Tuesday, June 18, 2013
You know summertime in New York has arrived when the Delacorte Theater unwraps itself for Shakespeare in the Park. The Public Theater presents two free Shakespeare works this season: The Com…
Linked From WQXR at 03:15PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
The American Theatre Wing gave out its Tony Awards this past Sunday night at Radio City Music Hall and the big winner of the night was Best Musical Kinky Boots, which also brought home statu…
Linked From WQXR at 02:48PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
Imagine turning Tolstoy’s famously epic novel "War and Peace" into a musical. Actually, hold it. Imagine turning 100 or so pages of "War and Peace" into a musical. That's a more manageable…
Linked From WQXR at 08:22PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
She’s famous as a movie star, a recording artist and a concert performer, but you may not be familiar with Bette Midler as Broadway actress. Well, it has been a while. Midler made her Broa…
Linked From WQXR at 07:59PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
The show with the most Tony Award nominations this year is, unsurprisingly, a musical. But Kinky Boots does seem to have surprised at least a few Tony-watchers by besting the more-anticipate…
Linked From WQXR at 05:11AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
The scene is now set for Broadway’s big night, the 67th annual Tony Awards. The nominations were announced Tuesday and among the musicals up for the most awards are Kinky Boots, Matilda, P…
Linked From WQXR at 04:43AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
Wait a minute. A girl who can make objects move just with her mind. Hasn’t this been on Broadway already — and failed? Yes, but that was Carrie, an altogether different girl. This girl i…
Linked From WQXR at 04:15AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Broadway musicals have always sought to entertain with custom-made songs designed to move the story along, songs that are full of catchy melody and clever lyrics that hook you into wanting t…
Linked From WQXR at 03:49AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
Tom Hanks, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, is making his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy, a new play by the late Nora Ephron.
Directed by George C. Woolfe and now playing at the Broadhurst T…
Linked From WQXR at 03:23AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Hands on a Hardbody is the decidedly catchy title of a musical with a particular catch in its plot: A group of people are in a contest to win a new truck. The competition is simple enough. …
Linked From WQXR at 02:56AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Ann Richards was silver-haired, sharp-tongued, brassy, bold, and mostly beloved. She came to national prominence with a speech at the 1988 Democratic Convention and served a term as governor…
Linked From WQXR at 01:58AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
The Flick is the newest play by Annie Baker, whose frequent collaborator, Sam Gold, directs the production now running at Playwrights Horizons. Baker and Gold have worked together on her pre…
Linked From WQXR at 01:36AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
A young, idealistic, American married couple move to Paris to live together and do good work. But youth and idealism aren’t enough to build a life on in a strange city, unless the foundati…
Linked From WQXR at 01:19AMMonday, March 4, 2013
The works of Stephen Sondheim have been recognized with numerous revivals and awards in recent years. The composer and lyricist came to The Greene Space on Valentine's Day for an hour of con…
Linked From WQXR at 11:37PMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Sometimes we look back on the low moments in our lives and realize, hey, we did learn something from that awful episode; it wasn’t as bad as we remember, after all. Can the perspective…
Linked From WQXR at 12:07AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
What's a theater critic doing at the opera house? Well, opera is theater, after all. But it's the particular Broadway connection of director Michael Mayer that caught New York Times critic C…
Linked From WQXR at 05:43AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
Sometimes it’s hard to know whether a statement should be taken literally or not. For instance, the Nature Theater of Oklahoma is not from the Sooner State, it’s based here in New York.…
Linked From WQXR at 05:19AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Movie star Scarlett Johansson made a very successful Broadway debut in 2010, so successful that she won a Tony Award for her work in Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge.” Three yea…
Linked From WQXR at 04:53AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
She’s best-known to the world-at-large for her long-running role as Jackie, sister of the title character in the TV sitcom, “Roseanne.” But actress Laurie Metcalf has had a long and di…
Linked From WQXR at 04:27AMWednesday, January 9, 2013
The name Quiara Alegría Hudes may not be on the average theatergoer’s short list of major playwrights, but it’s well-known to the Pulitzer Prize committee. Hudes wrote the book for In t…
Linked From WQXR at 03:59AMWednesday, January 2, 2013
How would you react if you were told that, as a child, you had been the victim of a horrible crime, one of which you have no memory? Playwright Amy Herzog has tackled an unspeakably difficul…
Linked From WQXR at 03:30AMWednesday, December 26, 2012
Two of the major regional theaters in New Haven, Conn., have mounted new productions recently, one a premiere and the other a revival. The new play, seen at the Yale Repertory Theater, weave…
Linked From WQXR at 02:55AMWednesday, December 19, 2012
As always at holiday time, theaters across the city and, indeed, the country, program Christmas entertainment with the perennial Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol and numerous Nutcrackers l…
Linked From WQXR at 02:28AMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Clifford Odets was a vibrant New York playwright in a vibrant period in American theater: the 1930s. Life during the Great Depression provided rich material for works confronting the difficu…
Linked From WQXR at 01:59AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
With a cast led by a two-time Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo Butz, and an actress currently best-known for her off-screen life, Katie Holmes, the new play Dead Accounts, gives fans of both ac…
Linked From WQXR at 01:31AMWednesday, November 28, 2012
Fans of Anton Chekhov will likely recognize three of the four title names in playwright Christopher Durang's new comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which stars Sigourney Weaver a…
Linked From WQXR at 01:03AMWednesday, November 21, 2012
August Wilson’s play The Piano Lesson is one of the few in his 10-play “Century Cycle” that has not seen a major New York revival since its original Broadway production in 1985. The Si…
Linked From WQXR at 12:40AMWednesday, November 14, 2012
In the 1980s, Rupert Holmes, best known as a pop songwriter, took an unfinished 1860s novel by Charles Dickens and turned it into a Broadway musical that the audience had to finish. (Talk ab…
Linked From WQXR at 12:10AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Lincoln Center Theater has made a new performance space for LCT3, its program of works by new playwrights, directors, and designers. The Claire Tow Theater sits atop the Vivian Beaumont Thea…
Linked From WQXR at 05:41AMWednesday, October 31, 2012
Sandy is the name of the hurricane that’s wreaked havoc in New York City this week, but if you’re looking for stormy weather in the theater, the names you want are George and Martha. The…
Linked From WQXR at 05:16AMWednesday, October 10, 2012
The first new play of the fall Broadway season has arrived, settling in at the Cort Theatre. Grace, a drama about faith, love and fate, marks the Broadway debut of playwright Craig Wright, a…
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