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&…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to the theater in February? Answer these 13 quiz questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 23, 2017
"Art isn't easy," Jake Gyllenhaal as George sings in the fourth Broadway production of Stephan Sondheim and James Lapine's "Sunday In the Park with George," inspired by one of the most popul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]With "Everybody," Branden Jacobs-Jenkins adapts "Everyman," the 15th century morality play, for a modern secular New York audience. The idea here is inspired, and the world premiere producti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2017
There is one song by John Kander in Kid Victory that recalls the composer's collaboration with Fred Ebb in both Cabaret and Chicago " "What's the Point?" a jaunty, satiric tap-dance. It's on…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36PM[SHARE]There is one song by John Kander in Kid Victory that recalls the composer's collaboration with Fred Ebb in both Cabaret and Chicago " "What's the Point?" a jaunty, satiric tap-dance. It's on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2017
1 Theater artist Anna Deavere Smith received the George Polk Career Award, one of the top awards in journalism. "This was not a traditional choice for us, because she doesn't fit neatly in t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2017
Below is a photo essay of a century’s worth of stage depictions of American presidents. One thing seems certain about the most uncertain presidency in U.S. history — Donald Tr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AM[SHARE]In honor of Presidents Day, I resurrect my review of “Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson,” which opened on Broadway on October 13, 2010 and closed three months later, on January 2, 20…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2017
There was thunderous applause the night I saw "Sunset Boulevard" for Hillary Clinton as she took her seat right before the musical began. It would be snarky to observe it was the greatest ov…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2017
"The theatre is gone, but there are new things now," says Matthew Broderick in Wallace Shawn's chilling comedy, which imagines a dystopian but familiar society where former theatre people ha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18PM[SHARE]"The theatre is gone, but there are new things now," says Matthew Broderick in Wallace Shawn's chilling comedy, which imagines a dystopian but familiar society where former theatre people ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 15, 2017
There are three great reasons to see the New York stage debut of Man From Nebraska, without even knowing what it's about: Its author Tracy Letts (August: Osage County), its director David Cr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PM[SHARE]There are three great reasons to see the New York stage debut of Man From Nebraska, without even knowing what it's about: Its author Tracy Letts (August: Osage County), its director David Cr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Below are brief videotaped interviews with Barbara Barrie, Gideon Glick, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and Lindsay Mendez — four of the cast members of “Significant Other,” a play b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:27PM[SHARE]In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are 1. 25 photographs of kisses on stage over the past century, and 2. videos of five of Broadway’s most romantic love songs, Click on any photo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2017
Theater goes back thousands of years — driven home by newly available theater-related images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art — and overpriced Broadway ticket prices won…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 12, 2017
In "Beardo," we are back in Russia with Dave Malloy, the composer of "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812." Instead of a Broadway theater, the Pipeline Theater Company's new producti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 11, 2017
The Encores! production of "Big River" is a pleasant enough confection but with a bitter aftertaste. To understand why, it helps to know that, when he was 11 years old, Samuel Clemens discov…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2017
Below are theater-related images from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among them, a statuette of an actor from Attica, Greece 2,500 years old. Theater masks from first cent…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 9, 2017
Geoff Sobelle, self-declared "maker of absurdist performance art," is credited as the creator and performer of "The Object Lesson," but it at least co-stars thousands of boxes. These are box…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2017
"Fade" is a play about the bond that develops between a Mexican-born TV writer and a Mexican-American janitor at the studio. Its author, Tanya Saracho, is a Mexican-born TV writer/producer w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2017
From magazine and newspaper covers to posters and cartoons to Super Bowl commercials and Saturday Night Live skits, there is a growing graphic protest against Trump and his policies, much of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 5, 2017
The original Schuyler sisters of “Hamilton” – Phillipa Soo (soon to be back on Broadway in Amelie), Â Renee Elise Goldberry, and Jasmine Cephas Jones — Â will sin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 4, 2017
It's best to start your activism young, advises Celia Keenan-Bolger, an actress nominated three times for Tony Awards, who grew up in a family of activists. That way, "it's like your …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2017
How closely were you paying attention to the New York theater news on and off stage in January? Take these 10 questions and see. (The photograph of Mary Tyler Moore, from “Whose Life I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AM[SHARE]Below is my 2009 review of Superior Donuts, the play by Tracy Letts, which opened on Broadway on October 1, 2009, and closed on January 3, 2010. A new TV series of the same name, starring Ju…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Broadway this month will see the opening of two starry musical  revivals by two of the reigning composers of musical theater — Stephen Sondheim (86) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (68) …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Yen, a bleak British play that opens tonight Off-Broadway, stars Lucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated last week for his role in Manchester by the Sea, and Justice Smith, of the Netflix hip-hop dram…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36PM[SHARE]Yen, a bleak British play that opens tonight Off-Broadway, stars Lucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated last week for his role in Manchester by the Sea, and Justice Smith, of the Netflix hip-hop dram…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, January 30, 2017
Scenes from BroadwayCon 2017 Previews of Anastasia, Amelia, Come From Away, Significant Other etc.; A surprise Q and A with Lin-Manuel Miranda via live video from London, followed by the int…
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