Friday, July 1, 2016
The list below includes two Broadway shows but only a handful Off-Broadway. If July looks sparser than most months, that's because the list below doesn't the summer theater festivals, the FR…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 30, 2016
Barbara Cook, who is now 88 years old " the exact number of keys on a piano " has three distinct stories to tell in her new memoir, "Then and Now" (HarperCollins.) The first is about a poor,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
How well were you paying attention to the theater news in June? Answer these 11 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2016
For the 16th year in a row, Bryant Park will be the site of free lunchtime concerts of current Broadway shows — and forthcoming Broadway musicals (this year, Holiday Inn; Natasha, Pier…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29AM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2016
Bette Midler made her New York stage debut in Tom Eyen's "Miss Nefertiti Regrets" at La MaMa in 1965. Photographs of her performance, and of a young Sam Shepard, and Harvey Fierstein and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:59PM[SHARE]Grey's Anatomy actor Jesse Williams, in accepting BET's Humanitarian Award on Sunday, gave a speech about racist oppression and appropriation, police violence and even the Magical Negro. The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2016
The 46th annual Gay Pride Parade, aka LGBTQ March, comes exactly two weeks after a man shot dead 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and the marchers carried pictures of the de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:05PM[SHARE]Shuffle Along, Fun Home and An American in Paris all announced their closing dates this week — all, in my view, prematurely, Shuffle Along shockingly so. Three more Broadway shows are …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 25, 2016
In the video below, President Barack Obama announces he is designating the area around the Stonewall Inn in New York City as the country’s first national monument to lesbian, gay, bise…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02AM[SHARE]Friday, June 24, 2016
New York Spectacular, a new summer show at Radio City Music Hall that features the Radio City Rockettes and some terrific sets, aims to tap into a similar demographic as Broadway, where more…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:00PM[SHARE]New York Spectacular, a new summer show at Radio City Music Hall that features the Rockettes and some terrific sets, aims to tap into a similar demographic as Broadway, where more than two-t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2016
We peek at the new Broadway season, which promises Cate Blanchett’s Broadway debut; Â the last remaining play from August Wilson’s celebrated American Century Cycle to make it …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Below is 2016 Kilroy list of 32 plays by women and trans writers that are not produced but should be, according to a survey of 230 theater professionals. This is the third annual list by the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:55PM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2016
In Israel Horovitz's new play, four women who were sexually involved with the same man at some point over the past 65 years gather at his Parisian loft  for his funeral, after he has died…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:52PM[SHARE]In response to the June 12 Orlando shooting at a gay nightclub called Pulse, the worst mass shooting in American history, some 70 Broadway stars gathered on June 15 to sing “What The W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 19, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Phillipa Soo announced this week that they will leave "Hamilton" on July 9; Miranda's long-time alternate Javier Munoz will take over the title role on July 11. "I'm l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2016
The following five shows are closing within the next ten days. Each of them I found worth seeing for one reason or another. Eclipsed – closing June 19 Oscar winner Lupita Nyo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2016
The all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew in Central Park, with Janet McTeer as the macho Petruchio and Cush Jumbo as the shrew he starves into obedience, seems to be working hard…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2016
The all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew in Central Park, with Janet McTeer as the macho Petruchio and Cush Jumbo as the shrew he starves into obedience, seems to be working hard…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:17PM[SHARE]“Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” opened on June 14, 2011. It ran for a total of 1066 performances, closing on January 04, 2014. Below is my review upon its official opening. Sc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2016
Hamilton won 11 awards " best musical, book, score, lead actor of a musical, featured actor, featured actress, direction, set, costumes, lighting, and choreography — at the 70th annual…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 12, 2016
Hamilton won 11 awards and The Humans four, including best musical and best play respectively. Below are the winners of the 70th annual Tony Awards, listed in red with an asterisk* Also list…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PM[SHARE]An American-born suspect identified as Omar Mateen shot and killed 50 people early this morning at the Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The largest mass shooting in American histo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 11, 2016
My most popular Hamilton post has been Quiz: Which character in Hamilton are you? Also popular, my more general Hamilton Quiz — 20 questions that span the history of the show. My most …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2016
This is the time of year when people turn their attention to Broadway, for two reasons — it’s the summer, a good time to visit New York; and their interest is piqued thanks to th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PM[SHARE]Contrary to popular belief, more than one worthy show opened on Broadway this past season, although admittedly Hamilton has become a much-ballyhooed phenomenon in the culture at large. T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
An Indian summer, as a character defines it in Gregory S. Moss's play, is a time in late August when " the animals, the birds, even the plants" are "a little stunned that it’s still wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Don and Karla meet because their mothers share a room in a cancer hospital, in Halley Feiffer's bawdy and tender new play, which has two attention-grabbing aspects to it: Its title is 22 wor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15PM[SHARE]New York Times drama critic Charles Isherwood inadvertently sparked a controversy when, in a discussion of the 2016 Tony Awards, he commented about Hamilton: "I do find it slightly puzzling …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AM[SHARE]The full 11-minute video of Late Late Show and Tony Awards host James Corden driving through traffic leading his guests Lin-Manuel Miranda, Audra McDonald, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jane Krak…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:21AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 5, 2016
Below are the winners of the 61st Annual Drama Desk Awards as they become available, with an asterisk and in red. The Humans and The Royale received Special Drama Desk Awards for Outst…
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