the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57AM[SHARE]Monday, July 17, 2017
Ticket Givewaway: Win two tickets to see Indecent for free. I loved this show, a fascinating backstage tale written by Paula Vogel and wondrously staged by  Rebecca Taichman (who won a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 16, 2017
“I am a foolish man…I am crushed, I have been crushed by fate,” cried out Reg E. Cathey as King Creon, at a climactic moment in  the free Saturday performance of “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 15, 2017
As "Pipeline" begins, we learn that a black teenager has gotten into a physical scuffle with his teacher and is in danger of being expelled, and arrested. But playwright Dominique Morisseau …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PM[SHARE]Friday, July 14, 2017
The actor Matthew McConaughey sells his soul to the devil, and then tries to get it back, in this musical that opened the 2017 New York Musical Festival, which describes the show in its prog…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 13, 2017
As you might have heard, Oscar Isaac walks around in his underpants in the Public Theater production of "Hamlet." But the most startling visual occurs much later. There's a sudden, striking …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2017
There are two kinds of questions posed by the Improbable Theater Company's production of "Opening Skinner's Box," a stage adaptation of the 2004 book by Lauren Slater that describes ten famo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Near the end of this musical revue surveying 50 years in song of Jewish immigration to New York, one of the talented performers, Daniel Kahn, delivers an astounding rendition of "Roumania, R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08AM[SHARE]Monday, July 10, 2017
"Who will want a play by William Shakespeare?" his wife Ann asks him, unkindly, in their home in the hick town of Stratford-Upon-Avon, as he is about to depart for London in 1589 to become a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 9, 2017
Summer means outdoor entertainment, much of it free– like the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concerts… Watch Groundhog Day at Bryant Park – three songs …and Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:34PM[SHARE]Actors don’t realize how hard it is to work with animals, observes animal trainer William Berloni in the video below, during the 2017 Broadway Barks animal adoption event at Shubert Al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 8, 2017
In "To T or Not To T," a fascinating and funny autobiographical monologue, the performer known as D'Lo impersonates his father giving a speech at D'Lo's wedding ceremony: "Even though I was …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:23PM[SHARE]Friday, July 7, 2017
In "Cost of Living," an eye-opening play featuring a quartet of extraordinary performances, playwright Martina Martok offers a tart retort to that sappy Barbra Streisand song about the luck …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 6, 2017
Andy Karl, Barrett Doss and more than a dozen other cast members of the Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” performed three songs at the Broadway at Bryant Park lunchtime concert to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Before the start of "Kim's Convenience," Soulpepper artistic director Arthur Schultz introduced it to the New York audience as "the most successful new Canadian play of the last decade." The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 4, 2017
As Americans celebrate our 241st Fourth of July, it's bracing to realize that the most patriotic new show on Broadway is "Come From Away," a musical about Canada. But American patriotism on …
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