Sunday, 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 03:53PMThursday, October 4, 2018
Yet again, a drama critic has been attacked for making comments about actors’ bodies. The new headlines were generated by a 1991 review of “Will Rogers Follies” on Broadway. Why was th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
Win two tickets to see “Head Over Heels” for free. I liked this show, which mashes up 18 songs by the 1980s all-female L.A. punk band The Go-Go’s with a loose adaptation of Ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
For the last few years before he died in 2017 at the age of 86, playwright A.R. Gurney had been experiencing a resurgence of a career that had already produced some 40 plays over 50 years, b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PMWhat stage show could compete with the drama of the Ford/Kavanaugh hearings? I’m a theater critic and I’ve never been so drained by a drama. — Charles McNulty (@CharlesMcNulty)…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AMMonday, October 1, 2018
Using 20 songs that Bob Dylan composed over half a century, playwright Conor McPherson has fashioned a slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece set in a run-down boardi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04PMUsing 20 songs that Bob Dylan composed over half a century, playwright Conor McPherson has fashioned a slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece set in a run-down boardi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11PMHow well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in September? Answer these 13 questions to find out. Keep abreast of what’s happening with my weekly summari…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AMSunday, September 30, 2018
Bob Dylan, Glenn Close, Daniel Radcliffe, and Gloria Steinem are all on a New York stage one way or another in October, always a good month for theater. This year’s October is likely the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMSaturday, September 29, 2018
How, one wondered, would British playwright Richard Bean, whose hilarious farce One Man, Two Guvnors made a star out of James Corden, create something as funny for Americans out of the Briti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PMHow, one wondered, would British playwright Richard Bean, whose hilarious farce One Man, Two Guvnors made a star out of James Corden, create something as funny for Americans out of the Briti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PMAt the very end of Bernhardt/Hamlet, a new play on Broadway by Theresa Rebeck, we see an actual 1899 film clip of the renowned 19th century actress Sarah Bernhardt on stage, in the role of H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:04AMBernhardt/Hamlet, a new play on Broadway by Theresa Rebeck about Sarah Bernhardt deciding to perform as Hamlet, is being given a first-rate production, with a winning cast led by Janet McTee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:38AMThursday, September 27, 2018
The latest odd hybrid by the Ensemble for the Romantic Century, combining a one-woman show about the poetry and life of Emily Dickinson with a chamber music concert of 19th century composer …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered on Vladimir Putin’s birthday in 2006, as if the assassins were giving him a present for getting rid of this woman deemed an “enemy̶…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11PMTuesday, September 25, 2018
Sarah Bernhardt remains the most famous stage actress of all time, the subject of the play Bernhardt/Hamlet on Broadway. But during her lifetime she had a rival, Eleanora Duse. The two didn�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:08PMFollies at the Astoria Performing Arts Center was a big winner in the 14th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city’s independent theater — aka …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00AMMonday, September 24, 2018
Shakespeare knew Kavanaughs well: “Say what you can, my false o’erweighs your true” The 2018-2019 Broadway season, launching in earnest this week with two plays, is shaping up after se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:16AMSunday, September 23, 2018
La Femme’s revival of Tennessee Williams’ late, little-known play about four women living and working and bickering with one another, offers something you won’t find in A Glass Menager…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05PMSaturday, September 22, 2018
As the family gathers for a Thanksgiving right before everything starts to fall apart, Knox (Russell Harvard) gives thanks for “three things I used to think weren’t gifts at all: Deafnes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00AMFriday, September 21, 2018
“Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2” tops the list of what will be the most produced plays nationwide among the 531 non-profit theaters that are part of the Theatr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:50AMThursday, September 20, 2018
The devotion that Dorothea “Polly” Noonan (Edie Falco,) a foul-mouthed political operative, shows to Erastus Corning 2nd (Michael McKean,) the long-time mayor of Albany, is so intense …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:24PMAs Polly Noonan, Edie Falco, late of The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie, can make almost any show more engaging than it would otherwise be, even a relatively sedate one like “The True,”……
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PMWednesday, September 19, 2018
Karma, a “dirty little hood rat” of 17, is looking for her missing former foster brother Terrell, though she didn’t know him long and he didn’t like her much. He was, however, all sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32PMMonday, September 17, 2018
2018 Theatre Hall of Fame inductees: Actors Rene Auberjonois, Christine Baranski, Cicely Tyson Playwrights Maria Irene Fornes, David Henry Hwang, Adrienne Kennedy Director Joe Mantello Produ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:35AMSunday, September 16, 2018
Although billed as “an intimate immersive production,” what “Stars in the Night” actually offers, at its best, is the exact opposite — a spectacular public setting. An audience…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PMSaturday, September 15, 2018
When Jenna Gavigan made her Broadway debut at age 16 as a member of the ensemble in the 2003 revival of Gypsy, she shared the stage at the Shubert Theater not just with stars Bernadette Pete…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMFriday, September 14, 2018
“I think there has been a growth in Trump fatigue,” says Tony Stinkmetal, who admits that he himself shares it — which is why it’s surprising that he has created a show c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
The full title of “Collective Rage,” Jen Silverman’s playful, bawdy, and episodic genderqueer/feminist/lesbian comedy about five women named Betty, is 47 words long. Only once does it …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:14PM 
