Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Novels are routinely turned into Broadway musicals, several currently running – Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, Once on This Island – but turning a Broadway musical into a novel is…novel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PMMonday, December 3, 2018
The current president of the United States did not attend the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors last night (which will be broadcast on CBS on December 26). But the first U.S. president per…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29PMSunday, December 2, 2018
She says she’s been working on it for ten years, but you could argue that Heidi Schreck’s extraordinary show about the United States Constitution – funny and infuriated, analytical and…
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52AMSaturday, December 1, 2018
Today is World AIDS Day. Since last World AIDS Day, there have been some 38,000 new HIV infections in the United States alone. More than 1.1 million people in the US are living with HIV, acc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PMThree shows opening this month on Broadway bring to the stage adaptations of three landmarks of American culture: “To Kill A Mockingbird,” “Network,” and “The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:22PMFriday, November 30, 2018
The hard problem in Tom Stoppard’s latest erudite play, his first full-length work in nearly a decade, is the challenge facing those who study the brain: How do scientists account for the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:40PMThursday, November 29, 2018
Below is the music video of “Loser Geek Whatever,” the previously unrecorded song from the musical “Be More Chill.” In an informal introduction (originally presented …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37PMHow well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in November? Answer these dozen questions to find out. Buy tickets to The Band’s Visit via TodayTix Buy tickets to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PM“All is Calm” revolves around the powerful true story of the unofficial ceasefires during World War I among British, French and German soldiers in the trenches along the Western Front ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12AMWednesday, November 28, 2018
The greatest thrill of Theresa Rebeck’s thriller is seeing Tyne Daly (Cagney and Lacey) and Tim Daly (The Sopranos, Madame Secretary) act together on stage for the first time. Rebeck wrote…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:01PMSure, you know what mugging is, and ingenue. But what is screlting? Or 2 Dow Shay? What do theater people mean when they use the word “corpse.” Lin-Manuel Miranda explains 15 the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
The day after Springsteen on Broadway closes at the Walter Kerr Theater December 15, 2018, it debuts on Netflix
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PMOn this seventh annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters, theater companies, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:06AMMonday, November 26, 2018
Thanksgiving is technically over, but this one is going to last. There’s much about this past week in New York theater for which we’re grateful. Below watch the full number of &#…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:10PMCyber Monday deals in New York theater tickets and scripts: Ticket Liquidator Cyber Monday Today only on Ticket Liquidator: 10 percent off all orders, using the code: CYBRTL. (Once on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:19AMSunday, November 25, 2018
The choices below are personal favorites; the ranking is somewhat arbitrary. In a political atmosphere that is at the very least fractured, and has often felt just a few steps away from some…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:35PMSaturday, November 24, 2018
They range in tone from the lyrical to the hysterical, their subjects from grim to fanciful – environmental disaster; an assisted suicide; a self-help spoof – but all four works-in-progr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PMFriday, November 23, 2018
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AMThursday, November 22, 2018
Two women kissed at the end of the performance of “The Prom” at the 92nd annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It’s part of the show, but it’s sure to get some…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PMWednesday, November 21, 2018
My seventh annual Broadway gift guide below includes links and information on shopping for theater tickets, theater subscriptions, cast recordings, play scripts, librettos and new and cheri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PMHow will you celebrate Thanksgiving? In “The Thanksgiving Play,” billed as a satire and running at Playwrights Horizons through December 2 (though not on Thanksgiving Day), playwright La…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15AMTuesday, November 20, 2018
This week in New York theater, I seem to have zigged while others zagged, even when it comes to zazz. To explain: 1. I don’t completely understand the high level of snark about “King Kon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:07AMMonday, November 19, 2018
“The Prom” is really two musicals in one. One is a funny, knowing backstage comedy, satirizing the self-regard of theater folk. The other is a loud, fast high school musical. What ties t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03PMSunday, November 18, 2018
Both King Kong and Olaf, the goofy snow man from Frozen, will loom large on Thanksgiving Day — but not on Broadway; neither current musical is one of the four Broadway shows performing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AMSaturday, November 17, 2018
We must be silent, here in this secret attic apartment where two Jewish families are hiding from the Nazis. And so, in “The Hidden Ones,” a spare and chilling immersive theater piece, th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:22PMFriday, November 16, 2018
Like a boxer faking out an opponent, Michael C. Hall as Thom Pain plays tricks on the audience: “Now I think would be a good time for the raffle,” he says at one point, then shortly afte…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PMLike a boxer faking out an opponent, Michael C. Hall as Thom Pain plays tricks on the audience in Will Eno’s one-character play….For Thom’s jousts and jabs to feel like somethi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PMThursday, November 15, 2018
King Kong is spectacular — those dreamy eyes, that expressive sniffing of his nose, the earthquake of a roar. He is such a singular creature that, like Ann Darrow, the damsel he picks …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
The heart of Hansol Jung’s play at the Public Theater is the relationship between two lonely, awkward people in South Korea who connect through an online dating site. But the play also fea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMTuesday, November 13, 2018
In celebration of the Blue Wave – which has grown steadily in the week since Election Day — a silly observation: There have been 51 Broadway shows with “Blue” in the title. I’m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AM 
