Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Today Stephen Sondheim turns 87 and Andrew Lloyd Webber turns 69. Each has more than one show currently running on New York stages — Sondheim: Sunday in the Park with George, an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PM[SHARE]Sam Gold, the innovative director who won a Tony for Fun Home, has cast Sally Field in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie that doesn't include a glass menag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 21, 2017
The 50 best plays and 10 greatest musicals of the last century are all available as books to read, but what are the best books about the theater? That's the question I asked in giveaway cont…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 19, 2017
Below are scenes from the original productions of the 11 Broadway plays and musicals that are being revived, for the second, fifth, or 16th time, this season on Broadway. Click on any photog…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:25PM[SHARE]Friday, March 17, 2017
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, a reposting of my 2010 review; Eleven U.S. presidents have been descendants of the Irish, including Barack Obama. An Irishman was the first to make a pia…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 16, 2017
Danny DeVito, making his Broadway debut, gets the best deal out of The Price. Arthur Miller is not a playwright known for comically colorful characters, yet here's DeVito as Gregory Solomon,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12PM[SHARE]Danny DeVito, making his Broadway debut, gets the best deal out of The Price. Arthur Miller is not a playwright known for comically colorful characters, yet here's DeVito as Gregory Solomon,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thanked New York for making Canadians at home by supplying “snow banks,” during an address to the audience at Come From Away, after he and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41PM[SHARE].@JustinTrudeau has picked the perfect time for a Canadian head of state (& ex ski instructor) to visit Bway.@wecomefromaway pic.twitter.com/n2wkMPfWgI " New York Theater (@NewYorkTheate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 14, 2017
The first production photograph of Bette Midler as the 15th Dolly Gallagher Levi on Broadway, Â in the fifth Broadway production of “Hello, Dolly,” which is scheduled to begin …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:07PM[SHARE]As of 2:30 pm, all Broadway shows are going on tonight as scheduled, but several Off-Broadway theaters are canceling their performances because of the blizzard theatrically named Stella. For…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 12, 2017
Come From Away tells the story of the 9,000 residents of Gander, Newfoundland who took care of some 7,000 passengers and crew of 38 airplanes which were forced to land at the local airpo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54PM[SHARE]“Come From Away” tells the story of the 9,000 residents of Gander, Newfoundland who took care of some 7,000 passengers and crew of 38 airplanes that were forced to land at the lo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:25PM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2017
Win a free copy of the book "The Great Comet: The Journey of a New Musical to Broadway"(Sterling Publishing, 2016), which traces the improbable evolution of the musical, “Natasha, Pier…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 9, 2017
Sam Gold, the innovative director who won a Tony for Fun Home, has cast Sally Field in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie that doesn't include a glass menag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PM[SHARE]Sam Gold, the innovative director who won a Tony for Fun Home, has cast Sally Field in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie that doesn't include a glass menag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 8, 2017
At first glance, singing storyteller Ethan Lipton and his three-member band " the creators and entire cast of "The Outer Space" " look like middle-aged men who never outgrew their childhood …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:10PM[SHARE]Fifteen women have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. On this International Women’s Day, we celebrate them and their work. (Each play title is linked to an Amazon page where you can lea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 7, 2017
As Lin-Manuel Miranda did with "Hamilton," so Dave Malloy came up with the idea for his innovative hit Broadway musical, "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812," while reading a book u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:18PM[SHARE]Monday, March 6, 2017
March is a busy month for theater, as usual, but that’s not the only way madness seems to have taken hold. Luckily, there is help for stressed out theater people. Opening today:Â The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:00PM[SHARE]Jenny and Emily are both 14 years old, new friends in a small-town suburb in South Carolina in the 1980s; they both love horror movies; they both want to lose their virginity. In "All the Fi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 5, 2017
In "If I Forget," a well-acted, often funny and always engaging Jewish family drama by Steven Levenson (the book-writer for Dear Evan Hansen) we travel back to an era that no longer exists e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:38PM[SHARE]Friday, March 3, 2017
"Over a hundred thousand people died today," the character played by Michael Emerson (Lost, Person of Interest) tells us in "Wakey, Wakey," the latest ethereal, esoteric play by Will Eno, wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 2, 2017
In "Significant Other," Jordan is a gay man who has three best friends he met in college, all women, each of whom in the course of Joshua Harmon's play finds a mate and holds a fancy wedding…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 1, 2017
The Tooting Arts Club's exceptionally entertaining production of Sweeney Todd, Â Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's glorious murderous musical, began in 2014 in Harrington's, one of Londo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32PM[SHARE]Tooting Arts Club's exceptionally entertaining production of Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's glorious murderous musical, began in 2014 in Harrington's, one of London's olde…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Six shows are opening on Broadway in March, more than a dozen Off-Broadway, and plenty Off-Off Broadway as well, with a mix of exciting new work — by John Leguizamo, Lynn Nottage, and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2017
The Penitent, David Mamet's latest play, is about the ethical dilemmas facing a psychiatrist whose patient has gone on a killing spree. At least that's what it seems to be about, but audienc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PM[SHARE]The Penitent, David Mamet's latest play, is about the ethical dilemmas facing a psychiatrist whose patient has gone on a killing spree. At least that's what it seems to be about, but audienc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02PM[SHARE]It was a theater kind of movie night. (List of winners ) The best picture Oscar winner, Moonlight, was based on the play, Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, by Tarell Alvin McCraney (playwright…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 26, 2017
Theater fans can watch the 2017 Oscars just like sports views view the World Series. Three examples: 1. If Lin-Manuel Miranda wins an Oscar tonight for his song “How Far I’ll Go&…
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