Wednesday, January 29, 2014
February a fallow month for theater? Feh. While it’s true there are only two plays scheduled to open in February on Broadway, there are far more Off-Broadway, part of a vibrant Off-Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2014
"Pool Play" is immersive theater taken to a literal extreme " everybody, actors and audience, is immersed in water. Conceived and directed by Erin B. Mee, the fully-scripted play will take p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01AM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2014
Click on any photograph to see it enlarged "Stop Hitting Yourself," playful chaos brought to you by the acclaimed Austin theater collective Rude Mechs, is the first stage show I could call c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:14PM[SHARE]It’s that time of year: trees thrown out, critics on overseas trips, snow covering cityscape, few shows opening " and ticket bargains! Now through Feb 6 — #BroadwayWeek. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 26, 2014
If you didn't speak English, or could somehow turn off the sound of "Outside Mullingar," John Patrick Shanley's charming, wonderfully acted and overly weird romantic comedy, the final scene …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33AM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2014
Win two tickets to see the Valentine’s Day broadcast of the Broadway production of “Romeo and Juliet,” starring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad. Â The film will run in m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2014
Broadway responds satirically to official LGBT discrimination in Russia, and a specific Russian law, enacted in June, 2013, punishing citizens “who disseminate information aimed at min…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
As I wrote during the blizzard scare earlier in January, dubbed Hercules: The two questions theatergoers want answered whenever a big snowstorm threatens are: Will the shows be canceled? Wil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:46AM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2014
Disney is turning its animated film “Frozen” into a Broadway musical, and NBC has chosen “Peter Pan” as the successor to “The Sound of Music” for its Dece…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 19, 2014
Has there ever before been such a touching love scene between poultry? A young rooster named Odysseus Rex, played by Bobby Moreno like an angry punk with a knife, is introduced to Lucky …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 18, 2014
"Why does sex exist?" asks Isabella Rossellini, the Parisian-bred actress, model and director, the glamorous daughter of the Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman and the European filmmaker Roberto …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:16AM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2014
Click on any photograph to enlarge it As King Lear, Frank Langella goes through four distinct and remarkable phases. He begins, brightly lit, in gold crown and red robe, in voice and gesture…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2014
Machinal, now opened in a stunning production at the American Airlines Theater, is the first Broadway revival of Sophie Treadwell’s haunting 1928 play, inspired by the murder trial of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11PM[SHARE]Best Picture American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska Philomena 12 Years a Slave The Wolf of Wall Street Best Director David O. Russell – American Hustl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2014
"We do hope we stay open, because we do save lives," Â said the intake receptionist at Interfaith Hospital said. "We do serve a purpose." "Promises, nothing more. I am personally sick of p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50AM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2014
Valisia LeKae has left the cast of Motown to focus on her battle against ovarian cancer, but the cast hasn’t left her. Here they sing “I Am Here,”a song written by Julius T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:00PM[SHARE]“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science”~ Albert Einstein Broadway Sp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 12, 2014
The creators of "Beautiful," the beautifully performed and tuneful new entertainment now opened on Broadway about Carole King's early songwriting career, faced a challenge — the same c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35PM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2014
January is the month for theater festivals in New York – more than at any time other than the summer - and the stars are out this year in them: Muhammed Ali and Mike Tyson,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Off Broadway this season, David Henry Hwang is telling the story of Bruce Lee in Kung Fu. Frank Langella plays King Lear. Actress  Linda Lavin and playwright Nicky Silver pair up ag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:15PM[SHARE]The first poster for the Broadway revival of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, featuring James Franco and Chris O’Dowd, both making their Broadway debuts. Also in the cast are Le…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:37PM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2014
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in the Spring 2014 as of this writing, and they are listed chronological…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 5, 2014
Five shows have already closed on Broadway in January, but three others are opening this month, the beginning of what looks to be an exciting season. The Week in New York Theater Monday, Dec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 4, 2014
Click on any photograph to see it enlarged Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark ends its Broadway run at the Foxwoods Theater today, after more than three years and 1,200 performances. It has ge…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AM[SHARE]Friday, January 3, 2014
Zach Braff, making his Broadway debut, leads the cast of the musical theater adaptation of Woody Allen’s movie “Bullets Over Broadway,” about a playwright who gets in bed w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 2, 2014
The two questions theatergoers want answered whether a big snowstorm threatens are: Will the shows be canceled? Will there be a snow day discount? The winter storm named Hercules, according …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:49PM[SHARE]“Theater is not so much a profession as a disease, and my first look at Broadway was the beginning of a lifelong infection," Moss Hart wrote in his memoir Act One, which has b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 1, 2014
…We are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love -Mayor Bill de Blasio Full text: Thank you, President Clinton, for your ki…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26PM[SHARE]Â In "What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined" at the New York Theatre Workshop through February 2, Kyle Riabko, who is 26 , leads a half dozen other good-looking singer-musicians in the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Sometimes the most magical moments in a work of theater are the ones that are unplanned — the audience suddenly singing along with Cicely Tyson as her character hums a spiritual in The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44AM[SHARE]Monday, December 30, 2013
How well were you paying attention to theater news this month and this year? Answer these 10 questions to find out. As usual, the information comes from NewYorkTheater.me, especially my Week…
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