Wednesday, October 17, 2012
“I don't think like an F.B.I. agent," Ben Sprecher, one of the lead producers of “Rebecca,” defends himself in the New York Times, in the latest development in what I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59AM[SHARE]Monday, October 15, 2012
The fourth Broadway production of  Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” opened this past week to the first full-throated raves of the season. (See my r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:25PM[SHARE]"You're all flops," Martha says drunkenly to her guest in "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" the first full-length play by Edward Albee, which has proven once again to be the opposite of a fl…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:32AM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2012
Undesirable Elements” Turns 20 Ping Chong, the theatre artist who created the documentary theatre series Undesirable Elements, knew what it felt like to be an outsider even before he w…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:43PM[SHARE]5 minutes of the singer chatting and crooning at Barclays Center The beginning of Stephen Holden’s New York Times review of the concert: “Those words sung by Barbra Streis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2012
TICKET GIVEAWAY TO EDWARD ALBEE’S WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: Win two tickets to see "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf" starring Steppenwolf Theatre members Tracy Letts (…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2012
October 1 The Weirdness of Rebecca, an account of the odd saga, with link to video of two of the musical’s songs and several updates  2 Hands on a Hardbody will open March 21, 20…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 7, 2012
The opening skit of Saturday Night Live featured the first Presidential debate. In this version, President Obama is daydreaming, mostly his wedding anniversary, not paying attention to what …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43AM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2012
There were reasons to have faith in "Grace," a play about the downside of faith and the mystery of grace. Its stellar four-member cast includes Paul Rudd and Ed Asner, two performers w…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:34PM[SHARE]TICKET GIVEAWAY TO THE HEIRESS: Win two tickets to see “The Heiress” marking the Broadway debuts of Jessica Chastain (Academy Award nominee for The Help) and Dan StevensÂ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2012
There were reasons to have faith in "Grace," a play about the downside of faith and the mystery of grace. Its stellar four-member cast includes Paul Rudd and Ed Asner, two performers w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19PM[SHARE]Here is the part of the transcript of the first 2012 presidential debate that concerns Big Bird. Debate moderator Jim Lehrer had asked: “What are the differences between the two of you…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Lilla Crawford, a veteran of Cool Whip commercial and Billie Elliot on Broadway, is the new Annie. She’s an old pro, which is clear from her interviews.Asked what she wants to do after…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PM[SHARE] Johnny Rabe will play Ralphie in A Christmas Story , The Musical, based on the 1983 movie, which is scheduled to play at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Broadway  from November …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44AM[SHARE]Monday, October 1, 2012
Rebecca will not open on Broadway this fall, its producers Ben Sprecher and Louise Forlenza announced yesterday. The bottom line reason: a lack of financing. But as I tweeted yesterday: …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 30, 2012
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PM[SHARE]September 18 Details of that invitation-only Marvin Hamlisch memorial tonight with Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli ‪ Soshana Greenberg (@Vmarshmellow) I sang in the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 29, 2012
There were 39 TV season premieres this week, seven of them series premieres. A surprising number of these TV shows featured performers who established or embellished their reputations on Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PM[SHARE]Should audiences applaud celebrities at the beginning of a show? I was struck recently at the response at two different plays, when a handful of people started to applaud David Schwimmer (in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2012
A day before the opening on Broadway of "An Enemy of the People," which is a play about the efforts to silence a difficult man, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange lashed out at Obama in a vide…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The last three plays that I have reviewed have been about suffering, or at least about falling apart: Most directly (and, in my view, least successfuly), Job, an adaptation of the Bibl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:06PM[SHARE]Julia Roberts made her Broadway debut in "Three Days of Rain," Daniel Craig in "A Steady Rain," and now Jake Gyllenhaal is making his U.S. stage debut in a play that begins in a steady downp…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 22, 2012
A chat with the four-member cast of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which is opening on Broadway at the Booth Theater on October 13, 2012 — exactly 50 years …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2012
It is hard to know who to blame for the horribly wrong turn taken in Job, the Flea Theater's initially promising stage adaptation of the Biblical Book of Job, the text that long has offered …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:37PM[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…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 16, 2012
"The theater is not so much a profession as a disease, and my first look at Broadway was the beginning of a lifelong infection." So writes Moss Hart in "Act One," a memoir that, we're told, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 15, 2012
Lewis Black will be performing "Running on Empty," his stand-up act, at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway from October 9 to October 20, 2012 not coincidentally right before the 2012 Pr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:32PM[SHARE]Yale-bred playwright Lewis Black, more widely known as an angry "Daily Show" comedian and commentator railing against modern times, brings his act to Broadway in October.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 14, 2012
Anyone listening to Jason Robert Brown perform his songs at Below 54 realizes two things right away: He's as deserving as any other composer-lyricist of his generation to be called Mr. Broad…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:44PM[SHARE]Rob McClure as Charlie Chaplin walks a tightrope, plays the violin, roller skates with a blindfold on, does backflips into a handstand, Â and " most dexterous of all " carries…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2012
British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz adapts Ibsen’s timely classic. Arthur Miller hesitated before adapting Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People. He believed that t…
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