Society looms large in the Stephen Daldry's charged revival of David Hare’s Skylight—and not just in the second-act state-of-the-nation wrangle between low-income schoolteacher Kyra (M…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:55AMThe Rockettes and the creative army behind Radio City Music Hall’s New York Spring Spectacular want to turn you into a tourist in your own town—not such a feat, really. Another hundred p…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:32AMThe teen Elizabeth, fated to wear the crown and wield the scepter as Queen of England, hates her new digs at Buckingham Palace. “It’s like being trapped in a museum,” whines the unhapp…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:20PMAmerican theater needs more plays like Naomi Wallace’s The Liquid Plain—by which I mean works that are historical, epic and poetic, that valorize the lives of the poor and oppressed. I�…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:20PMChecking out Larry David’s debut as a Broadway playwright and performer, I did not expect to be thinking of ancient Greek tragedy. Comedy, sure, but I figured past influences would stretch…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:34PMAt a press conference this afternoon, Public Theater head Oskar Eustis, along with Miranda and the production cast and crew, surprised everyone who had been expecting news of a spring transf…
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:11PMHistory ticks to a syncopated beat in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s jubilant, overflowingly rich Hamilton. And just as syncopation achieves its energizing effect by disturbing the expected flow, so…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:04AMHow to answer snobs who denounce Broadway as a cultural wasteland of gaudy lights, musical cheese and tacky titillation, a place where suckers from around the world flock to get fleeced? You…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:56PMHugh Jackman may not be singing and dancing, but we still can't wait to see his new gig on Broadway. The charismatic Aussie stars in a mysterious new piece by Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem) abo…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:34PMOne of the finest speeches in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing (and there are several), concerns the absolute value of good construction, using a cricket bat as an example. Henry (McGregor), …
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:28AMTo use shipbuilding as an analogy for crafting musicals, the songs are the hull—the most visible part of the thing, taking up the most space. But you won’t sail far without a strong, eve…
SOURCE: Time Out at 03:43AMDespite the Sherlock-derived title and gruesome crime scene it opens with, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time solves the case relatively quickly. By the end of the first act w…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:08AMWe know about happy families being alike and unhappy ones being different, but Tolstoy was mum on the weird households. What about the clan that sticks together through chaotic, leaderless f…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:17AMThe stars will come and go in A.R. Gurney's popular 1988 two-hander, an epistolary romance between friends that stretches over 50 years. Gregory Mosher directs Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow (…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:41AMDavid Cote interviews the greatest living British playwright about his Roundabout revivals, smoking while writing and his years as a hack journalist.
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:15PMThe astonishing, totally fearless Amazon of alt cabaret and raunchy comedy (Inside Amy Schumer) returns to Joe's with a new show commissioned for the venue. Cocreated with Broadway's Marc Sh…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:10AMFunny how yesterday’s manboy becomes today’s sad old guy. But that’s always been Michael Cera’s trick, hasn’t it? Ever since he grew a cult fan base as frozen-in-the-headlights tee…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:58PMOne of our most versatile and prolific playwrights, Theresa Rebeck has a den wall crowded with trophies: monodrama (Bad Dates), modern Greek tragedy (The Water’s Edge), backstage comedy (T…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:34PMCate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert are all messed up in Jean Genet's subversive classic.
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:22PMThe latest King Lear opens at a time when the world is confirming its apocalyptic vision: civilians shot out of the sky, children bombed in schools and disease spreading from foreign lands. …
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:38AMIt’s hard to tell the sinners from the saints with Stephen Adly Guirgis. The earthy playwright—whose profanity-laced urban yarns were often directed by the late (still cannot fucking acc…
SOURCE: Time Out at 03:17AMThe self-destructing Hollywood star was kicked out of Cabaret last night. He should take his antics to these other hits on the Great White Way.
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:37AMBroadway is no stranger to rap (In the Heights), but this is the first time a bona fide rapper's songbook has been turned into a jukebox musical by Todd Kreidler. Woven around songs by Tupac…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:07AMAnother year, another Tony Awards telecast. In general, the gold went to the most deserving of the season: Few would carp about Bryan Cranston or Neil Patrick Harris nabbing top honors, and …
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:26PMHe took the London stage by storm 30 years ago, but Kenneth Branagh has never trod the New York boards. Now the thespian brings his critically acclaimed take on Shakespeare’s Scottish tyra…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:42PMYes, the TONY* nominees, as in Time Out New York. Here's who we think should get the nod on Tuesday morning.
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:26PMClothes unmake the men in Casa Valentina, Harvey Fierstein’s mostly effective period drama about cross-dressers in 1962. Set at a Catskills resort that caters to straight married fellows w…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:07AMTransitioning from child star to adult gay icon, sitcom prince and social-media wizard, Neil Patrick Harris always seemed to be a cultural rock star. But in his latest reinvention, it turns …
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:53PMIn case its telegraph title didn’t clue you in, The Velocity of Autumn is about aging. As 79-year-old Park Slope resident Alexandra (Parsons) repeatedly moans, the sunset years are no picn…
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:39AMProfiles of playwright Martin McDonagh report how, in 1994, the young Anglo-Irish scribe holed up in his childhood home and cranked out the drafts of seven plays in an incredible nine months…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:33PMArrested Development’s hilarious man-child makes his Broadway debut in August; here are the scenarios he should avoid
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