Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Take this quiz and find out whether you’re Aaron Burr (Leslie Odom Jr.) Thomas Jefferson (Daveed Diggs) King George III (Jonathan Groff) George Washington (Christopher Jackson) or Alex…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:53AM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2015
It didn't seem possible to like Hamilton more than I already do — until they announced that there would be a ten dollar lottery for front-row seats at every public performance on Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2015
Bernadette Peters and Andrew Rannells play host to Broadway Barks 17 on July 11, 2015, with dozens of Broadway stars helping local animal rescue and adoption agencies find permanent homes fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 11, 2015
Roger Rees, the Tony winning actor and director, died on July 10 at age 71, after a short illness. A familiar face on television — he was the snobbish Robin Colcord on  “Cheer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 9, 2015
In some ways, the Pan Asian Repertory Theater's wonderfully choreographed and beautifully designed production of "Sayonara" could not be better timed. The 1987 musical, adapted from James Mi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57PM[SHARE]Instead of looking back at my life in years since I graduated from college, I look at them in terms of those four shows,” Matt Shingledecker says in the video below, recorded after he …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2015
"Well, where can I charge it?" the theatergoer at Hand to God allegedly asked after the usher gave him back his phone. It had been confiscated because he had tried to plug it into a (fake) o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Monday, July 6, 2015
Shows for Days, starring Patti LuPone as a ruthless regional diva and Michael Urie as a sweet stand-in for playwright Douglas Carter Beane, dramatizes Beane's memories of his introduction to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 5, 2015
It is her 41st birthday, and Jess Stockton, who never thought she would live so long, has invited her two younger sisters and their mates to spend the weekend at their famous dead father's C…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 4, 2015
There seems to be a resurgence in interest in American history on stage, although musical theater that takes American history as its subject has been called a "vastly underexplored genre.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2015
It’s hard to come up with a comprehensive list for July — not because there are so little to see, but so much — summer theater festivals, FREE theatrical concerts like the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AM[SHARE]Tony winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell reflects on bringing On Your Feet, the Estefan story, to Broadway. This is the fourth in a series of 12 videos that offer a behind-t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Jennifer Hudson makes her Broadway debut as Shug Avery in the revival of The Color Purple, which is scheduled to open at the Bernard B. Jacobs on December 10. The production originated at Lo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2015
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in June? Take these 13 questions and find out. Tagged: 2015 Tony Awards, Annaleigh Ashford, Barack Obama song, Broadway and ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20AM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2015
Shows For Days is a new play by Douglas Carter Beane, directed by Jerry Zaks. with a six-member cast including Patti LuPone and Michael Urie, based on the Beane’s fond memories of h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46PM[SHARE]In "Happy Days," Samuel Beckett's bleak but compassionate 1961 play being given a witty, compelling production at The Flea, Brooke Adams as Winnie is buried in a mound of dirt, sometimes wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2015
The day-long New York City Gay Pride Parade presented in 90 seconds in this video.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 27, 2015
In the midst of this week of momentous change, the New-York Historical Society has opened an exhibition, Art As Activism, of graphic art from the 1930s to the 1970s that promoted various cau…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AM[SHARE]Friday, June 26, 2015
The Supreme Court ruled today, by a 5 to 4 vote, that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage. The decision mentions the word “dignity” 30 times. The decis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2015
The mass shooting in a Charleston, S.C. church occurred on the same day that a play opened Off-Broadway featuring a mass shooting. This provoked a number of questions, which I attempt to add…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:50PM[SHARE]For the 15th year in a row, Bryant Park will be the site of free lunchtime concerts of current Broadway shows, on Thursdays in July and August between 12:30 – 1:30 p.m Thursday, July 9…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:10AM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2015
"The purpose of art is to wake us up," playwright Paula Vogel said over the weekend, and that's true even during the summer. Week in New York Theater Reviews My review of The Qualms Chris's …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 18, 2015
In Rajiv Joseph's new two-character play, which a hyperbolic Hollywood agent might describe as Abbott and Costello Meets Game of Thrones, we learn that the emperor who had commissioned the T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Is it the deadening office atmosphere, or is it their own ambition, that have warped most of the cubicle workers who have artistic aspirations in "Gloria," Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' shocking d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2015
If The Tempest that has now opened in Central Park feels too earth-bound, one can lay much of the blame on forces beyond its control. The production at the Delacorte of Shakespeare's mystica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 14, 2015
"I'm not that kind of person," Chris (Jeremy Shamos) says right before the orgy is set to begin, in "The Qualms," the latest comedy by Bruce Norris. What Chris means is he is not the kind of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]Here is the list of winners of the 2015 Tony Awards. Here is a seven-minute video of highlights of the three hour broadcast. Entire 3 1/2 minutes on Tonys to Best Play nominees — less …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 10, 2015
At "10 out of 12," Anne Washburn's new ambitious and exasperating backstage play set during a technical rehearsal for a new play, the audience was full of theatrical royalty, including playw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:29PM[SHARE]The Fall season on Broadway has begun unusually early this year – – so early it's hard to call the new season "Fall 2015." with the opening in May of An Act of God, and planned J…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:43PM[SHARE]Monday, June 8, 2015
2015 Tony winning best actor Michael Cerveris, Beth Malone and Sydney Lucas do “Ring of Keys’ from Fun Home at the 2015 Tony Awards. In the song, Alison, a lesbian cartoonist (Be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 7, 2015
There’s a kid in the middle of nowhere sitting there, living for Tony performances singin’ and flippin’ along with the Pippins and Wickeds and Kinkys, Matildas and Mormo…
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