Thursday, April 4, 2013
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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PM[SHARE]Playwright Richard Greenberg, whom I profile in Playbill this month, has three plays opening nearly simultaneously in New York: Breakfast At Tiffany’s opened March 20 at the Cort Theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2013
How well were you paying attention to what was happening in New York theater in March? Find out with these ten questions The questions are all based on posts from this blog in March, 2013. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26AM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2013
“Journalists aren't nearly as interesting as they think they are," David Eisenhower once said, a quote that Nora Ephron cited favorably in her final media column for Esquire in 1977. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 31, 2013
As March madness turns into April avalanche, the marathon begins. In the next 25 days, 15 shows will open on Broadway, much of the Spring 2013 Broadway season. This coming week, Tom Hanks de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2013
The Signature and Sondheim and Shakespeare in the Park; new theaters like Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow and old ones like the Belasco on Broadway; playwriting legends like Edward Albee a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 27, 2013
World Theatre Day has been celebrated every March 27th since 1961. How? Playwright Dario Fo has created a World Theatre Day message, the English version of which is below. New York City will…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see "Orphans," the play by Lyle Kessler that stars Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge that tells the story of two orphaned brothers living a rough…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2013
Broadway's been so weird lately that you don't even have to mention Rebecca, or a cat getting fired, or Alec Baldwin to come up with ten questions in a Weird Theater Quiz Spring 2013. The ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:49PM[SHARE]To celebrate its tenth anniversary, the Brick Theater Company in Brooklyn is mounting some 20 world premieres of plays by 13 major playwrights, including Neil LaBute, Greg Kotis, Mike Daisey…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 24, 2013
In response to reaction to Annie Baker’s The Flick, Playwrights Horizons artistic director Tim Sanford sent the following e-mail to the theater’s subscribers: Dear Friend, The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 23, 2013
This has been a very weird theater season. See how weird by answering the following ten questions. (Notice there’s not even a question about a cat being fired from a show — there…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:24PM[SHARE]Yesterday, Buzzfeed posted The 33 Hottest Hunks of Broadway, but whether or not they are “of” Broadway, more than half of them aren’t  on Broadway anymore. They’ve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2013
"Hands on a Hardbody," an odd but tuneful new musical based on a 1997 documentary film about a sadistic endurance contest to win a pickup truck in Texas, might as well be called "American Id…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:38PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2013
When Holly Golightly sits on the fire escape strumming a guitar and singing, those watching  "Breakfast at Tiffany's" at the Cort Theater may temporarily feel in familiar territory, even …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Defying the long-held superstition about the dangers of saying the name “Macbeth” inside a theater, Alan Cumming replied to my inquiry: “I am going to say Macbeth everywher…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The community of ex-cons, junkies and crackheads crowding into the Bank Street Theater are surrounded by love, laughter and wild applause. They are the characters peopling  Stephen Adly G…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38PM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2013
“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” has opened on Broadway, a move nearly universally applauded. See my review below. Other shows opened this week that I reviewed: Lanford Wils…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 17, 2013
"A person isn't happy unless they're building something," says Dr. Dan Loggins, junior archaeologist, trying to explain why the people of a lost ancient Native American civilization buil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 16, 2013
Here are photographs from some of the shows opening on Broadway in Spring 2013: Ann, Cinderella, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Â Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. (More will be added as they bec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
Raina is a teenager kicked out of the Middle East, forced to live with her relatives in Brooklyn, for reasons that nobody will tell her cousin Tariq " so he hacks into her computer to find o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2013
"If everyone took antidepressants, Chekhov would have had nothing to write about," Sonia tells her brother Vanya in Christopher Durang's hilarious yet improbably moving play, now bumped up t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Those who have seen the previous gently-paced, meticulous, near miraculous collaborations between playwright Annie Baker and director Sam Gold — "Circle Mirror Transformation," "The Al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22PM[SHARE]Theater producer Alia Jones-Harvey is the only woman of color currently a lead producer on Broadway. Her company Front Row productions began with the revival of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2013
Two plays opened this past week that both could be considered political, in very different ways. "Ann" written by and starring Holland Taylor, offers a look at the improbable political caree…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2013
Is it possible for “Hit The Wall,” a new play, to say something fresh about the Stonewall riots that sparked the modern gay rights movement, now that the president of the United …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2013
Ann Richards, who has come remarkably back to life thanks to Holland Taylor's impressive impersonation of her at Lincoln Center, became a national celebrity and the governor of Texas after s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58PM[SHARE]Which shows are you most looking forward to seeing? Choose below among the 18 that are set to open between now and the cut-off deadline for eligibility for a Tony Award at the end of April. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Matilda, the hit musical from London  had its first preview on Broadway Monday night, March 4th. Matilda The Musical is written by playwright Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12AM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2013
Rodgers and Hammerstein's “Cinderella” opened this week for the first time on Broadway, marking the end of fallow February and the start of March and April madness. Over the next…
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