It 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMGiven the basket of deplorables that have populated the oeuvre of playwright Neil LaBute, it should be of little surprise that the storyteller of his new solo play, All The Ways to Say I Lov…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:34AMThe underappreciated art of sound design takes center stage in Simon McBurney's THE ENCOUNTER, a dramatization of Petru Popescu's bookAmazon Beaming that comes off more as a demonstration of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AMIt takes a certain amount of moxie for a solo performer to begin his Off-Broadway show by looking into the audience and stating 'I am weird.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:38AMJust as modern New York City evolved from a combination of immigrant societies that eventually mingled into one great metropolis, the major art form created by the city, the American musical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:50AMAs part of The Public's dedication to community outreach, the Mobile Unit was created to bring high-quality productions of Shakespeare plays to people in prisons, shelters and community cent…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:44PMWith his quartet of dramas concerning the Apple family of Rhinebeck, New York now being followed by his trilogy-in-progress concerning their fellow Rhinebeckers, the Gabriels, you might say …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:28AMLong before the British invaded, Elvis swiveled his hips and Bill Haley rocked around the clock, the iconic vision of a rhythm and blues vocalist playing electric guitar was popularized in t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMFrom Thanksgiving turkey to roasted corn on the 4th of July to a slice of birthday cake, we grow up associating food with familial bonding and the gathering of loved ones. When we seek a rom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:26PMThe recent renaissance of appreciation for the musicals of composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick, which has included Broadway revivals of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and SHE LOVES ME, alo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:16PM'I am not gonna let Broadway rot,' raps a rising musical theatre artist who describes himself as being 'just like a savior With Mobb Deep misbehavior,' in Gerard Alessandrini's positively b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51AMFor the past three years some of New York's most joyous theatrical celebrations have graced the city as the first September chill starts to pervade Central Park's Delecorte, when the Public …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00PMThough his name is scarcely remembered on American shores, N.C. Hunter was one of the more popular English playwrights during the 1950s. His genteel dramas would feature such distinguished c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:13PMBeing a mere triple-threat isn't enough for the talented kids of Broadway's SCHOOL OF ROCK. Playing the emotionally repressed students of the prestigious Horace Green School who learn how to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46PMThe Drama Book Shop willwelcome playwright and critic Terry Teachout Wall Street Journal and actor John Douglas Thompson for a discussion and signing ofSATCHMO AT THE WALDORFon Wednesday, Oc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:13PMIt's both the talk of the town and one of the best kept secrets in New York.Nassim Soleimanpour's internationally-acclaimed playWhite Rabbit Red Rabbitis a unique theatrical experience at ev…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMThe second coming of David Javerbaum's hit comedy, AN ACT OF GOD, which first came to Broadway in May of 2015 with Jim Parsons in the title role, will be ending its blessed 14-week limited e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:30PMHosted by current WICKED on Broadway cast members Dawn E. Cantwell, who plays Nessarose, and Zachary Noah Piser, who plays Boq, the six-part podcast series, Inside WICKED Origin Stories puts…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:03PMTwo-time Olivier Award winning playwright Simon Stephens was warmly welcomed to Broadway nearly two years ago when his THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME opened to great accla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03PMSummer is just about over and while to most people that means the beginning of the school year and watching the leaves turn magnificent colors, on Broadway it means it's time for the new sea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:58PMBorn outside Chicago and raised in the Westchester, NY village of Pleasantville, the talented performer with BA in Psychology from Yale University Ali Ewoldt made history this summer as the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:22PMWhen Manhattan Theatre Club presented two-time Olivier Award winner Simon Stephens' HEISENBERG this past spring, director Mark Brokaw's production played at the intimate Off-Broadway space, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:40PMFor the 11th year, the Edinburgh Fringe Encore Series will be bringing some of the best of the year's festival productions to New York.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:39PMAlong with the blaring burlesque trumpet that climaxes GYPSY's overture, the soft and hesitant sound of Fiddler on the Roof's opening fiddle solo that leads into Tevye's introduction of the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:26PMThe gang at Off-Broadway's AVENUE Q saw fit to honor Wilder with humor, recreating a classic moment from YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:21PMCharitybuzz's new online auction offers a chance to see Kristin Chenoweth in concert and meet her backstage.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:19PMThough Herschel Bernardi's name was above the title on the opening nights of Broadway's BAJOUR and ZORBA, the musical theatre role he's most known for is one where he came in as a replacemen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:20PMPresident Barack Obama once quipped that HAMILTON is the only thing he and Dick Cheney can agree on.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMGene Wilder, who originated the role of Billy Bibbit in the original 1963 Broadway production of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST and went on to star film classics like THE PRODUCERS, BLAZING…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:46PMIt's a big week ahead for composerlyricist Shaina Taub, whose score for the Public Theater's Public Works production of a new musical adaptation of Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT premieres this…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:09PMThe single-panel satirist struck again this week with another skewering of the Broadway-bound codgers.
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