Saturday, February 9, 2013
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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PM[SHARE]Here is a picture of Father Duffy Square in Times Square at 6 a.m., February 9, 2013. Manhattan clearly was not the hardest-hit by Winter Storm Nemo (as the Weather Channel insists on callin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07AM[SHARE]‘Lucky Guy’: From left to right: Christopher McDonald, Peter Scolari, Tom Hanks making his Broadway debut, Maura Tierney, Richard Masur, Courtney B. Vance and Peter Gerety. The l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:08AM[SHARE]Friday, February 8, 2013
“….there is no end to this accursed snow…” “…until the snow is cleared, you must shovel…” “I dreamed a dream in time gone by when snow w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PM[SHARE]The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for New York City and the metropolitan region for today and tomorrow, predicting heavy snow of up to 14 inches and strong winds, an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 6, 2013
“These are the cookies my mom is serving at her #Smash party in Pittsburgh. She’s a diva, “Andy Mientus Tweeted before the premiere of  the second season of Sma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Al Pacino stars with Helen Mirren in HBO film “Phil Spector,” written and directed by David Mamet, about the legendary music producer (Wall of Sound, the Beatles, Ike and Tina Tu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:14PM[SHARE]If ever a TV series did not need professional reviews, it’s Smash, the backstage musical about Broadway that begins its second season tonight on NBC at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. I’d n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:39PM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2013
http://www.nbc.com/smash/video/meet-jeremy-jordan/n31999 Jeremy Jordan, who made a splash on Broadway in “Bonnie and Clyde” and especially “Newsies,” plays Jimmy, an …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PM[SHARE]The beer commercial that made grown men cry. A little background: The Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company owns six teams of horses, which they call The Budweiser Clydesdales, that they use for pr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 3, 2013
While it is true that there is not a single Broadway show scheduled to open in the month of February, and there will surely be more new commercials broadcast during the Super Bowl than stage…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 2, 2013
By the end of the first scene of the first-ever revival of "Moose Murders," which attained legendary status as the worst flop in Broadway history, I thought to myself: This is really not any…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:06PM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2013
Clockwise from top left: Phantom of the Opera, Scarlett Johansson in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln, Barry Manilow, scene from Picnic, Rebecca producer Ben Sprecher
Tak…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2013
Mayor Michael Bloomberg did not address the theatergoers at City Center on the first night of the Encores! appealing if not thrilling production of the 1959 musical "Fiorello," and he did no…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Anton Chekhov was born today in 1860, and died at age 44. He was a Russian physician, a short story writer and a playwright, whose best-known plays, written in the last few years of his life…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AM[SHARE]Before Randi Zuckerberg spoke at the second annual TEDx Broadway, offering some  suggestions at how to use technology to transcend the limitations of Broadway, the former official a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:39AM[SHARE]Monday, January 28, 2013
Vincent Gassetto does not work in the theater; he is the principal of a middle school in the Bronx, M.S. 343. Yet he had something worthwhile to say at today's day-long conference about Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28PM[SHARE]When Daniel Day-Lewis won the Screen Actors Guild award for his leading role in "Lincoln" " having already won a slew of other awards for it as well as an Oscar nomination — I wondered…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 24, 2013
Two plays I just reviewed for Backstage, Mat Smart’s "The Steadfast," a play about American soldiers through the ages, and Judith Malina’s "Here We Are," a theater piece about…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2013
At 44, Richard Blanco was the youngest poet chosen for the inaugural poem in U.S. history. He is also the first only gay man and the first Hispanic to read the inaugural poem. “One Tod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11PM[SHARE]President Barack Obama Inaugural Address Monday, January 21, 2013 Washington, DC Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, Members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 20, 2013
This week in New York theater: January 14, 2013 Big Fish, a new musical based on the 2003 film, Â is opening on Broadway's Neil Simon Theater on October 6 directed by Susan Stroman a with …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 19, 2013
The producers of the new Broadway play “Lucky Guy” have listened to the criticism, and changed the marquee at the Broadhurst Theater, getting rid of the billboard (left) with the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2013
"Cat On A Hat Tin Roof" with Scarlett Johansson and Benjamin Walker could not possibly be so dull, I said during the first intermission; I just must be tired. The couple next to us left duri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2013
"Well, for all of you 'SNL' fans, I'm 50! I'm 50! You know, I need to do that without this dress on, but you know, maybe later at Trader Vic's, boys and girls. What do you say? I'm 50! You k…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31AM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2013
Bette Midler's return to Broadway after three decades is one of three new Broadway shows announced this week, a week in which only one show announced its closing, even though it’s Janu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 13, 2013
Are all single women to be pitied? Would an undisciplined drifter in the 1950's have a torso with a sculpted six-pack? Did William Inge's "Picnic" really deserve the Pulitzer Prize for Drama…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 12, 2013
It has been less than two years since I saw The Other Place Off-Broadway, yet what I remembered of it was just the spellbinding performance by Laurie Metcalf (still best-known as Roseanne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 10, 2013
Why isn't Harold Arlen as well-known as George Gershwin? It is a question that provokes debate among connoisseurs of what has become known as the Great American Songbook, or the Golden Age o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PM[SHARE]Lincoln leads with 12 Oscar nominations, including best adapted screenplay by Tony Kushner (playwright of “Angels in America”). Les Miserables, the movie of the stage musical, sn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Laura Osnes as Cinderella and Santino Fontana as the Prince in “Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella” beginning previews January 25, and opening March 3, 2013
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