Monday, November 30, 2015
Holiday Gifts for Theater Lovers: My recommendations for shows, theater subscriptions, theater books, cast recordings posters, and show-related doo-dads to get as gifts for the theater lover…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 28, 2015
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in November? Answer these 13 questions and see. Tagged: Al Pacino, Barbra Streisand, Break A Leg, Broken Legs exhibition on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29AM[SHARE]Friday, November 27, 2015
How shows and performers and theater people gave thanks on Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving from #WaitressMusical and Jessie Mueller! pic.twitter.com/PLEq0oY9KB " Waitress Musical (@Waitress…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2015
The 89th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has 41 big balloons (17 of them really big), 27 floats, 1,100 cheerleaders & dancers; more than 1,000 clowns; 12 marching bands ̵…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Theater is "ephemeral," says Maggie Smith " "every performance is like a ghost; it's there and then it's gone" " but a theater lover is for life. This helps explain my fourth annual Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2015
What would make a woman leave her husband and three small children? The reason that Nora gives in "A Doll's House" shocked audiences when Ibsen wrote his play in 1879, and the final scene st…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25PM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2015
During Thanksgiving week, there is plenty to do besides travel and talk to your relatives. Performing Thanksgiving Day on Broadway: Chicago, Dames at Sea, Finding Neverland, On Your Feet, an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 22, 2015
"Night is a Room" is the last of Naomi Wallace's plays in the Signature season devoted to her work, and it is the most gratifying" but only for the first half. In place of her other plays' g…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PM[SHARE]Below is the schedule for Broadway shows during Thanksgiving week. The titles are linked to my reviews or other information, and a collection of photographs, about each show. (Those shows wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 21, 2015
“I’ve always been SHY/ I confess that I’m SHY,” Jackie Hoffman sings as Princess Winnifred the Woebegone in the Transport Group’s revival of “Once U…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AM[SHARE]To mark the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will present “No Longer Sile…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AM[SHARE]Friday, November 20, 2015
In "Mourning Sun," a beautifully acted new play by Antu Yacob, two young teenagers in Ethiopia both love to sing and dance to Michael Jackson. The "sun" part of the title is clear from the g…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2015
Yes, people have been telling actors to “break a leg” for hundreds of years, but not for the reason you may think, according to Rebekah Lazaridis in the video below. An actress s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:03PM[SHARE]"Steve," a play produced by The New Group at the Signature Center, begins and ends with its characters singing show tunes, which is a lovely and appropriate touch by director Cynthia Nixon, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Today is the second annual #LoveTheatreDay, originating in the United Kingdom but spread throughout the world. This afternoon, Spring Awakening will perform at the White House, and simultane…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PM[SHARE]It sounded like a good match: Batman and Lost Boy movie director Joel Schumacher, versatile master of action and suspense, in his New York stage debut directing a play by Jennifer Haley, a w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:16PM[SHARE]In its 18th year, The Lion King is now the third longest-running musical on Broadway. To celebrate, Disney has filmed the breathtaking opening number “Circle of Life” in 360 degr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM[SHARE]Monday, November 16, 2015
A View From The Bridge, one of Arthur Miller's most popular plays, has been on Broadway four times before, most recently just five years ago, starring Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:14PM[SHARE]Two separate revivals of plays by Arthur Miller on the centennial of his birth illustrate two core aims of his work:Â "I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to cha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:14PM[SHARE]A View From The Bridge, one of Arthur Miller's most popular plays, has been on Broadway four times before, most recently just five years ago, starring Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30PM[SHARE]Incident at Vichy, presented by the Signature Theater in the first major New York production since its short Broadway run in 1964, is intelligent, well acted, and occasionally so relevant th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 15, 2015
Misery on Broadway is the latest adaptation of Stephen King's story about a writer who's imprisoned by a berserk fan. It's not as good as either King's novel nor the movie, but it's likely t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:09PM[SHARE]Misery on Broadway is the latest adaptation of Stephen King's story about a writer who's imprisoned by a berserk fan. It's not as good as either King's novel nor the movie, but it's likely t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:45PM[SHARE]My cousin Bobby, a tie-dyed Deadhead, invited me to Madison Square Garden to see the free Dead & Company concert, which I found enough of an eye opener to write a piece for Howlround on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:10PM[SHARE]The publicists ask for the review to run no earlier than 7:30 Sunday Nov 15 Misery Review: Bruce Willis' Broadway Debut in Faded Copy of Stephen King Misery on Broadway is the latest adaptat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 14, 2015
“There is nothing more important than the arts in a time of crisis,” Judith Light says in the video below, asked at the annual Sardi’s luncheon at the American Theatre Crit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Today is Veteran’s Day, a good time to talk about how the arts have helped veterans, and how veterans have contributed to the arts. Theater helped military veteran Adam Driver adjust t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2015
Reading 50 answers to “What’s the most exciting show you’ve ever seen?” is a lesson in the continuing power of theater — great to keep in mind as we sort throug…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 8, 2015
Some 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated a few months after Pearl Harbor, by order of President Roosevelt. George Takei and his family were among them. The actor, best known…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:51PM[SHARE]The Connor family is like any other middle class American family, except that Father Arnold is catatonic, and wearing a clown wig, makeup and a diaper; Mother Paige is morally opposed to cle…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10PM[SHARE]Some 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated a few months after Pearl Harbor, by order of President Roosevelt. George Takei and his family were among them. The actor best known as Sulu …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Loading more stories…
