Tuesday, April 21, 2015
I had hoped that a major benefit of winning the Cold War would be no longer having to sit through a show like Doctor Zhivago, a musical adaptation of Pasternak's novel that presents the Russ…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]Seventy women including Rita Wilson, Mamie Gummer and Kathleen Chalfant promote gender equality in the arts and entertainment through this three-minute #MakeItFair Video. (They sing at the e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PM[SHARE]Below is the full list of the nominations for the 2015 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The winners will be annou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19AM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2015
From the very first moments of Lincoln Center's ravishing The King and I, it feels like a privilege just to be sitting in the audience. First the 29 musicians play Rodgers and Hammerstein's …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:21PM[SHARE]Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirguis has won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, In another one of Stephen Adly Guirguis's quintessential plays about New Yorkers on the margi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:07PM[SHARE]Nominations for the 65th annual Outer Critics Circle awards will be announced today starting at 11 a.m. in the following categories: OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MU…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2015
"My Dad and I both grew up in the same small Pennsylvania town. And he was gay and I was gay,” Alison explains in the remarkable musical Fun Home. Â "And he killed himself, and I ……
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2015
The King and I, starring Ken Watanabe and Kelli O’Hara, is the fifth Broadway production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about British schoolteacher Anna Leonowens, who becomes …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Is it pointless to pan Peter? Are we helpless in the face of the massive Peter Pander/Pandemic/Pandemonium (pick your Peter Pan pun.) Shortly after Peter and the Starcatcher and Peter Pan Li…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]Is it pointless to pan Peter? Are we helpless in the face of the massive Peter Pander/Pandemic/Pandemonium (pick your Peter Pan pun.) Shortly after “Peter and the Starcatcher” an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2015
The singular accomplishment of "It Shoulda Been You," a musical comedy about a wedding that tries hard to be a farce, is that it abruptly swerves in a completely unexpected direction, and ye…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:41PM[SHARE]Actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theatre in Washington,D.C. on April 14, 1865. Wilkes had access to the theater because of his profession. He was a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 12, 2015
Both Gigi and An American In Paris are adapted from Oscar-winning 1950's movie musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron. Both take place in Paris. Both have revised b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]Both Gigi and An American In Paris are adapted from Oscar-winning 1950's movie musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron. Both take place in Paris. Both have revised b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:32PM[SHARE]Opening this week on Broadway: An American in Paris It Shoulda Been You Finding Neverland The King and I Check out April openings for details. The Week in New York Theater Reviews Hand to Go…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 11, 2015
For an evil sock puppet who eventually bites a teenager's ear off, Tyrone is quite the philosopher. In the prologue in Hand to God, Robert Askin's funny, filthy, violent and sensitive pl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2015
“Tremble:your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now”~Judith Malina Judith Malina died this morning at age 88. Malina and Julian Beck began the Living Theatre in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:35PM[SHARE]What would be your ideal theater critic? What makes a critic “professional” these days? What is the proper training for a critic? Should a critic write about a show if he or she …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2015
It'll be another three months before the American Revolution arrives on Broadway, with the hip-hop musical Hamilton. In the meantime, the Great White Way has been pledging allegiance to the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]It'll be another three months before the American Revolution arrives on Broadway, with the hip-hop musical Hamilton. In the meantime, the Great White Way has been pledging allegiance to the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Gigi, an imitation French confection of a musical starring High School Musical sweetheart Vanessa Hudgens, is based on a novella by Colette about two aging prostitutes grooming their illegit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM[SHARE]Gigi, an imitation French confection of a musical starring High School Musical sweetheart Vanessa Hudgens, is based on a novella by Colette about two aging prostitutes grooming their illegit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2015
In “Hand to God,” good-hearted teenager Jason is forced to confront Tyrone, a violent, foul-mouthed bully, who just happens to reside on Jason’s left arm. Tyrone is a hand …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 5, 2015
Of the 14 shows opening on Broadway in April, the most anticipated, according to my poll so far, are 1. Fun Home 2. Something Rotten 3. The King and I Last week, Skylight opened. This week, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55AM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2015
Performers from more than 70 countries have had gigs at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company since it began in 1961, but one could be excused for seeing this season as the perfect storm for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:34PM[SHARE]It wasn’t exactly an ambush, but the first question actor Bernardo Cubria posed to me as a guest on his theatre podcast was about a complaint that actors have about critics. I was his …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 2, 2015
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy), a successful and charismatic rest…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58PM[SHARE]Hamilton has received a record-breaking 12 nominations for the 30th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway.  The Off-Broadway League awards will be ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PM[SHARE]Fourteen shows are opening on Broadway this month. Take this poll to choose the one are most looking forward to. Arranged chronologically by opening date. For more details on the shows, chec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2015
A theater critic is a "malicious, cowardly" person who cannot see the beauty in a flower because she cannot put a label on it. That is what the ex movie star turned first-time Broadway direc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:54PM[SHARE]April is the month to binge-watch on Broadway.  Fourteen shows are opening on Broadway within 21 days — set in Paris, London, Bangkok and Moscow; and Cypress, Texas;  Airline …
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