The three shows reviewed below from this year’s New York Musical Festival are all, each in its own way, naïve…or one of the near synonyms for the word naïve, each of which offers a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:29PMIt would be easy to make some wrong assumptions about this dinner theater production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Café Fae, given its title, its marketing, and the fact that it i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMStephen Sondheim, now 89 years old, first began writing a musical about the real-life eccentric and significant Mizner Brothers when he was 23 years old; paused in his efforts when he lear…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10PMMoulin Rouge, a $28 million jukebox musical that opens tonight at the Al Hirschfeld Theater, is adapted from Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie of the same name, and expands its playlist to some 7…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:17PMThe Theater Collection at the Museum of the City of New York contains over 190,000 objects that document theatrical performance in New York City from 1785 on. These include more than 30,000 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PMThe actress Annie Golden (mute Norma in Orange Is the New Black) stars as the actress Annie Golden, who exchanges the humiliations of auditions for the thrills of a career kick-boxing dan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54AMThe actress Annie Golden (mute Norma in Orange Is the New Black) stars as the actress Annie Golden, who exchanges the humiliations of auditions for the thrills of a career kick-boxing dan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:32PMTherapists were busy reassuring theatergoers after seeing Dame Judi Dench in the trailer for the movie CATS. (See below.) Meanwhile, three shows opened Off-Broadway last week about real-l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AM“These people recruit, rape and spread disease,” Mama says about homosexuals, not realizing she’s talking to one, in Chris Urch’s play, which takes place in Uganda in 2010. That wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26PMPaul McCartney has announced that, at the age of 77, he is writing his first musical – a stage adaptation of Frank Capra’s 1946 movie “It’s a Wonderful Life,” a holiday evergreen i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:18PMWhat would Euripides say about the liberties being taken with his tragedies in New York? Medea, one of his last and most-produced plays, has been turned into the harrowing tale of an undocum…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:18PMWhat would Euripides say about the liberties being taken with his tragedies in New York? Medea,one of his last and most-produced plays, has been turned into the harrowing tale of an undocume…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:05PMHalley Feiffer’s loud, broad, hyperactive, foul-mouthed, unconventionally cast, aggressively playful and generally off-beat adaptation of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” was upstaged earli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55PMMost everybody knows that Medea kills her children to take revenge on their two-timing father Jason. But “Mojada,” playwright Luis Alfaro’s modern-day adaptation at the Public Theater,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PMEvery night from now until the end of the summer, you can watch a free movie somewhere outdoors in New York City -- and whole movie series every weeknight except Tuesdays. The movies v…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PMThe Week in New York Theater: Incredibly, the 2019 blackout that shut down the West Side Saturday night and shuttered 26 of 30 Broadway shows -- all but the four that begin with B (Be More C…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AMWhen María Irene Fornés died last October at the age of 88, the many theatergoers who knew nothing about her suddenly learned how pioneering , prolific and influential a theater artist she…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:20PMA power outage in midtown shuttered more than two dozen Broadway shows. The casts of some of them took to the streets — See below Hadestown, Hamilton, Come From Away, Waitress… and Carne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:09PMIs a show that’s in bad taste necessarily a bad show? Is a tasteful show always better? The three full productions from the first week of the 16th annual New York Musical Festival sugge…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMThe first of six weekly Broadway at Bryant Park concerts this summer featured surprise performances by the cast of “Bat Out of Hell,” a musical using Meat Loaf’s hits that will be perf…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:05PMThe first commercial outdoor theater in the United States began in New York City, and while it no longer exists, there are several outdoor theaters this summer, not all of which are offering…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34AMJerry Herman turns 88 today, which is the number of keys on a piano, an instrument he started playing more than eight decades ago, and led to his first musical 65 years ago, “I Feel Won…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PMHere are 14 new or forthcoming books about theater, listed under three general categories -- Scripts and Play Anthologies; Biographies and Memoirs; Theater History, Criticism and Reference -…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PMIt’s Summertime, and one of these mornings you’re going to rise up singing — or at least hear some singing at the 16th annual New York Musical Festival, or at the free lunchtime Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PMIn the 16th annual New York Musical Festival, or NYMF, new musicals are inspired both by tall tales and true stories: A Native American sharpshooter who became a silent film actress; an …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:17PMAfter she was hired to “translate” Macbeth into an English that is “clear to the modern ear,” the playwright Migdalia Cruz took a trip to Scotland with her husband and daughter to v…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:20PMWatch videos of ten great American protest songs, some of which have become so popular that many people forget their origins in patriotic protest -- just as some seem to have forgotten the m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19AMSix recommended shows from the Hot Festival, which is billed as the oldest queer theater festival in the world I saw 15 of the 45 shows in the Hot Festival on opening night and I can say al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:21PMThis week in New York theater: the July 4th week Broadway schedule. List of Broadway shows closing this summer. The 2019-2020 season on Broadway and at The Flea, Ars Nova, HERE Arts Center, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM“Moulin Rouge The Musical” is opening on Broadway this month, and both comedian Dave Chappelle and singer Barry Manilow will have “Broadway residencies,” which is a pretentious way …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:25PMIn front of the Stonewall Inn, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which gave birth to the modern gay rights movement:
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