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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2016
After collaborating on two bluegrass albums, Steve Martin and singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, two celebrated Texas-born talents, decided to create a musical around the songs. The result is …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Dry Powder is a play about a private equity firm that tries to buy a luggage company, but it is not as dry as it sounds, and not just because its cast includes John Krasinski (formerly of Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33PM[SHARE]Dry Powder is a play about a private equity firm that tries to buy a luggage company, but it is not as dry as it sounds, and not just because its cast includes John Krasinski (formerly of Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 20, 2016
Is falling in love just a chemical response that you can recreate in the laboratory? That's one of the fascinating questions addressed in The Effect, a play about two volunteers in a clinica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PM[SHARE]Hamilton, Taylor Mac, Broadway Black, Lupita Nyongo in Eclipsed, Playwrights Horizons, Mark Rylance, Timothee Chalomet in Prodigal Son, Cynthia Erivo in The Color Purple, Lois Smith — …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59AM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2016
"Shock," Michelle Williams says, as Jeff Daniels rushes her into the messy break room of an antiseptic corporate office, alarmed. It's the first word in "Blackbird," a play by David Harrower…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
I left the Roundabout's largely terrific revival of "She Loves Me" at Studio 54 singing most of the beautiful songs in my head. I'll confess that I also entered Studio 54 singing those songs…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17PM[SHARE]In "The Way West," Mona Mansour's timely black comedy at Labyrinth Theater Company about bankruptcy and the American way, Dierdre O'Connell plays a mother who likes to tell her two grown dau…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Darja, the central character in Ironbound, never leaves a barren bus stop on an ugly stretch of post-industrial New Jersey, but Martyna Majok's rich play about a poor immigrant feels always …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:58PM[SHARE]Darja, the central character in Ironbound, never leaves a barren bus stop on an ugly stretch of post-industrial New Jersey, but Martyna Majok's rich play about a poor immigrant feels always …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Disaster is a campy spoof of 1970s disaster movies mashed up with well-sung snippets of dozens of 1970s pop hits in order to produce moments of hilarity. I counted at least seven such moment…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PM[SHARE]In It Can't Happen Here, one of the candidates for president of the United States declares "the people are sick to death of political chatter…It's time to ACT" — and promises to "bui…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AM[SHARE]"This is definitely the room where it happened," President Barack Obama said at the beginning of the daylong visit to the White House of the cast of the Broadway musical Hamilton. The presid…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:38AM[SHARE]Monday, March 14, 2016
Near the end of the bluegrass musical "Southern Comfort," a character named Lola Cola visits the parents of her lover Robert Eads to tell them that he has died. "Get off our property," says …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2016
In the revival of "The Robber Bridegroom," a bluegrass musical folk tale, there are two sides to the character played by Steven Pasquale, an 18th century Mississippi Robin Hood " both a Sout…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:38PM[SHARE]Friday, March 11, 2016
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Bright Star for free. Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's new musical Bright Star opens at Broadway's Shubert Theater on March 24, 2016, with a country a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2016
"The Royale" is a 90 minute blast of inventive staging that is "loosely inspired" (as we are told in the program) by the life of Jack Johnson, the first African-American to become hea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 9, 2016
In the Heights opened on March 9, 2008 — eight years ago today. By the time it closed exactly 34 months later, it had won five Tony Awards including best musical, and launched the Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AM[SHARE]Monday, March 7, 2016
The arts operate at the core of human identity…After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place ~ Cate Blanchett An apt comment for Arts Advocacy Day But is it gravi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:13PM[SHARE]Today begins Americans for the Arts two-day Arts Advocacy Day, #AAD2016. Hundreds of advocates travel to DC to persuade Congress that the arts matter. Here is a graphic that American for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 6, 2016
What's most impressive about the Broadway production of Eclipsed, Danai Gurira's forceful drama about the effect of war on five women in Liberia, is that it is opening on Broadway at all. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:40PM[SHARE]What's most impressive about the Broadway production of Eclipsed, Danai Gurira's forceful drama about the effect of war on five women in Liberia, is that it is opening on Broadway at all. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 5, 2016
In a Presidential campaign year that includes headlines like CNN's recent "Donald Trump defends size of his penis,"Â one welcomes the premise behind Richard Nelson's new three-play cycle,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:09PM[SHARE]In a Presidential campaign year that includes headlines like CNN's recent "Donald Trump defends size of his penis," one welcomes the premise behind Richard Nelson's new three-play cycle, The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:22PM[SHARE]Friday, March 4, 2016
Near the end of his alarming and charming rap guide to climate change, Baba Brinkman, who describes himself as a Canadian tree-hugger and the world's only peer-reviewed rapper, stops his rap…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2016
Danai Gurira is best known for slicing off the heads of zombies in The Walking Dead, but that is about to change. Her play Eclipsed is opening on Broadway March 6, starring Oscar-winner …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42PM[SHARE]Danai Gurira is best known for slicing off the heads of zombies in The Walking Dead, but that is about to change. Her play Eclipsed is opening on Broadway March 6, starring Oscar-winner Lupi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Why would Trevor Nunn, director of the musicals Les Miserables and Cats, choose one of Shakespeare's least-revived plays as the first he's staged with an American company, for an audience in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:46PM[SHARE]The news that Tracy Letts’ play, “Superior Donuts,” which was on Broadway in 2009, is being adapted as a TV series starring Broadway regular and Spotlight co-star Bri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2016
The season is suddenly in bloom. Six shows are opening on Broadway in March, including a musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell; the next installment of Arthur Miller as interpreted by av…
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