Tuesday, 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 11:31AMMonday, November 12, 2018
“The New One “isn’t literally new. Mike Birbiglia’s solo show debuted Off-Broadway three months ago – where it sold out quickly. It’s now on Broadway – same cast (i.e. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:47PMSunday, November 11, 2018
“The Female Role Model Project” is a pioneering work of theater by a new company called Transforma, in which artists and scientists collaborate to explore attitudes about women, and ques…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:44PMSaturday, November 10, 2018
Afong Moy was the first Chinese woman in the United States. Brought to New York in 1834, she was put on display in a museum. Out of this true story, playwright Lloyd Suh has fashioned “Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:01PMFriday, November 9, 2018
My favorite character in Frozen on Broadway by far is Sven the reindeer. I’ve been a fan of Avenue Q before it opened Off-Broadway the first time. Does anybody doubt The Lion King o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PMThursday, November 8, 2018
While anxiously waiting in a Miami police station for word of what happened to her son Jamal, an educated African-American woman named Kendra (Kerry Washington) talks with her estranged whit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:42PMWhile anxiously waiting in a Miami police station for word of what happened to her son Jamal, an educated African-American woman named Kendra (Kerry Washington) talks with her estranged whit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:35PMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Today is Election Day! If you live in NYC, find your polling site here. If you live anywhere in America, you can go to Vote.org for some cool info — like, for example, what’s on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AMMonday, November 5, 2018
When Torch Song opened Off-Broadway a year ago, I noted that the issues affecting gay people that it explored remained unfortunately relevant 35 years after the play had debuted on Broadway,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMThe 1982 Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy, starring Harvey Fierstein as Arnold Beckoff, a sometime drag queen and gay Jewish romantic searching for love and acceptance, could be cre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:45PMSaturday, November 3, 2018
“It’s a terrible time to be alive. There’s just nothing left to discover,” says Jake (Noah Robbins) in the second half of Lewiston/Clarkston, two powerfully affecting plays by Samuel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PMFriday, November 2, 2018
Food for the Gods is about the killing of black men; Exodus addresses the current refugee crisis; Blind is a solo work about disability. These may not sound like typical subjects for puppet …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:49AMThursday, November 1, 2018
Six shows are opening on Broadway in November. And yes, one of them features a giant ape feeling unwelcome in New York City, and another marks the annual holiday stopover for a perennially…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34AMWednesday, October 31, 2018
How well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in October? Answer these 10 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25AMMonday, October 29, 2018
This has been a wonderful week for theater – with openings for terrific Broadway shows The Ferryman, The Waverly Gallery, The Lifespan of a Fact. And not just on Broadway: The 21st New Yor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PMSunday, October 28, 2018
“India Pale Ale,” a play by Jaclyn Backhaus running Off-Broadway, suddenly becomes shockingly timely with the killing of 11 Jews in a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Halfway through the play, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:45PMSaturday, October 27, 2018
By the time “The Ferryman” has ended, we have been treated to a breathtaking mix of revenge action thriller, romance, melodrama, family saga, and a feast of storytelling – ghos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:33AMThursday, October 25, 2018
Elaine May is back on a Broadway stage after more than 50 years, and making the most of it in The Waverly Gallery, Kenneth Lonergan’s meticulously observed, funny and sad play about a woma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PMElaine May is back on a Broadway stage after more than 50 years, and making the most of it in The Waverly Gallery, Kenneth Lonergan’s meticulously observed, funny and sad play about a woma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PMLast year, James Franco’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to a theater that was going to present Kevin Broccoli’s play “James Franco and Me,” insisting they stop marketing the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:41PMWednesday, October 24, 2018
The first fact that fact-checker Jim (Daniel Radcliffe) argues about in the essay by magazine writer John (Bobby Cannavale) is how many strip clubs there are in Las Vegas. Adult Industry N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMI take “The Lifespan of a Fact” personally. On the one hand, Cherry Jones, Bobby Cannavale and Daniel Radcliffe, are three of my favorite actors in the universe, performing in a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
Currently on New York stages are several shows starring beloved actresses that offer decidedly different takes on the role of women in society (see reviews below): Two reports released this …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AMMonday, October 22, 2018
Carmel Dean had worked closely with celebrated musicians and theater artists ranging from Green Day to Chita Rivera, but she panicked when she met Stephen Sondheim, not because she revered h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PMSunday, October 21, 2018
Gloria Steinem herself came out in the last twenty minutes of Gloria: A Life to lead the “talking circle,” an unscripted conversation with the audience. This was the officially de…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:24PMGloria Steinem herself came out in the last twenty minutes of Gloria: A Lifeto lead the “talking circle,” an unscripted conversation with the audience. This was the officially designated…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:32PMFriday, October 19, 2018
The Rev. Charles Emmanuel Grace, a hero of the Civil Rights Movement, and his pregnant wife Olivia, who writes his stirring sermons for him, seem to find great joy in one another when he lif…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:48PMThursday, October 18, 2018
A man stands in front of the army tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests. A woman helps topple a dictator, with surprising results. A man tries to rescue a child in a plane crash. Anoth…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:36PMDuring the 2017–2018 season, the average age of Broadway theatergoers was 40.6, the lowest since 2000, according to a newly released report by the Broadway League, the trade group for the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Genghis Khan had a mother; so did Amelia Earhart and Dwight Eisenhower. Perhaps Mother of the Maid, starring Glenn Close as the woman whom Joan of Arc called Ma, will start a trend of offe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12PMGenghis Khan had a mother; so did Amelia Earhart and Dwight Eisenhower. Perhaps Mother of the Maid, starring Glenn Close as the woman whom Joan of Arc called Ma, will start a trend of offeri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PM 
