Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Leonard Cassuto, "The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It" by Marshall Poe, New Books Network

Leonard CassutoView on AmazonThe discontented graduate student is something of a cultural fixture in the U.S. Indeed theirs is a sorry lot. They work very hard, earn very little, and have ve…

SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 12:18PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Magda Romanska, "The Post-Traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor: History and Holocaust in Akropolis and Dead Class" by Amanda Swain, New Books Network

Jerzy Grotowsky and Tadeusz Kantor were influential in avant-garde theater in the West in the 1960s and 1970s, receiving high critical regard despite the fact that audiences could not unders…

SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 11:51AM
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Amanda Rogers, “Performing Asian Transnationalisms: Theatre, Identity and the Geographies of Performance” by Dave O'Brien, New Books Network

Identity, performance and globalisation are at the heart of the cultural practices interrogated by Amanda Rogers in Performing Asian Transnationalisms: Theatre, Identity and the Geography o…

SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 09:27AM
Monday, March 23, 2015

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, “New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849″ by Alejandra Bronfman, New Books Network

Riots, audiences on stage, fabulous costumes, gripping stories. That’s what theater was like in the Atlantic world in the age of slavery and colonialism. Elizabeth Maddock Dillon wonde…

SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 02:00AM
Monday, February 9, 2015

Jen Harvie, “Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism” by Dave O'Brien, New Books Network

[Cross-posted from New Books in Critical Theory] Arts and culture are under threat in the age of austerity. This threat is underpinned by the misuse of the idea of participation in contemp…

SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 11:42AM
Friday, January 23, 2015

R. Keller Kimbrough, “Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater” by Luke Thompson, New Books Network

[Cross-posted from New Books in Buddhist Studies] In his recent book, Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater (Columbia University Press, 20…

SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 07:30AM
Friday, December 12, 2014

Steven Fielding, “A State of Play: British Politics on Screen, Stage and Page, from Anthony Trollope to The Thick of It” by Dave O'Brien, New Books Network

[Cross-posted from New Books in Critical Theory] To understand contemporary politics we must understand how it is represented in fiction. This is the main argument in A State of Play: Bri…

SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 08:22AM
Friday, May 27, 2011

Peter Filichia, “Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of the Season 1959-2009″ by Matt Freeman

Speaking to long time theater critic Peter Filichia, one is reminded of listening to an old-time sportwriter talk about baseball. The Broadway he describes is full of colorful personalities,…

SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 12:19PM
Sunday, May 1, 2011

George Hunka, “Word Made Flesh: Philosophy, Eros, and Contemporary Tragic Drama” by Marshall Poe, [email protected]

George Hunka’s book Word Made Flesh: Philosophy, Eros, and Contemporary Tragic Drama (Eyecorner Press, 2011) offers a series of challenges, provocations and meditations on Theatre (wit…

SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 12:54PM
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Martin Denton, “Plays and Playwrights 2011″ (NYTE, 2012) by Matt Freeman, [email protected]

The world of “Off-Off Broadway” has been fertile soil for new American plays for decades. Since the late 1990s, one of its most fervent boosters and chroniclers has been Martin D…

SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 04:59PM
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Pamela Cobrin, “From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broadway: The Emergence of Women on the New York Stage” (Delaware, 2009) by Matt Freeman, [email protected]

Pamela Cobrin’s book From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broadway: The Emergence of Women on the New York Stage, 1880-1927 (University of Delaware Press, 2009) investigates the suffragis…

SOURCE: New Books In Theater at 02:35PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards