Monday, June 5, 2017
"I would rather drink alcohol than do just about anything there is to do on the face of the planet," Matthew Perry as Jack says to a woman he's just met in "The End of Longing," Perry's debu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10PM[SHARE]"Ernest Shackleton Loves Me" may not be the only musical ever set in Antarctica or the only one that tells the story of a real-life polar explorer; it's surely not the only musical about a s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 4, 2017
The winners of the 62nd Annual Drama Desks below are in red with an * (Click on titles to get more information about the show.) Those nominees with a heart mark (♥) are ones I voted…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 3, 2017
Performers from more than 20 current Broadway shows offered a free concert in Shubert Alley this week, to celebrate the Broadway season just past, and whet appetites for the Tony Awards on S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:35PM[SHARE]Friday, June 2, 2017
Once again, Broadway offered its free two-hour concert in Shubert Alley today, featuring the casts from more than a dozen current musicals. Below, watch Telly Leung of Aladdin, Corey Cott of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 1, 2017
Below is a preview  of the shows opening on New York stages in June — including the first show of the 2017-2018 Broadway season — organized chronologically by opening date. Ea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 31, 2017
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews this month? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 30, 2017
The 2016-17 Broadway season's statistics, according to The Broadway League: Shows that opened during season: 45 (eight of them not eligible for Tony Awards) Attendance at all shows: 1…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 28, 2017
In 2010, an Afghan journalist produced an hour-long documentary for PBS' Frontline entitled The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan , about the illegal revival of an ancient tradition called Bach…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 27, 2017
Below are the five most popular posts in the five years since I began NewYorkTheater.me in May 2012. (Above are some of the profile portraits I’ve used over the past five years, none o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28PM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2017
"This is the hardest job I've ever had in my whole life. You people on Broadway are nuts,” Bette Midler said at the Outer Critic’s Circle Award reception at Sardi’s for the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 24, 2017
"Building The Wall," Robert Schenkkan's chilling two character play that imagines the consequences of President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant policies, is clearly meant to help rally the res…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 23, 2017
By the end of "Can You Forgive Her?", it's not clear which of the five characters in Gina Gionfriddo's latest comedy is the "You" of the title, and who is the "Her." All the characters in on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18PM[SHARE]Monday, May 22, 2017
Oslo and The Band’s Visit got lots of love at the 62nd Annual Obie Awards, as these two shows have gotten throughout the theater award season. But they had lots of company, with Underg…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02PM[SHARE]Countdown to the Tonys is 20 days, but there is plenty  happening in New York theater right now — other theater awards, news of forthcoming Broadway attractions — and the summ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 21, 2017
Julie is young, pretty, literate and dying. At its best, "The Whirligig," a new play by Hamish Linklater, explores with humor and bite how her terminal illness affects the seven people aroun…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 20, 2017
Zainab Jah, who made an impressive Broadway debut as a sex slave turned soldier in Eclipsed, is back on a New York stage with another vivid portrayal of an exploited but strong African woman…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AM[SHARE]Zainab Jah, who made an impressive Broadway debut as a sex slave turned soldier in Eclipsed, is back on a New York stage with another vivid portrayal of an exploited but strong African woman…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48AM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2017
Ben Platt beat out dozens of other nominees to snag the 2017 Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance, Â at 23 the youngest winner in the League’s 83-year history. “Dea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Summer in the city offers theater that is cheaper (often free), more cutting-edge and even more abundant than what you can see during the regular theater season — thanks largely to the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2017
When a young playwright is audacious enough to commit publicly to a nine-play cycle, the most appropriate response is encouragement. Mfoniso Udofia plans to follow four generations over 40 y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:01PM[SHARE]Monday, May 15, 2017
Four major New York theater awards announced their winners this past week — and Oslo is doing very well, as is The Band’s Visit, even though it closed Off-Broadway in J…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 14, 2017
The Golden Apple, a 1954 Broadway musical, got the Encores! treatment at its most glorious over the weekend " with a sonorous 31-piece orchestra directed by Rob Berman, and a splendid 40-mem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 13, 2017
"Another happy day," Dianne Wiest exclaims as Winnie in Samuel Beckett's bleak, comic and compassionate play, written decades before Groundhog Day, but similarly focused on somebody who is t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PM[SHARE] "Another happy day," Dianne Wiest exclaims as Winnie in Samuel Beckett's bleak, comic and compassionate play, written decades before Groundhog Day, but similarly focused on somebody w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 11, 2017
The Theatre World Awards for outstanding New York stage debuts during the 2016-2017 theatrical season have been given to: Carlo Albán, Sweat Christy Altomare, Anastasia Denée Benton, Nat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2017
With his new play "Arlington," playwright and director Enda Walsh presents an unusual love story set against a future dystopian society, which might shock New York theatergoers who know Wals…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Here are the results of the survey in which I asked you to pick your personal preferences (not predictions) in 15 of the 24 categories in the 71st annual Tony Awards. Best Musical Nominated:…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:42PM[SHARE]Monday, May 8, 2017
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Oslo as the best play and The Band’s Visit as best musical. Special Citations: were given to Paula Vogel ,Taylor Mac and the ensemble cast …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PM[SHARE]Oslo won for new Broadway play, Come from Away for new Broadway musical in the 67th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. If I forget won for Off-Broadway play, The Band’s Visit for Off-…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 7, 2017
The Band’s Visit won best musical and Oslo the best play in the 32nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Outstanding Play: Oslo Outstanding…
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