Monday, September 26, 2016
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: New York Theater at 07:02PM[SHARE]The National Museum of African-American Culture and History officially opened this past weekend in Washington D.C. Among the almost 37,000 objects in its permanent collection are photo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PM[SHARE]Political theater gets new meanings — and new attention — just six weeks before the Presidential election….and less than three weeks before the cut-off for voter registrati…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 25, 2016
Below is a map showing the location of some 40 tables at today’s 30th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Click on it (several time…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 24, 2016
The National Museum of African-American Culture and History officially opens today in Washington D.C. Among the almost 37,000 objects in its permanent collection are photographs, programs…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2016
A play starring a demonic hand puppet tops American Theatre Magazine’s annual survey of the most popular plays that will be produced by non-profit theaters throughout the country in th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:14AM[SHARE]Sister Act ran on Broadway between March 4, 2011 and August 26, 2012. Patina Miller went on to a Tony-winning performance in Pippin. Below is my review the night it opened, April 20, 2011: P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Win two tickets to see “Miss Saigon: The 25th Anniversary Performance” in a movie theater near you on September 22. “Miss Saigon” returns to the Broadway stage …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2016
Broadway theater marquees will dim at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday in honor of Edward Albee. Albee, 1928 to 2016, was a provocateur, both in his many plays (the photographs are of recent New York …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2016
What Did You Expect?, the second installment of Richard Nelson's trilogy at the Public subtitled The Gabriels: Election Year In The Life Of One Family, is literate (the characters tell a sto…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23PM[SHARE]What Did You Expect?, the second installment of Richard Nelson's trilogy at the Public subtitled The Gabriels: Election Year In The Life Of One Family, is literate (the characters tell a sto…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:14PM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2016
“Edward Albee, one of the most innovative playwrights of his generation, whose raw, unnerving dramas " and even the few comedies " scraped at the veneer of American success and happine…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2016
In "Missed Connections," a lively 75-minute revue that turns Craigslist ads into 25 songs, one of the six attractive and musically gifted cast members sings about a dead moose. He offers it …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Whenever the two stars of "Marie and Rosetta" sing, it's all that matters: Kecia Lewis swinging and soulful as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a gospel singer and guitarist who filled stadiums and in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Broadway shows closing, new ones announced; much about theater on screen. But the news for individual theatergoers on a budget are the discount programs in effect now or in the near…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21PM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2016
In “Aubergine,” an appealing, lyrical family drama by Julia Cho, life boils down to two essentials — food and death. Each of the characters deals with both, in unexpected w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 11, 2016
The nine teenage girls who are members of The Wolves soccer team in Sarah DeLappe's impressive first professional play do occasionally gossip about one another, or whine about their substitu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16PM[SHARE]My local supermarket just e-mailed me their weekly deals on raspberries and sushi rolls with the subject head "Always Remember, September 11th." They were not trying to be crass, of course, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 10, 2016
A quarter century after she gained infamy among right-wing critics as the obscene, nude "chocolate smeared woman," performance artist Karen Finley is on stage every Sunday at the Laurie Beec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2016
"Caught" messes with your head in the most exquisite of ways. In part a send-up of the art scene " the conceptual artist as con artist — it is itself a form of conceptual art, and a se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2016
"Spamilton," an often clever if uneven spoof of the musical "Hamilton," is like the 26th edition of "Forbidden Broadway," the show that “Spamilton”author Gerard Alessandrini crea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Mike Daisey has put a script of “The Trump Card,” his latest monologue, on his blog to encourage people to perform it without seeking his permission or paying royalties. I saw Da…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The first shows of the New York theater season actually opened months ago — one has already closed — but now’s the time theatergoers pay attention. So here is my Broadway 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AM[SHARE]Monday, September 5, 2016
During the Fall 2016 season, three of the most celebrated playwrights in America are offering some acclaimed plays: Anna Deavere Smith, Lynn Nottage and Suzan-Lori Parks. That the three are …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 4, 2016
For the fourth year in a row, some 200 New Yorkers from all five boroughs are performing this Labor Day Weekend on stage at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park as part of what the Public T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 1, 2016
Politics is in the air, Â and it inevitably lands on the New York stage, with some half-dozen shows opening in September that one could call political theater, including an American presid…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2016
For the last #Ham4Ham, Rory O’Malley brought Renée Elise Goldsberry with Alex Lacamoire and the band to perform “Congratulations,” a song that was in Hamilton at the Pu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 30, 2016
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these dozen questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:34PM[SHARE]Monday, August 29, 2016
Below are the shows at the 11th anniversary of the Fringe Encore Series, from September 9h to October 29th, 2016 at the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street), selected from both the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:16PM[SHARE]Mother Emanuel, a celebration of the lives of the nine gunned down in a South Carolina church, and The Radicalization of Rolfe, which looks at the  Sound of Music from the point of view o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 28, 2016
Yes, the summer is winding down, but the theater season is gearing up. Witness the news below of new casts on Broadway, new shows Off-Broadway, and some tantalizing maybes. It’s not to…
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