Sunday, April 24, 2016
There are good reasons to savor Waitress, the sweet and tart new musical confection about love and pie, deliciously performed at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater…It is being promoted…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 23, 2016
William Shakespeare is said to have died 400 years ago today, on April 23rd, 1616, at the age of 52, Â having written about death many times and in many ways, as the chart below makes clea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2016
As acclaimed as it is, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” will not sweep all the New York theater awards in 2016, most of which are awarded in May and June. “Hamilton…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2016
American Psycho, a musical about a fashion-conscious serial killer, is not the most misbegotten show ever on Broadway. It only feels that way for a couple of moments " such as the produc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:49PM[SHARE]“American Psycho,” a musical about a fashion-conscious serial killer, is not the most misbegotten show ever on Broadway. It only feels that way for a couple of moments " such as …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 2016 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The winners will be annou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2016
On one level, Alice Birch's weirdly named and audacious play, which has opened at Soho Rep, presents five vignettes of familiar every-day encounters: a man and a woman graphically flirting a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24PM[SHARE]She Loves Me and American Psycho lead with eight nominations apiece in the nominations for the 2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards. The winners will be announced on Monday, May 9th. OUTSTANDING…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38AM[SHARE]In one way, Hamilton Clancy has outlived William Shakespeare, who died 400 years ago this week at the age of 52. Clancy is older than that. But Clancy has also died many times, and it's all …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:45AM[SHARE] Few could have been surprised that the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama (and $10,000) was awarded to Lin-Manuel Miranda for the musical Hamilton, who after all has already won an astonish…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his musical “Hamilton.” The choice was widely expected. In my first review of Hamilton, Off Broadway, I wrote "Ham…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2016
The producers of Hamilton have agreed to give the musical's original cast members an unspecified share of the profits, which are reportedly some half a million dollars a week and sure to gro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 16, 2016
The Father, a deliberately disorienting new play starring Frank Langella, is the second work that I've seen on a New York stage in the last two months that focuses on a character struggling …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:56PM[SHARE]The Father, a deliberately disorienting new play starring Frank Langella, is the second work that I've seen on a New York stage in the last two months that focuses on a character struggling …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Nathan the Wise, a fascinating old play that recalls an era when Jews, Muslims and Christians got along, begins at Classic Stage with an acknowledgement of the present: All the actors are ar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39PM[SHARE]Nathan the Wise, a fascinating old play that recalls an era when Jews, Muslims and Christians got along, begins at Classic Stage with an acknowledgement of the present: All the actors are ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2016
"Hamilton The Revolution," published April 12, 2016, has a long subtitle on the frontispiece in the style of 18th century literature: “Being the complete libretto of the Broadway Music…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2016
Politics has invaded New York — and New York theater — even more so than usual this week. The Stop Cats movement is a prank " as (Andrew Briedis)Â Annoying Actor Friend explain…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2016
Joel Grey, he tells us in "Master of Ceremonies," is "one of only eight people to win both the Tony and the Academy Award for the same role" " in his case the Emcee in "Cabaret." It's the ro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43PM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2016
Anne Washburn's new play sounds like the premise for the movies The Big Chill and The Return of the Secaucus Seven " a group of old friends reunite in a bucolic ranch house in the Texas Hill…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 3, 2016
August Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein were among the winners in the UK’s 40th anniversary Olivier Awards, named aft…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PM[SHARE]Are theatergoers fools for April? Â We’ve survived some dopey April Fool’s Day jokes (Google’s Mic Drop; Brokelyn’s promise of a free Hamilton concert) and one hila…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 2, 2016
What Andrew Schneider achieves on stage literally using smoke and mirrors leaves theatergoers as astonished as 19th century audiences must have felt watching Lumière’s "Arrival of the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53AM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2016
This month only seven shows will open on Broadway — “only” because April is usually the most intense of theater-going months. (Last April there were 14 Broadway openings.) …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2016
Of some 100 productions of The Crucible scheduled this year in the U.S., director Ivo van Hove's eerie, often enigmatic but periodically powerful Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's most fre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10PM[SHARE]Alexander Hamilton is not a character in "1776" " and John Adams, the central character in "1776" is not a character in "Hamilton." But both are entertaining history lessons about the foundi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2016
The Humans received the most nominations this year, six. Futurity, Guards at the Taj and John all received five. The 31st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in March? Answer these ten questions to find out. Tagged: Akosua Busia from Eclipsed, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patty Duke R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:54AM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2016
In Head of Passes, Phylicia Rashad portrays Shelah, a woman so religiously devout she objects to Deviled eggs. Her faith is tested in the Public Theater's well-acted, richly atmospheric prod…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:07PM[SHARE]In Head of Passes, Phylicia Rashad portrays Shelah, a woman so religiously devout she objects to Deviled eggs. Her faith is tested in the Public Theater's well-acted, richly atmospheric prod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2016
World Theatre Day messages: “The very act of theatre-making is a fundamentally utopian act….[P]erformance is creating community. . In this time of profound discord..how do we …
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