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Monday, February 24, 2014

The Numbers Game, Feb. 24-March 2, 2014 by David Lefkowitz

One aspect of commercial Broadway theater that isn’t really covered by previews, reviews, puff pieces and essays is the numbers game – that is, where a show might be in terms of box-offi…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:03PM
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Bway Glass Menagerie Blows Out Candle, 2/23 by David Lefkowitz

John Tiffany’s wildly acclaimed revival of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” ends its extended run today, Feb. 23, at Broadway’s Booth Theater. The prod…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:58PM
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Bronx Bummers – Bway Baseball Play Strikes Out, 3/2 by David Lefkowitz

It’s been a tough stretch for the New York Yankees. Last year, for the first time in five years, they didn’t make the playoffs, and now a Broadway play about the team has failed to go th…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:55PM

Fun-Filled February from FRIGID Fringe Fest by David Lefkowitz

You don’t have to wait till summertime festivals to see a myriad of weird and eclectic shows off-off-Broadway. The FRIGID New York Festival is back with 30 shows in three weeks at two thea…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:33PM
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The Numbers Game, Feb. 17-Feb. 23, 2014 by David Lefkowitz

One aspect of commercial Broadway theater that isn’t really covered by previews, reviews, puff pieces and essays is the numbers game – that is, where a show might be in terms of box-offi…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:42PM
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

The Numbers Game, Feb. 10-Feb. 16, 2014 by David Lefkowitz

One aspect of commercial Broadway theater that isn’t really covered by previews, reviews, puff pieces and essays is the numbers game – that is, where a show might be in terms of box-offi…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:29AM
Friday, February 7, 2014

WEB: Oprah & Audra Mulling Bway Mother by David Lefkowitz

The New York Times reports that Oprah Winfrey is considering making her Broadway acting debut in a revival of Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer-winning drama, “`Night Mother.” Playi…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:39AM
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

The Numbers Game, Feb. 3-Feb. 9, 2014 by David Lefkowitz

One aspect of commercial Broadway theater that isn’t really covered by previews, reviews, puff pieces and essays is the numbers game – that is, where a show might be in terms of box-offi…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:08PM
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

The Numbers Game: Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 2014 by David Lefkowitz

One aspect of commercial Broadway theater that isn’t really covered by previews, reviews, puff pieces and essays is the numbers game – that is, where a show might be in terms of box-offi…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:56PM
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

The Numbers Game, Jan. 20-26, 2014 by David Lefkowitz

One aspect of commercial Broadway theater that isn’t really covered by previews, reviews, puff pieces and essays is the numbers game – that is, where a show might be in terms of box-offi…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:05PM
Monday, September 30, 2013

Dee Hoty to See a Shrink off-Bway by David Lefkowitz

Three-time Tony nominee Dee Hoty returns to New York this fall in a new play, “The Preacher and the Shrink”, starting previews at off-Broadway’s Beckett Theater Nov. 2. The drama, by M…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:38AM
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Weekend Theater Picks for Aug. 9-Aug. 11, 2013 by David Lefkowitz

What’s the opposite of Keanu Reaves as, well, anything? Albert Einstein. There’s a new biographical play about him by Jay Prasad, who tries to show how such a humanitarian could be such …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:40PM
Saturday, March 16, 2013

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: MARCH 16 by Robert Viagas and David Lefkowitz and Anne Bradley

1914 Female impersonator Julian Eltinge is lyricist and star of The Crinoline Girl. Otto Hauerbach provides the book and Percy Wenrich the score. S/he'll twirl at the Knickerbocker Theat…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Sunday, December 16, 2012

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: DECEMBER 16 by Robert Viagas and Anne Bradley, Christopher Reichheld and David Lefkowitz

1899 Noel Coward is born today. He authored plays such as Hay Fever, Design for Living and Private Lives, many of which he performed in; scripts for the films "Brief Encounter" and…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Friday, September 14, 2012

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today in Theatre History: SEPTEMBER 14 by David Gewirtzman and Ernio Hernandez, Robert Viagas and David Lefkowitz

1910 Birthday of Lehman Engel (1910-1982), the Tony-winning Broadway conductor who will found the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Among the shows he will conduct are original productions of Wo…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Today in Theatre History: FEBRUARY 29 by David Gewirtzman and David Lefkowitz

1932 - Denis Johnston's drama, The Moon in the Yellow River, opens at the Guild Theatre. Egon Brecher stars as a German electrical engineer caught in the Troubles of rural Ireland.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

NOW YOU SEE IT... by David Lefkowitz

Magic is more than pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Sam Eaton's The Quantum Eye needs to add showmanship to keep his show from vanishing.

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:28AM

LET'S PLAY CATCH by David Lefkowitz

If you haven't seen Stomp , Blue Man Group , Blast! , Cirque du Soleil , Gumboots and/or Drumstruck , have I got a show for you...

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:28AM

OUT OF HIS LEAGUE by David Lefkowitz

Patrick Marber has created a larger-than-life protagonist and given him a clear trajectory to follow...

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:28AM

WHAT'S GOIN' ON? by David Lefkowitz

Though the Mint Theater's revival of The Madras House is well played ...

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:28AM

Who Greased The Vine? by David Lefkowitz

Could there be a more apt representation of the heights Tarzan reaches--and the depths to which it swoops--than the rope from which its titular teen swings?

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:28AM

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