Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Olympia Dukakis will play a female version of the magician Prospero in a production of "The Tempest" this summer at Shakespeare & Company, based in Lenox, Mass.
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The playwright and director Toshiki Okada talks about his trio of plays, "Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner and the Farewell Speech."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:56PMAn interview with Rachel Chavkin about "Mission Drift," the latest work from the New York-based theater company the TEAM.
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"Goodbar," at the Under the Radar festival, is a rock adaptation of the 1975 novel "Looking for Mr. Goodbar."
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An interview with Marc Bamuthi Joseph about "Word Becomes Flesh," his spoken word piece which returns to the Under the Radar festival in New York, this time enacted by five other performers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:39PMLin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony-award winner for “In the Heights,” has a lot on his plate, including a performance of “The Hamilton Mixtape,” a rap telling of the founding father’s li…
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A new entertainment complex will replace the Pavilion dance club, a gay landmark in Fire Island Pines that was destroyed in a fire last year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PMThe Italian company Motus brings its latest show, an interdisciplinary look at financial and social turmoil in Greece, to the Under the Radar festival.
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Backstage veterans of “Billy Elliot” and “The Addams Family” reflect on an era of steady paychecks and consider what’s next.
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Critics and writers for The New York Times recall their favorite moments onstage in 2011, some of them happening in the smallest and most offbeat of places.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
The Broadway production of the David Ives play "Venus in Fur," starring Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy, will transfer to the Lyceum Theater in February.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical has been added to the Ahmanson Theater's schedule in the spring, after its New York run finishes.
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“A Christmas Story” has been turned into an almost $5 million musical, currently on a five-city tour, with hopes to build a holiday franchise in whatever locale it plays.
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The producers of the coming Broadway musical "Rebecca," based on the Daphne du Maurier novel, have cast the leading roles: Tam Mutu will play Maxim de Winter and Karen Mason will play Mrs. D…
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Sony Masterworks this week will begin offering a new series of online video interviews with notable theater artists called "Legends of Broadway."
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Norbert Leo Butz and Elizabeth Reaser will co-star in Second Stage's coming production of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "How I Learned to Drive."
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Brian Stokes Mitchell, Donna Murphy, Zach Braff and other celebrities remember their roles in the musical “Godspell.”
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A new piece from the downtown playwright Young Jean Lee and a show based on the music of the band Of Montreal are among the shows in the annual festival of contemporary performance.
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Readers had mixed to positive reactions to David Henry Hwang's comedy about Chinese-American relations (and relationships) that opened on Broadway last week.
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Monday, October 3, 2011
A sold-out performance of the musical "The Lion King" that had been modified for children with autism and their families.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:45PMOn Saturday gay-friendly lyrics to "Sunrise, Sunset," approved by Sheldon Harnick, the "Fiddler on the Roof" lyricist, were sung officially for the first time at the nuptials of Richard Skip…
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Composers from the New York Musical Theater Festival speak of the songs they wish they’d written, and the favorites from their own shows.
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri, the author of the play "Invasion!," shares his playlist titled "How to Write a Play Using Nine Hip-Hop Songs and One Stand-Up Skit."
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The photographer Jason Bell talks about what inspired his provocative photo for the poster of the play "Venus in Fur."
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