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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 19, 2014
Whatever else the great American writers Emily Dickinson and Dorothy Parker have in common, they are each by coincidence the subject of solo stage plays that are opening tonight, "The Belle …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 18, 2014
Theater producer Ken Davenport looked at the shows that won the Best Musical Tony over the past 20 years, sliced and diced facts about them, and produced the infographic below. Most interest…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18AM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2014
The “freaks” (cast) of Side Show, which opens at Broadway’s St. James Theater November 17th.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2014
The audience at "On The Town," the thrilling Broadway revival of the 1944 musical that brought us “New York, New York, it’s a helluva town,” doesn’t wait until the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Win a speaker from Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights, Hamilton), Christopher Jackson (The Lion King, In The Heights, Holla If Ya Hear Me) and the rest of the cast of Freestyle Love Su…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Davy Rothbart was having a weird day " his boss fired him; a mugger took his wallet and shoes; he couldn't get his car to start – when he found a slip of paper that changed his life……
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Outside, on a shingle hanging from the marquee of the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, Ben Brantley is quoted as saying: "Deliriously Dishy…It's a Hit." But inside, on the stage, Brantley is quo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:29AM[SHARE]Monday, October 13, 2014
While we wait for Stephen Sondheim’s new musical — which the Public Theater has already committed to producing, although there is not even a title yet (see “11” be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 12, 2014
Tonya, the cheeky daughter in "While I Yet Live," has a problem with God (He's "a wee bit passive aggressive, and vindictive") and the Bible ("It's the most violent book I've ever read.") an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 11, 2014
There are three shows on Broadway this season that are theater about theater — The Country House, It’s Only A Play, The Real Thing. What’s your favorite theater about theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:25PM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2014
The feud between the writers Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy began on public television, so it's fitting that the play about their quarrel, "Hellman v McCarthy," with the great Roberta Max…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2014
In Terrence McNally’s backstage comedy “It’s Only A Play,” bound for Broadway in 1978 and finally arrived there 36 years later, a group of stars — played by a g…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2014
The Broadway marquees will dim for two theater artists, Geoffrey Holder and Marian Seldes, who both died this week – tonight (Wednesday) for Seldes and Friday night for Holder.  …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2014
In their walk around Greenwich Village – the last artist walk of the Elastic City Walks Festival, which has a closing night benefit tonight – theater director Niegel Smith,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20PM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2014
Broadway  is one of the ten greatest streets in America in 2014, according to the American Planning Association, to which the average New Yorker might reply — “Just in 2014…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2014
Like the unusual character at its center, "The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time," a stage adaptation of a beloved book, overcomes a couple of daunting challenges to become….ex…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 4, 2014
To help explain how "The Country House" could be so mediocre despite an award-winning playwright's classic inspiration, a first-rate production and an exemplary cast, let's start with a scen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:09PM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2014
The lives, loves and letdowns of women in an office in John Van Druten's 1931 play "London Wall" were presented a little differently at the Mint Theater earlier this year than on television …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2014
Finally, the Lear nobody's been waiting for, a Lear for people not in the mood for tragedy, a Lear Light, an economic Lear, cast with just eight actors, who not only portray multiple charact…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Some of the shows opening in October. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged. October is one of the three busiest theater months in New York, with some 40 shows opening sometime this mon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2014
In "Indian Ink," Tom Stoppard's complex, challenging beautifully acted and sometimes fascinating play about an Englishwoman in pre-independence India, Stoppard does something that sure…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:20PM[SHARE]How well were you paying attention to the theater news in September? Answer these 10 questions, mostly involving playwrights, and find out. Tagged: playwrights
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
At the age of seven, David Holthouse was raped by his teenage neighbor. Twenty-five years later, he decided to kill the man " both to avenge the crime, and to prevent any more from occurring…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 28, 2014
"Your family and mine … it just wouldn’t work." Alice, the most normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family in the old-fashioned crowd-pleasing comedy "You Can't Take It Wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19PM[SHARE]Above is a rare look at the map of the Broadway theaters in the sidewalk of Father Duffy Square, rarely visible through all the feet covering it. Below are links to the entire broadcast of S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PM[SHARE]Is this OUR Youth? His sister was murdered six years ago, his rich, abusive father has just kicked him out of the house, and 19-year-old Warren, portrayed by Michael Cera in the crackling Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2014
If there's a gimmick to "Love Letters," the Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney's two-character play about a man and woman writing to one another over half a century, it isn't the presence of a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:17AM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
Thrilled at intermission by the new stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from A Marriage," I poured out my enthusiasm about director Ivo van Hove's unusual staging to my ex, whom I h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58PM[SHARE] Here are the list of winners of the 10th annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards,  chosen from some 2,000 Off-Off Broadway (aka independent) productions.  Nominated this y…
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