Monday, December 19, 2016
There IS still time left to do holiday shopping for theater lovers. There are also plenty of shows to see this holiday week: Today is the beginning of the Christmas week schedule for Broadwa…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:05PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
She Loves Me and American Psycho lead with eight nominations apiece in the nominations for the 2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards. The winners will be announced on Monday, May 9th. OUTSTANDING…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:38AMThursday, April 7, 2016
Joel Grey, he tells us in “Master of Ceremonies,” is “one of only eight people to win both the Tony and the Academy Award for the same role” – in his case the Emcee in “Cabaret.…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:43PMMonday, April 4, 2016
Anne Washburn’s new play sounds like the premise for the movies The Big Chill and The Return of the Secaucus Seven – a group of old friends reunite in a bucolic ranch house in the Texas …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:25PMSunday, April 3, 2016
August Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein were among the winners in the UK’s 40th anniversary Olivier Awards, named aft…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:31PMAre theatergoers fools for April? We’ve survived some dopey April Fool’s Day jokes (Google’s Mic Drop; Brokelyn’s promise of a free Hamilton concert) and one hilari…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:16PMSaturday, April 2, 2016
What Andrew Schneider achieves on stage literally using smoke and mirrors leaves theatergoers as astonished as 19th century audiences must have felt watching Lumière’s “Arrival of t…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:53AMFriday, April 1, 2016
This month only seven shows will open on Broadway — “only” because April is usually the most intense of theater-going months. (Last April there were 14 Broadway openings.) …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:06AMThursday, March 31, 2016
Of some 100 productions of The Crucible scheduled this year in the U.S., director Ivo van Hove’s eerie, often enigmatic but periodically powerful Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s most…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:10PMAlexander Hamilton is not a character in “1776” – and John Adams, the central character in “1776” is not a character in “Hamilton.” But both are entertaining history lessons ab…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:10PMWednesday, March 30, 2016
The Humans received the most nominations this year, six. Futurity, Guards at the Taj and John all received five. The 31st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadwa…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:45PMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in March? Answer these ten questions to find out. Tagged: Akosua Busia from Eclipsed, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patty Duke R…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:54AMMonday, March 28, 2016
In Head of Passes, Phylicia Rashad portrays Shelah, a woman so religiously devout she objects to Deviled eggs. Her faith is tested in the Public Theater’s well-acted, richly atmospheric pr…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:31PMSunday, March 27, 2016
World Theatre Day messages: “The very act of theatre-making is a fundamentally utopian act….[P]erformance is creating community. . In this time of profound discord..how do we …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:50AMThursday, March 24, 2016
After collaborating on two bluegrass albums, Steve Martin and singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, two celebrated Texas-born talents, decided to create a musical around the songs. The result is …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:53PMTuesday, March 22, 2016
Dry Powder is a play about a private equity firm that tries to buy a luggage company, but it is not as dry as it sounds, and not just because its cast includes John Krasinski (formerly of Th…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:00PMSunday, March 20, 2016
Is falling in love just a chemical response that you can recreate in the laboratory? That’s one of the fascinating questions addressed in The Effect, a play about two volunteers in a clini…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:16PMHamilton, Taylor Mac, Broadway Black, Lupita Nyongo in Eclipsed, Playwrights Horizons, Mark Rylance, Timothee Chalomet in Prodigal Son, Cynthia Erivo in The Color Purple, Lois Smith — …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:59AMFriday, March 18, 2016
“Shock,” Michelle Williams says, as Jeff Daniels rushes her into the messy break room of an antiseptic corporate office, alarmed. It’s the first word in “Blackbird,” a play by Davi…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:28PMThursday, March 17, 2016
I left the Roundabout’s largely terrific revival of “She Loves Me” at Studio 54 singing most of the beautiful songs in my head. I’ll confess that I also entered Studio 54 singing tho…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:17PMIn “The Way West,” Mona Mansour’s timely black comedy at Labyrinth Theater Company about bankruptcy and the American way, Dierdre O’Connell plays a mother who likes to tell her two g…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:20AMWednesday, March 16, 2016
Darja, the central character in Ironbound, never leaves a barren bus stop on an ugly stretch of post-industrial New Jersey, but Martyna Majok’s rich play about a poor immigrant feels alway…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:30PMTuesday, March 15, 2016
Disaster is a campy spoof of 1970s disaster movies mashed up with well-sung snippets of dozens of 1970s pop hits in order to produce moments of hilarity. I counted at least seven such moment…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:52PM“This is definitely the room where it happened,” President Barack Obama said at the beginning of the daylong visit to the White House of the cast of the Broadway musical Hamilton. The pr…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:38AMMonday, March 14, 2016
Near the end of the bluegrass musical “Southern Comfort,” a character named Lola Cola visits the parents of her lover Robert Eads to tell them that he has died. “Get off our property,…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:07PMSunday, March 13, 2016
In the revival of “The Robber Bridegroom,” a bluegrass musical folk tale, there are two sides to the character played by Steven Pasquale, an 18th century Mississippi Robin Hood – both …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:38PMFriday, March 11, 2016
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Bright Star for free. Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s new musical Bright Star opens at Broadway’s Shubert Theater on March 24, 2016, with a count…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:15AMThursday, March 10, 2016
“The Royale” is a 90 minute blast of inventive staging that is “loosely inspired” (as we are told in the program) by the life of Jack Johnson, the first African-American to be…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:53PMWednesday, March 9, 2016
In the Heights opened on March 9, 2008 — eight years ago today. By the time it closed exactly 34 months later, it had won five Tony Awards including best musical, and launched the Broa…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:15AMMonday, March 7, 2016
The arts operate at the core of human identity…After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place ~ Cate Blanchett An apt comment for Arts Advocacy Day But is it gravity…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:13PMToday begins Americans for the Arts two-day Arts Advocacy Day, #AAD2016. Hundreds of advocates travel to DC to persuade Congress that the arts matter. Here is a graphic that American for th…
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