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
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 8, 2013
January is the month for theater festivals in New York, more than at any time other than the summer. Â The offerings tend toward the avant-garde and the international and indeed many of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40PM[SHARE]When Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes’ “Water By The Spoonful” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama last year, the standard response I heard was: What? Who? The play had never been prod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40PM[SHARE]Monday, January 7, 2013
A 22-song album of the music from "Bombshell" will be released on February 12, a week after the Tuesday, February 5th premiere of the second season of Smash. The first season of this Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 6, 2013
This week in theater includes news about “Wicked,” and about an older musical by the same composer; the longer life of “Peter and the Starcatcher,” a hoped-for life f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 5, 2013
“Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy”, 90-minute documentary by Michael Kantor (Broadway: The American Musical.) aired on PBS New Year’s Day Here’s the link Wat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52AM[SHARE]Friday, January 4, 2013
Vanessa Redgrave paired with Jesse Eisenberg ("The Social Network") in a play he's written? A new musical by David Byrne of Talking Heads fame about ex-dictator spouse Imelda Marcos, famous …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 3, 2013
Theater, the original social media, meets its digital counterparts in form-breaking new live/virtual experiments: "As a theatre artist, I love space," Whit MacLaughlin is saying as we leave …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Tom Hanks, Shia LaBoeuf, and Cyndi Lauper are all making their Broadway debuts, and Scarlett Johansson returns, during Spring 2013, a season that promises at least two big hits, both of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 1, 2013
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 " exactly 150 years ago. There is no greater evil in U.S. history than slavery, with the possible exception …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AM[SHARE]Monday, December 31, 2012
Here are the ten most-read articles from this blog this year: Will Slings and Arrows Return To TV? I uncovered startling news for the many fans of "Slings and Arrows," the cult Canadian T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 30, 2012
It is hard not to be sentimental about the theater at the end even of a so-so year. There ARE Broadway shows with performances on New Years Eve: Mary Poppins, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 29, 2012
“Bullying is an unfortunate part of our society,” writes Ahmed Shayef,  seventh-grader at M.S. 577 in Brooklyn, who won a walk-on role in A Christmas Story as a result o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:17AM[SHARE]Friday, December 28, 2012
"What to do on New Year's Eve is always the puzzlement," Harvey Fierstein wrote this week. "But I think pot luck here at the barn with friends sound sanest. Music. Giggles." But what about N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 26, 2012
How much you were paying attention to New York theater this month… and this year? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 25, 2012
In 1885, at the age of 20, Wilson Alwyn Bentley hooked up a large camera with a microscope and photographed his first snowflake.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:21AM[SHARE]Monday, December 24, 2012
People the world over know tomorrow as Christmas. But Les Miz fans know it as the U.S. release of the movie Les Miserables. My review of the movie. It is never too late to give a gift for th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 23, 2012
Playwright Tony Kushner (“Angels in America”) wrote the screenplay of Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg. He talks about it with Bill Moyers, in-between clips from the movie.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 22, 2012
This Oscar-winning 2002 documentary about America’s romance with gun violence is centered on the mass shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. The film is funny, sad, insig…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PM[SHARE]The video was created by Raymond J. Lee. The song “Always” is by Scott Alan. The song is performed by Eden Espinosa, Jane Monheit, and Christiane Noll Participating in the vidoe:…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:51PM[SHARE]Friday, December 21, 2012
 After I compiled the top ten lists of top ten theater of 2012, a reader asked me to point out which of these shows you can still see. It occurred to me that the answer was — almost…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Near the end of "Les Miserables,"Â Eddie Redmayne, his face filling up the screen, sheds a tear as he sings: Oh my friends, my friends, don’t ask me What your sacrifice was for Empt…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:52PM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2012
One day remains to enter my contest for free tickets and merchandise to Les Miserables, the movie opening on December 25. A week left to shop for holiday gifts for theater lovers I've got tw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 16, 2012
26 Names by Jason Robert Brown When I first heard of the shooting at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, I was reading the chapters on the debate over slavery in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 15, 2012
There are several great pleasures in "Golden Boy," the play by Clifford Odets about gifted Italian-American violinist Joe Bonaparte who gives up his art for the life and quick fortune of a b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2012
When did it become unfashionable for Americans to call ourselves "workers"? Certainly, it goes back way before 1978. That was when "Working" opened on Broadway, a musical co-conceived by the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PM[SHARE]Right up there with being told there is no Santa Claus is the news, suddenly prevalent, that “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is not just a sweet duet for the holidays. First some…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2012
GIVEAWAY TO Les Miserables Enter to win the following: $25 Fandango Gift Card to see Les Miserables in any U.S. movie theater available for ticketing on Fandango.com or your mobile device…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:34PM[SHARE]Monday, December 10, 2012
The last of the 19 shows that made up Broadway Fall 2012  opened this past week, and the assessments of the season have begun. So far: meh. Critical consensus: We are not living in Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 9, 2012
I once asked Luciano Pavarotti what opera meant; the great tenor gave me a baffled look, but he answered that opera was not difficult to comprehend. Farmers played opera in barns to increase…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:39PM[SHARE]It is easy to see 45th Street this week as the Tale of Two Mamets. David Mamet's new play, "The Anarchist" is a verified flop, set to close two weeks after it opened. Meanwhile, "Glengarry G…
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