Monday, November 24, 2014
Cirque du Soleil extends its presence to the Mayan Riviera with the opening of JOYÀ, which premiered this past weekend at the brand new, customed-designed, 600-seat Cirque du Soleil Theater…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:00PMSaturday, November 22, 2014
by Jim Gladstone “My parents are pretty much the opposite of Mama Rose,” jokes Broadway veteran Telly Leung—who plays Feinstein’s at the Nikko in San Francisco this weekend—“They…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:58AMFriday, November 21, 2014
John Cameron Mitchell returns to the role he co-created with composer/lyricist Stephen Trask in their musical Hedwig and The Angry Inch, which they debuted in the 1998 hit Off-Broadway produ…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:00AMThursday, November 20, 2014
The Broadway community mourns the loss of acclaimed director, producer, writer, and performer Mike Nichols, who passed away on Wednesday evening at age 83. The marquees of Broadway theatres …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:32PMBy Samuel L. Leiter In 1947, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were the newly anointed kings of Broadway musicals, having created two remarkable blockbusters, Oklahoma! (1943) and Car…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:00AMTuesday, November 18, 2014
Broadway Blog editor Matthew Wexler reviews the Broadway revival of Side Show. Want more Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. I’m seeing double. It’s been 17 years since …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:52PMMonday, November 17, 2014
In a last hurrah, the creative team behind the Tony Award-winning revival of Pippin have pulled out some interesting star power. Taking over the title role is Josh Kaufman, season si…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:48PMFriday, November 14, 2014
Broadway Blog editor Matthew Wexler gets an earful from downtown favorite Lypsinka. Want more of the Broadway Blog? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Say what? John Epperson is back as Ly…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:24PMWednesday, November 12, 2014
It’s a busy, long weekend ahead for Betty Buckley. From Wednesday through Sunday (November 13-16), the Texas-based Tony-winner brings her latest program of intimate interpretations to Fein…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:53AMMonday, November 10, 2014
Things are getting murky in Neverland. While it seemed like a sure thing that Jeremy Jordan would reprise his role as J.M. Barrie in the Harvey Weinstein-produced Finding Neverland, it look…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:39PMFriday, November 7, 2014
By Samuel L. Leiter Late in Terrence McNally’s Lips Together, Teeth Apart, we learn that the title refers to a mantra suggested by a dentist for those who grind their teeth at night. Some …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:11AMWednesday, November 5, 2014
The boys are back on Friday, November 7 for a night of theatrical/burlesque/circus revelry. After multiple sold-out, standing-room-only productions, and the most recent Atlantis cruise where…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:42PMMonday, November 3, 2014
by Matthew Wexler We have a lot to be thankful for this November as Broadway and beyond welcomes revivals galore, hoping to capitalize on familiar titles and cult favorites. We’ll see who …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:35PMFriday, October 31, 2014
by Samuel L. Leiter I first saw the movie version of James Dickey’s 1970 novel Deliverance, a story of survival in the backwoods of North Georgia, when it appeared 42 years ago, and unlike…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:18PMWednesday, October 29, 2014
by Samuel L. Leiter Two promising ingredients come together in Lift, now playing at 59E59 Theaters: one is playwright Walter Mosley, the popular and prolific African American novelist, and…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:00AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
by Broadway Blog editor Matthew Wexler A star has been born on Broadway this season at the Lyric Theatre. Unfortunately you won’t see him onstage because it’s choreographer Joshua Bergas…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:44PMMonday, October 27, 2014
by contributor Samuel L. Leiter Considering the place of former Beatle John Lennon in New York’s cultural history, one would think it about time that Lennon: Through a Glass Onion, a jukeb…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:19AMFriday, October 24, 2014
Contributor Samuel Leiter goes for a dip with the latest production from the Debate Society. Ars Nova is one of those intimate, creatively flexible venues, like the Soho Rep, where you never…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:01PMThursday, October 23, 2014
There is an old record player (remember, those?) placed at the foot of the stage. Dylan Ebdus (played by Adam Chanler-Berat) enters, puts on an old Motown-inspired vinyl, and begins to weave…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:00AMWednesday, October 22, 2014
The New York theater season is proving to be filled with an invigorating sense of creativity, including the latest venture from the team that brought us [title of show]. With a book by Hunte…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:56PMMonday, October 20, 2014
Contributor Samuel Leiter goes on a poet’s journey with The Belle of Amherst starring Joely Richardson. The Emily Dickinson we see in William Luce’s one-woman biodrama, The Belle o…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:03AMSaturday, October 18, 2014
Broadway is going meta and I wonder if producers are interested in plot lines that don’t involve a life in the theater. Earlier this month we saw the opening of The Country House by Donald…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:07PMFriday, October 17, 2014
Have you tired of those happy-go-lucky musicals packed with leggy chorus girls and perfectly coifed gents tapping their way through a perky Cole Porter dance break? Fear not, the dark, under…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:44PMThursday, October 16, 2014
The Tony Award-winning revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch has a new (unconventional) leading man: Michael C. Hall. The Golden Globe and Drama Desk Award winner is no stranger to the stage.…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:51PMMonday, October 13, 2014
Contributor Marcus Scott reviews the revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth. Playing at the Cort Theater, it has become apparent that Broadway finally has its first mumblecore che…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:04PMSaturday, October 11, 2014
Ah, life in the theater. It can be so DRAMATIC. So playwright Donald Margulies wants you to think in his latest effort, The Country House, which opened last week at Manhattan Theatre Club’…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:44PMThursday, October 9, 2014
The Broadway community mourns the loss of Geoffrey Holder, the 1975 Tony Award-winning director and costume designer of The Wiz who died on Sunday at the age of 84. The marquees of …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:45PMWednesday, October 8, 2014
The ACLU reported on Monday “The Supreme Court of the United States today denied review in all of the marriage equality cases pending before it. As a result of the Court’s action, same-s…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:34AMMonday, October 6, 2014
by Samuel Leiter Marcus Potter’s gripping drama of revenge and absolution, Stalking the Bogeyman, a cross between conventional theater and docudrama, is based on an autobiographical story …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:00PMSunday, October 5, 2014
Broadway Blog editor Matthew Wexler reviews the Olivier Award-winning play based on a novel by Mark Haddon. The opening tableau of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a new …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:00PMFriday, October 3, 2014
Contributor Samuel Leiter revisits Lee Blessing’s political drama in a revival presented by Keen Company. If you were walking down West 45th Street in the theater district in 1988, you…
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