Friday, May 2, 2014
Did the Tony nominating committee "snub" Denzel Washington, Daniel Craig, James Franco and Daniel Radcliffe? Did Tony Awards Productions snub regional theaters by giving the Regio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2014
Here Lies Love," which opened in April 2013 for a limited run, has returned for an open run at the Public Theater. Here again is my original review: Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59PM[SHARE]From the very beginning of the Roundabout's re-revival of "Cabaret," when a spotlight first illuminates Alan Cumming's eyes — as if he has opened the rectangular slot in the door of a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2014
Watch the 2014 Tony Awards Nominations Announcement on Tuesday, April 29 2014 8:30 a.m. ET with hosts Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu from the Paramount Hotel in NYC Here are the 2014 awards so …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24PM[SHARE]As Hedwig, a bewigged, be-glittered and bewildered "internationally ignored song stylist," the performer Neil Patrick Harris — who has been anything but ignored in a protean 25-year en…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 27, 2014
What would Woody Allen have thought of "Bullets Over Broadway" if he hadn't written it? Would he have enjoyed this overbearing Broadway musical full of recycled, flat and vulgar jokes;Â d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:34PM[SHARE]It is no surprise that Harvey Fierstein is the one who authored "Casa Valentina," a remarkably well-acted if overheated and under-cooked play about a 1960's Catskills resort for heterosexual…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:46PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 26, 2014
There are more unemployed Americans now than there were when "Of Mice and Men" debuted on Broadway in 1937, making its third-ever production on Broadway something more than just an excuse to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06PM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder had the most nominations for the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards, followed by The Bridges of Madison County, Aladdin and Rocky. Winners w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2014
“Cabaret,” the Kander and Ebb musical about a naif in pre-Nazi Germany, is opening on Broadway for the fourth time, almost half a century after its first production, starring Ala…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Below are the nominations for the 20014 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also gives special awards. Although founded way back in 1922, this is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Neil Patrick Harris stars as an “internationally ignored” East German transgender rock singer in the first Broadway production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:34PM[SHARE]“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”, “Aladdin” and “Fun Home” had the greatest number of nominations for the 64th annual Outer Critics Circle…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:13PM[SHARE]Monday, April 21, 2014
With the best title of any Broadway play this season, two always-impressive actors as the cast, and a theme of loss and aging that hits close to home, "The Velocity of Autumn" is the sort of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 20, 2014
Before she wrote the songs for the astonishing "Fun Home" or collaborated with Tony Kushner on the extraordinary "Caroline, Or Change," Jeanine Tesori wrote the music for "Violet," her fi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16PM[SHARE] There was no applause for Daniel Radcliffe when he first enters "The Cripple of Inishmaan," the first and first-rate Broadway production of Martin McDonagh's harsh 1996 comedy. I'm su…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2014
“Act One,” the  well-meaning stage adaptation of the beloved theatrical memoir by Moss Hart, aims to explore the intoxicating appeal of the theater, but it instead demonstrate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PM[SHARE]Broadway barks indeed. This season, dogs are in the casts of four Broadway shows. All four were rescued from a dog pound, and now perform eight shows a week. Are their Pooper-Scoopers monogr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2014
"The theatre is not so much a profession as a disease, and my first look at Broadway was the beginning of a lifelong infection," playwright and director Moss Hart wrote in Act One, his long-…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2014
Annie Baker’s The Flick has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Here is my review of The Flick. Citation: “Awarded to “The Flick,” by Annie Baker, a thoughtful …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:04PM[SHARE]Eight Broadway shows are opening in the next ten days. Two opened last week, Bullets Over Broadway and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. It’s tax time, which may be why there …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:21AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2014
click on any photo to see it enlarged Audra McDonald is the same age as the Billie Holiday she is depicting in the first Broadway production of "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill," a remar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 2014
“Bullets Over Broadway,” based on Woody Allen’s 1994 movie about a novice playwright in the 1920s whose show is saved by a mobster, is opening tonight at the St. James Thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2014
If/Then with Idina Menzel, A Raisin in the Sun with Denzel Washington and The Realistic Joneses  with Michael C. Hall opened on Broadway; Adrian Lester gives a star turn portrayi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 6, 2014
In "The Realistic Joneses," a kind of "Endgame"Â reoriented to the American suburbs, Michael C. Hall and Marisa Tomei as a couple named Jones pay an unexpected visit to introduce themselve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 5, 2014
"Me and my family…we are very plain people," Denzel Washington says in "A Raisin in the Sun," at the start of a monologue that by the end " "we are very proud people" — is one of the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2014
In "If/Then," Idina Menzel portrays two different versions of the same character Elizabeth, and at the beginning of the musical, I was feeling like two versions of myself as well. Elizab…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:46PM[SHARE] Ed Iskandar talked with God. Then it was Lucifer's turn. Now he was addressing Adam and Eve. "The audience has just paid $50 to watch the Bible, so bite the fuck out of the apple and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2014
In April, there are more than 30 shows opening on Broadway, Â Off-Broadway or Off-Off Broadway, at least one for each day of the month, although the schedule is more chaotic than that. (Ge…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Here Lies Love; Fun Home, and Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 received the most nominations for the 2014 Lucille Lortel Awards celebrating Off-Broadway, presented by the Off-Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:57PM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2014
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in March, 2014? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
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