Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Don’t rain on me Argentina. Producers of “Evita” were forced to cancel performances for Tuesday night due to a fire-safety system malfunction that left the stage soggy and the eager-to…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:52PM“Attention must be paid.”
Lines from Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” don’t come more famous than that one declared by the devoted wife of the doomed American dream…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMMonday, March 12, 2012
The stars of “Evita” aren’t the only things that will glitter at the Broadway show’s first preview Monday night.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMSunday, March 11, 2012
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Michael Esper & Co.
(Playwrights Horizons)
Today is your last ch…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, March 9, 2012
It began as a three-week run last April to raise funds for the Mama Foundation for the Arts on W. 126th St. and its Gospel for Teens program.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:56PMThursday, March 8, 2012
What music goes with a 50th anniversary? Bluegrass. And Stephen Sondheim.
Shakespeare in the Park hits the half-century mark this summer and its production of “As You Like It” will feat…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:29PM“Shinsai: Theaters for Japan.” Sun. at 3 and 8 p.m. Cooper Union (Seventh St. at Third Ave.).
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:26PMWednesday, March 7, 2012
That’s so going to be her Broadway debut.
Raven-Symone, known for her role in the kid-friendly series “That’s So Raven,” will take over the lead role of Deloris Van Cartier …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:59PMMonday, March 5, 2012
How’s this for a Saturday soiree: Suburbanites gather for cocktails and carping while the hostess hisses at everyone and howls in pain.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMUniversal Pictures announced today that a musical based on the 1978 comedy that brought John Belushi to the big screen — and put him in a toga — is being made into a musical.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:28PMSunday, March 4, 2012
Toward the end of “Tribes,” Sylvia, a young woman who works for a charity, admits, “I love being ironic.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThursday, March 1, 2012
An ad for “Carrie” declares it “the musical event of the season!” No such luck.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMJustin Long is just that into theater. The 33-year-old actor will make his Broadway debut on April 3 in the comedy “Seminar” opposite Jeff Goldblum.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:02PMHow cold is the second-generation glassworks owner and omnipotent patriarch at the center of Githa Sowerby’s bracing 1912 British family drama “Rutherford & Son”?
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:01PMTuesday, February 28, 2012
With its tangy tale of overqualified underlings suffering humiliations by a horrific boss, Leslye Headland’s office comedy “Assistance” smacks of “The Devil Wears Prada” and “Swi…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThe lights of Broadway will be dimmed on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in memory of former Daily News theater critic Howard Kissel. He was 69 when he died last Friday due to complications from an April …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:14AMMonday, February 27, 2012
If the N-word makes you wince, a warning: You’ll be recoiling constantly during Katori Hall’s “Hurt Village,” which opened Monday night in the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at the…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, February 26, 2012
Tortured families and thwarted dreamers are the stuff that Eugene O’Neill plays are made of. That includes his first full-length work, “Beyond the Horizon,” a 1920 rural tragedy that w…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMThursday, February 23, 2012
In “Galileo,” the 17th-century Italian astronomer is described as “a man who cannot say no to old wine or a new idea.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMA Rat Pack “Rigoletto” is an intriguing gamble in the Metropolitan Opera’s new season.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00PMTuesday, February 21, 2012
‘PRIMA DONNA’
Through Feb. 25 Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Ave.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:25AMMonday, February 20, 2012
It’s a showtune showdown this spring. The
stage is set for a battle for musical-theater domination between two top-tier composers.
In one corner: Alan Menken, 62, from N…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMSunday, February 19, 2012
1.
Eugene O’Neill
The Wooster Group presents his tales of sailors under the main mast, “Early Plays,” through March 11. (St. Ann…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, February 16, 2012
There’s not much art but plenty of commerce in “Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It,” which opened last night at the Music Box Theatre for a limited run.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMIs apartheid thicker than family? That’s the terrible question throbbing at the heart of “Blood Knot,” a poky but ultimately persuasive 1961 drama by Athol Fugard, which premiered on T…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWednesday, February 15, 2012
The title of Gabe McKinley’s new play “CQ/CX” looks like the makings of a lousy Scrabble hand.
It’s actually newspaper lingo related to fact-checking and that looms large in…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMTuesday, February 14, 2012
Like a cut flower, Violetta, the courtesan who falls in love and fatally ill in Verdi’s “La Traviata,” is living on borrowed time.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:58PMTheresa Rebeck wrote for 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' before she created “Smash,” the new NBC series about the making of a Broadway musical.
So the Brooklyn writer can rip st…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMMonday, February 13, 2012
A full moon gleams like a shiny hubcap in the opening moments of “How I Learned to Drive.”
But Uncle Peck (Norbert Leo Butz) doesn’t notice. He sees only the “celestial orb…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, February 12, 2012
A cut on the original cast recording (don’t call it a soundtrack!) of “The Book of Mormon” is a cheery little tune called “I Am Here for You.” Native New Yorker Robert Lopez will b…
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