Friday, July 6, 2012
Daphne Rubin-Vega is playing her fifth role on Broadway, as Stella in Tennessee Williams’ “Streetcar Named Desire,” 16 years after her first and still best-known part, as M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2012
Even New Yorkers who get out of town every summer know at least three of the most celebrated summer theater festivals in New York City (and the three do not include the New York Musical Thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Since 2004 when it began, the New York Musical Theatre Festival has produced some 300 new musicals, including a few that went on to great fame and popularity, such as Next to Normal, Altar B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PM[SHARE]Daphne Rubin-Vega made an iconic Broadway debut in Rent. She's back in another famous role in the revival of A Streetcar Named Desire — and there are more classic characters on her…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2012
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Here is how Broadway is shaping up so far for Fall 2012. This WILL change: First, a quick chronological list by opening date (if there is one), then alphabetical, with a bit more description…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2012
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 24, 2012
Peggy Stafford's "Motel Cherry," from Clubbed Thumb and New Georges and part of Summerworks 2012, mixes "Grand Hotel" with halfhearted fairy tales.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30AM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2012
There’s nothing nicer, Patti LuPone was saying with a long sardonic face to Meryl Streep, than to have a bunch of drunks singing Happy Birthday to you in a bar. Nevertheless, sing we d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2012
The Central Park production of “As You Like It,” starring the luminous cross-dressing Lily Rabe, astonishing double dukes Andre Braugher, outrageous jester Oliver Platt, is not t…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:27PM[SHARE]New York theater doesn’t close up shop after the Tony Awards each year. There actually may be more to see, what with the various theater festivals. In any case here are my reviews of s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:42PM[SHARE]What many theatergoers know and don't love about "Harvey" is that this comedy about a 6'3 1/2" invisible rabbit won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1945, beating out Tennessee Williams' "The…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Sister Act has just announced that it will close on August 24th. Godspell will shutter June 24th. Jesus Christ Superstar said earlier this week that it will play its last performance on July…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:21PM[SHARE]The news sparked reactions ranging from stunned to amused to outraged: Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will make his Broadway theater debut " as will Spike Lee " in the one-man…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:34AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Megan Hart's first full-length play about a writer's first novel is too sketchy, and isn't saved by strong performances from Richard Masur and Michelle David.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:15AM[SHARE]Monday, June 18, 2012
When Annie Baker, playwright of the exquisite “Circle Mirror Transformation” and her frequent collaborator, super-star director Sam Gold (“Seminar,” “Look Back …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2012
In what can only be called a follow-up to my scoop that the creators of “Slings and Arrows” want to create a fourth season, the National Post of Canada quotes Slings star Paul Gr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2012
In this still from a photo essay in Vogue magazine, Jeremy Jordan, star of Newsies, prepares for the 66th annual Tony Awards. Newsies won two Tony Awards, including best choreography and bes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2012
Ethan Lipton's enigmatic send-up of urban life, "Luther," in Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks festival, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, needs more decisiveness.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30AM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2012
Winners of the 66th annual Tony Awards for the best of Broadway will be announced on Sunday night, June 10th. Winners will have asterisks in the list of nominees below. The links are to my r…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 3, 2012
Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Broadway competed in the 57th annual Drama Desk Awards. The winners are in boldface with an asterisk. OUTSTANDING PLAY David Henry Hwang, Chinglish Dan LeFranc…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 2, 2012
This La MaMa revival of H.M. Koutoukas' odd tale of three clowns menaced by a panther-baboon is surreal and often soporific yet redeemed by its language.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:38AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Wonderful performances enhance this eerie stew of a story cooked up around fascinating real-life Japanese theater and school of male impersonators Takarazuka.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 27, 2012
This minor August Strindberg comedy about a love triangle is adapted for an all-black cast and set on Martha's Vineyard in the 1920s.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:41AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 26, 2012
Political columnist Joseph Alsop, a New Deal liberal and a Cold War hawk, is embodied by Tony Award winner John Lithgow in a new Broadway play.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 12, 2012
Would the movie Forrest Gump make a great musical, or must this never happen? How good a Broadway musical could be made from the movies Mean Girls or Moulin Rouge? Clue or Clueless? Those ar…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The 2012 Theatre World Awards for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2011-2012 theatrical season are: Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow) Phillip Boykin (The …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 6, 2012
The Lucille Lortel Awards represent the best on Off-Broadway, chosen from 91 eligible shows (50 new plays, 17 musicals, 24 revivals).Here is the complete list of nominations for the 2012 Luc…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:42PM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2012
In a word cloud for articles about the Tony Award nominations, which were announced on Tuesday, the word "snub" would be just about as big as "Broadway" or "Hugh Jackman." Annually, without …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The nominees for the 66th Annual Tony Awards have been selected in the 22 competitive categories. There are also four special Tony categories. The 2012 nominees are: Best Play Clybourne Park…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:42AM[SHARE]A large cast of kids gives impressive performances in “Up to You,” a musical from Tada! Youth Theater that insufficiently dramatizes its theme of bullying.
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