Thursday, June 20, 2019
Toni Stone was the first woman to play big-league professional baseball. She succeeded Hank Aaron playing second base for the otherwise all-male Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American Lea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMWednesday, June 19, 2019
“The Secret Life of Bees” – first a 2001 best-selling novel, then a 2008 all-star movie, now a musical written by theatrical all stars Lynn Nottage (Sweat, Ruined), Duncan Sheik (Sprin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11PMTuesday, June 18, 2019
The first publicity shot from Steven Spielberg’s movie remake of “West Side Story,” planned for December 2020, came on the same week as the death of Franco Zeffirelli, whose 1968 film …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35AMMonday, June 17, 2019
“A Strange Loop” is a musical about a big, gay black guy who is struggling to write a musical about a big, gay black guy who is struggling….. Michael R. Jackson, the musical’s talent…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44PMSunday, June 16, 2019
The stunning production of “Fairview,” Jackie Siblies Drury’s challenging play, is now being remounted with the same extraordinary cast and creative team at the Theatre for a New Audie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PM“….I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes,” Molly Bloom says, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:34AMFriday, June 14, 2019
Moira Buffini’s inspired, inventive play about Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — two women born six months apart and forced to deal with one another for the 11 ye…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:37PMThursday, June 13, 2019
In 1944, when FDR was running for an unprecedented fourth term as President, the Democrats kicked out his then-Vice President, Henry Wallace, and nominated Missouri Senator Harry Truman to r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
For the next three days (June 12th to 14th), you can get free tickets for certain seats at various future performances of live theater, concerts, dance, and comedy, courtesy of Goldstar’s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23AMTuesday, June 11, 2019
As Beatrice in the Public Theater’s all-black production of “Much Ado About Nothing,” Danielle Brooks proves herself a Shakespearean actress of a high order – and at the same time re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PMMonday, June 10, 2019
From Ali Stroker tearfully dedicating her Tony to “every kid who is watching tonight who has a disability” to Elaine May’s wry explanation for her win to Andre De Shields’ three rule…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58AM“This award is for every kid who is watching tonight who has a disability, who has a limitation, who has a challenge, who has been waiting to see themselves represented in this arena. You …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:19AMSunday, June 9, 2019
Hadestown won best musical and seven other awards, The Ferryman best play, the Boys in the Band best play revival of a play, Oklahoma best musical revival musical at the 73rd Annual Tony A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:39PMThe American Theatre Wing’s 73rd Annual Tony Awards, with host James Corden, will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS tonight, Sunday, June 9, 2019 from 8:00 to 11:00 PM,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMSaturday, June 8, 2019
In her stage version of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved 19thcentury novel, Kate Hamill promises a “radical adaptation” and a “conscious explosion” of “the archetypes found in the nov…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:24PMFriday, June 7, 2019
Following up on her play “The Cake,” about a baker in North Carolina who struggles to accept her lesbian goddaughter, playwright (and “This Is Us” producer-writer) Bekah Brunstetter …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PMNow is the time when interest in Broadway is at its peak, piqued by the three-hour TV commercial for Broadway known as the 2019 Tony Awards. Get tickets to attend the Tony Awards in person! …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:23PMThursday, June 6, 2019
This was an adventurous year for Broadway, with several unconventional works that seemed a more comfortable fit Off-Broadway or even Off-Off Broadway. This is a welcome development, albeit a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMBelow are my preferences — not my predictions — for the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. See my article in DC Theatre Scene for an explanation for each of my choices, and shout-outs to other nom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
In its ultimately lovely if overlong Broadway revival, “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune” begins with loud grunting and shrieking, amid glimpses of breasts and buttocks in the dim…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02PMTuesday, June 4, 2019
Casual theater lovers might think that there’s nothing else happening beside the Tony Awards in June. They would be wrong! June calendar of theater openings: Stonewall 50 on Stages! Fairvi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:51PMA dozen luminous first-time New York stage performers, plus Nathan Lane, were honored at the 75th annual Theatre World Awards. Some spoke on the red carpet about when they first realized the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01AMMonday, June 3, 2019
Christopher Shinn’s “Dying City,” which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama after it received an admired production at Lincoln Center in 2007, is being revived here at the sa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19PMThe Play On! Festival is presenting staged readings through June 30 of all 39 of William Shakespeare’s plays “translated” into “contemporary modern English” by 36 American playwrig…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19AMSunday, June 2, 2019
The Ferryman and The Prom were winners for best play and best musical of the 64th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45PMBroadway is busy with the Tony Awards on June 9th, but June is bustin’ out all over with new shows on other New York stages. A good number of the openings mark the 50th anniversary of the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:06PMSaturday, June 1, 2019
“Underground Railroad Game,” a much-praised 2016 play from Ars Nova that is being revived for just two weeks, is inspired by an actual game that co-creator Scott Sheppard was forced to p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26PMFriday, May 31, 2019
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and previews in the month of May? Answer these 10 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:49PMBefore he was a poet, Walt Whitman, who was born two hundred years ago today — on March 31, 1819 – was a theatergoer, and an opera fan, and a drama critic…and, some argue, a dramatist.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMThursday, May 30, 2019
Can life be lived offline anymore? That’s what the eight characters are exploring as part of an Internet addiction support group in “Octet,” a beautifully sung a cappella chamber music…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMTuesday, May 28, 2019
Yeah that was Lin-Manuel Miranda as Bob Fosse, at the end of “Fosse Verdon,” sort of. In the finale of the eight-episode series on FX, Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) is writing and directing �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PM 
