Friday, February 7, 2020
God I blew that answer I blew that answer He hates my single-payer plan So sing the candidates in the Iowa Stage Theatre Company’s production of “Adore Us! Line,” a musical that uses A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:52PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Although Kirk Douglas, who died yesterday at the age of 103, was known primarily as a movie star, he was also a veteran of Broadway. (Obituaries in CNN, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times) B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PMWednesday, February 5, 2020
As he’s done for close to 40 years, Charles Busch sprinkles his latest campy melodrama with Oscar Wilde wit, Barbara Stanwyck grit, Marlene Dietrich glamour and Mae West shtick: “I don�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PMFifty-two Senators, all of them Republicans, voted to acquit Donald Trump of abuse of power. The lone Republican who voted to convict, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, explained his reasons why ea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:19PMTuesday, February 4, 2020
“So you’re doing a whole show on borders, huh?” says Border Patrol Special Agent Lopez, the first of 11 people whom Dan Hoyle impersonates over 75 minutes in “Border People,” re-cr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PMMonday, February 3, 2020
A film of “Hamilton,” with its original Broadway cast, is coming to cinema screens across the U.S. and Canada on October 15, 2021, released by The Walt Disney Studios, (which reportedly …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PMSunday, February 2, 2020
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in January 2020? Answer these dozen questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PMSaturday, February 1, 2020
Below is a selection of New York theater openings in February, organized chronologically by opening date. There’s just one show opening on Broadway this month, but it’s a doozy: The fift…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PMFriday, January 31, 2020
Our safety word was “stunt reporter,” as Nellie Bly, one of the 19th century’s most celebrated journalists, took along the 18 of us undercover to the mental institution at Blackwell Is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PMThursday, January 30, 2020
From the get-go, the “Medea” on stage at BAM looks less like a modern update of Euripides’ tragedy than a fashion shoot: Bobby Cannavale talks quietly with Rose Byrne against an empty,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PMWednesday, January 29, 2020
The Alexander in the title is Dr. Alexander Wiener, a pioneering scientist in the use of blood to identify individuals in ways similar to fingerprints, and co-discoverer of the Rh factor in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:12PMTuesday, January 28, 2020
He’s known as a playwright (“Jeffrey” and “I Hate Hamlet”) screenwriter (“Addams Family Values,” “In & Out”) novelist (Social Disease, I’ll Take It) and essayist (I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:46PMTwo-for-one tickets are on sale now for Off-Broadway Week, February 10 to 24, 2020. The following 33 shows are participating. Those with an asterisk are newly on offer. (Check out my Off B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:57AMMonday, January 27, 2020
All these Broadway veterans participated in the 62 Grammy Awards, where “Hadestown” won Best Musical Theater Album. The other nominated albums were “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life And Tim…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AMSunday, January 26, 2020
Casts from six shows opening this season on Broadway — including shows with music by Bob Dylan and Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Tony Kushner – performed at First Look at BroadwayCon 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40PMSaturday, January 25, 2020
In this gorgeous, enlightening and ambitious — if over-stuffed — hour-long theatrical collage, Theodora Skipitares uses the eerie visual splendor of puppetry to illuminate a serious su…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:47PMA transcript and video of the closing arguments both Thursday and Friday by Representative Adam Schiff, the House impeachment manager for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37AMFriday, January 24, 2020
Charles Fuller’s murder mystery, finally on Broadway in a fine production directed by Kenny Leon some four decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is so good that even if you’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMCharles Fuller’s murder mystery, finally on Broadway in a fine production directed by Kenny Leon some four decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is so good that even if you’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36AMThursday, January 23, 2020
“I think I would like a divorce,” Jane Alexander as Nancy French says to her husband of 50 years, played by James Cromwell. “All right,” Bill replies. Blackout. More production p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18PM“I think I would like a divorce,” Jane Alexander as Nancy French says to her husband of 50 years, played by James Cromwell. “All right,” Bill replies. Blackout. That’s all the dial…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Some shows you leave needing to tell people about; some shows you leave thinking about what you are going to have for dinner. A few shows ruin your dinner. If you’re a drama critic, you ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
When did “theater” become an insult? With the impeachment trial scheduled to begin in earnest this week, the one thing that the right and the left, Democrats and Republicans, seem to agr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26AMMonday, January 20, 2020
“Leaving the Blues” dramatizes the life of the amazing jazz, blues and Broadway singer/songwriter Alberta Hunter. I long thought her story was ideal for a musical, ever since I saw her a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36PM“We must devote at least as much to our children’s education and the health of the poor as we do to the care of our automobiles and the building of beautiful, impressive hotels,” Marti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PMSunday, January 19, 2020
“You will hear an unbelievable true story,” one of the three actors from the Republic of Slovenia on a stage designed to look like a makeshift bunker, tells us at the beginning of the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:04PM“Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life, and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me.” That’s what Laura Linney as Lucy Barton tells us f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:54AMSaturday, January 18, 2020
…”My Name is Lucy Barton” is a sometimes poignant, often tedious 90-minute monologue… The hope was that Laura Linney would do for it what France McDormand did in the HBO miniseries t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:51PMFriday, January 17, 2020
Ann Harada, who made her Broadway debut more than 30 years ago, is philosophical about the latest character she portrays. “Sometimes you get to play glamorous roles,” she says, “and so…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:54AMThursday, January 16, 2020
They meet on a line for a movie; the man and the woman — each disfigured by childhood accidents — are used to be stared at, and they are used to being alone. Inspired by the late Urugu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:41PMWednesday, January 15, 2020
Those theatergoers drawn to “Modern Maori Quartet: Two Worlds” for the authentic music and culture of the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand might feel blindsided by what seems like …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AM 
