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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:24PM[SHARE]Ticket Giveaway: Â With Zimbabwe’s 89-year-old dictator Robert Mugabe last week extending his 33-year rule for five more years, there is no better time to see the “rivetingR…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2013
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have,” Maya Angelou has said. “Talent can’t be taught, but it can be awakened,” said Wallace Stegne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 3, 2013
“Hey, man, it’s Woodstock,” somebody said at the Broadway in Bryant Park concert on August 1, looking at the rain and the mud and the yellow flowers everywhere. Ok, I said …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PM[SHARE]Below is a transcript of  playwright Mark Ravenhill’s opening speech at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — necessary because the BBC reports it this way: “One of Britain…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38AM[SHARE]Friday, August 2, 2013
Age is just a number, as we learned in July, though “too old” was a phrase that some bandied about concerning certain performers in certain roles. But also during the month, seve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2013
At the Broadway in Bryant Park concert, the rain took a breather to listen to two songs from a musical that is coming to Broadway in the Fall. Norbert Leo Butz sings Fight the Dragons in Big…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42PM[SHARE]Zachary Levi ("Chuck") and Krysta Rodriguez ("Smash" and "The Addams Family") star in "First Date," a musical about a blind date, which will open at Broadway's Longacre Theater on August 8. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:56PM[SHARE]Below are the shows scheduled to open in the Fall, arranged chronologically in order of their opening. For more information about the shows, see Broadway New Season Guide.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Denzel Washington has confirmed that he will play the frustrated son Walter Lee Younger in "A Raisin in the Sun" next year on Broadway. "We start previews in March." When Sidney Poitier play…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Sure “Smash” was killed after two season because of steadily decreasing viewers. But that hasn’t stopped the merchandising for the TV series about the backstage story of a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PM[SHARE]Billy Magnussen — Casey Hughes in the soap opera “As The World Turns,” Tony-nominated for Spike in “Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike,” guitarist for the rock group…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AM[SHARE]Monday, July 29, 2013
Denzel Washington wants to return to Broadway " in a role that had some ….howling. Tracy Letts is planning a return to Broadway " in a play in which characters…howl. The Prince of Cambri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51PM[SHARE]“Crossing Swords” and “Volleygirls” will the biggest award-winners in the 10th annual  New York Musical Theater Festival. “Crossing Swords,” a musical …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:49PM[SHARE]Cirque de Soleil zoomed into town this past week for a handful of performances of  "Quidam," a production the Montreal-based company is taking on a five-nation tour.  The show, which w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 28, 2013
Storyville, the musical revival bursting forth from the York Theater Company for a too-short five weeks, is a fascinating exercise in nostalgia, several times over. On stage, we experien…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 27, 2013
In an essay I've written for Howlround, I ask  ” Is New York City part of America?“ Next year for the first time, theaters within the five boroughs of New York City will…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:43PM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2013
“Avenue Q” began when Bobby Lopez, a recent college graduate still living with his parents, and Jeff Marx, a recent law school graduate working as an intern and trying to start a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:37PM[SHARE]The cast of “Soul Doctor,” the musical opening on Broadway August 15 based on the real-life friendship between jazz singer Nina Simone (portrayed by Amber Iman) and the “Ro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2013
Although it doesn’t open until October 27, the marquee is already up at the Ethel Barrymore Theater for the revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, starring real-life husband and wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Why was I cringing and rolling my eyes? What could possibly be objectionable about a show that is really just a concert of Beatles songs — some of the most pleasing melodies composed i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03PM[SHARE]Ticket Giveaway:Â Win two tickets to see "Unbroken Circle"Â Â a new play by James Wesley, described as a “comedic Southern gothic tale” that explores a Texan family’s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2013
Several new shows for Broadway were announced this past week, and new roles on Broadway for Jeff Goldblum, Debra Messing, Fantasia Barrino, Anne-Marie Duff, Idina Menzel. There was even news…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Ticket Giveaway:Â Win two tickets to see "The Two-Character Play" by Tennessee Williams, starring Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God, The Hunger Games) and Brad Dourif (Lord of the Rings Trilogy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47AM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2013
“Life is a mercurial thing; it goes up, it goes down,” the Tony winning performer Chuck Cooper told me in an impromptu sidewalk  interview this past week — a week that a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:48PM[SHARE]Orlando Bloom, making his Broadway debut, and Condola Rashad, who just left the Broadway revival of “The Trip to Bountiful,” will star in the 36th Broadway production of William …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 14, 2013
The tango began in the brutal brothels of Argentina, was transformed in the elegant ballrooms of Europe, and seems to have changed once again, into a Las Vegas-like act suitable for televisi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08PM[SHARE]Cory Monteith was found dead in a hotel room in Vancouver, Canada yesterday afternoon. He was 31. An unpretentious star, he put as his bio on his Twitter feed: “tall, awkward, canadian…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48AM[SHARE]As one by one the stars of Broadway paired up with pets in need of homes and climbed onto the makeshift stage of Shubert Alley to make a pitch, more than one of the performers in effect expl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2013
Erik Altemus, who normally plays Lewis and is an understudy for Pippin in the Broadway production of the Stephen Schwartz musical, sang “Corner of the Sky” from Pippin at the Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34AM[SHARE]Friday, July 12, 2013
Chuck Cooper began his professional acting career 30 years ago, debuting on Broadway in 1983, winning a Tony for his portrayal of the character Memphis in "The Life." He will soon re…
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