Thursday, October 4, 2012
Mayor Bloomberg brushed up his Shakespeare with stage stars Vanessa Redgrave, Liev Schreiber and Mandy Patinkin at Thursday’s rededication of the Public Theater after a $40 million facelif…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:09PMWednesday, October 3, 2012
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, America's First Couple of the theater, had colorfully dramatic private lives, too.
That comes through in Jeffrey Hatcher’s by-the-numbers but enjoya…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMTuesday, October 2, 2012
A desire to connect courses through “Marry Me a Little,” a 1981 revue of songs by Stephen Sondheim, whose name alone will make devoted fans salivate.
Back Off-Broadway in a Keen…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, September 30, 2012
Trending on Off-Broadway stages this fall: real people.
On tap are plays and musicals about historical figures of varying stripes. The season’s stars include married Broadway roya…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMPlus, Off-Broadway hopes to keep things humming with its own merry melodies
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, September 27, 2012
A provocative drama can leave an indelible mark on your mind. Adam Rapp’s new play just leaves a water-based stamp on your throat. In blue.
As you enter the theater, uniformed mem…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMOne word comes up more than a dozen times in the new Broadway revival of “An Enemy of the People”: “restraint.” Ironically, it’s exactly what’s lacking in this amped-up productio…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWednesday, September 26, 2012
What good is sitting alone in your room?
Anne Hathaway will pose that familiar musical query on Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. when she channels Sally Bowles in a benefit concert at Joe’s Pub…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:37PMTuesday, September 25, 2012
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“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
(Booth Theatre)
The accl…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:58PMMonday, September 24, 2012
Mysteries dangle like baited fishhooks right from the get-go in the spotty “Red Dog Howls.”
As the drama begins Michael, a writer, gazes into the audience and gravely declares:…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, September 23, 2012
One Broadway show and a song from it can change a little girl’s life. It happened. She grew up to be “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM1. “L’Elisir d’Amore” (Metropolitan Opera) Anna Netrebko stars in Donizetti’s romantic romp and gets the Met season off to a gala start.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, September 20, 2012
“If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet” is a small ensemble play getting a big profile boost from Jake Gyllenhaal.
Happily, the “Brokeback Mountain” Oscar nominee shows off …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:09PMEmerging playwright Ethan Lipton has made a name with off-kilter works about sad-sack everymen.
He’s in his comfort zone with “Red-Handed Otter,” a peculiar and amusing comedy…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMScarlett Johansson is sharpening her claws — and Southern accent — for Broadway. The Hollywood A-lister will play the sex-starved Maggie in Tennessee Williams' “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.�…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:54PMWednesday, September 19, 2012
After 17 years of living in Wilmington, N.C., Linda Lavin’s moved back to New York.
On Monday at snazzy subterranean 54 Below, she cel…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:13PMTuesday, September 18, 2012
The title of Lisa D’Amour’s briskly funny but blurry dark comedy “Detroit” could be misleading.
The play, a 2011 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, doesn’t take place in the…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, September 16, 2012
Filming starts next week on “August: Osage County.” The venomous Violet Weston will spew anew. Remember her? Violet is the malignant pill-popping mother in Tracy Letts’ sensational 200…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM1. “Cyrano de Bergerac” (American Airlines Theatre) A romance that speaks to anyone who’s loved from afar.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, September 14, 2012
“All for One Theater Festival”
Through Sept. 30, Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce St.
On tap at this fest whose mission is “to present the next gener…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMJustice is always a timely topic.
On Saturday, a decade after its debut downtown run, “The Exonerated” returns to share the often harrowing true-life experiences of Death Row inmat…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, September 13, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
In the musical “Chaplin,” sets and costumes come in black and white. Unfortunately, so does the storytelling in this cut-and-dried bio about the complicated silent-film legend Charlie Ch…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, September 9, 2012
Easy to admire for its sensitivity, but hard to recommend for its sluggish repetitiveness, Athol Fugard’s “The Train Driver” brings Signature’s season of the South African playwright…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PM1. Broadway on Broadway
The free song-filled peek in Times Square at the upcoming season is today at 11:30 a.m.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, September 7, 2012
If you ever worry about the musical-theater talent pool drying up, PBS’ “Broadway or Bust” will be deeply — and tunefully — reassuring.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, September 6, 2012
Marksmanship matters in satire. The new edition of the popular lampoon “Forbidden Broadway” hits one bull’s-eye after another.
Back after a three-year hiatus, the show is righ…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWednesday, September 5, 2012
The hit Broadway production of “War Horse” will end its run at Lincoln Center on Jan. 6. The 2011 Best Play Tony winner, an import from the National Theatre in London, follows an English…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:06PMTuesday, September 4, 2012
Cue the cutup sweatshirts, leg warmers and welder sparks.
“Flashdance — The Musical” is coming to Broadway.
Producers announced Tuesday that a revised stage adaptatio…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:44PMMonday, September 3, 2012
Famous for vintage songs, Michael Feinstein is always on to something new.
On Tuesday, with his friend Marilyn Maye, the 80-something singing powerhouse, he opens the last fall season of Fe…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:00AMSunday, September 2, 2012
There’s no waiting on tables or taking a break for Corey Cott. The 22-year-old actor from Ohio, who graduated from college in May, is already starring on Broadway in the hit Disney musical…
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