For 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,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45AMPlaywright Young Jean Lee wrote an Op-Ed this week about the advantages of affirmative action in education and diversity in the theater. Looking at some of the faces below of the people who …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08AMOff-Broadway Week starts today, offering two tickets for the price of one to 34 shows playing Off-Broadway, through February 24th. The shows range from musicals that have been running for de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11AMWatch musical numbers from each of the nominees for the Grammy for best musical theater album of the year: The Band’s Visit, Carousel, Jesus Christ Superstar, My Fair Lady, and Once on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PMPaul Zimet came up with the idea for Talking Band’s 57th show, “City of No Illusions,” when he met two sisters who own a funeral parlor in Buffalo, New York. “They ta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:16AMThe strange doings in Virginia have brought blackface back in the news. Reaction to the unearthing of a photograph on the 1984 medical school yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam att…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AMMore than half a century has passed since the Berrigan brothers, both of them priests, along with seven other Catholic activists, broke the law to protest the Vietnam War. On May 17, 1968, t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PMTheater is not the only activity vulnerable to bad reviews. A sportswriter called last Sunday’s football game “the worst Super Bowl ever…” (“boring, lame, non-…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18AMNo other company went as full-Broadway as Skittles, which, in lieu of a commercial during the Super Bowl, staged on Super Bowl Sunday a one-day, 40-minute live “Skittles Commerc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AM“My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black,” says Keyonn Sheppard as Bayard Rustin, close adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr., main organi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AMThis month there are no Broadway openings, but ample glamour Off-Broadway. Freestyle Love Supreme, the improvisational hip-hop group that Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail conceived in c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:57PMIn the first Broadway revival of Sam Shepard’s 1980 play, Ethan Hawke portrays Lee, a drifter, a drinker, and a thief who disrupts the life of his younger brother, Paul Dano’s Austin, an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36PMIn the first Broadway revival of Sam Shepard’s 1980 play, Ethan Hawke portrays Lee, a drifter, a drinker, and a thief who disrupts the life of his younger brother, Paul Dano’s Au…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23PMMost wouldn’t see a link between stone-cold killer Chris Partlow from HBO’s The Wire, flashy pimp-turned-porn-star Larry Brown on HBO’s The Deuce and Tom Robinson, a black …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:57PMHow well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in January? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PMIt was a good week to test your view of New York — the 1990s Bohemia presented in Rent Live on Fox (which was largely Rent Recorded), or the grittier view expressed by the city’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:42PMTo the seven young performers who tell the stories of their lives in “Generation NYZ,” New York means subways and pizza and opportunity, but also cops and catcalling and homelessness. Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PM“Rent Live” was seen by just 3.574 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen ratings, and received mostly negative reviews, according to Rotten Tomato, which gave it a r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14PMWhen at the age of 17 composer Richard Rodgers met 24-year-old lyricist Lorenz Hart in 1919, he instantly acquired “a career, a partner, a best friend and a source of permanent irritat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:07PMIn the month before Rent opened Off-Broadway in January, 1996, Idina Menzel was singing “The Wind Beneath My Wings” at a bar mitzvah at Leonard’s of Great Neck for the thousandth time;…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMI had worried that, in Rent Live, Fox television would ruin Jonathan Larson’s musical about bohemian life in the East Village of the 1980s by bowdlerizing it. I felt it worth watc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:02AMBelow is a selection of the songs from the musical “Rent,” a version of which will be broadcast live on Fox tonight January 27, 2019, 8 to 11 p.m. The song titles are linked to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:39PMLorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” gets a spin-off of sorts in the play “White Shoes” by York Walker, when Beneatha, Walter Younger’s sister, is approached in school by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PMElizabeth Keathley moved to the United State from the Philippines, married an American, and three years later registered to vote, even though she was not yet a citizen. As a result, the gove…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMNear the end of Colin Quinn’s stand-up comedy, which promises to “lay bare the absurdities…on both sides of the political divide,” the Saturday Night Live alumnus manages to insult e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PMThe same week that Carol Channing died at the age of 97, Steven Spielberg announced that 17-year-old Rachel Zegler, a high school student in New Jersey, would be the new Maria in the film re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AMOscar nominations for the 91st annual Academy Awards, which will be broadcast February 24 on ABC. “Roma”(on Netflix!) and “The Favourite” each received 10 Oscar nominations. Best Pic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57AMToday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, celebrating what would have been the civil rights leader’s 90thbirthday, and it’s easy to find articles that ask: What would he say about what’s ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:46AMJames Earl Jones, 20-time Broadway veteran (most recently in The Gin Game in 2015) three-time Tony winner, was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi on January 17, 1931 – 88 years ago today.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39AMCarol Channing, 12-time Broadway veteran, three-time Tony winner, who became a Broadway legend thanks to two roles — the gold-digging Lorelei Lee in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AMXander wore a different costume each of the three days of BroadwayCon 2019: Lola from Kinky Boots on Friday, Aubrey II and Seymour from The Little Shop of Horrors on Saturday (left), and Gus…
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