Monday, October 29, 2018
This has been a wonderful week for theater – with openings for terrific Broadway shows The Ferryman, The Waverly Gallery, The Lifespan of a Fact. And not just on Broadway: The 21st New Yor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PMSunday, October 28, 2018
“India Pale Ale,” a play by Jaclyn Backhaus running Off-Broadway, suddenly becomes shockingly timely with the killing of 11 Jews in a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Halfway through the play, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:45PMSaturday, October 27, 2018
By the time “The Ferryman” has ended, we have been treated to a breathtaking mix of revenge action thriller, romance, melodrama, family saga, and a feast of storytelling – ghos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:33AMThursday, October 25, 2018
Elaine May is back on a Broadway stage after more than 50 years, and making the most of it in The Waverly Gallery, Kenneth Lonergan’s meticulously observed, funny and sad play about a woma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PMElaine May is back on a Broadway stage after more than 50 years, and making the most of it in The Waverly Gallery, Kenneth Lonergan’s meticulously observed, funny and sad play about a woma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PMLast year, James Franco’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to a theater that was going to present Kevin Broccoli’s play “James Franco and Me,” insisting they stop marketing the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:41PMWednesday, October 24, 2018
The first fact that fact-checker Jim (Daniel Radcliffe) argues about in the essay by magazine writer John (Bobby Cannavale) is how many strip clubs there are in Las Vegas. Adult Industry N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMI take “The Lifespan of a Fact” personally. On the one hand, Cherry Jones, Bobby Cannavale and Daniel Radcliffe, are three of my favorite actors in the universe, performing in a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
Currently on New York stages are several shows starring beloved actresses that offer decidedly different takes on the role of women in society (see reviews below): Two reports released this …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AMMonday, October 22, 2018
Carmel Dean had worked closely with celebrated musicians and theater artists ranging from Green Day to Chita Rivera, but she panicked when she met Stephen Sondheim, not because she revered h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PMSunday, October 21, 2018
Gloria Steinem herself came out in the last twenty minutes of Gloria: A Life to lead the “talking circle,” an unscripted conversation with the audience. This was the officially de…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:24PMGloria Steinem herself came out in the last twenty minutes of Gloria: A Lifeto lead the “talking circle,” an unscripted conversation with the audience. This was the officially designated…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:32PMFriday, October 19, 2018
The Rev. Charles Emmanuel Grace, a hero of the Civil Rights Movement, and his pregnant wife Olivia, who writes his stirring sermons for him, seem to find great joy in one another when he lif…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:48PMThursday, October 18, 2018
A man stands in front of the army tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests. A woman helps topple a dictator, with surprising results. A man tries to rescue a child in a plane crash. Anoth…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:36PMDuring the 2017–2018 season, the average age of Broadway theatergoers was 40.6, the lowest since 2000, according to a newly released report by the Broadway League, the trade group for the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Genghis Khan had a mother; so did Amelia Earhart and Dwight Eisenhower. Perhaps Mother of the Maid, starring Glenn Close as the woman whom Joan of Arc called Ma, will start a trend of offe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12PMGenghis Khan had a mother; so did Amelia Earhart and Dwight Eisenhower. Perhaps Mother of the Maid, starring Glenn Close as the woman whom Joan of Arc called Ma, will start a trend of offeri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PMTheater is often awesome, even when in need of repair, and this week is no different. Scenes from @FringeNYC Hub on a Tuesday in October pic.twitter.com/5uECyWnkjj — New York Theater (@New…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:35PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
In Apologia, the well-acted, finely directed Off-Broadway production of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2009 play, Stockard Channing portrays Kristin Miller, a long-time activist, American expatri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:04PMIn this well-acted, finely directed Off-Broadway production of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2009 play, Stockard Channing portrays Kristin Miller, a long-time activist, American expatriate and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PMMonday, October 15, 2018
“Opening Night” begins with hilariously feuding twin sister Hollywood stars, who are brilliantly named Margo Nightingale and Joan de Tuileries, each presenting what they thought was a on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:00PMSunday, October 14, 2018
Emma and Max are the toddlers in the care of a Barbadian nanny, Britney, who is fired by their parents in the awkward first scene of “Emma and Max,” a jarring play about racism written a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00PMSaturday, October 13, 2018
Edward Einhorn’s latest play is based on the jaw-dropping true story of a quack doctor who became rich and famous in the 1920s by implanting goat testicles as a cure for male impotence, an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:17AMFriday, October 12, 2018
Lady Gaga, Madonna, Kesha, U2 and Panic! At the Disco were among the answers to the question: What recording artist or band would you most like to see providing the score for a musical on Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49AMThursday, October 11, 2018
In Mark Sonnenblick cabaret-like gay musical, Arthur, a pianist and songwriter, decides in 1965 that he will write songs to his lover, singer Trevor, without changing the pronouns in the lyr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:26PMWednesday, October 10, 2018
David Lawson was sent an elaborate cartoon of Pepe the Frog, a symbol of the alt right, and told “anti fascists like you are oven ready.” This was via Twitter shortly after Election Day,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45PMTuesday, October 9, 2018
You can now pay for Broadway tickets under a new Ticketmaster installment plan — monthly payments over a year, at 10 percent interest. Much of the reaction to this news was not gratit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04AMMonday, October 8, 2018
There are statues of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle — although city officials have hinted they want to get rid of it — and Columbus, Ohio and Columbus, Georgia and Colum…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AMSunday, October 7, 2018
At the scaled-down, reimagined production of “Oklahoma!” at St. Ann’s Warehouse, they didn’t give us the program until after the musical was over – one of the signs that director D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:45PMSaturday, October 6, 2018
“Funny how hope changes everything. Funny how hope changes nothing,” a singer chants on the High Line, hovering above 18th street, as a light in her black baseball cap eerily illuminates…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37AMFriday, October 5, 2018
“What’s the password?” asked the woman with a punk blonde bouffant, stiletto heels and a penis brooch. I stammered, tried to show her my ticket. She just glared. “Um, La MaMa?” “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:53PM 
