Sunday, 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…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, August 31, 2012
Move over, Branson and Lady Sybil. A century before hanky-panky between the hunky politically-minded chauffeur and his beautiful upper-class love heated up “Downton Abbey,” English playw…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:59AMSure signs that the new Broadway season is around the corner: Theater marquees sprouting up for fall premieres. A poster that works makes you look, and, even briefly, pause. The artwork for …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM‘In dicey times, we reach out into the unknown to figure out who we’re going to be next,” says Brooklyn playwright Lisa D’Amour, who used that notion as the starting point for her co…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMTuesday, August 28, 2012
“I’d like to gaze out into the abyss for a while,” declares a wacko wheelchair-bound mother in “Heartless.”
Although watching Sam Shepard’s hazy new meditation on life …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMMonday, August 27, 2012
We heard it through the grapevine — and from the producers. Brandon Victor Dixon, a Tony nominee for “The Color Purple,” and Valisia LeKae, an understudy in “The Book of Mormon” an…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:07PMSunday, August 26, 2012
1. Tonya Pinkins (54 Below) The Tony winner for one night: Monday.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMBroadway’s fall sampler of plays and musicals is stuffed with stars. On deck: Al Pacino and Debra Winger in dueling David Mamet dramas, Jessica Chastain and “Downton Abbey” heart-stirr…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, August 24, 2012
In a patented, pointed zinger, Gore Vidal wrote: “Success is not enough. One’s friends must fail.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:00AMThe look says Charlie Chaplin without speaking a word: Baggy pants, bowler hat, oversize shoes, snug jacket and mini-mustache.
But there were times when the silent film icon tweake…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMWednesday, August 22, 2012
Amid deliberately corny jokes and unintentionally sour notes, optimism was a running theme in “The Prince & the Showboy,” Faith Prince and Jason Graae’s cabaret coupling that debut…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:58PMTuesday, August 21, 2012
Ten years ago, when he starred in a London production of Kenneth Lonergan’s “This Is Our Youth,” Jake Gyllenhaal said: “Every actor I look up to has done theater work, so I knew I ha…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:11PMSunday, August 19, 2012
1. “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet” (Laura Pels Theatre) Jake Gyllenhaal makes his American stage debut in Nick Payne’s family dramedy on Friday.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, August 17, 2012
Harlem Repertory Theatre opens its 2012 season with a chamber version of the musical “Dreamgirls,” which begins previews Friday at the 70-seat 133rd Street Arts Center (308 W. 133rd St…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:18PMShort productions unveil new works by Paul Rudnick and Neil LaBute, with stars including Victor Slezak and Alicia Goranson
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:18AMSome productions peak early. For two Off-Broadway duds, the best part came in their pre-show announcements.
In the ’80s-era comedy “Bullet for Adolf,” co-writer and director …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, August 16, 2012
High-spirited and tuneful, but long and cumbersome, “Soul Doctor” is a bio musical in fair condition.
Recalling the life of the late Shlomo Carlebach, it hits all the major mil…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:34PMBetween the accomplished authors and actors involved, the trio of bite-sized plays making up Summer Series B come with built-in expectations.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:24PMTuesday, August 14, 2012
A short play can pack a lasting wallop. The wonderful “Harrison, TX,” a trio of intimate portraits by the late, great Horton Foote, does that in triplicate.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMA packed house of celebrities bid farewell to composer Marvin Hamlisch at a service that, like his life, was filled with music.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:09PMSunday, August 12, 2012
1. “Bring It On: The Musical” (St. James Theatre) Summer’s big jolt of fun.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMSaturday, August 11, 2012
Hand-written in dark letters on a king-size sheet, a family tree looms large in a new production of “Richard III.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMFriday, August 10, 2012
With their plainspoken eloquence, Horton Foote’s gentle yet deceptively complex stories about small-town life are a welcome addition to any theater season.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:10PMThursday, August 9, 2012
Let’s blaze a path through the pines and get right to it: Without Donna Murphy’s vivid star turn as the Witch in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fairy-tale musical “Into the Wood…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMIt’s easy to admire Woody Harrelson’s brass for co-writing and directing a comedy that mashes together incendiary material like Nazis and frequent N-words with stupid stuff like booty ca…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMTuesday, August 7, 2012
Norbert Leo Butz had nothing to worry about.
But as he made his cabaret debut at 54 Below on Sunday night, he admitted to stressing over choosing a theme. He settled on “Don’t s…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:17PMFour familiar faces have hit the campaign trail and joined the cast of “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man,” a 1960 play about dirty presidential politics.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMMark O’Donnell, the Tony Award-winning writer behind popular Broadway hits such as “Hairspray” and “Cry-Baby,” has died. He was 58.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:34AMSunday, August 5, 2012
1. The New York International Fringe Festival. The annual theaterpalooza turns a sweet 16 this summer.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMNothing like a massively overstaged and spectacularly incoherent Olympic Games curtain-raiser to make you appreciate the little wonders of theater.
Which is actually easy to do this…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMSaturday, August 4, 2012
Bradley Cooper's at Williamstown; Broadway pros at Goodspeed & Bucks County
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