Monday, February 12, 2024
The playwright Lucas Hnath has been making magic with the sound of speech. Now he’s directing a play by Mona Pirnot, his wife, in which a computer speaks her words.
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Sunday, February 4, 2024
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Onstage and off, she was celebrated as a pathbreaking triple-threat who left a huge legacy in musical theater and dance.
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There was no formal celebration for the newest honorees. Instead, the American Theater Wing presented cash grants to sustain their work.
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Written by David Adjmi and featuring songs by Will Butler, the drama follows five musicians making an album in the 1970s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMWritten by David Adjmi and featuring songs by Will Butler, the drama follows five musicians making an album in the early 1970s.
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The musical, which Manilow wrote with Bruce Sussman, is about a German singing ensemble that collided with the rising Nazi regime.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24PM“I thought this could be my swan song, in terms of the angry-young-man thing,” said the actor of his rocky run of “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:42PMThe latest adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel will feature Jeremy Jordan (“Newsies”) as Jay Gatsby and Eva Noblezada (“Hadestown”) as Daisy Buchanan.
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Roundabout Theater Company, the biggest nonprofit on Broadway, said it would produce the three shows next season.
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Friday, January 5, 2024
The Tony winner for best musical, about a high school girl with a rare genetic disorder and a criminally dysfunctional family, will begin a national tour in September.
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The musicals of Stephen Sondheim often struggled at the box office during his lifetime, but since his death several have become huge hits on Broadway.
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David Landay, an author of the 1982 stage musical, reworked a kidnapping scene for a 2021 production. Now he’s suing the estates of his coauthors for the right to keep going.
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The small theaters that help make the city a theater capital are cutting back as they struggle to recover from the pandemic.
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The musical, now midway through a sold-out Off Broadway run at the Public Theater, will transfer to the Shubert Theater in March.
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A show about the televangelist, with songs by Elton John and Jake Shears, had a run in London last year and plans to open in New York next season.
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The production, a new translation by Heidi Schreck, will also star Alison Pill, William Jackson Harper, Alfred Molina and Anika Noni Rose.
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Monday, October 30, 2023
Rachel Chavkin of “Hadestown” will direct the show, which had developmental productions in Massachusetts and California.
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A new production, directed by Kenny Leon, will feature a diverse cast and will aim to speak to contemporary America.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Heidi Schreck’s play will have at least 16 productions around the country; last season’s most-produced play, “Clyde’s,” came in second.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PMThe musical, about early-20th-century efforts to win the right to vote for women, will open in April at the Music Box Theater.
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The show said Thursday that it would play a final performance at the Nederlander Theater on Jan. 14, but did not rule out continuing elsewhere.
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“Hell’s Kitchen,” a musical inspired by the singer-songwriter’s teenage years in New York, is set to open Off Broadway.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Starting with the next academic year, the drama school will eliminate an “unrealistic burden” for graduate acting students.
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