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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:39PM[SHARE]When Anna Deavere Smith’s one-woman show “Let Me Down Easy” opened at Second Stage Theater in 2009, there was no more timely play — and now that, as she announced tod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:51PM[SHARE]Monday, February 29, 2016
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in February? Take this quiz — which includes questions involving winners of the Oscars, the Grammys, the Tonys, and the P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 28, 2016
Seven of the 20 performers up for Academy Awards have been " or are about to be " on Broadway: (Click on any photograph to see it enlarged) Actor in a Leading Role Bryan Cranston, nom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 27, 2016
April Reign created the #OscarsSoWhite Twitter hashtag that resonated with so many people that it helped foment a national debate over the issue of inclusion in Hollywood. She’s been s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PM[SHARE]Friday, February 26, 2016
There are two main differences between the candidate debates on TV and the one in Old Hats, in which Bill Irwin and David Shiner don too-white teeth and try to one-up each other: 1. These cl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:28PM[SHARE]There are two main differences between the candidate debates on TV and the one in Old Hats, in which Bill Irwin and David Shiner don too-white teeth and try to one-up each other: 1. These cl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:19PM[SHARE]The most intriguing element in the new production of O'Neill's Hughie, which marks Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut, is Christopher Oram's set. This is not just because the hotel lobby is me…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
The most intriguing element in the new production of O'Neill's Hughie, which marks Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut, is Christopher Oram's set. This is not just because the hotel lobby is me…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2016
“Dot” is the fourth play that has opened recently that includes an elderly character suffering from Alzheimer’s " the others are The Humans, Her Requiem,  and Smokefa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Today, Bobby Lopez turns 41, which seems as good a time as any to resurrect this article I wrote about him and Jeff Marx on September 10, 2009, just as their hit Tony-winning musical Avenue …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PM[SHARE]"Her Requiem," Greg Pierce's improbable if skillfully acted new drama, now at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater, is supposedly about a 17-year-old high school student's decision to take a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30AM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2016
There is an unintentionally funny sign posted at the Signature Center outside "Angel Reapers," a show by Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry about the 18th century religious movement known as the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03PM[SHARE]"Smokefall," a fable-like play by Noah Haidle about a family from Grand Rapids, Michigan, feels influenced by the work of Thornton Wilder, with its mix of the homespun and the metaphysical. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2016
The Humans, Stephen Karam's nuanced slice-of-life drama that unfolds during a family's Thanksgiving dinner, has transferred intact to the Helen Hayes, in a production that has become even mo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42PM[SHARE]The Humans, Stephen Karam's nuanced slice-of-life drama that unfolds during a family's Thanksgiving dinner, has transferred intact to the Helen Hayes, in a production that has become even mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24PM[SHARE]“Circle Mirror Transformation” ran at Playwrights Horizons, opening on October 13, 2009 and closing after several extensions on January 31, 2010. It was a remarkable debut for pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Hamilton won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, Lin-Manuel Miranda accepting the award with – what else? — a rap: That the winner of the musical theater catego…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PM[SHARE]Monday, February 15, 2016
The cast of Hamilton will perform their show’s opening number live via satellite from the Richard Rodgers Theater sometime during the 2016 Grammy broadcast, which will air starting at …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PM[SHARE]"Hamilton" the musical currently presents three U.S. presidents every night " George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison " but nearly every one of the 43 presidents has been portr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 14, 2016
Kiss Me Kate; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Stage Kiss: There sure are a lot of kisses in the theater. Below: Elizabeth Taylor kisses John Culllum in Private Lives in 1983, and Tallulah Bankhead…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 13, 2016
Robert Sean Leonard was 20 years old when he portrayed one of the boarding school students inspired by teacher Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poets Society. In Prodigal Son, John Pa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:21PM[SHARE]Robert Sean Leonard was 20 years old when he portrayed one of the boarding school students inspired by teacher Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poets Society. In Prodigal Son, John Patrick S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 11, 2016
Below is a two minute video from Papermill Playhouse’s world premiere production of A Bronx Tale: The Musical, with music by Alan Menken (Newsies, Aladdin, Little Shop of Horrors,) whi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:39PM[SHARE]Five years after the Gershwin brothers debuted Porgy and Bess, a Gershwin protégée born Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky (aka Vernon Duke) composed the all-black musical Cabin in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:26AM[SHARE]Five years after the Gershwin brothers debuted Porgy and Bess, a Gershwin protégée born Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky (aka Vernon Duke) composed the all-black musical Cabin in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Allee Willis has a special interest in the cast album of the Broadway revival of The Color Purple that will be released on February 12th. She wrote the music and lyrics, along with two fello…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
A stage adaptation of Frozen, the highest-grossing animated film of all time, will arrive on Broadway in 2018, Disney Theatrical announced. The stage musical, featuring the songs of the husb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:29PM[SHARE]Monday, February 8, 2016
The Woodsman, a nearly wordless play with puppets that tells the story of how the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz lost both his human body and his heart, arrives at New World Stages after seve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 7, 2016
If you were to donate your brain to science, science would return it. So stop it.” So says Dame Helen Mirren, before taking a sip from a bottle of Budweiser. Tagged: Budweiser commerci…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42PM[SHARE]Those looking to unlock the secret to the success of "Then She Fell," the Third Rail Projects' immersive take on Lewis Carroll and his writings now entering its fourth year, might start with…
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