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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:23PM[SHARE]There is some theater opening in June in New York, but for another week the focus is elsewhere: Awards! Barbra Streisand will be a presenter at the Tony Awards next Sunday, which will be the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 4, 2016
Muhammad Ali, who died Friday at 74, was among “one of the most famous faces on Earth” as the world heavyweight boxing champion. Fewer know he also starred on Broadway. In 196…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:32PM[SHARE]Broadway knows how to finish a song, judging from these songs by ten current shows, sung at the 2016 Stars in the Alley concert by cast members from Aladdin, An American in Paris, Chicago, F…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2016
Actors train to get into character, but how do they get out of it? What happens at the end of a night's intense performance, or at the conclusion of a run? Watch the videos below for answers…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:51AM[SHARE]This you’ve got to see: @TheSavionGlover joins cast of @shufflealongbwy in tap dance on @MayaAndMarty showhttps://t.co/4rC4su5IPZ " New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) June 2, 2016 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Below is a schedule of June theater organized chronologically by opening date. Each show title is linked to a relevant website. Keep in mind that some of the hottest theater this month is at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2016
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in May? Answer these dozen questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:58PM[SHARE]Monday, May 30, 2016
In "Incognito," a pathologist steals Albert Einstein's brain; a man who has no short-term memory keeps on asking for his wife, whom he doesn't realize had died; two women meet on a blind dat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 29, 2016
This season's Broadway stats, according to The Broadway League: 13,317,980 visitors (up 1.6 percent from 2015) $1.373 billion gross (up .6 percent from last year) Average ticket price: $103.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2016
In “Paramour,” its first musical produced specifically for Broadway, Cirque du Soleil grafts a Hollywood love triangle onto its high-flying acrobatics. Jeremy Kushnier portrays …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Some two-thirds of the way through "The Total Bent," Marty Roy, the musical prodigy son of the charismatic gospel-singing, faith-healing, white-hating Papa Joe Roy, struts up on a stage that…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2016
For Ana Villafañe, the New York theater season just ended can be summed up in a line from “On Your Feet,” the show in which she stars: “This is what an American looks li…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32PM[SHARE]Monday, May 23, 2016
Rajiv Joseph's “Guards at the Taj “won Best New American Play and $1,000 at the 61st annual Obie Awards. The Humans won for playwriting and best performance. Eclipsed won for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13PM[SHARE]Has Hell ever sounded so thrilling? Hadestown, a sung-through musical derived from the myth of Orpheus and expanded from a concept album by Anais Mitchell, mixes sweet and sexy folk, rocking…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 22, 2016
The three short plays that Signature Theater is reviving together in a single production " Edward Albee's The Sandbox, Maria Irene Fornés' Drowning, and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37PM[SHARE]“What we do deeply, deeply matters,” George C. Wolfe, director and book writer of Shuffle Along, told a group of out-of-town theater owners and presenters in another week focused…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2016
Gabe meets Annie for the first time in the bar of a bowling alley. He asks her to watch him bowl in the tournament the following Saturday. "No! Definitely no. " "Why not?" "Because if it's b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:32PM[SHARE]Friday, May 20, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton won 2016 Drama League Awards, for  distinguished performance and Outstanding Musical, respectively. The Humans won for Outstanding Play. The Colo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2016
"Don't get me wrong, I do care about this country," Joe Morton as comedian Dick Gregory says in Turn Me Loose. "Where else but in America can a poor black boy like Michael Jackson grow up to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:55PM[SHARE]“Don't get me wrong, I do care about this country," Joe Morton as comedian Dick Gregory says in Turn Me Loose. "Where else but in America can a poor black boy like Michael Jackson grow…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2016
There are so many theater festivals in New York during the summer  that there is arguably more theater to see during the "off season" than during the regular theater season, and it is oft…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2016
While Broadway is reacquainting audiences with Shuffle Along, Off-Broadway is opening our eyes to another landmark Broadway show from the 1920s " this one an all-Jewish, lesbian-themed drama…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:30PM[SHARE]While Broadway is reacquainting audiences with Shuffle Along, Off-Broadway is opening our eyes to another landmark Broadway show from the 1920s " this one an all-Jewish, Lesbian-themed drama…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2016
The choreographers for Shuffle Along, Hamilton AND On Your Feet all won the 2016 Fred and Adele Astaire Award, which also awarded Jane Krakowski for her tango in She Loves Me. Shuffle Alo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PM[SHARE]There is one odd and persistent lapse in a Broadway season just ended that is being touted as the most inclusive in memory. Many of the Broadway shows that opened this season focus on what u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 15, 2016
Daphne's Dive, a play about a family of regulars at a North Philly bar, is put together by a family of exciting artists: Samira Wiley (Poussey in Orange is the New Black) and Daphne Rubin-Ve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28PM[SHARE]Daphne's Dive, a play about a family of regulars at a North Philly bar, is put together by a family of exciting artists:Â Samira Wiley (Poussey in Orange is the New Black) and Daphne Rubi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24PM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton has been a phenomenon for more than a year now. How much have you been paying attention? Answer these 20 questions and find out. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2016
Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote 11 Broadway musicals; five remain among the most popular ever written. Rodgers and Hart wrote some three dozen. Rodgers and Sondheim wrote only one, which neith…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:59PM[SHARE]Rodgers and Sondheim wrote only one, which neither of them liked. Do I Hear A Waltz? is a perfect selection of the Encores! concert series at New York City Center. The late Richard Rodgers s…
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