Wednesday, April 1, 2015
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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in March? Answer these 12 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 29, 2015
The annual April Broadway marathon begins this coming week — 14 openings in 21 days, with two of these shows opening on the Tony eligibility cut-off date of April 23, 2015. The show…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 28, 2015
Jennifer Haley did not set out to become the first major playwright of the digital age, but that is what has happened. “The Nether,” which imagines a future where people lose …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25AM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2015
World Theatre Day, created in 1961, is celebrated annually on March 27. How will you be celebrating? The author of the Message of World Theatre Day 2015 is the Polish director Krzysztof W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2015
Restored after Katrina, Saenger Theater — built in 1927, shut down by flooding in 2005, re-opened in 2013 after a $52 million restoration — is beautiful…on the inside. Clic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
With the help of Tony-winner James Corden and lots of backdrops, Tom Hanks acts out the movies in which he has starred over the last three decades, from Splash (1984) to Saving Mr. Banks (20…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2015
This year’s American Theatre Critics Association conference is taking place in New Orleans, to coincide with the 29th annual Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, March 25 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 22, 2015
It's March Madness for theatrical birthdays. Good morning. Happy birthday. pic.twitter.com/PCXwjaZVMb — Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 22, 2015 Happy 100th Birthday, Patricia M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05PM[SHARE]It was only at the end of "Posterity," Doug Wright's new play that imagines the real-life encounter between Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen and a sculptor doing a bust of him, that the poin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 21, 2015
Melissa Hillman has written a new essay, The Lies We Tell About Audience Engagement, that is both inspiring and infuriating. One of the smartest theater writers on the Internet, Hil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2015
All that's right and wrong with “The Heidi Chronicles,” the 1989 play by the late playwright Wendy Wasserstein getting its first Broadway revival, is on display in a scene that t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Theatergoers in the know have already seen these four shows closing Off-Broadway by the end of March, 2015 " or meant to see them. This is the last chance in New York. (Two of them are going…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2015
Kristin Chenoweth may have paused at the new opening date for “On The Twentieth Century” – the Ides of March. Her co-star Peter Gallagher had been out sick, and Chenoweth h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35PM[SHARE]Train travel is hot again, at least at the (ironically named) American Airlines Theater, where "On The Twentieth Century" turns out to be one of the funniest and most entertaining shows on B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 14, 2015
In playwright Jennifer Haley's cleverly imagined, disturbing future — just a step or two ahead of our present — people lose themselves in a virtual world. "Your login reco…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2015
Ticket Giveaway: Win a pair of tickets to see The Lion starring Benjamin Scheuer, the much-praised solo show running through March 29th at the Lynn Redgrave Theater at Culture Project.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2015
“The Audience,” a middle brow British export starring the quick-change artistry of Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth, imagines what happens during Her Majesty's private weekly m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2015
In their Broadway acting debuts, Oprah wants to be happy; Bruce Willis is going for Misery. And much that happened this week in New York theater is somewhere in-between. Several days left to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2015
The captain of the slave ship, afraid that the sick woman would infect the rest of his cargo, lashed her to a chair and lowered the chair into the sea, drowning her. "After the captain threw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 7, 2015
Fish in the Dark,” which marks Larry David’s Broadway debut as a writer and performer " indeed his first stage performance since the eighth grade — feels like a couple of e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2015
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Chita Rivera and Roger Rees in The Visit, “a stunning tale of young love, timeless seduction, and sweet revenge.” The Visit marks the fina…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2015
In the dark about Fish in the Dark, Larry David’s new Broadway comedy about two brothers struggling to deal with the death of their father, which opens on March 5th at the Cort Theater…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:33PM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2015
The Sound of Music premiered in movie theaters 50 years ago today, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, an anniversary marked far more prominently than the opening of this Rodgers…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 1, 2015
Today is Justin Bieber’s 21st birthday, which he reportedly celebrated by renting out an island in the Caribbean (see below.) But now that he has reached his majority he surely will se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:23PM[SHARE]Four Broadway shows are opening in March, marking the return of Dame Helen Mirren after 14 years and Larry David’s first stage appearance since the eighth grade. Another 18 openings ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 28, 2015
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater-related news in February? Answer these 11 questions to find out. Some are theater-related questions involving the Grammys and the O…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:31PM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2015
“Into the Woods” director Rob Marshall introduces “She’ll Be Back,” the new song Stephen Sondheim wrote for the film adaptation of his musical — and expla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 25, 2015
If and when future theater nerds recall “Brooklynite,” the musical about superheroes in Brooklyn that has now opened at the Vineyard Theater, my bet is that we'll see it as an ea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 24, 2015
“Why can't white people and black people just get along?” Jaclyn asks her boss, who is secretly trying to get her fired. That this question remains so current surely explains how…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:46PM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2015
Even before it begins, the astonishing revival of "Big Love," one of Charles Mee's most popular plays, surrounds us with a soothing and soaring beauty. The set by Brett Banakis is, per Mee's…
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