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: 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 28, 2017
Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared at BroadwayCon 2017, via FaceTime from London. Do you have any advice for people pursuing theatre in college? Lin-Manuel Miranda: The answer is this: Study all th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:42PM[SHARE]Friday, January 27, 2017
“This has been a tough week, but we’re in a safe space,” said one of the organizers of BroadwayCon 2017, the second annual convention of theater fans, this time held in the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2017
In The Liar, the title character wonders whether, given his disposition, he should become a politician. But, if David Ives' version of Pierre Corneille's 1644 verse play may benefit from new…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:24PM[SHARE]In The Liar, the title character wonders whether, given his disposition, he should become a politician. But, if David Ives' version of Pierre Corneille's 1644 verse play may benefit from new…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Sales of George Orwell’s novel “1984 “ reportedly have soared after Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, talked about "alternative facts." It's not her…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PM[SHARE] “La La Land,” the musical tribute to Los Angeles, leads The Academy Award nominations with a record-tying 14, Lin-Manuel Miranda received an Oscar nomination for best o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2017
Love puzzles, and messes up, the dozen characters in Tell Hector I Miss Him, a play wonderfully acted by a cast that includes veterans of Orange is the New Black. If the play itself sometime…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24PM[SHARE]Love puzzles, and messes up, the dozen characters in Tell Hector I Miss Him, a play wonderfully acted by a cast that includes veterans of Orange is the New Black. If the play itself sometime…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31PM[SHARE]The theater community in New York and across the country countered a depressing week coming out of Washington D.C. (#potentialgrizzlies, #alternativefacts) with events signaling resistance b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2017
Eleven years after his death, playwright August Wilson answers Donald Trump's bleak depiction of "inner cities," with "Jitney," the first play Wilson wrote in his ten-play American Century C…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:21PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 21, 2017
People across the country, including New York artists, have gathered in myriad ways this month to declare their support for threatened American values. Click on the photographs below to see …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PM[SHARE]Friday, January 20, 2017
My 101-second video of the Ghostlight Project, in which people gathered in theaters in all 50 states to create light for dark times ahead. I focus on the small, moving ceremony outside the C…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2017
Wakka Wakka, the theater company behind Made in China, says the show is "inspired by true events." I suspect the true part doesn't include Mary and her neighbor getting sucked down her toile…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Wakka Wakka, the theater company behind Made in China, says the show is "inspired by true events." I suspect the true part doesn't include Mary and her neighbor getting sucked down her toile…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 17, 2017
The story of Inauguration Day, which arrives this Friday, has become almost as much about culture as politics. The list of performers who declined an invitation to perform at official…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:10PM[SHARE]Monday, January 16, 2017
"Time of Women," a play in the Under the Radar festival based on the true story of three women journalists and activists imprisoned by the Belarusian dictatorship for protesting the fraudule…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 15, 2017
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." " Martin Luther King Jr. Below is a list of Anti-Inauguration activities R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2017
Below are some of the photographs by Martha Swope, who died Thursday at age 88. Â In a professional career that officially spanned from 1957 to 1994, she focused on ballet and Broadway. H…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 12, 2017
"Latin Standards," which is Marga Gomez's 12th solo show — and, she tells us, her "final farewell concert" — is a hilarious memoir, part of this year's Under The Radar festival. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2017
I once asked Luciano Pavarotti what "opera" means, a question that made him momentarily look lost. Opera in Italian literally means "work," he replied, but you don't need to define it. Farme…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2017
In the first public performance of the four surviving musicals commissioned by the U.S. Army during World War II to boost morale among the troops, "Blueprint Specials" could not be more deft…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]“Theater Nerds Everywhere”: Among the winners of Golden Globes Sunday night were a movie based on a play; a musical; and a stage full of theater people. Viola Davis won a Golden …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 8, 2017
About halfway through The Present, an adaptation of Chekhov's first play, Cate Blanchett, as a Russian general's widow celebrating her 40th birthday, shoots off a shotgun, dances atop a tabl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PM[SHARE]About halfway through The Present, an adaptation of Chekhov's first play, Cate Blanchett, as a Russian general's widow celebrating her 40th birthday, shoots off a shotgun, dances atop a tabl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 7, 2017
Each year, when snow begins to fall, New Yorkers ask one question — how bad will it get? — and New York theatergoers ask three more: Will the shows be canceled? Will shows offer …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10PM[SHARE]In this opening show at this year's Under the Radar festival, a Chicago-based theater company with the completely apt name of Manual Cinema allows the audience at the Public Theater to wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AM[SHARE]The strength of Confucius, a 90-minute dance piece featuring 60 performers from the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater, is not found in its efforts to present Confucian philosophy …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AM[SHARE]Friday, January 6, 2017
The strength of Confucius, a 90-minute dance piece featuring 60 performers from the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater, is not found in its efforts to present Confucian philosophy …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2017
Two Broadway shows are opening this month, and fewer than a half dozen Off-Broadway, but January is as usual one of the most robust months for theater in New York. That's because there are m…
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