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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Architect Pam Campbell, who was in charge of the renovation of the Stephen Sondheim Theater, where The Trip to Bountiful is currently showing, takes us on a tour to point out the environment…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2013
The news that both Justin Bieber and the boy band One Direction have launched their own lines of perfumes  is not just odd, embarrassing and baffling. It’s also inspiring. If these …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:18PM[SHARE]On 28 August, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the following speech at the March on Washington: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demons…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 27, 2013
In his twenties, Ruben Santiago-Hudson saw "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," the first play by August Wilson that appeared on Broadway, and "I was smitten, captured, put in a spell,” he says…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PM[SHARE]Monday, August 26, 2013
Waiting for Waiting for Godot, a comedy about life on stage, was one of the three winners of the New York International Fringe Overall Play Excellence Awards, and Gertrude Stein Saints!, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AM[SHARE]“God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other…”~Julie Harris (1925-2013), often called the first lady of the American theater, who died on Saturday …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 24, 2013
Julie Harris has died at the age of 87. She was a veteran of film and television, and some three dozen plays on Broadway, for which she won an unprecedented five Tony Awards. “Joan of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03PM[SHARE]In Motown the Musical, his fifth Broadway show, Eric LaJuan Summers , plays six roles: a member of the Four Tops a member of the Contours songwriter Brian Holland a member of The Jackson 5, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45PM[SHARE]Friday, August 23, 2013
A day after Sardi’s restaurant unveiled the portrait of Cuba Gooding Jr., who made his Broadway debut in “The Trip To Bountiful,” the show announced he will give his final …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Many pick "Once" or "Phantom of the Opera" as their most romantic theatrical experience, but Lourdes Pagan picks Pippin and, after hearing her story, most would surely agree. She went to the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Zachary Quinto, who is about to make his Broadway debut in the 7th Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie,” offers a one-minute discourse on the di…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PM[SHARE]None of the cast of the new Broadway production of "The Glass Menageries" was impressed with Tennessee Williams' play when they first read it in school — not Zachary Quinto, not Ch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2013
Few would dispute how important the right cast is to a show. Would “The Nance” worked as well with Nathan Lane, or “Assembled Parties” without Judith Light and Jessic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PM[SHARE]Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time ~ Thomas Merton Spider-Man was back in the news this past week several times, and not, on balance, in a good way. “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 17, 2013
Mae West was born on August 17, 1893, and while she’s now known primarily as a movie star, she debuted on Broadway shortly after her 18th birthday, which was long before her Hollywood …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33AM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2013
Nearly every show I saw during the first week of the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival gave me a measure of satisfaction — unusual for the Fringe. In other words, I lucked ou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05PM[SHARE]Daniel Curry, 23, one of the nine dancers who dons a Spider-man costume in “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is reportedly in Bellevue Hospital in serious condition after his le…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:10AM[SHARE]Arthur Darvill and Joanna Christie, who have been playing the leads in “Once” on Broadway for the past month, performed at the final Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2013
About a third of the way through “Soul Doctor,” a Broadway musical fashioned out of an impressive song catalogue and a remarkable true story, an Orthodox rabbi walks tentatively …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Billy Porter, the Tony-winning star of Kinky Boots, uses his Twitter feed to write sayings of optimism and encouragement. A sampling: Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone else&…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:24AM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2013
The team behind "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" has turned Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" into a rock musical, now opened at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, and if you have to tu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25PM[SHARE]Remember Mr. Burns from “The Simpsons”? So will earthlings in a post-apocalyptic civilization. That is all they’ll remember. That is the premise of Ann Washburn’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PM[SHARE]This week features two ticket giveaway contests — Â one ending today, the other beginning. What is your favorite play or musical about a political figure? Why OR What current or hist…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2013
Ticket Giveaway:Â Win two tickets to see "Romeo and Juliet," Â Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy, in its first production on Broadway in 36 years. Directed by David Leveaux, it stars …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2013
Over the course of the evening that unfolds in "First Date," a slight but often charming musical about a blind date, the more experienced Casey (Krysta Rodriguez) offers Aaron (Zachary Levi)…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32PM[SHARE]At the end of "Money Lab," the entertaining and enlightening "economic vaudeville" playing too briefly at The Brick Theater, one of the performers led us in a hymn to money. "Turn to pag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Romeo and Juliet as biker and his chick? It was just a photo op. Orlando Bloom zoomed in a motorcycle onto the sidewalk in front of the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway, where a new bi-ra…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:06PM[SHARE]Bruce Vilanch, successful Hollywood writer (and Hollywood Square), has never even seen a show at the New York International Fringe Festival before, much less performed in one. “I live …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Midway through "Harbor," Chad Beguelin's uneven but ultimately rewarding comedy at Primary Stages, Ted is boasting about his boyfriend Kevin to Kevin's 15-year-old niece. "A few years af…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2013
A video under six minutes that substitutes candy for crystal meth and uses adolescent actors, but is otherwise quite accurate about the TV series that is in its last season. Tagged: Breaking…
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