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 as Sulu …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 5, 2015
Kwame Kwei-Armah, the artistic director of Center Stage, has been leaving Baltimore over the past few weeks to go to prison in New York. He's also been busy in homeless shelters and recr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16PM[SHARE]From the first moments of On Your Feet, the Broadway musical celebrating the life and music of Emilio and Gloria Estefan, I thought: This show is sure to be a hit despite what any critics sa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:13PM[SHARE]From the first moments of On Your Feet, the Broadway musical celebrating the life and music of Emilio and Gloria Estefan, I thought: This show is sure to be a hit despite what any critics sa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:35PM[SHARE]The Public Theater’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit, which travels to prisons and homeless shelters in all five boroughs before performing back at the Public’s East Village theater, Â…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2015
A new month comes with two traditions " my monthly quiz testing how well you were paying attention to theater in October. and my monthly preview of the shows opening in New York in Nov…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 1, 2015
Is there some reason why an American audience should care about the future of the British monarchy? That's the question that hangs over King Charles III, playwright Mike Bartlett's cleve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50PM[SHARE]Is there some reason why an American audience should care about the future of the British monarchy? That's the question that hangs over King Charles III, playwright Mike Bartlett's cleverly …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 31, 2015
The shows opening in November, along with the usual complement of stars (Al Pacino, Bruce Willis, George Takei) are unusually diverse, including those on Broadway, with a play about Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:13PM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2015
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in October? Answer these 11 questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2015
Nobody applauds Keira Knightley when she first appears on stage for her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin. The audience doesn't recognize her; she's in the background under faded light, the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37PM[SHARE]Nobody applauds Keira Knightley when she first appears on stage for her Broadway debut in Thérèse Raquin. The audience doesn't recognize her; she's in the background under faded light, the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Ticket Givewaway: Win two tickets to see Spring Awakening for free. I love this show; it’s joyful and beautiful, with an exciting and appealing cast, 17 of whom are making their Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Annaleigh Ashford has starred on Broadway in Wicked, Legally Blonde, Hair and Kinky Boots; accepted a Tony for what she called "the worst dancing that ever happened on Broadway” an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36PM[SHARE]Annaleigh Ashford has starred on Broadway in Wicked, Legally Blonde, Hair and Kinky Boots; accepted a Tony for what she called "the worst dancing that ever happened on Broadway” and po…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PM[SHARE]Monday, October 26, 2015
Dress-up has never seemed more sophisticated than in "Before Your Very Eyes," the intriguing 70-minute theater piece at the Public Theater by the Gob Squad, the European experimental troupe,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:14PM[SHARE]Two shows are opening on Broadway this coming week, and four Off-Broadway, to finish off this busy month of October The Week in New York Theater Reviews My review of Futurity In "Futurity," …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 25, 2015
The title for Stephen Karam's new play “The Humans,” which takes place during a family's Thanksgiving dinner, may come from a line of dialogue by a character who talks about the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2015
At the curtain call it struck home what's special about the first Broadway production of Dames at Sea, the 1930's musical created in the 1960s: Only six performers take bows. Busby Berkeley …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42PM[SHARE]Fun and funny, full of rousing melodies and exciting bouts of tap dancing performed by six true talents, the revival at the Helen Hayes is, according to the show's website, "reimagined for t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Daphne Rubin-Vega, the original Mimi in the original Rent, is so good portraying the initially endearing Dolores and eight other characters in “Empanada Loca, “which has now open…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06PM[SHARE]Amy Carter is 47 years old now, but she is forever 12 in history, and also in First Daughter Suite, Michael John LaChiusa's fanciful musical at the Public Theater. In the musical, howeve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37PM[SHARE]First Daughter Suite, Â Michael LaChiusa’s musical focusing as much on the First Ladies Nixon, Carter, Ford, Reagan, and Bush as on their daughters, can be considered a sequel of sor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
In "Futurity," a genre-bending show created by the indie band The Lisps, a soldier during the Civil War contacts the daughter of a famous 19th century British poet to help him build "a machi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
At least one play a day is opening in the week ahead, as it has in the past two weeks of October, the busiest month of the Fall theater season. Check out Dames at Sea, First Daughter Suite, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 17, 2015
"I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world,” wrote Arthur Miller, who would have turned 100 today. Still one of the most-produced playwrights in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50AM[SHARE]Friday, October 16, 2015
Audiences are finding the revival of Cloud Nine at the Atlantic Theater uncomfortable, but not in the same way audiences did in 1981, when it was Caryl Churchill's second-ever play in New Yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2015
"Perfect Arrangement," a socially conscious comedy that marks playwright Topher Payne's debut in New York, is his take on what's come to be called the Lavendar Scare of the 1950's, an off-sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 14, 2015
The two characters in The Gin Game do little more than play card games and, once, (spoiler alert) dance. But they're portrayed by James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson " with some 130 years of a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:50PM[SHARE]Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years A Slave) is making her New York stage debut in ‘Eclipsed,’ a play by Danai Gurira (The Walking Dead) set in 2003 during the Liberian civil war, about fou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08PM[SHARE]The two characters in The Gin Game do little more than play card games and, once, (spoiler alert) dance. But they're portrayed by James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson " with some 130 years of a…
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