Thursday, 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 11:10PMAs the theater awards season enters the home stretch – what’s left: Drama Desk Awards, Theatre World Awards, the Tonys – the question arises once again:How does one determine, or even …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09AMMonday, May 27, 2019
Fosse Verdon, the FX TV series about the marriage and artistic collaboration between Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, ends its eight-episode run on May 28, 2019. What other theater couples from th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PM On Memorial Day, we remember and honor the approximately 1.1. million Americans who have been killed in U.S. Wars Memorial Day has its origins in the Civil War, which incurred the grea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:09AMSunday, May 26, 2019
We first said goodbye to Avenue Q in 2009 when the surprise Tony-winning hit musical announced it was about to close on Broadway after six years. But it got an immediate reprieve, moving to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMTwo things distinguish Loveville High, a new musical that takes place on prom night in a high school in Loveville, Ohio. First: The cast of 13 is comprised of some of the most talented young…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52AMSaturday, May 25, 2019
Below are the seven most popular posts in the seven years since I began NewYorkTheater.me in May 2012. Below that are the seven most popular reviews, and below that 10 of the profile portr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AMFriday, May 24, 2019
Sean O’Casey was 43 years old and had worked his whole life as a laborer, when he finally had a play accepted in 1922 by the founders of Dublin’s famed Abbey Theater, the dramatist Lady…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PMThursday, May 23, 2019
In the first play of Clubbed Thumb’s 24thannual Summerworks festival at the Wild Project – the first summer theater festival of the season — the cast faces us a la A Chorus Line, ex…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29AMWednesday, May 22, 2019
The Ferryman, a feast of Irish storytelling in a breathtaking mix of genres, opened on Broadway seven months ago, and since then it’s gotten nine Tony nominations, best play awards from th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12PMThe Ferryman, a feast of Irish storytelling in a breathtaking mix of genres, opened on Broadway seven months ago, and since then it’s gotten nine Tony nominations, best play awards from th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33PMTuesday, May 21, 2019
In Episode 7 of Fosse Verdon, Gwen fights to assert her own creative vision on Chicago, challenging Bob’s increasingly dark approach to the musical. Just one more episode to go! More ab…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:33PMMonday, May 20, 2019
The 64th Annual Obie Awards, celebrating Off and Off-Off-Broadway Theater We’re live at the 2019 #ObieAwards hosted by @Racheldoesstuff https://t.co/CHOOYEdiLX — Obie Awards (@obieawards…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:14PMFans can add another reason to be disappointed with Game of Thrones. NBC executives are now claiming they killed Hair Live, which they had planned to broadcast yesterday, when HBO announced …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AMSunday, May 19, 2019
Hadestown won best Broadway choreography and Alice By Heart best Off-Broadway choreography in the third annual Chita Rivera Awards honoring excellence in dance and choregraphy. Complete list…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36PMAt the end of “Mac Beth,” Macduff severs Macbeth’s head and then she takes a selfie of it, posing with two of her fellow murderous teenage girls, all dressed in parochial school unifor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12PMSaturday, May 18, 2019
Did George Harrison steal from The Chiffons? A judge ruled that his 1970 hit, “My Sweet Lord” was “virtually identical” to The Chiffons’ 1962 hit “He’s So Fine.” But, though …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08PM So many theater companies label their shows “immersive” these days that the term can feel like little more than a synonym for “hip.” But five adventurous and meticulous companies …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39AMFriday, May 17, 2019
Bryan Cranston won the distinguished performance award at the 85th annual Drama League Awards for his performance in Network, while Hadestown won best musical, and The Ferryman best play. Di…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:59PMComedian Carl Reiner called his comic novel Enter Laughing, because that is the first stage direction that his 17-year-old main character is given, at his first ever-audition, and he makes a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48AMThursday, May 16, 2019
Comedian Carl Reiner called his comic novel Enter Laughing, because that is the first stage direction that his 17-year-old main character is given, at his first ever-audition, and he makes a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PMFrom the moment Susan Sarandon makes her entrance in Happy Talk, Jesse Eisenberg’s latest play, it is clear her character Lorraine is extravagantly self-absorbed to the point of delusion. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18PMFrom the moment Susan Sarandon makes her entrance in Jesse Eisenberg’s latest play, it is clear her character Lorraine is extravagantly self-absorbed to the point of delusion….It would b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
The story that Tony winner Alice Ripley tells in this one-woman show – of an unsophisticated mother named Trisha Lee in the small Texas town of Sparktown who becomes woke after her child …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:39PMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Summer begins officially next month, but the summer theatergoing season launches this week with the first two of 13 annual New York summer theater festivals. Clubbed Thumb, which has been …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:19PMMonday, May 13, 2019
“The Ferryman” won outstanding Broadway play and “Hadestown” outstanding Broadway musical in the 69th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. ‘White Noise” won best Off-Broadway p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AMSunday, May 12, 2019
In a culture where “stage mother” has a negative connotation, and mothers aren’t always the most endearing characters on stage, it’s good to honor Mother’s Day by watching videos o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AMSaturday, May 11, 2019
In episode 6 of the FX TV series “Fosse Verdon,” which will air on Tuesday May 14th, Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) splits his time between editing the movie he’s directing, “Lenny” abou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28PMFriday, May 10, 2019
Summertime is a good time for the adventurous New York theatergoer, and the broke New York theatergoer. Summer theater festivals present shows that are usually cheaper (often free), and more…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:19PMThursday, May 9, 2019
Ten of the 34 shows that opened on Broadway during the 2018-2019 season began life Off-Broadway. I was struck by how sharply different my reactions were to seeing the Off-Broadway and Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PM 
