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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:13PM[SHARE]Winners in the 24 competitive categories and five special awards of the 69th annual Tony Awards for achievement on Broadway in red with an asterisk*. (Click on names of nominees and winn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 6, 2015
I predict people will party, parry and Tweet during the 69th annual Tony Awards Sunday night, and that there will be no more viewers than last year's average of 7.02 million, but those who w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42PM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2015
Basic questions such as the origin of the universe " Big Bang Theory vs. Divine Creation " may fiercely divide the world, but on stage at Studio 54, they are a source  of jokes by …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:50PM[SHARE]Basic questions such as the origin of the universe – Big Bang Theory vs. Divine Creation " may fiercely divide the world, but on stage at Studio 54, they are a source  of jok…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2015
All the excitement leading up to the 69th annual Tony Awards on June 7th can seem like so much hype, even to professional theater artists, several of whom have told me they never watch the a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2015
As a movie actor, Jesse Eisenberg is going from playing a jerk (Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network) to a supervillain (Lex Luthor in next year's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.) But i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04PM[SHARE]The 2015 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards  solved the dilemma of a dance-heavy Broadway season with a tie for An American in Paris and On The Town in two different categories –Â…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2015
Theater in New York doesn’t end when the Broadway season does. There are five shows opening on June 11th alone, which must be a record. There’s even a play opening on the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PM[SHARE]Below are my picks, and yours, for the 2015 Tony Awards " by which I mean, whom I would choose among the nominees. These are not my predictions of who will actually win; I’m willing to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27AM[SHARE]– Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming host the 2015 Tony Awards Sunday, June 7 from Radio City Music Hall. If, we asked our New York critic Jonathan Mandell, choosing the winners was…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 31, 2015
Winners of the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. (Winners marked in red and with an a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45PM[SHARE]The dancing on Broadway seems to have gotten bigger, and more original — even many plays this season had dancing in them — since I held a contest two years ago asking readers for…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 30, 2015
How well were you paying attention to the theater in May. Answer these 11 quiz questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:21PM[SHARE]Here are two public performances by Corey Cott, three years apart, at different free outdoor concerts, the first, two songs from the Broadway musical “Newsies” at Broadway in Bry…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM[SHARE]Friday, May 29, 2015
"Everybody should fall in love. It's like voting: It's a right we all should have," Jo's co-worker says to her in "Nice Girl," a play by Melissa Ross at Labyrinth Theater that, like "The Way…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2015
The 2015 Stars in the Alley free concert at Shubert Alley featured performances by the current casts of 18 Broadway musicals, including the longest-running. The host was Darren Criss, the ne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Here is a song from Fun Home, in which the three Bechdel children, whose father is (among other things) a funeral director, make up a commercial for the establishment, which they have nickna…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59PM[SHARE]Christian Borle plays William Shakespeare as a kind of Elizabethan Era Elvis in “Something Rotten.” Here he is performing “IT’s Hard to Be The Bard” at the Star…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2015
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is coming back to Lincoln Center, more relevant than ever. From June 10 to 21, Â the company will perform such works as: After the Rain Pas de Deux b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56PM[SHARE]“When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense," Robert De Niro said in a commencement address this past week to graduates of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Tw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
Why the recent boom in theatre about theatre? Patrick Stewart has portrayed a spaceship captain, a mutant, Scrooge, and Macbeth, but the character he’s performing this season on Broad…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PM[SHARE]It is Patrick Stewart’s skills as a performer - his life in the theater — that offer some of the major pleasures in the Broadway version of this slight, sweet, slow, sentimental …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]The only problem with “La Bete,” which has now opened on Broadway, is what certainly shot it down in 1991 — the play itself, an imitation Moliere comedy set in 17th century…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]Thanks primarily to the impressive performances of Lauria as the explosive coach and Light as his wife, “Lombardi” is nowhere near as bad as might be assumed by those who cannot …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Elf” the musical, a harmless and occasionally charming stage adaptation that has now opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theater and runs just until January 2, more or less replicates t…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]If it frustrates our expectations, “A Free Man of Color” - ambitious, inventive, daring — is an honorable failure with much to recommend it, even while it is difficult to s…
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