Tuesday, 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 09:18PMIn Tootsie the movie, Michael Dorsey, an actor desperate to be cast in anything, auditions disguised as a woman he names Dorothy Michaels, and lands a role as a female hospital administrator…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PMHadestown, Tootsie, and Oklahoma received the most nominations in the 69th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning. The winners will be announced on Monday, May 13th, with…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AMMonday, April 22, 2019
Earth Day is officially April 22nd, but it’s being celebrated on Broadway, Saturday April 27th, when the 30 blocks of Broadway between Union Square and Times Square will be closed to vehi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:28PMSunday, April 21, 2019
Gary is a mess, deliberately so. Written by the downtown provocateur Taylor Mac making his Broadway debut, it stars three of the best comic stage actors in America as three minor characters …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:00PM“Gary” is a mess, deliberately so. Written by the downtown provocateur Taylor Mac making his Broadway debut, it stars three of the best comic stage actors in America as three minor chara…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PMSaturday, April 20, 2019
On April 20, 1999 — 20 years ago today — two students killed 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Seven years later, New York Theatre Workshop p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59AMFriday, April 19, 2019
The fifth Broadway production of My Fair Lady opened a year ago today, as good a time as any to wax nostalgic over not just Lerner and Loewe’s 1956 musical, but over Pygmalion, the 1913 pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:07PMThursday, April 18, 2019
Hillary and Clinton is exactly the play we do not need right now, a well-acted but irrelevant middlebrow entertainment starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow as the presidential candidat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30PM“Hillary and Clinton” is exactly the play we do not need right now, a well-acted but irrelevant middlebrow entertainment starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow as the presidential ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
On Broadway, as Off, Hadestown is a hell of a musical. But it’s changed. When it opened Off-Broadway three years ago, Anais Mitchell’s concept album had been turned into an inventively…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39PMOn Broadway, as Off, Hadestown is a hell of a musical. But it’s changed. When it opened Off-Broadway three years ago, Anais Mitchell’s concept album had been turned into an inventively …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25PMSocrates was so annoying to his fellow Athenians that even some of those jurors who had voted to acquit him joined the majority to have him condemned to death during the penalty phase of his…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PMBelow is the full list of the nominations for the 85th annual Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The nominees were announ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Can a Star Wars villain and a Soviet spy find love, sex and happiness together on Broadway? That’s the question we’re primed to ask in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s 19…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PMCan a Star Wars villain and a Soviet spy find love, sex and happiness together on Broadway? That’s the question we’re primed to ask in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s 19…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28PMWhat is a play – and what is its purpose? These questions come to mind after reading the 15 plays commissioned by T the New York Times Style Magazine in America 2024, a multimedia antholog…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AMMonday, April 15, 2019
Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury wins the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play, which was produced at Soho Rep and deals with issues of race and family — and one particular family …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:19PMFriday, April 12, 2019
With the TV series “Fosse Verdon” gaining them renewed attention, here are photographs from the illustrious Broadway careers of Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse (arranged more or less chronolog…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:17AMThursday, April 11, 2019
Below: an explanation of major New York theater awards. And before that, a calendar of this year’s nominations and award announcements/ceremonies. Why was Sarah Bernhardt, one of the world…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:10AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
I’m grateful for having first seen Daniel Fish’s dark, hip and homey production of “Oklahoma!” at St. Ann’s Warehouse last year, because I can see how much improved it is now that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:25PMTuesday, April 9, 2019
I might go a great distance to watch Ben Whishaw strip off his suit and turn into Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe before our eyes. But I only had to travel to 30thStreet and 10thAvenue, in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:35PM In a city with 1,200 cultural institutions, how do you create a new one that stands out? That was the question – and the charge — that then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg put 14 years ago to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AMMonday, April 8, 2019
For its first production in its new second home downtown in a spruced-up Greenwich House Theater, Ars Nova is presenting the latest devised piece by the much-praised ten-year-old company The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PMSunday, April 7, 2019
The Lehman Trilogy, an inventively staged, extraordinarily acted, and historically blinkered theatrical epic, begins and ends with the collapse of the Lehman Brothers, the venerable financia…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:21PMSaturday, April 6, 2019
There’s beauty in the suffering that comes from longing. That message comes through clearly in “Diary of One Who Disappeared.” Everything else is elliptical in the production of this h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMFriday, April 5, 2019
Nicole Fosse learned things about her parents, the choreographer and director Bob Fosse and the dancer Gwen Verdon, by watching the making of the TV series “Fosse Verdon,” which begins o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:54PMPeople are gushing about Heidi Schreck’s play as if it’s another Hamilton, and in some ways it is. No, it’s not a groundbreaking hip-hop musical. Indeed, “What the Constitution Me…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AMThursday, April 4, 2019
As King Lear, Glenda Jackson enters with a casual swagger, giving off a scent of power that’s lasted a lifetime. But Lear is portrayed by an 82-year-old woman, lean and light and, at 5�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30PMAs King Lear, Glenda Jackson enters with a casual swagger, giving off a scent of power that’s lasted a lifetime. But Lear is portrayed by an 82-year-old woman, lean and light and, at 5�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PMThe nominations for 34th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards are: Outstanding Play Mlima’s Tale Produced by The Public Theater Written by Lynn Nottage Pass Over Produced by Lincoln Center Theater…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08AM 
