Tuesday, November 18, 2014
The rowdy brothers of Young Jean Lee's play "Straight White Men," play a board game called Privilege, where Jake draws a card that says: "What I said wasn't sexist/racist/homophobic because …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2014
Daisy and Violet Hilton, twin sisters permanently connected at the hip by a ribbon of flesh, were spectacularly popular entertainers in the 1920's, so it seems fitting that "Side Show," a mu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10PM[SHARE]Several years before Simon Stephens adapted "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" for the stage (now on Broadway), the playwright wrote the far more in-your-face "Punk Rock," a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 16, 2014
They've asked us not to reveal the ending of "The River," a play by Jez Butterworth (author of "Jerusalem") starring Hugh Jackman as a man who likes to fish. But I'm not sure what difference…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:37PM[SHARE]It took me nearly to the end of "Our Lady of Kibeho," a play by Katori Hall based on a true story about three Catholic schoolgirls in 1981 Rwanda who reported having a vision of the Virgi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for 4,000 years and has never succumbed,” John Steinbeck said, and I quoted on Twitter several times in the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:06PM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2014
My first Tweet as @NewYorkTheater, five years ago today: Check out New York Theater on Facebook too http://tinyurl.com/yzjyg7e — Jonathan Mandell (@NewYorkTheater) November 14, 2009 Fi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2014
Broadway Revealed: Behind the Theater Curtain, an exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center through January 31, offers an odd glimpse of what goes i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Heidi Schreck, the playwright of "Grand Concourse," is also an actress who performed in Annie Baker's "Circle Mirror Transformation" and served as actress and writer for the Showtime series …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2014
So much theater about theater has opened on Broadway in the last few weeks that it feels like a declaration of surrender – let’s just cater to the (ever-shrinking) in-crowd ̵…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2014
There are dangers in creating a fictional work for stage or screen about a real person, as playwright and screenwriter Doug Wright explains: “Whenever you write about a historical figu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2014
Pippin pops, Hugh Jackman bleeds, ageism is rampant, playwright Doug Wright doesn’t trust critics, and Cafe Edison is closing. But it wasn’t all bad news in the week in New Yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2014
Ozzie and Harriet's son David comes home from the Vietnam War blind and traumatized in David Rabe's "Sticks and Bones," a play written during the Vietnam War that is getting a starry revival…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:45PM[SHARE]What would you do if a Buddhist monk appeared at your door, claiming your three-year-old son was the reincarnation of a revered Tibetan Lama, and wanting to take him from you and raise him i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2014
For 58 years, Simon Wiesenthal hunted Nazis. By the time he retired in 2003, he had brought 1,100 of them to justice. "I'm not a lawyer, a detective or a government agency," he says in th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 2, 2014
The Library of America has just published “American Musicals: The Complete Books and Lyrics of 16 Broadway Classics, 1927"1969″ in a boxed set of two volumes. Here is what it inc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:43PM[SHARE]The newly announced Broadway transfer of “Hand of God” came accompanied with a sly advertising campaign to turn their “weaknesses” into strengths. But some of the bes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 1, 2014
They look as if they could be refugees from The Addams Family, dressed in black and standing under ghoulish white light in the middle of the stage at BAM's Harvey Theater, these six characte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PM[SHARE]Three Broadway shows — The River, Side Show and A Delicate Balance – are opening in November, as are some two dozen Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway# plays and musicals.  …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22AM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2014
How well were you paying attention to the theater news in October? Answer these 10 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2014
Both Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal are making their Broadway debuts in 'The Real Thing," Tom Stoppard's trickster meditation on what is reality versus artifice in art, politics and abo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 29, 2014
When Amir was a child, he spit in the face of a Jewish classmate, a girl he had a crush on, he says in "Disgraced," Ayad Akhtar's bluntly provocative play that has now opened at Broadway's L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Lift, a play about a man and a woman stuck in an elevator after a terrorist attack, is written by Walter Mosley, who has had three decades of success as a novelist, especially with the Easy …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:45PM[SHARE]The first time I saw "Angels in America," the awe-inspiring 1993 play about intermingled lives during the AIDS crisis, I was thrilled by the confrontation between Louis, the Jewish word proc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21AM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2014
Both Tatiana Maslany and Keira Knightley announced they would be making their Broadway debuts, the rock star Sting made his debut this week as a Broadway composer, and an Off-Broadway play o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2014
Sting's songs are haunting and lyrical, the creative team is made up of Broadway royalty, the acting helps lend a sense of authenticity to this heartfelt tale based on the struggles of the s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:49PM[SHARE]Friday, October 24, 2014
The first photograph of Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher in Roundabout Theatre Company's On the Twentieth Century, which opens March 12, 2015 at the American Airlines Theatre. This will…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PM[SHARE]The Phantom of the Opera Art Gallery and Pop-Up Shop is open for business — as of noon, Friday October 24th — showcasing the 26 winners of the nation-wide contest “PHANTOM:…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Click on any photograph to see it enlarged "The Fortress of Solitude" begins with a sensory overload of song…the sounds of a Brooklyn block, circa 1975. That sets the tone for this ener…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:11PM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2014
"No killing, no dead body, no sex, no nothing. Just talk." That line is uttered near the end of "Billy & Ray," a play about the collaboration of director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Eugene O’Neill, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller and Angela Lansbury and Linda Lavin all had birthdays last week, “On The Town” was reborn on Broadway to the biggest raves since …
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