Friday, May 8, 2015
It’s 1595 and something rotten is happening on the streets of London. A gent by the name of William Shakespeare is taking all the theatrical glory, while the lowly Bottom brothers are stru…
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by Mark Lingenfelter Alan Cumming proclaimed, “Even the orchestra is beautiful!” when he kicked off the New York Pops 32nd Birthday Gala Concert with his performance of “Willkommen” …
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It’s award season! While you may be familiar with the Tonys the OBIEs and the Outer Critics Circle Awards, did you know that the Theatre World Awards is celebrating it’s 71st ann…
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The American Theatre Wing and the Village Voice have announced that Screen Actors Guild Award-winning Orange is the New Black star and OBIE Award-winning actress Lea DeLaria will h…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:43PMMonday, May 4, 2015
Home is where the heart is. But sometimes that heart can ache from a life burdened with secrets and lies. That same heart can also beat strong when love, compassion, and empathy flows throug…
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Where will you be on Monday, May 4? If you want to roll with Broadway glitterati, then head to Carnegie Hall for the New York Pops’ 32nd Birthday Gala featuring music honorees Kathleen an…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:16PMThursday, April 30, 2015
by Samuel L. Leiter In 1604, Hamlet railed against his mother for marrying his uncle, condemning her for speeding “with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” Well, you might argue, there…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:30PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
What’s the funniest musical on Broadway? Contrary to critical acclaim, it’s not Something Rotten! (though it offers more than its fair share of laughs). It’s the other something rotten…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:44PMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! We’ve survived side shows and Russian revolutions (barely), foul-mouthed puppets and dreamlike trips to Paris… but …
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Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! Boy meets girl. Actually, three boys meet girl in An American in Paris—the spectacular new musical now playing at the Palace …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:30PMCalling all Hedwig fans! The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that John Cameron Mitchell will receive the 2015 Special Tony Award. “John’s return to Hedwig and the A…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:11PMFriday, April 24, 2015
by Samuel L. Leiter The Belle of Belfast, a little firebomb of a play, is now detonating eight times weekly at the Irish Repertory Theatre in one of the best acted productions I’ve seen at…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:00AMThursday, April 23, 2015
Death becomes her. Or not. Chita Rivera returns to the stage in Kander and Ebb’s The Visit, a dismally depressing one-act musical adapted from the Swiss play by Friedrich Dürrenmattthat t…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:00PMTuesday, April 21, 2015
Guess who’s back? Lypsinka (a.k.a. John Epperson) returns to Off Broadway this summer with his hit show, Lypsinka! The Boxed Set. Click for details.
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:08PMFirst awarded in 1922 and formalized in 1935, The Drama League Awards are the oldest theatrical honors in America. They are the only major theatergoer awards chosen by audience members — …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:24PMMonday, April 20, 2015
by Samuel L. Leiter Living on Love, the old-fashioned screwball farce in which opera star Renée Fleming is making her delightful Broadway debut, may have the musty fragrance of a pre-owned …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:30PMBroadway has gone to hell and a hand puppet—and that’s a good thing. Hand to God, the alarmingly visceral new American play by Robert Askins is a jolt of theater that the Great White Way…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:07AMFriday, April 17, 2015
by Samuel L. Leiter In 1989, when he was forty-nine, Austin Pendleton tackled the title role in Hamlet in an Off Broadway production. Despite stretching credibility—he was too old for the …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AMThursday, April 16, 2015
I must have been about eight-years-old when I jumped off the couch in our family room and fractured my wrist. I was trying to fly and had gallantly tied a bed sheet around my neck in an atte…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:36PMWednesday, April 15, 2015
Every third Wednesday of the month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out editor Matthew Wexler’s nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit closer…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:03PMTuesday, April 14, 2015
Marriage is a funny thing. Some last. Many don’t. And others aren’t ever meant to be. It Shoulda Been You, the new Broadway musical with book and lyrics by Brian Hargrove and music and c…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:16PMby Samuel L. Leiter INTAR, the funky Hell’s Kitchen theater devoted to plays by Latino writers, is the perfect setting for Octavio Solis’s Se Llama Cristina, with its appropriately dark …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:16PMMonday, April 13, 2015
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! Iow@ — which I’d like to retitle “Why? Oh! Ugh” is the latest new work to hit the stage at Playwrights Horizons. The wo…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:30PMSaturday, April 11, 2015
Old favorites return at this year’s Olivier Awards, including revivals of Cats and Miss Saigon, along with electric productions of recent hits in the U.S. such as Here Lies Love, Bea…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:47AMFriday, April 10, 2015
by Samuel L. Leiter The 2014-2015 theatre season’s hot-button cultural event is the visiting Royal Shakespeare Company’s Wolf Hall, Parts One and Two, Mike Poulton’s admirable double-b…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:30PMThursday, April 9, 2015
Who says burlesque is only for the ladies? “Boys’ Night” has announced that after the sudden loss of their 3-year home at Galapagos Art Space, they have settled in at The…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:39PMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! Oh, Gigi. I’m not sure there’s enough champagne in all of France to keep me buzzed through two-and-a-half hours of your rom…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:30PMTuesday, April 7, 2015
The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced this year’s recipients of 2015 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre. These honors will be presented at the Tony Honors Cocktail…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:38PMMonday, April 6, 2015
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! Before there was Candace Bushnell or Lena Dunham, there was Wendy Wasserstein. The Brooklyn-born, Ivy League graduate carved a …
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Kinky Boots, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning hit musical, celebrates two-year anniversary on Broadway this Saturday, April 4, 2015, producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig are thrilled …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:17AMThursday, April 2, 2015
Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! It’s a French revolution on Broadway this spring (and not of the Les Miserables variety). Two French-inspired shows make thei…
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