Monday, May 25, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]To the extent that “Elling” works, it is not due to the wisps of plot, which are even more incidental than they are implausible. The entertainment comes from the well-pitched per…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]Artists discuss their responsibility to historyBy JONATHAN MANDELLWelcome to Part 2 of our two-part look at how Broadway is currently staging history. Today, we talk to Broadway artists abou…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PM[SHARE]Not the end of the line? Though the Scottsboro Boys found only a short welcome on Broadway, there's already talk that their musicalized adventures might become a feature film.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:58PM[SHARE]With wine and song, three performers push the genre envelopeIt would be wrong to call Three Pianos a jukebox musical, even though it is a stage show created around a series of old songs. Aft…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PM[SHARE]How Spider-Man’s mishaps reflect the long history of stage safety Even before Christopher Tierney plummeted some 30 feet off a platform to become the fourth cast member with serious in…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PM[SHARE]Soldiers during World War II line up to visit a prostitute, and one eventually does, in this intermittently intriguing but underdeveloped exercise.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]This modest, somewhat clichéd play with a few Latin songs takes place in a barbershop in Washington Heights and is told almost entirely in Spanish and from a Dominican perspective.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Caridad Svich's stage adaptation of Julie Alvarez's poetic and sorrowful novel chronicling the real-life story of the murder of the revolutionary Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic do…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]But it is hard to judge the script alone when the production has so much going for it — the fine performances, a six-member cast that includes Estelle Parsons as Margie’s babysit…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]A mysterious but familiar stranger visits a multigenerational household of struggling black men in Jackie Alexander's sometimes insightful play, which is undermined by a vague, predictable p…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 24, 2015
Excerpts from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s commencement speech at Wesleyan College, where he graduated in 2002, in which he mentions the genesis of In The Heights, and quotes from Hamilton. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:05PM[SHARE]Make your pick for 15 of the 24 categories in the 69th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall, and will be broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 23, 2015
“Tisch graduates, you made it,” actor Robert De Niro said Friday in his NYU Commencement address. “And you’re f—ed.” But, as he makes clear in his 15-minu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2015
The woman is speaking directly to me, an arm's length away, as if we know each other: "I'm not blaming you for missing anything, I know it's not your fault," she says, looking right into my …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2015
Al Hirschfeld drew the stars of Hollywood and Broadway for more than eight decades. He drew Hollywood mogul David O Selznick in 1922, when Hirschfeld was 19 years old, and Broadway performer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
"Permission," a play about "Christian Domestic Discipline" (i.e. spanking your wife) is written by Robert Askins, who is also the author of "Hand to God," the Tony-nominated play about a Chr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Ticket giveaway: See On The Town on June 4th, 2015 for free. The revival, which I love, does justice to a show that made history on Broadway — marking the Broadway debuts of Leonard Be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:42PM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2015
Hamilton won the best new American play Obie at the 60th annual Obie Award for achievement Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. James Houghton, who’s departing next year as the artist…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:38PM[SHARE]When 14-year-old Charlie (Noah Galvin) starts doing odd jobs for the town's scandalous art teacher Anna Trumbull (Kristine Nielsen), in "What I Did Last Summer," she agrees to pay him 25 cen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 17, 2015
“Even though success is a reality, its effects are temporary,” Don Draper tells Dow Chemical in season 5 of Mad Men, the TV series that is ending tonight in its seventh season. I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:02PM[SHARE]What does it mean to be an American? The Civilians, the first-ever theater-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, finished their year-long residency with a flourish by addressing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19AM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2015
Winners of the 81st Annual Drama League Awards, chosen by its members: Distinguished Musical: An American in Paris Distinguished Play: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Disti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:49PM[SHARE]About two hours into "Queen of the Night" — the high-priced combination faux-S&M show, circus and dinner that has been nominated improbably for a 2015 Drama Desk Award as Unique Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2015
Jim Parsons returns to Broadway in An Act of God, written by David Javerbaum based on is popular Twitter account @TheTweetOfGod and directed by Joe Mantello, The comedy co-stars…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Even New Yorkers who abandon the city for the summer know of the three most celebrated summer theater festivals: Free Shakespeare in the Park, begun by Joseph Papp in 1962 in Central Park…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:17AM[SHARE]In what he says may be his last play, South African playwright Athol Fugard explores his characters' fear, humiliation and desperation, as he has in such well-known anti-apartheid works as B…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:11AM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2015
New musicals by Stew and Michael John LaChiusa (about the daughters of U.S. presidents), new plays by Robert O’Hara and Tarell Alvin McCraney (inspired by the Book of Job), and a mu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:12PM[SHARE]This might as well be called the Week in New York Theater Awards. In chronological order: The New York Drama Critics Circle gave their awards to Hamilton and Between Riverside and Crazy Fred…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:37AM[SHARE]The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won the Outer Critics Circle Award for best new Broadway play, and in four other categories, including best actor and best director. Hami…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2015
Hamilton has swept the Lucille Lortel Awards, winning in every category in which it was nominated, a record-breaking ten awards in all, including for best musical, best leads, best director,…
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