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 …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31PM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 22, 2016
If you missed “Hamilton’s America” on the PBS TV series Great Performances, you can watch the documentary here on their website. If much of the 82-minute documentary about …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:07AM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 2016
Forty-one years after The Rocky Horror Show ran for 45 performances on Broadway, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show became a cult movie that is still being shown in movie theaters at midnight…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2016
When Diane Lane, returning to Broadway after nearly four decades, enters on stage in the Roundabout's ambitiously reinterpreted production of The Cherry Orchard, her Lubyov seems an impossib…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:09PM[SHARE]When Diane Lane, returning to Broadway after nearly four decades, enters on stage in the Roundabout's ambitiously reinterpreted production of The Cherry Orchard, her Lubyov seems an impossib…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:42PM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Renee Elise Goldsberry will sing a song from Hamilton, “The World Was Wide Enough” at tonight’s Broadway for Hillary fundraiser at Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2016
“War Paint," a musical about real-life rival cosmetic queens,with Patti LuPone as Helen Rubenstein and Christine Ebersole as Elizabeth Arden, is set to open in Broadway’s Nede…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 13, 2016
Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." He is the first American to win since Toni Morr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda was host of Saturday Night Live this week, which sparked unusual attention on Broadway not only in the show, but during the commercials. The Week in NY Theater Reviews A 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25AM[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 2016
I was surprised at how little I laughed during Oh, Hello on Broadway, a comedy act by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who have been called "two of the hottest voices in comedy." They portray Gi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:16PM[SHARE]I was surprised at how little I laughed during Oh, Hello on Broadway, a comedy act by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who have been called "two of the hottest voices in comedy." They portray Gi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 9, 2016
The eerie true story of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre's encounter with the elusive Mayoruna tribe while lost in the Amazon rainforest is made stranger still in Simon McB…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:25PM[SHARE]The eerie true story of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre's encounter with the elusive Mayoruna tribe while lost in the Amazon rainforest is made stranger still in Simon McB…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:18PM[SHARE] As the host of Saturday Night Live, Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared in some half-dozen sketches (see photo collage below with links to the videos.) None were more satisfying than his  …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52AM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2016
Get out of my face, the cop in riot gear screams in my face. He then pummels me to the ground. Actually, it's my avatar that gets hits. I get a message: Because I was angry, I …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2016
It is possible to enjoy Holiday Inn, subtitled "The New Irving Berlin Musical," although there is little new about it. The Broadway adaptation of the 1942 Crosby/Astaire movie features a har…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:07PM[SHARE]It is possible to enjoy Holiday Inn, subtitled "The New Irving Berlin Musical," although there is little new about it. The Broadway adaptation of the 1942 Crosby/Astaire movie features a har…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2016
I've only sat through nine hours of A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Taylor Mac's outrageous, outlandish, offensive, embarrassing, raunchy, insightful, inspired, clever, sometimes hilar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 2016
Theater has been represented for thousands of years by the tragedy and comedy masks — and this week, by Grumpy the cat’s one-night gig in Cats and the opening of Judith LightR…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 1, 2016
October is stuffed — to use the title of one of the many shows opening this month. There are seven shows opening on Broadway alone (eight if you count a concert with a week-long run.) …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2016
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in September? Answer these 11 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2016
President George W. Bush was convicted of war crimes at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, on the night I attended The Trial of an American President, an earnest, informative and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:08PM[SHARE]President George W. Bush was convicted of war crimes at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, on the night I attended The Trial of an American President, an earnest, informative and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Those of us who have followed her splendid career since Judith Light returned to the New York stage in 2010 welcomed the news that she would be appearing in a new solo play written by Neil L…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16PM[SHARE]Those of us who have followed her splendid career since Judith Light returned to the New York stage in 2010 welcomed the news that she would be appearing in a new solo play written by Neil L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PM[SHARE]There are two ways to take "5 Guys Chillin'," Peter Darney's play in the Fringe Encore series that takes place among five half-naked gay characters at a drug-fueled sex party. One is as a se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Denzel Washington’s movie adaptation of “Fences,” August Wilson’s 1987 play, will be in movie theaters nationwide on December 25, 2016. Below is a first movie trailer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56AM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2016
“The Golfer” and “Broken Bone Bathtub” (pictured) were among the big winners of the 2016 New York Innovative Theatre Awards, which honor excellence Off-Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25PM[SHARE]Nat Turner in Jerusalem, a new play by Nathan Alan Davis at New York Theatre Workshop, is yet another retelling of Nat Turner's 1831 slave insurrection, a story that has been told and retold…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:07PM[SHARE]Nat Turner in Jerusalem, a new play by Nathan Alan Davis at New York Theatre Workshop, is yet another retelling of Nat Turner's 1831 slave insurrection, a story that has been told and retold…
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