Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Socrates was so annoying to his fellow Athenians that even some of those jurors who had voted to acquit him joined the majority to have him condemned to death during the penalty phase of his…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PMBelow is the full list of the nominations for the 85th annual Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The nominees were announ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Can a Star Wars villain and a Soviet spy find love, sex and happiness together on Broadway? That’s the question we’re primed to ask in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s 19…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PMCan a Star Wars villain and a Soviet spy find love, sex and happiness together on Broadway? That’s the question we’re primed to ask in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s 19…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28PMWhat is a play – and what is its purpose? These questions come to mind after reading the 15 plays commissioned by T the New York Times Style Magazine in America 2024, a multimedia antholog…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AMMonday, April 15, 2019
Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury wins the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play, which was produced at Soho Rep and deals with issues of race and family — and one particular family …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:19PMFriday, April 12, 2019
With the TV series “Fosse Verdon” gaining them renewed attention, here are photographs from the illustrious Broadway careers of Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse (arranged more or less chronolog…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:17AMThursday, April 11, 2019
Below: an explanation of major New York theater awards. And before that, a calendar of this year’s nominations and award announcements/ceremonies. Why was Sarah Bernhardt, one of the world…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:10AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
I’m grateful for having first seen Daniel Fish’s dark, hip and homey production of “Oklahoma!” at St. Ann’s Warehouse last year, because I can see how much improved it is now that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:25PMTuesday, April 9, 2019
I might go a great distance to watch Ben Whishaw strip off his suit and turn into Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe before our eyes. But I only had to travel to 30thStreet and 10thAvenue, in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35PM In a city with 1,200 cultural institutions, how do you create a new one that stands out? That was the question – and the charge — that then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg put 14 years ago to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AMMonday, April 8, 2019
For its first production in its new second home downtown in a spruced-up Greenwich House Theater, Ars Nova is presenting the latest devised piece by the much-praised ten-year-old company The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PMSunday, April 7, 2019
The Lehman Trilogy, an inventively staged, extraordinarily acted, and historically blinkered theatrical epic, begins and ends with the collapse of the Lehman Brothers, the venerable financia…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:21PMSaturday, April 6, 2019
There’s beauty in the suffering that comes from longing. That message comes through clearly in “Diary of One Who Disappeared.” Everything else is elliptical in the production of this h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMFriday, April 5, 2019
Nicole Fosse learned things about her parents, the choreographer and director Bob Fosse and the dancer Gwen Verdon, by watching the making of the TV series “Fosse Verdon,” which begins o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:54PMPeople are gushing about Heidi Schreck’s play as if it’s another Hamilton, and in some ways it is. No, it’s not a groundbreaking hip-hop musical. Indeed, “What the Constitution Me…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AMThursday, April 4, 2019
As King Lear, Glenda Jackson enters with a casual swagger, giving off a scent of power that’s lasted a lifetime. But Lear is portrayed by an 82-year-old woman, lean and light and, at 5�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30PMAs King Lear, Glenda Jackson enters with a casual swagger, giving off a scent of power that’s lasted a lifetime. But Lear is portrayed by an 82-year-old woman, lean and light and, at 5�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PMThe nominations for 34th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards are: Outstanding Play Mlima’s Tale Produced by The Public Theater Written by Lynn Nottage Pass Over Produced by Lincoln Center Theater…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08AMWednesday, April 3, 2019
Ashe is a play based on the true story of a pyromaniac who terrorized a Norwegian town by torching homes for a month until he was unmasked as the son of the fire chief. Itis a haunting work …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PMTuesday, April 2, 2019
The first of the April Avalanche on Broadway begins Thursday with the opening of King Lear, starring Glenda Jackson, and ends on April 25 (the Tony eligibility cut-off date) with Beetlejuice…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:12PMMonday, April 1, 2019
The ten shows opening on Broadway in April include six plays and four musicals. Several are familiar titles presented in unfamiliar ways: Glenda Jackson as King Lear; an avant-garde, diverse…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:06AMSunday, March 31, 2019
My childhood friend Wendy has always had two particular gifts – or rather, one gift and one affliction. She understands every word of any Shakespeare play, however or wherever it is perfor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:41PMOn a break from an improv class, Kim Katzberg gets a phone message from her father and calls him back to learn that he has pancreatic cancer and is dying. “I feel so sad AND excited,” sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AMSaturday, March 30, 2019
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in March? Answer these dozen questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AMFriday, March 29, 2019
Andy Warhol was a Broadway producer – the lead producer of a musical that opened at Broadway’s Little Theater (now called the Hayes) in 1975. It’s a mind-boggling story that, like many…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18AMThursday, March 28, 2019
You need not have read Darwin or watched any of the Planet of the Apes movies to suspect that chimpanzees come closest to humans in the animal kingdom. Scientists have discovered over the pa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13PMWednesday, March 27, 2019
“Welcome to African-American Airlines, where if you broke & black, we got yo back” – those are the first two messages painted on the wall as we walk up the staircase in the Public …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:38PM Today is World Theatre Day. Created in 1961,it is celebrated annually on March 27. How will you be celebrating? Below, ten facts about theater, and this year’s World Theatre Day messa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38AMTuesday, March 26, 2019
“Time is the longest distance between two places.” — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911, and died in 1983. Barely a season goes by wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:54PMMonday, March 25, 2019
Ephraim Sykes in Ain’t Too Proud, Corbin Bleu in Kiss Me Kate, Daveed Diggs in White Noise: These are some of the black breakout stars in shows that opened last week on Broadway or Off Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AM 
