Tuesday, November 15, 2016
"Party People," a look at the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords, is powerful and intelligent documentary theater — although the documentary theater part struggles for attention a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:29PM[SHARE]The 90th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will feature (as it traditionally does) numbers from Broadway musicals — on CBS, The Color Purple, Â On Your Feet, and School of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44AM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2016
An opera with an unwieldy title based on Tolstoy's War and Peace seemed an unlikely crowd-pleaser, but I was thrilled when I saw it Off-Broadway, first at Ars Nova in 2012, and again in a ci…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36PM[SHARE]An opera with an unwieldy title based on Tolstoy's War and Peace seemed an unlikely crowd-pleaser, but I was thrilled when I saw it Off-Broadway, first at Ars Nova in 2012, and again in a ci…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 13, 2016
Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton performs the song “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen, who died at age 82 on the day before Election Day. The terribly apt lyrics include…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 12, 2016
After seeing the current revival of "Falsettos," New York Times critic Charles Isherwood deemed it perfect, while the New Yorker's Hilton Als considered it perfectly awful. "There's hardly a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01PM[SHARE]Friday, November 11, 2016
On this Veteran’s Day, watch Adam Driver — Star Wars villain, Girls beefcake, Broadway veteran and military veteran — talk about his journey from Marine to actor. Dr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2016
Had I seen Signature Theatre's fine revival of Athol Fugard's most popular play just a few days earlier, I might have appreciated it primarily as a well-wrought work of theater, relegating i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:18PM[SHARE]Had I seen the Signature's fine revival of Athol Fugard's most popular play just a few days earlier, I might have appreciated it primarily as a well-wrought work of theater, relegating its d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s concession speech (emphasis in boldface added) “Thank you so very much for being here. I love you all, too. Last night I congratulated Donald Trump and offered …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PM[SHARE]The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, a trilogy of plays by Richard Nelson presented in real time at the Public Theater, ends the way it began eight months ago " with the Ga…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PM[SHARE]The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, a trilogy of plays by Richard Nelson presented in real time at the Public Theater, ends the way it began eight months ago " with the Ga…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2016
One of the first things we learn in “Notes from the Field” — in a projection on the curtain — is that nearly six million voting-age people can't vote in the 2016 pres…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:55PM[SHARE]Monday, November 7, 2016
The following 18 Broadway shows will close on Election Day, November 8, to encourage people to vote for President (All but one " those with asterisks — are performing on Monday, Novemb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:01PM[SHARE]Why would anybody want to revive "Finian's Rainbow," a 1947 musical that features dancing black sharecroppers and a leprechaun whose pot of gold was stolen by a crafty old Irishman named Fin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 6, 2016
In keeping with the casting of Liev Schreiber as a frilly 18th century French libertine in the ill-timed if stylish new Broadway revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, may I suggest some actor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 5, 2016
“Heisenberg” is a play starring Mary-Louise Parker as a wacky 42-year-old American who kisses a 75-year-old stranger on the neck in a London train station, setting off an improba…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 3, 2016
Like Grapes of Wrath, Lynn Nottage's Sweat offers a devastating look at social and economic breakdown, told not with rants or statistics, but through a riveting tale about good people in a b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PM[SHARE]Like Grapes of Wrath, Lynn Nottage's Sweat offers a devastating look at social and economic breakdown, told not with rants or statistics, but through a riveting tale about good people in a b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Three of the four Broadway openings  in November are for shows, with limited (holiday) runs, are rightly categorized more as entertainments than theater.  Ah, but the fourth… …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2016
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in October? Take these 10 questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2016
Dangerous Liaisons indeed. In American politics, an October Surprise is an unexpected event that could well influence the outcome of the Presidential election; we've had more than one this m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:43PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 29, 2016
I was the host for the luminous Mandy Gonzalez, who plays Angelica Schuyler in the Broadway production of Hamilton, Â at the annual Sardi’s luncheon of the American Theatre Critics A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:52PM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2016
Edwin Booth, the most celebrated American actor of the 19th century, had come back from self-imposed exile in Europe after his brother had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, with an idea. He had …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2016
"This is not a story about war; it's a story about falling in love," the playwright tells us at the outset of "Vietgone," a play by Qui Nguyen that manages to be both as puckish as a comic b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Laura Osnes and Will Swenson will star in Frank Loesser’s “lost” World War II musicals on board the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, as part of the Public Theater̵…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:56PM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2016
For the first half of Adam Bock's "A Life" — before its life-changing coup de theatre — David Hyde Pierce as Nate sits on his Eames sofa and seems to be taking stock of his life.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16PM[SHARE]It was one of those weeks when "theater" gets redefined in the post-modern media age, thanks to several events in a row: Broadway for Hillary fundraiser, livestreamed The third and final deb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:08PM[SHARE]The best way to sum up the fourth Broadway revival of The Front Page, the 1928 play about Chicago newspapermen, is the way their ads do: Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Jefferson M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AM[SHARE]The best way to sum up the fourth Broadway revival of The Front Page, the 1928 play about Chicago newspapermen, is the way their ads do: Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Jefferson M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 23, 2016
Of all the crazed, destructive, female characters that the stage has given us, Susan Traherne may be among the least interesting, at least as performed by Rachel Weisz in the Public Theater …
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