Monday, June 24, 2019
As head of New York Theatre Workshop, James Nicola has originated hits from Rent to Hadestown. He tells Howard Sherman about working
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Just before the Tony Awards, an academic paper found 15 minutes of fame. In it, academics from New York University and Lund
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When the Oregon Shakespeare Festival announced, in the autumn of 2015, that it would be commissioning translations of all of Shakespeare’s plays,
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The 448-page report by US special prosecutor Robert Mueller may, at points, make for dramatic reading. It is not, however, a dramatic
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If you have a desire to see Magic Mike Live, your options are London, Las Vegas and, come November, Berlin. If you
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In his essential 1983 book on the movie industry, William Goldman (screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and The Princess Bride) summed up the
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Popular entertainment isn’t necessarily the place to go and study history, but it can prompt audience members to learn more about the
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The Tony-winning composer of Broadway hit The Band’s Visit is no stranger to musical adaptations of films, but had misgivings about taking
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A few days after the announcement of the Tony Awards nominations for 2018-19 is perhaps too early to start reading tea leaves
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There are any number of reasons to read the new cover story from Wired magazine, 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside of
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The communication announcing the cancelation of a production of the musical The 25thAnnual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Hyattsville Middle School in Maryland could not have been more terse.…
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The pop-up theatre performance is not, at this point, a novelty. But in the line of surprising theatrical performances in public places,
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New work may not be as rare as it once was in US regional theatre, but one festival that has championed the
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“Doors open for women and people of color at top ranks of American theater.” For many, this New York Times headline from
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Starring as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady on Broadway, the award-winning actor talks to Howard Sherman about playing her childhood dream
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMThose bemoaning the absence of musical theatre songs from the pop charts haven’t been paying close attention. A New York Times article
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“I never thought of myself as a changemaker,” said Rosdely Ciprian as part of the opening remarks at Tuesday’s Women’s Day on
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Working in the theatre, it’s easy to forget what compelled us into the profession in the first place. It can be lost
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Those with puritanical sensibilities may want to stay away from Off-Broadway this spring. Opening shortly, just days apart, are these three plays:
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While it was preceded by Jerry Herman’s Milk and Honey by three years, Fiddler on the Roof is widely acknowledged as the
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An entirely original Broadway musical – that’s to say, not based on a book, movie, play, or TV show and not using
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As Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical played its sole performance on Sunday afternoon at New York’s Town Hall, it wasn’t difficult to
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Does anyone remember the moment in the musical 42nd Street when the leading lady is injured and the producer runs up to
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If one looks around the website of The Neil Simon Festival, a yearly theatre event held in Cedar City, Utah, there’s a list of donors to the company. On that list are seven entries at the …
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For US audience members, receiving a programme after being shown to the correct seat is a standard part of the theatregoing ritual.
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British and Canadian theatregoers perusing social media may have had quite a start when they saw news that a Shakespeare theatre in
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To give credit where it’s due, the growth in Broadway audiences over the past four calendar years is impressive, rising from 12.9
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When I examined my year in theatregoing for 2017, I wasn’t entirely comfortable with what it said about me, and hoped that
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As if calling a play What the Constitution Means to Me wasn’t didactic enough, audience members leave the Greenwich House Theater production
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While the phrase “public domain” may hold little meaning for you (or make your eyes glaze over), January 1, 2019 will mark a significant milestone in that seemingly arcane distinction. T…
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If you see a stage production of The Sound of Music, here are some words you won’t hear: Nazi. Hitler. Here are some words you will hear in the stage version: Gauleiter. Anschluss. Third …
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