“The Young Man from Atlanta,” about an aging couple whose only son has died young, is the wrong play by Horton Foote to revive –- it’s dated, and overrated — but one can guess …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09PMClick on the link to get ten percent off on any available Broadway show, using the code provided, and then below that, find Black Friday discount deals through Amazon, as well as free trials…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:11AMAt 93rd annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the casts of Hadestown, Ain’t Too Proud, Tina The Tina Turner Musical, Beetlejuice and the Radio City Rockettes performed live, as did L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:55PMMy eighth annual Broadway (and small theater) gift guide below includes links and information on shopping for theater tickets, theater subscriptions, cast recordings, play scripts, librettos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PMAs 2019 is coming to an end, leaving many of us worn down , it might be more rewarding to express gratitude for favorite New York shows that opened not just this year but for the decade as a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AMTony Kushner has taken the first play he wrote, which traced the rise of Nazism in Germany as a cri de coeur and a call to arms against what was happening to America during the Reagan era, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43PM“Small theaters” play a large role in making New York City the world’s cultural capital, according to “All New York’s a Stage,” a report issued this week by the Mayor’s Offic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20AMFefu picks up a double-barrel shotgun and shoots at her husband near the beginning of “Fefu and Her Friends,” billed as a modern classic and written by the beloved avant-garde playwright…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:44PMBroadway is always big on Thanksgiving. If Olaf the snowman isn’t on stage in “Frozen” at the St. James on Thanksgiving Day, he IS in the air as a balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:14PMMarie Curie won the Nobel Prize twice, but she was also a woman; so the Nobel committee asked her not to show up at the ceremony. We learn the specific reason why early on in this well-inten…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PM“The Inheritance,” a long, ambitious play about three generations of gay men in New York, pays homage to two masterpieces, without being one itself. Yet the play by Matthew Lopez, making…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54PM“The Inheritance,” a long, ambitious play about three generations of gay men in New York, pays homage to two masterpieces, without being one itself. Yet the play by Matthew Lopez, making…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:37PMWho knew that “A Christmas Carol” could be so dangerous! The assaults begin even before the first line of dialogue in the new, charming if overlong, and extraordinarily well-designed Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:46PMIt’s surely pointless, four decades and two billion dollars after its debut, to rant about Evita, and silly to blame Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theatrical canonization of the amoral historica…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54AMIt’s surely pointless, four decades and two billion dollars after its debut, to rant about Evita, and silly to blame Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theatrical canonization of the amoral historica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48PMThe same gay character who is bullied in one play is nearly murdered in another play in a theater some two miles away. In an unusual collaboration, two Brooklyn theaters are simultaneously p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39PMSo many people (and journalists!) complained that the public impeachment hearings made for dull theater that others angrily denounced the “theater critic school of journali…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AMElaine Stritch kicked Rick Borutta in the stomach every day. That, anyway, is how he says it felt at the beginning. “Other than that, she was rather likable,” says Borutta, who worked as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AMIt would be hard to overstate the city-wide trauma that occurred in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in August, 1991, nor the power of “Fires in the Mirror,” the groundbreaking documentary play a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:27PMThe thrilling final minutes of “Tina” are all that a rock concert should be, and the main reason to see this jukebox biomusical about one of the world’s most electric performers, po…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:46PMIn the 26 years since the Russian clown Slava Polunin began touring, “Slava’s Snowshow” has been performed “thousands of times to millions of people in hundreds of cities,” accordi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMKeep those cell phones on; that’s where “User Not Found” largely unfolds. Yes, this terrific site-specific play takes place in a café near BAM in Fort Greene, where Terry O’Dono…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:06PMBrandoCapote is a play with a script by Sara Farrington inspired by a fascinating interview Truman Capote conducted with Marlon Brando at the peak of his popularity in 1957, while the movie …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:44PMOn Veterans Day, a reminder from Adam Driver, Broadway veteran and military veteran, and the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that brings theater to the military: “The …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PM“Broadbend, Arkansas” is billed as a musical about three generations of an African-American family in the South grappling with injustice. While technically accurate, that’s a mislead…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03PM“Whoo, that was some heavy shit,” our guide says after leading us through 400 years of African-American history. It was hard to disagree. Every inch of HERE Arts Center has been transfor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:16PMDavid Lawson made a personal sacrifice as a public service: He read 10 campaign books, all but one by current candidates for President of the United States. From his reading, he has fashione…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMIf Richard Nelson, the writer and director of “The Michaels,” were hired to direct the next Marvel movie, would Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk sit around the kitchen table in Rhinebeck, New…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40AMPeter Dinklage’s singing voice would not normally qualify him for a role in a musical, unless in a Disney animated movie as a singing rhinoceros. But Rex Harrison couldn’t really sing ei…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12PMPeter Dinklage’s singing voice would not normally qualify him for a role in a musical, unless in a Disney animated movie as a singing rhinoceros. But Rex Harrison couldn’t really sing ei…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:02PMBella Abzug spoke at my junior high school graduation, until Donna Florio’s mother told her to shut up. “This is my daughter’s graduation, not a political rally.” Abzug paused, apo…
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