Saturday, May 18, 2019
So many theater companies label their shows “immersive” these days that the term can feel like little more than a synonym for “hip.” But five adventurous and meticulous companies …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39AMFriday, May 17, 2019
Bryan Cranston won the distinguished performance award at the 85th annual Drama League Awards for his performance in Network, while Hadestown won best musical, and The Ferryman best play. Di…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:59PMComedian Carl Reiner called his comic novel Enter Laughing, because that is the first stage direction that his 17-year-old main character is given, at his first ever-audition, and he makes a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48AMThursday, May 16, 2019
Comedian Carl Reiner called his comic novel Enter Laughing, because that is the first stage direction that his 17-year-old main character is given, at his first ever-audition, and he makes a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PMFrom the moment Susan Sarandon makes her entrance in Happy Talk, Jesse Eisenberg’s latest play, it is clear her character Lorraine is extravagantly self-absorbed to the point of delusion. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18PMFrom the moment Susan Sarandon makes her entrance in Jesse Eisenberg’s latest play, it is clear her character Lorraine is extravagantly self-absorbed to the point of delusion….It would b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
The story that Tony winner Alice Ripley tells in this one-woman show – of an unsophisticated mother named Trisha Lee in the small Texas town of Sparktown who becomes woke after her child …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:39PMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Summer begins officially next month, but the summer theatergoing season launches this week with the first two of 13 annual New York summer theater festivals. Clubbed Thumb, which has been …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:19PMMonday, May 13, 2019
“The Ferryman” won outstanding Broadway play and “Hadestown” outstanding Broadway musical in the 69th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. ‘White Noise” won best Off-Broadway p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AMSunday, May 12, 2019
In a culture where “stage mother” has a negative connotation, and mothers aren’t always the most endearing characters on stage, it’s good to honor Mother’s Day by watching videos o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AMSaturday, May 11, 2019
In episode 6 of the FX TV series “Fosse Verdon,” which will air on Tuesday May 14th, Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) splits his time between editing the movie he’s directing, “Lenny” abou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28PMFriday, May 10, 2019
Summertime is a good time for the adventurous New York theatergoer, and the broke New York theatergoer. Summer theater festivals present shows that are usually cheaper (often free), and more…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:19PMThursday, May 9, 2019
Ten of the 34 shows that opened on Broadway during the 2018-2019 season began life Off-Broadway. I was struck by how sharply different my reactions were to seeing the Off-Broadway and Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Here are the results of the survey in which I asked you to pick your personal preferences (not predictions) in 16 of the 26 categories in the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. Best Play Nominated:Cho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42AMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Tony winner Billy Porter became the pharaoh of fashion at the Met Gala red carpet, his Egyptian-themed…production number… right up there with Katy Perry wearing a chandelier, Jared Leto …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36AMMonday, May 6, 2019
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle has named The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth best play of the 2018-19 season, Tootsie best musical, What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07PMSunday, May 5, 2019
in the 34th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Full list of winners: Outstanding Play Outstanding Musical Outstanding Revival Outstanding Solo Show Fleaba…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:49PMSaturday, May 4, 2019
Make your pick in the survey below for 16 of the 26 categories in the 73rd annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway’s best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 9th at Radio Music Hall…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:34AMFriday, May 3, 2019
The Theatre World Awards for outstanding New York stage debuts during the 2017-2018 theatrical season have been given to: Gbenga Akinnagbe, To Kill A Mockingbird Tom Glynn-Carney, The Ferrym…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55AMThursday, May 2, 2019
Take this quiz about the nominations for the 2019 Tony Awards, which were announced Tuesday. How well do you know the nominees. How much were you paying attention to the season?
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
May is not just the month that theatergoers debate nominations and await awards. Shows do open. That includes just one play on Broadway — the first of the 2019-2020 Broadway season, starri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:21PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Hadestown, Ain’t Too Proud and Tootsie received the greatest number of nominations in the 2019 Tony Awards, announced by Brandon Victor Dixon and Bebe Neuwirth. The winners of the 73rd ann…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:39AMMonday, April 29, 2019
The Broadway 2018-2019 season has ended, and the New York theater award season is in high gear. The Tony nominations will be announced tomorrow. Here are the shows that opened on Broadway th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:19PMNobody applauds when Annette Bening first appears on stage in All My Sons, the third Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s 1947 tragedy, the playwright’s first hit play. This is because …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:07AMSunday, April 28, 2019
Nobody applauds when Annette Bening first appears on stage in All My Sons, the third Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s 1947 tragedy, the playwright’s first hit play. This is because of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PMFriday, April 26, 2019
Ink recounts how Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in London from Australia in 1969, bought the Sun, “a stuck-up broadsheet that…never once made a profit,” and in a year’s time made it a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:53PM“Ink” recounts how Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in London from Australia in 1969, bought the Sun, “a stuck-up broadsheet that…never once made a profit,” and in a year’s time mad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:23PMKiss Me Kate, Alice by Heart, Smokey Joe’s Cafe and Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations got the greatest number of nominations for the Chita Rivera Awards for dance an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PMThursday, April 25, 2019
Beetlejuicethe Broadway musical differs in crucial ways from Tim Burton’s 1988 comic horror movie, as the character Beetlejuice himself (portrayed by Alex Brightman) makes clear from …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06PMOklahoma and Tootsie lead in number of nominations for the 64th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Tootsie, the musical adaptation of the 1982 movie comedy about a difficult actor who becomes a beloved actress, begins bravely with an opening number in which bubbly ensemble members sing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18PM 
