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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:20PM[SHARE]"To be an actress you have to love to suffer, and I only like to suffer," Abby says near the beginning of Amy Herzog's "Belleville," now opened at the New York Theatre Workshop, which is why…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 3, 2013
In the first-ever Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella," there is a big clock in the ballroom that speeds from 8 to midnight as Cinderella dances with Prince Charming…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2013
This month’s theater quiz is a special TV edition (Half the 10 questions have something to do with both television and theater.) See how well you were paying attention.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 28, 2013
At the beginning of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Passion," the first musical staged by the Classic Stage Company in its 46-year history, two of the three lovers of the story, Giorgio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08PM[SHARE]Is Jesse Eisenberg not just a movie star ("The Social Network") but his generation's Arthur Miller or Tennessee Williams or Alfred Uhry or Wallace Shawn? That is what Vanessa Redgrave implie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Kelli O'Hara first learned about Carousel when she performed in it in high school. "I fell madly in love with it. It remains a very favorite." John Cullum had heard songs from Rodgers and Ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Humor is the greatest weapon the powerless have against the powerful. When the powerful use it against the powerless, it’s evil. This was my thought the day after Oscar host Seth MacFa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:50AM[SHARE]Monday, February 25, 2013
In a tale told in David Henry Hwang's graceful and gorgeous early play, a father literally explodes when his son tells him he has become an actor. "Little bits of his skin are found hanging …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 24, 2013
Is Shia LaBeouf's sudden departure from what would have been his Broadway debut a boost for Broadway in what would normally be a fallow February? But this week actually has been fertile …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 23, 2013
Consider Marina " saved by pirates, who then sell her into a brothel, "but she had such a healing spirit that she convinced every man not to have sex with her," Tina Packer says to us, great…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08AM[SHARE]Friday, February 22, 2013
Yes, Charlie Sheen got more followers in a day than I got in three years. Ok, I had to write almost three Tweets for each Twitter follower I got " more words than are in the Bible, twice as …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:37PM[SHARE]In its Spring Theater section, the Times features five “new faces” with forthcoming "high-profile stage roles": Jonny Orsini who will play a naif taken in by Nathan Lane in "The …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AM[SHARE]“In the story over Shia La Beouf’s exit from “Orphans,” Michael Riedel in the New York Post reports a different version of events than the impression left by the rele…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2013
A dramaturg is a murderer in “Icarus,” the episode of “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” in which everybody thinks Cynthia Nixon playing a Julie Taymor-like figure…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:26PM[SHARE]This is a clip of the 1987 movie of “Orphans,” based on the 1983 play by Lyle Kessler that is being revived on Broadway this season.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Shia LaBeouf, the movie star (“Transformers”) who was to make his Broadway debut, has left Orphans, the three-character play co- starring Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge which was…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:13PM[SHARE]Will we have "Smash" to kick around any longer? Whatever else the backstage Broadway TV show has been, it's been an inspiration for many in the theater community " creating what you could al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Adele, Rufus Wainwright and Lady Gaga were the singer/songwriters picked most often in answer to the questions:Â Â What singer/songwriter would you like to see writing a show for Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 17, 2013
A debate over whether actors and other artists must be narcissists and opportunists, sparked by yet another story about Lena Dunham of "Girls"; a new report on the racial make-up of performe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:08PM[SHARE]Many people in Laramie, Wyoming don't think that Matthew Shepard was murdered in their town in 1998 because he was gay — that he wasn't the victim of a hate crime, according to the ext…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2013
"No more rejection, rejection, rejection," the ex-actress tells Ivy and Sam in front of Amy's Bread in the second season premiere of Smash. She has left the theater and gone into "stationery…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Alan Cumming accompanied the installation of the marquee for “Macbeth” The stars were not present when Orphans went up All four shows are opening in April: &…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:51PM[SHARE]Should the stage reflect the demographics of the city in which it is located? That is the assumption of the second annual report from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, the AAPA…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that "the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36PM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2013
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see “Kinky Boots,” the Broadway musical based on the 2005 film that tells the true story of a man who saves his family’s shoe factory by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:53PM[SHARE]Best Musical Theater Album:Â Once: A Musical, Steve Kazee & Cristin Milioti, principal soloists; Steven Epstein & Martin Lowe, producers (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, compos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 10, 2013
New York City was lucky this time. The blizzard that the Weather Channel dubbed Nemo saved the worst of its ire for other regions, allowing all Broadway and most Off-Broadway shows to remain…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 9, 2013
I have just reviewed two plays for Backstage that could both be called Spanish plays, although they could not be more different. One, “Fuenteovejuna,” at Repertorio Espanol, w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:00PM[SHARE]Some theaters are offering snow deals Roundabout Theater: Picnic and the Mystery of Edwin Drood, as well as Tally’s Folly at the Roundabout’s Off-Broadway Laura Pels Theater, wil…
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