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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04PM[SHARE]The film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “August: Osage County” with a sterling cast led by Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, will be in movie th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2013
For Keith Carradine, it was going to the opening of "Hair" when he was 19. For Andrea Martin, it was seeing Chita Rivera at 12; for Jay Armstrong Johnson it was "Disney on Ice" at age four.ﾃ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:27PM[SHARE]Michael Urie, best-known as the catty fashion editorial assistant Marc St. James of the TV series "Ugly Betty," is playing some half dozen characters in an acclaimed new play by Jonathan Tol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:50AM[SHARE]Lin-Manuel Miranda, best-known as the wunderkind songwriter and performer for "In The Heights," which four Tony Awards, was hooked on musical theater when at age 12 he was given roles in six…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Andrea Martin, who at age 66 is astonishing audiences as much with her body as with her death-defying performance on a trapeze as Grandmother Berthe in "Pippin," for which she has been nomin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34PM[SHARE]Tim Minchin, the Australian songwriter up for nearly every New York theater award known to Man because of his score for “Matilda,” thinks that listening to Gilbert and Sullivan ﾃ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PM[SHARE]Jay Armstrong Johnson, who appeared this on stage both in a revival of “Working,” the Stephen Schwartz musical, and “Hands on a Hardbody,” the debut musical by Trey A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The 2013 Theatre World Award winners, given to 12 performers making their Broadway (or Off-Broadway) debuts are: Bertie Carvel, Matilda The Musical Carrie Coon,ﾃつEdward Albee'sﾃつWho's Af…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 5, 2013
Two Broadway shows already have announced their early closing in the week after the Tony Award nominations, prompting odd pushback from the producer of one of the shows. (see 4 below) The To…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 4, 2013
In the theater page of today’s New York Times, Testament of Mary producer Scott Rudin has taken out a strange advertisement attacking Times theater reporter Patrick Healy: “Let&#…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:05PM[SHARE]What is most striking about the two performers in "Motown The Musical" who re-enact the complicated relationship between Berry Gordy, Jr., the founder of Motown Records, and Diana Ross ̵…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:18PM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2013
At the beginning of "Surviving Mommie Dearest," an odd show that will run from May 8th to Mother's Day at the Snapple Theater,ﾃつ Christina Crawford, the 73-year-old adopted daughter of mov…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 2, 2013
There seemed to be an unusually abundant display of abdominal muscle on Broadway during the season just ended, almost as if there was an award for Broadway’s Best Abs. So let’s h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PM[SHARE]For her version of "Pippin," director Diana Paulus reached back to the wisdom of the Ancients " distracting us from a dud by offering bread and circuses. This first Broadway revival of Steph…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PM[SHARE]This month’s theater quiz is a special theater awards edition.About half the 10 questions have something to do with one of the many awards whose nominations were announced in April. Se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01AM[SHARE]Motown Tony Award nominee Valisia LeKae and Brandon Victor Dixon bring a complex relationship to the stage as music icons Diana Ross and Berry Gordy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Everybody loves Tom Hanks — and that includes nearly every theater award nominating committee. For his role in “Lucky Guy,” Hanks has been nominated for a Tony, Drama Desk,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:31PM[SHARE]Here are celebrities eligible for the 2013 Tony Award nominationsﾃつwho were not nominated:ﾃつAlec Baldwin,ﾃつBobby Cannaval,ﾃつJessica Chastain, Alan Cumming, Katie Holmes, Scarlett Joh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2013
“Kinky Boots” received the most nominations, 13, for the 67th annual Tony Awards, followed by Matilda with 12, ﾃつat the New York Public Theater for the Performing Arts, chosen …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24AM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2013
The 2013 Tony Award nominations will be announced at 8:30 a.m. on April 30. To help prepare for the inevitable reaction — “Snubbed!” — here is a list of those eligibl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PM[SHARE]The Broadway season has ended and the awards season begun, when theater people turn from the art of theater to its mathematics. Here are the shows I reviewed last week, starting with my favo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PM[SHARE]ﾃつ“Giant” and “Hands on A Hardbody” got the most love this year from the Drama Desk Awards, each receiving nine nominations. The 58thﾃつAnnualﾃつDramaﾃつDeskﾃつ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2013
“Buyer and Cellar,” which imagines a man (played by Michael Urie) ﾃつhired to work for Barbra Streisand at her Malibu home,ﾃつ is no more important than the lacquer on Streisan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:36PM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2013
It seemed like a stunt at first, inviting the audience on stage to see the set of "The Testament of Mary" " the live vulture (we're told his name is Pinhead), the cave underneath the stage w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08PM[SHARE]Russell Harvard decided to be an actor at the age of seven when he saw his cousin playing the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. That ambition was confirmed when his aunt took him…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2013
Pippin, the offspring of a king, takes a journey to find his corner of the sky in "Pippin," a musical Stephen Schwartz wrote before "Wicked" and Bob Fosse directed and choreographed before "…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2013
In "I'll Eat You Last," Bette Midler reads the phone book, to great laughter and applause. This particular phone book, the thinnest of scripts about Hollywood agent Sue Mengers, contains onl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Cicely Tyson has come home. As Carrie Watts, the old woman in Horton Foote's heartbreaking play "The Trip To Bountiful," she had been stuck all day every day with her hectoring daughter-in-l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]Imelda Marcos, the former First Lady of the Philippines, was known for two things in America "owning 3,000 pairs of shoes and dancing in discos. ﾃつ"Here Lies Love," ﾃつDavid Byrne's inspi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Below is a list of the nominations for the Drama League Awards for 2011. (Unlike other theater organizations that give out annual awards, membership in the Drama League is open to the genera…
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