The Twentieth Century was only in its teens when playing Times Square's Palace Theatre was established as the pinnacle of success for vaudeville artists, so it's very appropriate that the la…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21AMWhile FUN HOME and HAMILTON have certainly not been the only high-quality new musicals to hit Broadway in the past two seasons, they've both displayed the kind of originality and relevance i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08PMWhen the new musical based on Chazz Palminteri's autobiographical solo play, A BRONX TALE had its world premiere at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse earlier this year, it boasted a solid fi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMFor a musical about the accidental death of six teenagers and a contest to select just one of them to return to life, Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond's Ride the Cyclone, mounted by MCC aft…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PMWhile Debra Barsha and Hollye Levin's A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME isn't the first musical to contrast the accepted female gender roles of the 1950s with the liberated revolution of the 1960s O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:56PMAs with their Vineyard Theatre success of five years ago, THE LYONS, in THIS DAY FORWARD, the team of playwright Nicky Silver and director Mark Brokaw display an impressive talent for packag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:47PMEver since it opened in 1966 as the Broadway production that made the Palace Theatre go legit, the final scene of Neil Simon book, Dorothy Fields lyrics and Cy Coleman's music hyper-swinging…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:27AMWhile the work of director John Doyle has been a frequent presence at Classic Stage Company for the past few years, his tenure as the company's artistic director gets off to an impressive st…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:48PMTo say that The Q Brothers put a new spin on OTHELLO might be too obvious a pun, but their fun and lively hip-hop retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy of racism and revenge, Othello The Remix …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMThe term 'generation gap' first came into use during the 1960s, when sociologists and trend-watchers began noting the extreme differences in lifestyle, politics, fashion, music and language …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54AMNo, you didn't fall asleep on the Q train on your way to Broadway's latest musical and accidentally wind up at the largest, and perhaps rowdiest Russian supper club in all of Brighton Beach.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AMThe symbolic nature of Suzan-Lori Parks' 1990 free-form dramatic riff, THE DEATH OF THE LAST BLACK MAN IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD AKA THE NEGRO BOOK OF THE DEAD is made apparent to viewers as…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:49AMIt can be safely assumed that the majority of playgoers filing into The Public's LuEsther Theater for the 730 opening night performance of authordirector Richard Nelson's Women Of a Certain …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:05AMThe subject of sensitive, well-intentioned white people growing up unaware of their own privilege has been receiving more and more attention in American, but back in 1982, South African play…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06PMThe doorway to the neighborhood bar designed with great detail by John Lee Beatty for director Kate Whoriskey's tense and finely-acted mounting of Lynn Nottage's hard-hitting new drama, Swea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37AMPlaced throughout Anna Deavere Smith's revealing new theatre piece, NOTES FROM THE FIELD, are violent video clips that have become all too familiar to any American with access to YouTube.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:46PMAn older man makes it clear that he intends to have his way with a young woman who trusted him. When she struggles, he assures her that she won't be believed if she says she wasn't asking fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMPlaywright Qui Nguyen is a tricky fellow. First he has an actor appear on stage, claiming to be him, welcoming the audience with the usual pre-show ritual about turning off cell phones and w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PMThe fact that William Finn and James Lapine's 1992 Broadway musical FALSETTOS began as two separate one-act musicals - parts two and three of a trilogy - that premiered Off-Broadway nine yea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24AMDespite a string of bad fortune that has kept them moving from venue to venue to venue, the genius directorchoreographer Austin McCormick's Company XIV, with its distinct style mixing classi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMIn Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 1985 Pulitzer Prize winning musical SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, the 'art of making art' can be less about applying paint to a canvas as it is about…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMThe tensest, most dramatic moments in director Anne Kauffman's premiere production of Adam Bock's A Life occur whenever designer Laura Jellinek's large unit set slowly rotates horizontally, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:19PMThose who have lived through it may agree that war is hell, but for the central character of David Hare's 1978 drama, Plenty, the excitement of confusing, distracting and demoralizing the Ge…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PMWhile Jonathan Larson's RENT, his 1996 East Village adaptation of Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa's LA BOHEME, presents a romanticized look at bohemians living in poverty …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34AMBright bursts of light imitating the effects of flash powder photography capture the opening and closing images of all three acts of director Jack O'Brien's raucously good revival of the cla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49AMThough solo performer Sarah Jones is rightfully celebrated for her exacting skills that quickly morph herself into a seemingly limitless collection of female and male characters of diverse a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:45PM'A New Version by Stephen Karam' is the way the text is described in the credits for director Simon Godwin's production of Anton Chekhov's 1904 classic THE CHERRY ORCHARD, now being presente…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06AMIf you've ever sat down with a potential lover to have a serious talk about where your relationship is and how fast it's developing, you may be pursuing a lost cause, according to German phy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48AMWeird old people saying and doing outrageously inappropriate things have been a beloved comedy staple ever since the time Aristophanes handed a few zingers to the dirty old men and elderly a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:38AMIt's been said that Irving Berlin was no fan of big musical spectacles, which is why he stopped writing songs for the ZIEGFELD FOLLIES and had the intimate Music Box Theatre built so that hi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04AMIt was thirty years ago when British director Peter Brook and BAM Executive Producer Harvey Lichtenstein first peeked inside what was left of the Majestic Theatre on Brooklyn's Fulton Street…
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