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.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03PM[SHARE]When Ira Aldridge played Othello in London, they were still debating whether it was a good thing to end slavery in the British colonies. Aldridge is the real-life African-American actor port…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2014
In “If/Then,” the new musical by the team that created Next To Normal, Idina Menzel returns to Broadway after a nine-year absence, playing Elizabeth, a city planner who returns t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:44PM[SHARE]We saw the poster of Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig – a close-up of his face with a little mascara and lipstick — but now we’re getting him in full dress — or full …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 29, 2014
In the calm before the April avalanche — with 13 shows opening on Broadway alone within the next four weeks, Â piling up to open as close as possible to the Tony Awards cut-off deadl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:43PM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Kevin Spacey doesn't strangle a dog within the first few minutes, nor become President of the United States in the last few, but "Breathing Time," a play by Beau Willimon, the creator…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PM[SHARE]World Theatre Day, created in 1961, is celebrated annually on March 27. How will you be celebrating? International Message by Bretty Bailey The 2014 World Theater Day International Message i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 26, 2014
"Time is the longest distance between two places." — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911 — he would be 103 years old today ̵…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PM[SHARE]Toni Braxton and Babyface are the guest stars of the Broadway musical After Midnight, which offers an evening of the kind of entertainment that was in Harlem’s Cotton Club in the 1930s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11AM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2014
In "Mothers and Sons," Terrence McNally's well-acted, sometimes touching new play, Tyne Daly as Katherine Gerard pays an unexpected visit to Cal (Frederick Weller) the lover of her son Andre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09PM[SHARE]Broadway’s big guns fired the first volley this week of what will be a month-long assault — 13 more shows are opening within the next month, ending the 2013-14 Broadway season. B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PM[SHARE]The Book of Mormon opened three years ago today. It won 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Costing about $9.1 million to mount, it has earned nearly $250 million on Broadway alone (with…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 23, 2014
When the grim-faced actors in the revival of “Les Miserables” man the barricades and wave the red flag at the Imperial, to my surprise, I didn't just see red. For this third prod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 22, 2014
Stephen Sondheim turns 84 today, and in honor of his birthday, a poll that shows the extraordinary range of Broadway plays and musicals, world-famous and completely obscure, with which he ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32AM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2014
Idina Menzel, who is starring on Broadway in the new musical “If/Then,” which opens on Sunday, Â is on the cover of Billboard next week. It says: “It’s taken her 18…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2014
In Aladdin, the new Disney musical on Broadway, the genie grants theatergoers the first of their wishes " to be entertained. The genie is James Monroe Iglehart, and he is the one who provide…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Peter Michael Marino once got hit in the face with a garbage can in Stomp — but that was nothing compared to the damage caused by his first musical. The musical he wrote based on th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The cast recording of the Broadway musical Beautiful will be released digitally by Ghostlight Records (Sh-K-Boom) April 1, 2014 and in stores May 13.  Beautiful - The Carole …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AM[SHARE]Monday, March 17, 2014
“I wish I could transmute my middle aged gay pain into some zombie vampire Lena Dunham comedy superhero reboot movie but I can't,” Mike Albo says in his one-man show “The J…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:52PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 16, 2014
Has an actor ever actually chewed the scenery? Is there a company that makes edible backdrops? Something tells me we’re going to find out in the next six weeks, where a new play opens …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:28PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 15, 2014
The cast and orchestra of Aladdin perform the songs together for the first time during the rehearsal period. That’s called Sitzprobe, a Broadway word adopted from the German; it litera…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2014
Halfway through Rocky, a crowd-pleasing musical that's a faithful stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1976 movie, the lights flicker to show Rocky Balboa, his face shrouded in a grey hoodi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 9, 2014
Bryan Cranston made his Broadway debut in All The Way, about LBJ, one of five shows I reviewed this week in a season that's heating up. Â Fiddler on the Roof will play once more on Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:34PM[SHARE]"If you went away for a week and I spent the whole time in bed with a photographer, would you be mad?" nosy neighbor Marge asks her husband Charlie in "The Bridges of Madison County," the ne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2014
“Everybody wants power; and if they say they don’t, they’re lying,” Bryan Cranston snarls in “All The Way,” Robert Schenkkan’s play about President …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2014
“Antony and Cleopatra,”which is being given a colorful and ambitiously reworked production at the Public Theater, has a tragic/romantic ending reminiscent of “Romeo and Jul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27PM[SHARE]“Hello, Dolly is a piece of shit.” This is the voice of Louis Armstrong, after the final concert of his life, as depicted in Terry Teachout's first play, "Satchmo at the Waldorf,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
David Letterman joined the chorus of those making fun of John Travolta’s mispronunciation of Idina Menzel’s name on the Academy Awards. You too can Travoltify your name, via Slat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47AM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2014
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Daniel Radcliffe in his third show on Broadway: The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh, opening at the Cort Theater on April 20, 2014. (Previe…
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