Friday, December 14, 2018
In Erin Mallon’s sweet, modest play, an unlikely rooftop friendship develops between a 75-year-old man and a nine-year-old girl. Richard Masur is terrific (as always) in portraying Bernard…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PMThursday, December 13, 2018
Welcome to my seventh annual Worst Broadway Show poll. Pick the show you thought was the worst to open on Broadway in 2018. I chose these ten nominees; this is my Bottom 10 list this year (a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:10AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
“Nassim,” a play by Iranian playwright and performer Nassim Soleimanpour, is deliberately disorienting, both for the audience, who’s told virtually nothing about the show beforehand, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:03PMGet free tickets to live theater, and other live events — dance, comedy, opera — through Goldstar’s 24-hour Comp Train promotion — today and tomorrow, December 12th and December …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PMWhat did movie reviewers think of Lin-Manuel Miranda in “Mary Poppins Returns?” Below are relevant excerpts, in order more or less from most to least positive, and links to the full revi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:02PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
At the very end of their Christmas show, running through December 30th at the Imperial Theater on Broadway, Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken together sing the 19th century Christmas carol “O …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:16PMMonday, December 10, 2018
Nominees for the Grammy for best musical theater album of the year: The Band’s Visit (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel My Fair Lady (…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PMSunday, December 9, 2018
“Slave Play,” which marks the Off-Broadway debut of playwright Jeremy O. Harris, begins, as one would expect from the title, in a plantation in the Antebellum South. It involve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18PM“When does a place become a home?” It’s a question asked by Ammir Haj Ahmad as Safi, a refugee from Syria who is one of the residents of The Jungle. That was the name given to the ex…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:07PMSaturday, December 8, 2018
Nobody can do a nervous breakdown like Bryan Cranston. As Howard Beale, long-time network news anchor gone mad, he sits in front of the camera, unable to speak, his face a dramatic repertoir…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:06PMNobody can do a nervous breakdown like Bryan Cranston. As Howard Beale, long-time network news anchor gone mad, he sits in front of the camera, unable to speak, his face a dramatic repertoir…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PMFriday, December 7, 2018
The Cher Show, the new Broadway jukebox musical that offers a whirlwind tour of the music, life and six-decade career of the entertainer and self-proclaimed “goddamn Goddess Warrior,” …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PM“The Cher Show,” the new Broadway jukebox musical that offers a whirlwind tour of the music, life and six-decade career of the entertainer and self-proclaimed “goddamn Goddes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:48PMThursday, December 6, 2018
With “The Cher Show” now opened on Broadway, it seems a good time to test your Cher I.Q. by answering these dozen questions about her life and career.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40PMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Many events have been marking the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I, including several on New York stages – among them, the solo play “Private Peaceful,” the “docudrama…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:39PMTuesday, December 4, 2018
Novels are routinely turned into Broadway musicals, several currently running – Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, Once on This Island – but turning a Broadway musical into a novel is…novel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PMMonday, December 3, 2018
The current president of the United States did not attend the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors last night (which will be broadcast on CBS on December 26). But the first U.S. president per…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29PMSunday, December 2, 2018
She says she’s been working on it for ten years, but you could argue that Heidi Schreck’s extraordinary show about the United States Constitution – funny and infuriated, analytical and…
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52AMSaturday, December 1, 2018
Today is World AIDS Day. Since last World AIDS Day, there have been some 38,000 new HIV infections in the United States alone. More than 1.1 million people in the US are living with HIV, acc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PMThree shows opening this month on Broadway bring to the stage adaptations of three landmarks of American culture: “To Kill A Mockingbird,” “Network,” and “The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PMFriday, November 30, 2018
The hard problem in Tom Stoppard’s latest erudite play, his first full-length work in nearly a decade, is the challenge facing those who study the brain: How do scientists account for the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:40PMThursday, November 29, 2018
Below is the music video of “Loser Geek Whatever,” the previously unrecorded song from the musical “Be More Chill.” In an informal introduction (originally presented …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37PMHow well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in November? Answer these dozen questions to find out. Buy tickets to The Band’s Visit via TodayTix Buy tickets to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PM“All is Calm” revolves around the powerful true story of the unofficial ceasefires during World War I among British, French and German soldiers in the trenches along the Western Front ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12AMWednesday, November 28, 2018
The greatest thrill of Theresa Rebeck’s thriller is seeing Tyne Daly (Cagney and Lacey) and Tim Daly (The Sopranos, Madame Secretary) act together on stage for the first time. Rebeck wrote…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:01PMSure, you know what mugging is, and ingenue. But what is screlting? Or 2 Dow Shay? What do theater people mean when they use the word “corpse.” Lin-Manuel Miranda explains 15 the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
The day after Springsteen on Broadway closes at the Walter Kerr Theater December 15, 2018, it debuts on Netflix
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PMOn this seventh annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters, theater companies, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:06AMMonday, November 26, 2018
Thanksgiving is technically over, but this one is going to last. There’s much about this past week in New York theater for which we’re grateful. Below watch the full number of &#…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PMCyber Monday deals in New York theater tickets and scripts: Ticket Liquidator Cyber Monday Today only on Ticket Liquidator: 10 percent off all orders, using the code: CYBRTL. (Once on…
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