Friday, May 24, 2013
The most important question for me about the 2013 Tony Awards is not: Is Kinky Boots a shoe-in for the bulk of its 13 Tony Award nominations, more than any other show this season? Or: Will M…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:07PM“From this place on this wall, I see ALL,” Tom Hanks wrote on his caricature during a ceremony at Sardi’s. The restaurant has been putting caricatures of Broadway performer…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:41PMLongtime rocker and now Broadway songwriter Cyndi Lauper seemed to be getting the cold shoulder from Arthur Treacher, he of the fish and chips but also of Camelot and a dozen other Broadway …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:22AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former Congressman, has announced via the video below that he is running for mayor of New York City. Should he be running? A native New Yorker, Anthony Weiner, …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:30AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
The opera “Anna Nicole,” based on the life and death of Playbill model and octogenarian billionaire’s bride Anna Nicole Smith, is one of 34 works of opera, theater, dan…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:01PMMonday, May 20, 2013
The winners of two more annual theater awards were announced this past week — the Drama League and the Drama Desk. Some of the winners were not on Broadway. It comes as no surprise to …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:25PMSunday, May 19, 2013
The big winners of the 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards included Matilda, which won the most number of awards, five, including Outstanding Musical, and Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?,…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:34PMA cop bumped into Tamara Williams, frisked her, mocked her, then issued her a citation for resisting arrest — a traumatic incident from last summer that became a dramatic one this week…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:03PMThursday, May 16, 2013
I raved about the immersive theatrical experience that is “Natasha, Pierre and the Comet of 1912” – a new type of dinner theater – when it was performed at Ars Nova last fall, and …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:10PM“Wood Bones,” a play by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. that marks the inaugural production of The Eagle Project, a Native American theater company in New York City, is a work that excited m…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:01AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
This year Sondheim and Chekhov and Tom Hanks and Vanessa Redgrave share honors with a bus. The Drama Desk Awards nominating committee has selected “The Ride” as one of the choices in “…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:35PMMonday, May 13, 2013
Broadway’s fresh faces this year include Tom Hanks, one of the world’s most familiar faces, and Yvonne Strahovski, who has a dedicated following for her roles in “ChuckR…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:36PM“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” won outstanding new Broadway play, “Kinky Boots” new Broadway musical, ”Pippin” best musical revival, “Who&#…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:25AMSunday, May 12, 2013
Now that NBC has canceled “Smash,” what will happen to the original songs created for this TV series about Broadway? Here are 11 that should last. (Lyrics are below the videos) 1…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:28AMFriday, May 10, 2013
Smash, the TV series on NBC about the making of a Broadway musical that began with such promise and excitement — and more than 11 million viewers — has been canceled after more t…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:04PMThe film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “August: Osage County” with a sterling cast led by Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, will be in movie th…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:12AMThursday, May 9, 2013
For Keith Carradine, it was going to the opening of “Hair” when he was 19. For Andrea Martin, it was seeing Chita Rivera at 12; for Jay Armstrong Johnson it was “Disney on Ice” at ag…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:27PMMichael Urie, best-known as the catty fashion editorial assistant Marc St. James of the TV series “Ugly Betty,” is playing some half dozen characters in an acclaimed new play by Jonathan…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:50AMLin-Manuel Miranda, best-known as the wunderkind songwriter and performer for “In The Heights,” which four Tony Awards, was hooked on musical theater when at age 12 he was given roles in…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:29AMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Andrea Martin, who at age 66 is astonishing audiences as much with her body as with her death-defying performance on a trapeze as Grandmother Berthe in “Pippin,” for which she has been n…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:34PMTim Minchin, the Australian songwriter up for nearly every New York theater award known to Man because of his score for “Matilda,” thinks that listening to Gilbert and Sullivan …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:15PMJay Armstrong Johnson, who appeared this on stage both in a revival of “Working,” the Stephen Schwartz musical, and “Hands on a Hardbody,” the debut musical by Trey A…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:43PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
The 2013 Theatre World Award winners, given to 12 performers making their Broadway (or Off-Broadway) debuts are: Bertie Carvel, Matilda The Musical Carrie Coon, Edward Albee’s Who’s Af…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:01PMSunday, May 5, 2013
Two Broadway shows already have announced their early closing in the week after the Tony Award nominations, prompting odd pushback from the producer of one of the shows. (see 4 below) The To…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:41PMSaturday, May 4, 2013
In the theater page of today’s New York Times, Testament of Mary producer Scott Rudin has taken out a strange advertisement attacking Times theater reporter Patrick Healy: “Let&#…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:05PMWhat is most striking about the two performers in “Motown The Musical” who re-enact the complicated relationship between Berry Gordy, Jr., the founder of Motown Records, and Diana Ross &…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:18PMFriday, May 3, 2013
At the beginning of “Surviving Mommie Dearest,” an odd show that will run from May 8th to Mother’s Day at the Snapple Theater, Christina Crawford, the 73-year-old adopted daughter of…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:49PMThursday, May 2, 2013
There seemed to be an unusually abundant display of abdominal muscle on Broadway during the season just ended, almost as if there was an award for Broadway’s Best Abs. So let’s h…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:41PMFor her version of “Pippin,” director Diana Paulus reached back to the wisdom of the Ancients – distracting us from a dud by offering bread and circuses. This first Broadway revival of…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:11PMThis month’s theater quiz is a special theater awards edition.About half the 10 questions have something to do with one of the many awards whose nominations were announced in April. Se…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:01AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Everybody loves Tom Hanks — and that includes nearly every theater award nominating committee. For his role in “Lucky Guy,” Hanks has been nominated for a Tony, Drama Desk,…
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