Friday, October 4, 2013
At least 20 freshman members of the University of Mississippi football team heckled and used homophobic slurs during a performance they were required to attend of an on-campus production of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AM[SHARE]Ryan Steele, who made his Broadway debut in West Side Story (get the part on his first audition in his first trip to New York City) and went on to perform in Billy Elliott, Newsies and now M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2013
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news last month? Answer these ten questions and find out. This month’s quiz is especially tough, with questions ranging from Off-…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AM[SHARE]To promote their forthcoming performances on Broadway in Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, which opens in November, famed British actors…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:16AM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2013
Chosen from some 2,000 Off-Off Broadway (aka independent) productions, the New York Innovative Theatre Awards nominated 134 individual artists, 60 different productions and 60 Off-Off-Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PM[SHARE]In a week that saw the opening of a much-praised Glass Menagerie on Broadway, a boozy and engaging if weirdly renamed Romeo and Juliet just three blocks down from the more turgid Romeo and J…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2013
There have been so many comparisons between the Breaking Bad TV series on AMC and the plays of William Shakespeare — Walter White frequently compared to Macbeth, though occasionally to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:57PM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2013
Krysta Rodriguez from First Date and Justin Guarini from Romeo and Juliet played host to a lunch-time concert presenting songs from eight musicals on Broadway. I’m going to post them a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2013
When we first see the Wingfield family together in the splendid production of “The Glass Menagerie” that has now opened on Broadway, Zachary Quinto is sitting at the dinner table…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Stages are turning into courtrooms this season, with A Time To Kill and The Winslow Boy on Broadway, and Arguendo, an actual Supreme Court case about strippers dramatized Off-Broadway. Many …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 25, 2013
This four and a half minute musical spoof of the Showtime drama — and of musical theater — by Elliot Glazer, “writer, comedian, and responsible pet owner,” made me la…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Do erotic dancers have a Constitutional right to dance nude? That was the question before the United State Supreme Court in  Barnes v Glen Theatre Inc et al — and it is the subject …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2013
Breaking Bad, with just one episode left, won outstanding drama series for the first time, although many were surprised that neither of its leads, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, won in th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 22, 2013
‘Romeo and Juliet” opened on Broadway last week (my review below), the first of two shows opening on Broadway in September; this week there’s The Glass Menagerie. There wil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2013
Romeo rides in on a motorcycle, swaggering in ripped dungarees and a leather jacket. Â Juliet, wearing white, swings on a swing child-like and timid. Â It is unclear why director David L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33PM[SHARE]The man they sat us next to at the 13th episode of Mike Daisey's 29-part theater piece All The Faces of The Moon had been to all 12 of the previous monologues, and was apparently planning to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:33PM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2013
Elmo looks shocked to be in the company of such aristocrats of the theater as Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen. It’s not the only odd pairing: Muhammad Ali’s friendship w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PM[SHARE] Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see “A Time To Kill,”  playwright Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of the first-ever of John Grisham’s bestselling novel to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2013
"Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play" Â could be called a musical based on "The Simpsons" animated TV series; that would be accurate, but it would miss the point. Â It is so much more than t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2013
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay), world heavyweight boxing champion, remains decades after his prime the embodiment of black pride, strength, and accomplishment. Stepin Fetchit (born Lincoln…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 12, 2013
Since his death at age 92, Horton Foote, who during his lifetime was known primarily for his Oscar-winning film adaptation of "To Kill A Mockingbird" and for his original screenplay for "Ten…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2013
The construction of One World Trade Center, formerly Freedom Tower, as it was constructed from 2004 to 2013. Tagged: Freedom Tower, One World Trade Center
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2013
They have their new Rocky They have their new (19th?) Sally Bowles. Michelle Williams and Il Divo are making their debuts; Neil Patrick Harris has set the date; Harvey Fierstein has a new pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 5, 2013
Ticket Giveaway: Win tickets to any two shows on the list of 20at20. The 20at20 program is a bi-annual celebration of Off-Broadway.  From now until September 22, 2013, some 4…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38AM[SHARE]New plays by both August Wilson and Horton Foote, both of whom have been dead for years? The return of Sarah Jessica Parker and Betty Buckley — and Mandy Patinkin — to the stage?…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2013
The director of "Amelie,"Â Jean-Pierre Jeunet said he was "disgusted" by the plans to turn his film into a Broadway musical, selling his rights only because he wanted to give the money to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AM[SHARE]Monday, September 2, 2013
Test how well you were paying attention to the New York theater news in August with these ten questions, culled from New York Theater blog's weekly summaries.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 1, 2013
Broadway Week, which runs September 2 to 15, and http://20at20.com/ 20 At 20, September 22 to 22, both offer theatergoers steep discounts. Also offering discounted tickets: Season of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51PM[SHARE]Seventeen of the most popular shows from the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival will be presented in two separate Encore series this year. Solo in the City at the Baruch Performing …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49AM[SHARE]Friday, August 30, 2013
“After tallying more than 27,000 public votes, The Humane Society of the United States is pleased to announce the winners of our Chimpanzee Art Contest. “ …”Brent is …
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