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: New York Theater at 07:37PM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber commissioned this 360° music video for "You're in the Band," a number from his Broadway show, School of Rock " The Musical. If you use a Chrome browser, you can place …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Ugly Lies The Bone, a new play with Mamie Gummer as a severely injured veteran, recalls the original spirit of the Roundabout Theater, which began 50 years ago in the basement below a superm…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:27PM[SHARE]Ugly Lies The Bone, a new play with Mamie Gummer as a severely injured veteran, recalls the original spirit of the Roundabout Theater, which began 50 years ago in the basement below a superm…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2015
The October avalanche continues, with ten theater openings this coming week, including one on Broadway, The Gin Game. Check out October theater openings The Week in New York Theater Reviews …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 10, 2015
When it was first announced that a cast including Kathleen Turner and Deborah Cox would be performing in an Off-Broadway play about a woman in a lesbian relationship who is secretly transgen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16PM[SHARE]Now that Would You Still Love Me If… has opened at New World Stages, the decision by Kathleen Turner, a Tony- and Oscar- nominated actress, to invest her time and talents in this unskilled…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2015
Barbara's pill-popping, chain-smoking, whiskey-swilling, crack-addicted and foul-mouthed family has gathered in a public park with a surprise for her " they are planning an intervention " in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]Thirty years after Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love” closed Off-Broadway, with a young actor named Bruce Willis as the understudy, the short four-character play is making its B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2015
It must have seemed like a fabulous idea – Basil Twist, the puppeteer so inventive that he just won a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant, using his artistry in collaboration with seve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2015
In the lobby of the theater where Clive Owen is making his Broadway debut in a revival of Harold Pinter's 1971 Old Times, a t-shirt on sale is printed with the single word "pause." Â That'…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:10PM[SHARE]Old Times, starring Clive Owen in his Broadway debut and directed by Douglas Hodge, is opening tonight at American Airlines Theater. Given both his acting talent and his love of Pinter, dire…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
The New York theater season is heating up this coming week, with nine shows opening, two on Broadway: Cloud Nine, Schooled, Old Times, Fool For Love, Sisters Follies Between Two Worlds, Fool…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2015
October is the  busiest theater month in New York during the fall and winter, with more shows opening than there are days in the month. Six Broadway shows are opening, heavy on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2015
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in September? Answer these 11 quiz questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Three New York theater artists were awarded the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowships, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Just a few days earlier, Miranda offered a first listen and the entire lyrics fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda is one of three theater artists to receive a 2015 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award. The others were puppeteer Basil Twist and set designer Mimi Lien. The fu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:42AM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2015
During the intermission for the Elevator Repair Service's "Fondly, Collette Richland," at the same time that a noticeable number of theatergoers fervidly exited New York Theatre Workshop for…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:29PM[SHARE]In a program note for Daddy Long Legs, director John Caird wonders why the 1912 novel on which the musical is based isn't considered a great American classic. I wonder the opposite " why its…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36PM[SHARE]In a program note for Daddy Long Legs, director John Caird wonders why the 1912 novel on which the musical is based isn't considered a great American classic. I wonder the opposite " why its…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 27, 2015
The Deaf West production of Spring Awakening at the Brooks Atkinson tangibly enhances an acclaimed musical about rebellious and repressed adolescents. By cleverly pairing deaf actors who are…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:52PM[SHARE]The Deaf West production of Spring Awakening at the Brooks Atkinson tangibly enhances an acclaimed musical about rebellious and repressed adolescents. By cleverly pairing deaf actors who are…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 25, 2015
"Sommerfugl" at the 4th Street Theater is a new Off-Off Broadway play inspired by the true story of a Danish man who had gender reassignment surgery, way back in 1930 — the same story …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2015
John Lahr reviewed New York theater for half a century, starting with a now-defunct Manhattan neighborhood weekly and ending as the longest-lasting chief drama critic for The New Yorker maga…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Seeing "The New Morality" the day after Thomas Bradshaw's sex-plicit “Fulfillment" gave the title of Harold Chapin's century-old comedy of manners far more irony than the playwright su…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]We are pleased to welcome noted theatre critic John Lahr back to Washington with this interview, conducted last week in New York. ————————R…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:10AM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2015
"Fulfillment," Thomas Bradshaw’s latest in-your-face play, which has opened at the Flea, offers much the same ironic moral lesson as the inspiration behind "Answered Prayers," the titl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:28PM[SHARE]Winners of the 11th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, honoring theaters and theater artists working Off-Off Broadway, are chosen from 145 individual artists, 57 productions and 55 t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 20, 2015
Broadway veterans Viola Davis, Jeffrey Tambor, Allison Janney, Uzo Aduba, Margo Martindale and Frances McDormand are among the winners of the 67th annual primetime Emmy awards. The complete …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PM[SHARE]Denzel Washington says he will direct and produce all 10 of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle plays (also known as the Pittsburgh Cycle) for HBO, one per year, over the next de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:25PM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2015
William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays (10 tragedies, 10 histories, 17 comedies) and 154 Sonnets — 884,647 words in all. He is said to have invented 1,700 words in the English language, in…
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