Monday, July 28, 2014
John Leguizamo is presenting his solo show Ghetto Klown tonight free at  Rumsey Playfield in Central Park starting at 8 p.m. (Get there early.) This is the same show he performed on Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:18PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 26, 2014
Summer theater means festivals, many outdoors, and many presenting William Shakespeare. But it also means lounging on the grass to listen to free music, including the music from Broadway mus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2014
When the producers of Bullets Over Broadway announced this week that the Woody Allen musical would close on August 24th, having played 156 regular and 33 preview performances, Nick Cordero w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2014
The nominees listed below for the 10th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, honoring theaters and theater artists working Off-Off Broadway, include 130 individual artists, 58 di…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:32PM[SHARE]Alan Menken was born on July 22, 1949 – 65 years ago. He has been composing music for musicals on stage and screen steadily for 35 years, starting with his collaboration with Howard As…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PM[SHARE]Monday, July 21, 2014
Almost half a century after his death, Bronx-born songwriter and record producer Bert Berns, the subject of the new Off-Broadway musical "Piece of My Heart," is getting the kind of buzz he n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 19, 2014
“You cannot tell the audience a lie; they know it before you do….” ‘If you can’t give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don’t have the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26PM[SHARE]Friday, July 18, 2014
In Atomic, a musical about the making of the atomic bomb and its aftermath, Jeremy Kushnier portrays Einstein pupil, nuclear physicist Leo Szilard, who helped create the bomb and then tri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23PM[SHARE]Nikki James, currently Eponine on Broadway in Les Miserables, made her debut on Broadway at the age of 19, and won a Tony for originating the role of Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon. "I'm a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2014
“Elaine Stritch, the brassy, tart-tongued Broadway actress and singer who became a living emblem of show business durability and perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim's w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2014
In The Long Shrift, a play that marks James Franco's debut as a New York stage director, a high school student is sentenced to ten years in prison for raping his date. But five years into hi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2014
CD Giveaway: Win the Broadway cast recording — released today both digitally and in stores – of “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar Grill,” starring Audra McDonald, who …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 13, 2014
Near the end of Atomic, a musical about the making of the atom bomb, there is an arresting piece of stagecraft when the bomb at Hiroshima goes off: A Japanese couple were quietly speaking at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28PM[SHARE]Is there a live theater equivalent of the summer movie blockbuster? Yes! But instead of sequels, they are original cutting edge work " or lovely, familiar classics. Instead of blasts of hot …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:44PM[SHARE]During the summer, New York theater changes radically " thanks to the summer theater festivals. Some are outdoors (the others are air-conditioned.) Even New Yorkers who abandon the city for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:41PM[SHARE]Before a showing of “West Side Story” at the United Palace Theater in February, Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights), interviewed one of its stars, Tony and Academy Award winner R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24AM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2014
The casts of Wicked (ie. Christine Dwyer and Justin Guarini), Rocky (Andy Karl and Margo Seibert)  If/Then (LaChanze and James Snyder) sang and danced, and Stomp hit the stage once …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2014
The cast of the forthcoming Broadway revival of “On The Town” joined with the top 20 in season 11 of So You Think You Can Dance for this thrilling opening number, choreographed b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 6, 2014
Who is an artist – and who gets to decide? Â Is it the IRS? Do you have to make a living at it? Do you have to have a degree in it? Do you have to be better than average at it? Do yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PM[SHARE]Friday, July 4, 2014
Musical theater that takes American history as its subject has been called a “vastly underexplored genre.” Here are some of the best known. Which is your favorite?
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2014
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in June — a lot of it oddness coming out of the Tony Awards? Answer these ten questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2014
Forty-five years after the Stonewall Riots launched the modern gay rights movement, the annual LGBTQ Pride Parade has grown into a celebration with some 300 different “marching conting…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 28, 2014
Worrying enhances creativity, some new studies suggest, which is surely a cause for celebration in the back stages, posh offices, warren holes, wait stations and (at least in one case) polic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2014
Shia LaBeouf was handcuffed and removed by police during intermission of a performance of Cabaret,and charged with one count of criminal trespassing and two counts of disorderly conduct. He …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
This American Life’s “The Radio Drama Episode” a the Brooklyn Academy of Music in June, 2014 included a performance from “21 Chump Street: The Musical,” perform…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 21, 2014
“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for 4,000 years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.”-John Stein…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 19, 2014
Eighteen years after his murder at the age of 25, Tupac Shakur has made it to Broadway, in a show that has taken on the awesome challenge of weaving 21 songs and poems by the charismatic rap…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2014
In a Master Class at Sardi's with a group of drama teachers, Stephen Sondheim revealed some of the changes that Disney is making to its film adaptation of the stage musical "Into The Woods."…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:00PM[SHARE]Monday, June 16, 2014
This is the “Kilroy” list: “Each play is either unproduced or has had one professional production.” Authors include Theresa Rebeck, Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vog…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:11PM[SHARE]1st half – Act 1 2nd half – Act 2 Offside – Upstaging Extra time – mega mix Penalties – curtain call Half time – intermission Coach – dance captain …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 15, 2014
Neil Patrick Harris and the rest of the cast from the Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch perform the song “Sugar Daddy.” Hedwig won four Tonys in 2014: Best Revival of a …
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