Thursday, May 16, 2013
I raved about the immersive theatrical experience that is “Natasha, Pierre and the Comet of 1912” – a new type of dinner theater – when it was performed at Ars Nova last fall, and …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:10PM“Wood Bones,” a play by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. that marks the inaugural production of The Eagle Project, a Native American theater company in New York City, is a work that excited m…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:01AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
This year Sondheim and Chekhov and Tom Hanks and Vanessa Redgrave share honors with a bus. The Drama Desk Awards nominating committee has selected “The Ride” as one of the choices in “…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:35AMMonday, May 13, 2013
Broadway’s fresh faces this year include Tom Hanks, one of the world’s most familiar faces, and Yvonne Strahovski, who has a dedicated following for her roles in “ChuckR…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:36PM“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” won outstanding new Broadway play, “Kinky Boots” new Broadway musical, ”Pippin” best musical revival, “Who&#…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:25AMSunday, May 12, 2013
Now that NBC has canceled “Smash,” what will happen to the original songs created for this TV series about Broadway? Here are 11 that should last. (Lyrics are below the videos) 1…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:28AMFriday, May 10, 2013
Smash, the TV series on NBC about the making of a Broadway musical that began with such promise and excitement — and more than 11 million viewers — has been canceled after more t…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:04PMThe film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “August: Osage County” with a sterling cast led by Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, will be in movie th…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:12AMThursday, May 9, 2013
For Keith Carradine, it was going to the opening of “Hair” when he was 19. For Andrea Martin, it was seeing Chita Rivera at 12; for Jay Armstrong Johnson it was “Disney on Ice” at ag…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:27AMMichael Urie, best-known as the catty fashion editorial assistant Marc St. James of the TV series “Ugly Betty,” is playing some half dozen characters in an acclaimed new play by Jonathan…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:50AMLin-Manuel Miranda, best-known as the wunderkind songwriter and performer for “In The Heights,” which four Tony Awards, was hooked on musical theater when at age 12 he was given roles in…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:29PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Andrea Martin, who at age 66 is astonishing audiences as much with her body as with her death-defying performance on a trapeze as Grandmother Berthe in “Pippin,” for which she has been n…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:34PMTim Minchin, the Australian songwriter up for nearly every New York theater award known to Man because of his score for “Matilda,” thinks that listening to Gilbert and Sullivan …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:15PMJay Armstrong Johnson, who appeared this on stage both in a revival of “Working,” the Stephen Schwartz musical, and “Hands on a Hardbody,” the debut musical by Trey A…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:43PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
The 2013 Theatre World Award winners, given to 12 performers making their Broadway (or Off-Broadway) debuts are: Bertie Carvel, Matilda The Musical Carrie Coon, Edward Albee’s Who’s Af…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:01AMSunday, May 5, 2013
Two Broadway shows already have announced their early closing in the week after the Tony Award nominations, prompting odd pushback from the producer of one of the shows. (see 4 below) The To…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:41AMSaturday, May 4, 2013
In the theater page of today’s New York Times, Testament of Mary producer Scott Rudin has taken out a strange advertisement attacking Times theater reporter Patrick Healy: “Let&#…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:05PMWhat is most striking about the two performers in “Motown The Musical” who re-enact the complicated relationship between Berry Gordy, Jr., the founder of Motown Records, and Diana Ross &…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:18AMFriday, May 3, 2013
At the beginning of “Surviving Mommie Dearest,” an odd show that will run from May 8th to Mother’s Day at the Snapple Theater, Christina Crawford, the 73-year-old adopted daughter of…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:49PMThursday, May 2, 2013
There seemed to be an unusually abundant display of abdominal muscle on Broadway during the season just ended, almost as if there was an award for Broadway’s Best Abs. So let’s h…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:41PMFor her version of “Pippin,” director Diana Paulus reached back to the wisdom of the Ancients – distracting us from a dud by offering bread and circuses. This first Broadway revival of…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:11AMThis month’s theater quiz is a special theater awards edition.About half the 10 questions have something to do with one of the many awards whose nominations were announced in April. Se…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:01AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Everybody loves Tom Hanks — and that includes nearly every theater award nominating committee. For his role in “Lucky Guy,” Hanks has been nominated for a Tony, Drama Desk,…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:31AMHere are celebrities eligible for the 2013 Tony Award nominations who were not nominated: Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannaval, Jessica Chastain, Alan Cumming, Katie Holmes, Scarlett Johansson, …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:30AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
“Kinky Boots” received the most nominations, 13, for the 67th annual Tony Awards, followed by Matilda with 12, at the New York Public Theater for the Performing Arts, chosen fr…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:24AMMonday, April 29, 2013
The 2013 Tony Award nominations will be announced at 8:30 a.m. on April 30. To help prepare for the inevitable reaction — “Snubbed!” — here is a list of those eligibl…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:22PMThe Broadway season has ended and the awards season begun, when theater people turn from the art of theater to its mathematics. Here are the shows I reviewed last week, starting with my favo…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:00AM “Giant” and “Hands on A Hardbody” got the most love this year from the Drama Desk Awards, each receiving nine nominations. The 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards wi…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:30AMSunday, April 28, 2013
“Buyer and Cellar,” which imagines a man (played by Michael Urie) hired to work for Barbra Streisand at her Malibu home, is no more important than the lacquer on Streisand’…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:36PMFriday, April 26, 2013
It seemed like a stunt at first, inviting the audience on stage to see the set of “The Testament of Mary” – the live vulture (we’re told his name is Pinhead), the cave underneath the…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:08PMRussell Harvard decided to be an actor at the age of seven when he saw his cousin playing the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. That ambition was confirmed when his aunt took him…
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