Peter 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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36PMBella 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:21PMThe two ladies hanging out on the roof are lesbians; they just don’t know it yet. The title of Liza Birkenmeier’s play, which marks her Off-Broadway playwriting debut, may seem to promis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMAndré Bishop, head of Lincoln Center Theater: $1 million Todd Haimes, Roundabout: $922,000. Oskar Eustis the Public Theater: $659,000 Lynne Meadows, MTC: $565,000 Carole Rothman, Second Sta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMLizzie Vieh’s black comedy about a divorced couple permanently underwater in Phoenix Arizona, is clever and merciless, but it is also oddly compassionate. Exhibit A is the bit with the her…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09PMHow much were you paying attention to New York theater in October? Take this quiz and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:32AMBelow is a selection of New York theater opening in November, organized chronologically by opening date, including five on Broadway – a much anticipated epic gay play, a blockbuster m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PM“The Sound Inside” is a dark drama by Adam Rapp that keeps us in the dark, literally and figuratively, which works better while watching it on stage than thinking about it afterwards. Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PMWilliam Shakespeare’s only son, named Hamnet, died when he was 11 years old; a few years later, the playwright wrote “Hamlet.” The Irish theater troupe Dead Centre conjures up the Ba…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AM“How do we fight evil without becoming evil?” asks Ethan, one of the two adult characters in “Fear,” a play by Matt Williams. “Isn’t that the central question of the age, th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:44PMFreestyle Love Supreme is not so much Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway follow-up to Hamilton as it is a subsidiary of Lin-Manuel Inc. The hip-hop improv group that Miranda co-founded 16 years…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24PM“Freestyle Love Supreme” is not so much Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway follow-up to “Hamilton” as it is a subsidiary of Lin-Manuel Inc. The hip-hop improv group that Miranda co-fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:03PMTheresa Rebeck’s slight but savory comedy about running a restaurant stars Raúl Esparza as Harry, a hilariously mercurial chef-owner of a hole-in-the-wall eatery that’s become the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:32PMRefugees are in the news these days, and their stories have suddenly come to New York stages. “I think it is important to ask an audience to recognize lives that we have literally fenced o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AMThree years after he spoofed “Hamilton” in “Spamilton” (with “I am not throwing away my shot” becoming “I am not gonna let Broadway rot,”) Gerard Alessandrini paints Lin-Manu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PMI think if I were eight years old I might have loved “The Lightning Thief” on Broadway, but that’s mostly because I would then have been too young to have seen it at the Lucille Lortel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PMThere is one spectacularly funny moment in this musical comedy version of “Macbeth,” which is based on Billy Morrissette’s 2001 movie, and is set in a fast-food restaurant in the “po…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47PMForty-one years after Broadway said goodbye after 742 thrilling performances to its first (and last) choreopoem, and a year after its author and original performer died at the age of 70, sev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM“Is This A Room” stages the verbatim transcript of the FBI interrogation of a 25-year-old former Air Force linguist with the improbable name of Reality Winner, who was eventually sente…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMDavid Henry Hwang was attacked by an unknown assailant with a knife and nearly died. That experience, along with the playwright’s shock at the results of the 2016 Presidential election and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PMThere are many cues to what’s wrong with this overly broad third Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ dated play, starring Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian immigrant se…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54PMThere are many cues to what’s wrong with this overly broad third Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ dated play, starring Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian immigrant se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMBooks about Bob Fosse and Yiddish theater have been named the best theater books of the year by The Theatre Library Association, which is presenting its TLA Book Awards tonight at the New…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMOscar, a fat freshman in thick bifocals meeting his college roommate for the first time, greets him with what sounds like an insult: “Hail, dog of God!” His new roommate, the street-smar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07PMThe announcement of the latest very unscientific results from the nightly poll conducted in the lobby of Lincoln Center, is a marketing gimmick for “The Great Society” that strikes me as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:41PMIn “The Thanksgiving Play,” a satire by Larissa FastHorse that debuted at Playwrights Horizons last year and has become one of the most produced plays throughout the country, Jaxton, the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AMOn Thursday night, CNN held an “LGBTQ Town Hall” in which nine of the Democratic candidates for President separately answered questions on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and qu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:33PMI first saw Slave Play Off-Broadway, long before Rihanna made headlines for texting during the show (playwright Jeremy O. Harris publicly defended her; he was the one she was texting); and s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMWhen I saw “Slave Play” Off-Broadway last December, it felt like the work of a novice playwright – promising, provocative, and well produced, but too derivative, too long, too full of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:30PMCan an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet? That’s a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts’ latest play…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48PM
