“I’m not obsessed with sex; I just can’t stop thinking about it,” says Phoebe Waller-Bridge in “Fleabag” — both the “Fleabag” that’s a funny and sad BBC TV series, curren…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:48PM“I’m not a girl, not yet a woman…I’m in between,” Britney Spears sang some two decades ago, and it could almost be the new anthem (gender-adjusted) for Broadway. The opening of Be …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:23PMSomebody wrote “NYC Loves BMC” in chalk on the sidewalk outside Broadway’s Lyceum Theater, the new home of Be More Chill, the high energy, high decibel pop-rock musical that stars Will…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:58PMSomebody wrote “NYC Loves BMC” in chalk on the sidewalk outside Broadway’s Lyceum Theater, the new home of Be More Chill, the high energy, high decibel pop-rock musical that stars Will…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMIn “The Cake,” Debra Jo Rupp (the mother on “That 70s Show”) portrays Della, a Christian baker in North Carolina who refuses to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding. If the story is ins…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AMI recently saw Hamilton again on Broadway, during a rare open captioned performance, and it was a revelation in several ways. When I had last seen Hamilton, about two years ago, the last …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PMIn “The B-Side,” three men sing along with an album on a record-player — or, as people prefer to say these days, a vinyl on the turntable. But there’s a reason why the Wooster Grou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11AMMarch is designated Women’s History Month and there is no better example of a theater woman on the march this March than Dominique Morisseau, who is 1. curating “50 in 50: Letters to Ou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AM“Daddy,” a play by Jeremy O. Harris, who made his Off-Broadway debut a few months ago with his controversial “Slave Play,” could be accurately described as a porn melodrama about a l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:32PMSimon, 15 years old and an aspiring comic book creator, is disappointed. His neighbor Jim in Apartment 4-B can’t walk through walls, and has no secret cave; he doesn’t even drive a “su…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PMNear the beginning of “Good Friday,” a play by Kristiana Rae Colon produced at The Flea with an all-female cast, crew and creative team, there’s something I’ve never seen on stage be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PMThe actors portraying Boesman and Lena move slowly through the audience, carrying their life’s possession on their heads and shoulders, looking around in fear and fatigue, until they make …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03PMFour shows are opening on Broadway in March. Two of them are transfers from Off-Broadway that thrilled audiences in very different ways: “Be More Chill” and “What The Constitution Mean…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:10PMHow well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in February? How about Broadway’s presence at the Oscars? At the Grammys? Answer these 13 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:34PMIn Madeleine George’s often hilarious, ultimately pointed comedy, the Greek god of agricultural and theater has decided to save the planet, after retreating for several centuries from th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:16PMIn this latest musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” Alice (Molly Gordon) is a British teenager in 1941 who takes shelter in the Underground wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PMThe launching of The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, with the opening tonight of “Alice By Heart,” is the latest “new, state-of-the-art complex” (as MCC is calling it) — with…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:35PMMary Seacole, though little known in the United States, was almost as celebrated in her time as Florence Nightingale, and for much the same reason – for nursing the sick and wounded during…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:38PMGreen Book won best picture, Rami Malek of “Bohemian Rhapsody” lead actor and Olivia Colman of “The Favourite” lead actress at the 91st annual Academy Awards. Ruth E. Carter and Hann…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:13PMIt takes Henry Higgins six months to transform Eliza Doolittle from a “draggle-tailed guttersnipe” in “My Fair Lady” to a lady who can pass as a duchess at the Embassy Ball. Now, ten…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PMBill Rauch, who last February was appointed the first artistic director of the performing arts center at the World Trade Center in New York, was sitting in a theater near his home some 3,000…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:09AMWith what’s billed as its re-imagined production of “Merrily We Roll Along,” Fiasco Theater Company has taken on their second Sondheim in four years. Fiasco, a ten-year-old ensemble th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:39PMThere’s one way that the Yiddish language “Fiddler On The Roof” directed by Joel Gray and starring Steven Skybell is strikingly different now that it’s moved uptown to the Shubert’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PM“The Price of Thomas Scott,” Elizabeth Baker’s play about a small shop owner struggling with his conscience, marks the launching of the Mint Theater’s ambitious “Meet Miss Baker”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37PMAs the season heats up, Off-Broadway is showcasing plenty of screen stars — or maybe it’s the other way around. Click on the photographs to learn the show and the theater, then c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54AMNearly every president has been depicted on the stage at one time or another. There are currently three on Broadway — in a single show, “Hamilton” which opened Off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06AM“I love you,” Stephen says to his wife Amy. “I love you,” Amy replies. “Please don’t respond verbally,” Stephen admonishes her. He is a cognitive neuroscientist conducting an e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PMSome of the theater posters Frank Verlizzo designed hang on the famous flop wall of Joe Allan’s restaurant. Some hold a prominent place in the homes of grateful Broadway stars. But many ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:09PMFBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent an agent to see the out-of-town tryout of “A Raisin in the Sun” to determine if the play had Communist content. The FBI did not do this with every show …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27AMIn honor of Valentine’s Day, here are Broadway plays about love dating back to 1750, photographs of stage kisses dating back to 1887, and recaps of some of my love and kisses posts …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:21AMFor the next two days (February 13th and 14th), the following productions are offering free tickets for certain seats at various future performances, courtesy of Goldstar’s Comp Train,…
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