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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2013
New York theater critics have completed their lists of top 10 theater of 2013. The most picked: Twelfth Night, The Glass Menagerie, Here Lies Love, in that order. Hundreds voted in the poll …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 28, 2013
A list of shows, parties, concerts, intimate dinners, cruises and outdoor events you can still do on New Year’s Eve 2014 in New York City. More than a billion people watch the ball dro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 26, 2013
2013 was, if nothing else, a year of lists. I’ve already put together a list of the most noteworthy (and weirdest) theater stories of 2013. Here is a list of the ten most-read articles…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Why does the first film starring both Meryl Streep AND Julia Roberts, based on a play that won both five Tony Awards AND the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, wind up disappointing? There are a coup…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 24, 2013
There were more productions of Shakespeare on Broadway in 2013 than at any time since 1958. But it wasn’t just on Broadway that the Bard was big this year. That is I why, for the new m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:02AM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2013
Almost all of the 32 Broadway shows currently playing are offering Monday night performances on Christmas week, as well as matinees on the Thursday after Christmas Day. Some are offering a s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:27PM[SHARE]Here are 15 of the longest-running and most popular shows on Broadway, listed alphabetically, with brief descriptions that include my take, and links where available to my initial reviews. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 22, 2013
The week in theater was one of unusual extremes, with tragic news coming from London one day " the collapse of a theater " followed by news the very next day that delighted Harry Potter fans…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 21, 2013
Friday, December 20, 2013
With Sylvester Stallone set to make his Broadway debut as book writer and producer of Rocky the musical, I was drawn to see Grudge Match, a new movie opening Christmas Day starring Stallone …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2013
Lori Wolter Hudson remembers having a nervous breakdown in middle school in Indiana when her teacher assigned her to recite … Read More →
SOURCE: nytheatremag.com at 04:14PM[SHARE]2013 was the year of Shakespeare, and cross-dressing, and people getting naked in tubs on stage. It was a year full of solo performances and celebrity Broadway debuts and shows that sound on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Brian Dennehy, Nathan Lane and the entire 18-member cast of the Goodman Theatre of Chicago’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, directed by Robert Falls, are…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46AM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2013
Even as we mourn the deaths of Peter O’Toole, 81, Â Eleanor Parker, 91, and Joan Fontaine, 96, we celebrate the still theatrically active Estelle Parsons, 86, and Carol Lawrence, 82.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 15, 2013
During the intermission at "Handle With Care," billed as a new romantic comedy starring Carol Lawrence, the original Maria of West Side Story, I pondered some nearly theological questions: I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]The Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night are on most critic’s top 10 list of the best theater of 2013 so far — but not all (Time doesn’t have either.) I was early with my Top …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:43PM[SHARE]How does one become one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century? The answer is not directly forthcoming in "How I Learned What I Learned," the memoir written and performed by August …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Watson was the name of both Sherlock Holmes' fictional assistant and Alexander Graham Bell's real one, as well as the IBM supercomputer (named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson) that beat t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2013
10. Kinky Boots StageGrade: B+ This show has become more beloved since yahoos condemned it during Thanksgiving. I always found it entertaining, in a Busby Berkeley sort of way, but it’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2013
Let’s face it, the live TV broadcast of The Sound of Music overshadowed whatever exciting news about Broadway itself this week– Â new leads for Bullets Over Broadway and Act On…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 7, 2013
Before she portrayed an action hero, an astronaut, an activist or an alien on the screen, actress Sigourney Weaver says, "I was always doing new plays Off-Off Broadway. The spaces were alway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03AM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2013
Win two tickets to see La Soiree, a theatrical spectacle that Entertainment Weekly called “a mesmerizing hybrid of sideshow, vaudeville & burlesque” and Flavorpill said…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2013
Does this sound like The Sound of Music to you? The Sound of Music is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical with no overture. Instead there is the first of 22 songs (see song list at b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49PM[SHARE]“It always seems impossible, until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela, who led the emancipation of South Africa from white minority rule and served as his country's first black pre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Christmas cheer is a cut-throat business, something I learned from the composer of Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer, Johnny Marks, who pointed out to me that the success of his little ditty and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:58PM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2013
This has been an eventful holiday week, and not just because The Lion King celebrated another benchmark — as did, more oddly, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. (scroll to 27 and 30, below…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:12PM[SHARE]Six by Sondheim, a documentary that debuts on HBO on Monday, December 9th, looks at six of Stephen Sondheim’s landmark songs: “Something’s Coming” from West Side Stor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 1, 2013
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news in November? Answer these ten questions to find out. As always, the questions are based on my weekly summary of New York theater n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 30, 2013
My gift guide from 2012 proved so popular that I am updating it for 2013. Call them theater lovers or theatre lovers or drama queens or Broadway Babies: If you have somebody in your life who…
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