Tuesday, April 23, 2013
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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:19PM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2013
Six shows opened on Broadway in the last week. In the order in which I would recommend them, they are: The Assembled Parties The Nance Macbeth Orphans The Big Knife Jekyll and Hyde Four more…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PM[SHARE]The revival of Stephen Schwartz’s Pippin earned 11 Outer Critics Circle nominations, the most of any production of the season, Kinky Boots, nine; Chaplin: The Musical an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2013
When bloody, shirtless Alan Cumming recites the "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy on the stage of the Ethel Barrymore, I was floored: He would be great in "Macbeth" I thought. B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 20, 2013
In the New York City of 1937 re-created in "The Nance," Â Douglas Carter Beane's fascinating new play starring Nathan Lane, eating at the wrong restaurant could get you arrested — th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PM[SHARE]Jekyll and Hyde: A Tale of Two Views The critics hate it. The fans adore it. Jekyll and Hyde Review: Good vs. Bad on . .. – New York Theater 1 day ago … Me: The return of Frank W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2013
Me: The return of Frank Wildhorn's "Jekyll and Hyde" to Broadway, not a cause for celebration in my household, conjures up a vivid memory of the original Broadway production, when Robert Cuc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]In the much-publicized fracas over "Orphans," when Shia LaBeouf was fired after clashing with co-star Alec Baldwin and replaced by Ben Foster, the one actor in the cast barely mentioned was …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2013
All is forgiven, Richard Greenberg. The busiest playwright in New York this season bounces back from "Breakfast At Tiffany's" with “The Assembled Parties,” an original new play t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM[SHARE]“At The Ballet” from A Chorus Line, sung by Audra McDonald, Megan Hilty and Kelli O’Hara at the “Live from Lincoln Center” tribute to Marvin Hamlisch: One Singu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Question: When is the last time a movie star abandoned his lucrative Hollywood career because his wife asked him to? Answer: More recently than a violinist gave up his music for the chance a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that,” a quote by Martin Luther King Jr., was one of the many sayings projected onto the wall of the Brooklyn Academy of Mu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54AM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2013
Disgraced,” a new play by Ayad Akhtar, won the 2013 Prize for Drama. Directed by Kimberly Senior, at LCT3′s new home at Lincoln Center Theater, he Claire Tow Theater, Disgraced t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:08PM[SHARE]Ten shows will be opening on Broadway within the next ten days. The consensus on the two that just opened, “Matilda” and “Motown,” were starkly different — and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 14, 2013
It is easy to see "Motown: The Musical" as Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr.'s affectionate tribute to himself: He co-wrote the book (based on his memoir) and produced the show, which f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]How do you solve a problem like “Matilda”? How do you handle the juggernaut it's become? The quirky musical, about a neglected little girl with extraordinary powers, is based on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:06PM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2013
For its online auction, Playwrights Horizons has come up with dozens of items to bid on — some great; some elaborate; one a really, really bad idea. The theater’s fundraising onl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Matilda opens on Broadway April 11th, a musical based on the children’s novel by Roald Dahl about a little girl with extraordinary powers, but it is clearly not like your normal childr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48AM[SHARE]The lyrics to “Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher” offered a dilemma after the former British prime minister’s death at age 87. So merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher May God̵…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:34AM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2013
Hands on a Hardbody, the musical about a sadistic contest where ten people try to win a pick-up truck by keeping their hands on it, has announced it’s closing on April 13th, aft…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PM[SHARE]“Bombshell,” the Marilyn Monroe musical that fans of Smash will have  been following for 26 episodes, promises to open on April 20th in an episode entitled, appropriately, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:33PM[SHARE]Lucky Guy and Kinky Boots opened on Broadway last week, Matilda is opening this week — one of a dozen Broadway shows still to open this month, to finish the Broadway Spring 2013 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 6, 2013
Encores! Off-Center, a new series from New York City Center, will begin this summer with the intent to do for old Off-Broadway musicals what its Encores! series has done for old Broadway sho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2013
Did Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” feature a real bear? We know that “Gypsy” had a little lamb, “Legally Blonde” both a chihuahua and a bul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PM[SHARE]The League of Independent Theater held its first political candidate forums last month, and is planning to make endorsements in New York City political races. With some 50,000 independent th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PM[SHARE]Nobody is sure how applause began, or when — babies applaud; applause is mentioned in the Bible — but we all know where it wound up: In the theater. In The Atlantic, Megan Garber…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2013
Is it a shock to say that "Kinky Boots" just isn't kinky enough? It could have been. Harvey Fierstein wrote the book, he who began his career as a 300-pound teenage drag queen on the Lower E…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08PM[SHARE]The 2013 theater award season began with the announcement on April 3 of the nominees for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring Off-Broadway. Both Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Redgrave rece…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:57AM[SHARE]Halfway through "Detroit," Lisa D'Amour's funny, dark and timely new play with a pitch-perfect cast that includes David Schwimmer and Amy Ryan, a character named Sharon explains that she has…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:16AM[SHARE]The main character of "The Whale" is 600 pounds, but one of the many pleasures of this funny and affecting new play by Samuel D. Hunter, being given a splendid production with a universally …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2013
One reason to regret what seems at the moment to be the inevitable — that the second season of Smash, the backstage theater TV series, will be its last. In this duet, Bernadette Peters…
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