Friday, June 7, 2013
Ryan Holsopple gets mad when he goes to a show and the sound is not loud enough. But what really disturbs him — “I get kind of nauseous” — is when the production only…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2013
Cyndi Lauper, a pop star whose first big hit was Girls Just Want To Have Fun 30 years ago, has been embraced by Broadway, undergoing the ritual known as posing with your caricature at Sardi&…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:57PM[SHARE]The fourth annual Lilly Awards, named after playwright Lillian Hellman, honored the following women in the theater earlier this week: actress Lois Smith actress Jessica Hecht sound designer …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Daniel Radcliffe, a 23- year-old man with a net worth of $50 million, has been working hard to "escape" Harry Potter, as he puts it. He's danced on Broadway, performed in the nude  on "al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Raymond Lee is more than just a triple threat. A stage performer who has been in the Broadway casts of "Mamma Mia" and "Anything Goes," he doesn't just act, sing, and dance " and do cartwhee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22PM[SHARE]Pippin and Motown were the winners in the 2013Â Fred & Adele Astaire Awards celebrating dance on stage and on screen. The two Broadway musicals shared the award for outstanding choreog…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2013
Buy tickets to Broadway The Tony Awards will take place this coming Sunday, and, if nothing else, they are the best way to sum up the Broadway season. How else to do it? In facts and figures…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 2, 2013
To enjoy "Far From Heaven" without reservation, it might help to stay away from Netflix. The new musical about two forbidden loves (gay and interracial) in 1950s suburban Connecticut has ope…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards will be broadcast in a week. Meanwhile life — and theater, and life in the theater — goes on. See how well you were paying attention in May by answering these 10 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:59AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 1, 2013
Last year, Bob Martin, one of the three creators of the cult backstage theater TV series “Slings & Arrows” told me they were thinking of creating a fourth season – a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:18PM[SHARE]Friday, May 31, 2013
"I want a woman," John Malkovich as the dying lover Casanova shouts elegantly from the stage of City Center, while in the audience " in the row right in front of me " a young man has two: He…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2013
"Does anyone ever realize life while they live it, every, every minute?” Emily asks in "Our Town." "No," replies the Stage Manager. "Saints and poets maybe." How about prisoners? Twent…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2013
The four new TV spots promoting the Tony Awards show on June 9th all have three things in common: Annie, Cinderella, Matilda, and the diner they’re sitting in (which is sometimes ident…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:25AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2013
Buy tickets to Broadway Summer has unofficially begun. By its end, nine of the 27 shows currently on Broadway will have closed, several of them next month. But summer also means a city full …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 26, 2013
Actors Equity, the union of almost 50,000 actors and stage managers, was officially created 100 years ago today, May 26, 1913. Its members “are not blue-collar workers who work with th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 25, 2013
This summer there will  be two plays involving John Malkovich at two different theater festivals, one in which he stars, the other directs — proof enough, if proof was needed, th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:05PM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2013
The most important question for me about the 2013 Tony Awards is not: Is Kinky Boots a shoe-in for the bulk of its 13 Tony Award nominations, more than any other show this season? Or: Will M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:07PM[SHARE]“From this place on this wall, I see ALL,” Tom Hanks wrote on his caricature during a ceremony at Sardi’s. The restaurant has been putting caricatures of Broadway performer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:41PM[SHARE]Longtime rocker and now Broadway songwriter Cyndi Lauper seemed to be getting the cold shoulder from Arthur Treacher, he of the fish and chips but also of Camelot and a dozen other Broadway …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former Congressman, has announced via the video below that he is running for mayor of New York City. Should he be running? A native New Yorker, Anthony Weiner, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The  opera “Anna Nicole,” based on the life and  death of Playbill model and octogenarian billionaire’s bride Anna Nicole Smith, is one of 34 works of opera, theater,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PM[SHARE]Monday, May 20, 2013
The winners of two more annual theater awards were announced this past week — the Drama League and the Drama Desk. Some of the winners were not on Broadway. It comes as no surprise to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 2013
 The big winners of the 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards included Matilda, which won the most number of awards, five, including Outstanding Musical, and Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34PM[SHARE]A cop bumped into Tamara Williams, frisked her, mocked her, then issued her a citation for resisting arrest — a traumatic incident from last summer that became a dramatic one this week…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2013
I raved about the immersive theatrical experience that is "Natasha, Pierre and the Comet of 1912" Â " a new type of dinner theater " when it was performed at Ars Nova last fall, and so was…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:10PM[SHARE]"Wood Bones," a play by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. that marks the inaugural production of The Eagle Project, a Native American theater company in New York City, is a work that excited me " …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2013
This year Sondheim and Chekhov and Tom Hanks and Vanessa Redgrave share honors with a bus. The Drama Desk Awards nominating committee has selected "The Ride" as one of the choices in "Unique…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:35PM[SHARE]Monday, May 13, 2013
Broadway’s fresh faces this year include Tom Hanks, one of the world’s most familiar faces, and Yvonne Strahovski, who has a dedicated following for her roles in “ChuckR…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36PM[SHARE]“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” won outstanding new Broadway play, “Kinky Boots” new Broadway musical, Â ”Pippin” best musical revival, “Who…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 12, 2013
Now that NBC has canceled “Smash,” what will happen to the original songs created for this TV series about Broadway? Here are 11 that should last. (Lyrics are below the videos) 1…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:28AM[SHARE]Friday, May 10, 2013
Smash, the TV series on NBC about the making of a Broadway musical that began with such promise and excitement — and more than 11 million viewers — has been canceled after more t…
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