Xander 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PMCast members from several forthcoming Broadway musicals performed at “First Look,” one of the last sessions at the last day of BroadwayCon 2019. From left to right (and top to bo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57PM“I, I, I took the blows, in my face, and my body,” Marin Ireland as Alison says dramatically falling to the floor of the church-run halfway house in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Car…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:48PMIn an extraordinary work of theater put together by Argentine director Lola Arias, six veterans who fought on opposite sides of the 1982 war between Argentina and Great Britain met and, unde…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AMIf you’re playing a character that somebody else originated, Anthony Rapp was saying, you respect the original but ..redecorate. “He built the house that I walk around in. But I find a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PMValerie Solanas, the mentally ill woman who shot Andy Warhol in 1968, has had a remarkably long run. Her SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men), which called for the overthrow of the go…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53AMPharus Jonathan Young is black, gay and gifted, like the playwright who created him, Tarrell Alvin McCraney, best known for the Oscar winning film Moonlight. McCraney is making his Broadway …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PMPharus Jonathan Young is black, gay and gifted, like the playwright who created him, Tarrell Alvin McCraney, best known for the Oscar winning film Moonlight. McCraney is making his Broadway …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:05PMLin-Manuel Miranda, director Thomas Kail, theater owner James L. Nederlander, and producer Jeffrey Seller are saving the Drama Book Shop — by buying it, according to an announcement th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:25AMIn “Ink: A Piece for Museums,’ which ran for two days at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, the musician-storyteller duo of James …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43AMPlaywright Sarah Kane killed herself at the age of 28 shortly after writing her fifth play, which offers a harrowing taste of what it’s like to live with, and die from, depression. Now t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PMPlaywright Sarah Kane killed herself at the age of 28 shortly after writing her fifth play, which offers a harrowing taste of what it’s like to live with, and die from, depression. Now two…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:16PMNew Saloon, an intellectually playful experimental theater company founded in 2012, returns to Under the Radar with an updated version of their Uncle Vanya adaptation, which they debuted at …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19AMIn between the exuberant dancing, lively singing and infectious African beat, the ten Nigerian actresses in “Hear Word: Naija Woman Talk True,” wearing the colorful clothing of their cou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:14PMAs it did last year at the Under Radar Festival, the Chicago-based theater company with the completely apt name of Manual Cinema is charming the audience at the Public Theater by presenting …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25AM“I am a man,” says a middle aged white woman, Dominique (Rebecca Gibel), at the beginning of “Real,” which you could call a ghost story. “I am a man because it’s how you see me…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48PMBelow is a selection from an Off-Broadway season full of starry faces like Daveed Diggs, Jake Gyllenhaal, Isabelle Huppert, Uzo Adubi et al, in plays by Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:27PMChoose the show that you are most looking forward to. In other words, if you have just one show you could see on Broadway all spring, which of these 15 would it be? The list below is for sho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AMJust a couple of plays are opening on Broadway this month — “Choir Boy,” and “True West” — and a handful Off-Broadway, but January is one of the most robu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:48PMWhen the ball dropped in Times Square, signaling the start of a new year, it took a while for the smoke and the confetti and the fireworks and the rain to clear before we could even make out…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:01PMHere again, we celebrate the new year by saluting a dozen Broadway veterans, aged 91 to 105. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption. Why, you may ask, is Betty White…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42AMSome of the most memorable moments on stage this year were not just unplanned — they were on unexpected stages. The student survivors of Marjory Stoneman Douglas H.S. gave a surprise p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22PMThe 10 videos directly below were the most viewed of those I posted on my YouTube channel, New York Theater, in 2018, arranged in order of popularity. All three videos from “Be Be Mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:23AMRecall what happened in theater in 2018 — some of it just plain weird — by answering these 20 questions, many adapted from my monthly quizzes throughout the year.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:41PMBelow are the five best reads posted in 2018: an essay about actors’ bodies; a contemplation of what life would be like without theater; a profile of an engineer who fixes theater to m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25AMBelow is a list of theater books to read in 2019, most of which were published in 2018. Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four categor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:12PMYes, 2018 in theater was the Year of Leonard Bernstein (centennial celebrations and new movies underway) and of Andrew Lloyd Webber (who got his EGOT, published his memoir, Unmasked, and got…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PMBelow are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2018.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52AMMy annual New Year’s Eve last-minute guide to events that are still available to do on New Year’s Eve 2019 (when 2018 turns into 2019) in New York City New Year’s Eve in New Y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:41PMThis is the last Christmas Eve New Yorkers will be spending with Christmas Eve, the character originated by Ann Harada in Avenue Q, because, after 15 years, Avenue Q will close in April. All…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39AMIt seems apt that the Up Close Festival at the New Ohio Theater is likely the last work of theater I will see in 2018, because it reminded me what there is to love about theater, and how I c…
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