Thursday, February 28, 2019
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in February? How about Broadway’s presence at the Oscars? At the Grammys? Answer these 13 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:34PMWednesday, February 27, 2019
In Madeleine George’s often hilarious, ultimately pointed comedy, the Greek god of agricultural and theater has decided to save the planet, after retreating for several centuries from th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:16PMTuesday, February 26, 2019
In this latest musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” Alice (Molly Gordon) is a British teenager in 1941 who takes shelter in the Underground wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PMThe launching of The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, with the opening tonight of “Alice By Heart,” is the latest “new, state-of-the-art complex” (as MCC is calling it) — with…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PMMonday, February 25, 2019
Mary Seacole, though little known in the United States, was almost as celebrated in her time as Florence Nightingale, and for much the same reason – for nursing the sick and wounded during…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:38PMSunday, February 24, 2019
Green Book won best picture, Rami Malek of “Bohemian Rhapsody” lead actor and Olivia Colman of “The Favourite” lead actress at the 91st annual Academy Awards. Ruth E. Carter and Hann…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PMIt takes Henry Higgins six months to transform Eliza Doolittle from a “draggle-tailed guttersnipe” in “My Fair Lady” to a lady who can pass as a duchess at the Embassy Ball. Now, ten…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PMSaturday, February 23, 2019
Bill Rauch, who last February was appointed the first artistic director of the performing arts center at the World Trade Center in New York, was sitting in a theater near his home some 3,000…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:09AMFriday, February 22, 2019
With what’s billed as its re-imagined production of “Merrily We Roll Along,” Fiasco Theater Company has taken on their second Sondheim in four years. Fiasco, a ten-year-old ensemble th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:39PMThursday, February 21, 2019
There’s one way that the Yiddish language “Fiddler On The Roof” directed by Joel Gray and starring Steven Skybell is strikingly different now that it’s moved uptown to the Shubert’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PMWednesday, February 20, 2019
“The Price of Thomas Scott,” Elizabeth Baker’s play about a small shop owner struggling with his conscience, marks the launching of the Mint Theater’s ambitious “Meet Miss Baker”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37PMTuesday, February 19, 2019
As the season heats up, Off-Broadway is showcasing plenty of screen stars — or maybe it’s the other way around. Click on the photographs to learn the show and the theater, then c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54AMMonday, February 18, 2019
Nearly every president has been depicted on the stage at one time or another. There are currently three on Broadway — in a single show, “Hamilton” which opened Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06AMSunday, February 17, 2019
“I love you,” Stephen says to his wife Amy. “I love you,” Amy replies. “Please don’t respond verbally,” Stephen admonishes her. He is a cognitive neuroscientist conducting an e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PMSaturday, February 16, 2019
Some of the theater posters Frank Verlizzo designed hang on the famous flop wall of Joe Allan’s restaurant. Some hold a prominent place in the homes of grateful Broadway stars. But many ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:09PMFriday, February 15, 2019
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent an agent to see the out-of-town tryout of “A Raisin in the Sun” to determine if the play had Communist content. The FBI did not do this with every show …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27AMThursday, February 14, 2019
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are Broadway plays about love dating back to 1750, photographs of stage kisses dating back to 1887, and recaps of some of my love and kisses posts …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:21AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
For the next two days (February 13th and 14th), the following productions are offering free tickets for certain seats at various future performances, courtesy of Goldstar’s Comp Train,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
Playwright Young Jean Lee wrote an Op-Ed this week about the advantages of affirmative action in education and diversity in the theater. Looking at some of the faces below of the people who …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08AMMonday, February 11, 2019
Off-Broadway Week starts today, offering two tickets for the price of one to 34 shows playing Off-Broadway, through February 24th. The shows range from musicals that have been running for de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11AMSaturday, February 9, 2019
Watch musical numbers from each of the nominees for the Grammy for best musical theater album of the year: The Band’s Visit, Carousel, Jesus Christ Superstar, My Fair Lady, and Once on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PMFriday, February 8, 2019
Paul Zimet came up with the idea for Talking Band’s 57th show, “City of No Illusions,” when he met two sisters who own a funeral parlor in Buffalo, New York. “They ta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:16AMThursday, February 7, 2019
The strange doings in Virginia have brought blackface back in the news. Reaction to the unearthing of a photograph on the 1984 medical school yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam att…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AMWednesday, February 6, 2019
More than half a century has passed since the Berrigan brothers, both of them priests, along with seven other Catholic activists, broke the law to protest the Vietnam War. On May 17, 1968, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Theater is not the only activity vulnerable to bad reviews. A sportswriter called last Sunday’s football game “the worst Super Bowl ever…” (“boring, lame, non-…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18AMMonday, February 4, 2019
No other company went as full-Broadway as Skittles, which, in lieu of a commercial during the Super Bowl, staged on Super Bowl Sunday a one-day, 40-minute live “Skittles Commerc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AMSunday, February 3, 2019
“My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black,” says Keyonn Sheppard as Bayard Rustin, close adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr., main organi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AMFriday, February 1, 2019
This month there are no Broadway openings, but ample glamour Off-Broadway. Freestyle Love Supreme, the improvisational hip-hop group that Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail conceived in c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:57PMThursday, January 31, 2019
In the first Broadway revival of Sam Shepard’s 1980 play, Ethan Hawke portrays Lee, a drifter, a drinker, and a thief who disrupts the life of his younger brother, Paul Dano’s Austin, an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36PM In the first Broadway revival of Sam Shepard’s 1980 play, Ethan Hawke portrays Lee, a drifter, a drinker, and a thief who disrupts the life of his younger brother, Paul Dano’s Au…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23PMMost wouldn’t see a link between stone-cold killer Chris Partlow from HBO’s The Wire, flashy pimp-turned-porn-star Larry Brown on HBO’s The Deuce and Tom Robinson, a black …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:57PM 
