Crudup says that preparing to play an entire cast of characters, not to mention the titular alter ego of the mid-western protagonist, was "intimidating"
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:00AMThe New Group's 'Downtown Race Riot' returns actor-turned-it-girl Chloë Sevigny to the location that made her a star: Washington Square Park.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:15PMEmily Mann's new Broadway show, '20th Century Blues,' tells the story of four friends whose lives have been captured in a series of yearly photographs.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:00PMNo one cared about creating a record of theater history, until Betty Corwin came along.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:50PMKatrina Lenk is another 15-years-in-the-making 'overnight star.' She returns to Broadway after a career-making role in 'Indecent' on November 9 in 'The Band’s Visit' at the Barrymore.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:15PMThe tale of 1980s bankers is more complicated than good vs evil.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:00AMMarilyn Maye will be singing her way through classic American tunes this weekend—October 27 and 28—in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s gorgeous Appel Room.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:50AMActors Arnie Burton and Matt McGrath recall New York of the 1980s during the AIDS crisis, which they return to nightly in the Broadway revival of 'Lonely Planet'.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AMAfter 25 years, Elizabeth McGovern crosses the pond to star on Broadway as a Downton-esque affluent British matriarch.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:15AMDeanna Dunagan makes a specialty—and a rather good living—out of playing the hard-to-love matriarch.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:20AM“After doing TV and film, the thing you really start to appreciate about being on stage is you get to tell a story in order from beginning to end."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:00PMWriter-director Kenneth Lonergan was the first to spot the white-knight potential of the talented and handsome C.J. Wilson.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:00PMSarah Ruhl's new play opens in a hospital room where five quibbling siblings are doing a deathbed vigil for their dad.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00AMKnock knock. You’ll never guess who’s there. Then, again—given it’s 'A Doll’s House, Part 2'—you will.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:30AMThey aren’t. Johanna Day and Michelle Wilson play best friends and line workers on the floor since high school, caught up in an old socioeconomic squeeze play brought on by hard-nosed, cos…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 06:30AMWhen someone asks you where you were the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, not only do you know precisely where you were, you also know what you were doing and how you somehow made it through the r…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:59AMThe Franco-Prussian War almost started this week. That was the original title of the Joshua Harmon play that just bowed at the Booth, but the author chickened out. “I love that title,” h…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:59AMIn Barrie's new play, granny gets her guy.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:56AMt’s good to report that Jake Gyllenhaal, who just made his Broadway musical debut in Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, was spared this special terror even hardcore career singer…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:56PMRoundabout’s Laura Pels Theater, former home of The Humans and Bad Jews, is now housing a potent blend of both in Steven Levenson’s play, If I Forget, bowing February 22.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:44PMTerrence McNally recently stumbled into the perfect compliment for Santino Fontana. “I don’t think of you as a singer,” he told him. “Are you singing a lot now?”
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:11AM“Glenn,” Lloyd Webber still insists, “is the best Norma Desmond that I’ve ever seen.”
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:20AM“I notice this eagerness to attach the word provocateur to me," says Jacob-Jenkins. "My feeling is: you can really only provoke once. After that, you’re attracting people who want to be …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:29PMOne doesn’t, of course, set out to become a character actor. That’s just something that happens over the long haul of an evolving career—through age or theatrical seasoning or maybe ev…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:42PMThe first attempts at playwriting of two of the greats are currently nestled together in neighboring theaters on West 47th Street: At the Barrymore at present is The Present, the latest latt…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:30PMMarie Mullen has made only one stop on Broadway, but it won her the Tony for Best Actress in a Play. She played Maureen Folan, a 40-year-old plain Jane resigned to a life of terminal spins…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:35PMDuring the past decade, Cate Blanchett from faraway Down Under has dazzlingly paraded some world-famed females before New York audiences—Hedda Gabler, one of The Maids, Blanche DuBois, Van…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:49PMDavid Oyelowo (pronounced “oh-yellow-oh”) is a super-serious Shakespearean actor, Oxford-born to Nigerian parents of Yoruba ethnicity, raised a Baptist and schooled in the classics at LA…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:25PMAfter “amazing,” “awesome” and “iconic”—on the short list of the Most Overworked and Banishable Words in the English Language—is “immersive,” but the Irish Rep’s rich, …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:44AM“Not another Tony Shalhoub musical, surely!” The line cracks up Shalhoub, who tomorrow night tentatively sticks his big toe in the strange, shifting, uncertain sand of musical comedy …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:12AMAnnette Bening, one of the frontrunners for the 2016 Best Actress Oscar for her performance of an unconventional, hippie-out-of-her-time-zone mom in 20th Century Women, received a noncompeti…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:14PM
