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 offeri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PMTheater is often awesome, even when in need of repair, and this week is no different. Scenes from @FringeNYC Hub on a Tuesday in October pic.twitter.com/5uECyWnkjj — New York Theater (@New…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:35PMIn Apologia, the well-acted, finely directed Off-Broadway production of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2009 play, Stockard Channing portrays Kristin Miller, a long-time activist, American expatri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:04PMIn this well-acted, finely directed Off-Broadway production of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2009 play, Stockard Channing portrays Kristin Miller, a long-time activist, American expatriate and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PM“Opening Night” begins with hilariously feuding twin sister Hollywood stars, who are brilliantly named Margo Nightingale and Joan de Tuileries, each presenting what they thought was a on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:00PMEmma and Max are the toddlers in the care of a Barbadian nanny, Britney, who is fired by their parents in the awkward first scene of “Emma and Max,” a jarring play about racism written a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00PMEdward Einhorn’s latest play is based on the jaw-dropping true story of a quack doctor who became rich and famous in the 1920s by implanting goat testicles as a cure for male impotence, an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:17AMLady Gaga, Madonna, Kesha, U2 and Panic! At the Disco were among the answers to the question: What recording artist or band would you most like to see providing the score for a musical on Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49AMIn Mark Sonnenblick cabaret-like gay musical, Arthur, a pianist and songwriter, decides in 1965 that he will write songs to his lover, singer Trevor, without changing the pronouns in the lyr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:26PMDavid Lawson was sent an elaborate cartoon of Pepe the Frog, a symbol of the alt right, and told “anti fascists like you are oven ready.” This was via Twitter shortly after Election Day,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45PMYou can now pay for Broadway tickets under a new Ticketmaster installment plan — monthly payments over a year, at 10 percent interest. Much of the reaction to this news was not gratit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04AMThere are statues of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle — although city officials have hinted they want to get rid of it — and Columbus, Ohio and Columbus, Georgia and Colum…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AMAt the scaled-down, reimagined production of “Oklahoma!” at St. Ann’s Warehouse, they didn’t give us the program until after the musical was over – one of the signs that director D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:45PM“Funny how hope changes everything. Funny how hope changes nothing,” a singer chants on the High Line, hovering above 18th street, as a light in her black baseball cap eerily illuminates…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37AM“What’s the password?” asked the woman with a punk blonde bouffant, stiletto heels and a penis brooch. I stammered, tried to show her my ticket. She just glared. “Um, La MaMa?” “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:53PMYet again, a drama critic has been attacked for making comments about actors’ bodies. The new headlines were generated by a 1991 review of “Will Rogers Follies” on Broadway. Why was th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AMWin two tickets to see “Head Over Heels” for free. I liked this show, which mashes up 18 songs by the 1980s all-female L.A. punk band The Go-Go’s with a loose adaptation of Ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25AMFor the last few years before he died in 2017 at the age of 86, playwright A.R. Gurney had been experiencing a resurgence of a career that had already produced some 40 plays over 50 years, b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:45PMWhat stage show could compete with the drama of the Ford/Kavanaugh hearings? I’m a theater critic and I’ve never been so drained by a drama. — Charles McNulty (@CharlesMcNulty)…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AMUsing 20 songs that Bob Dylan composed over half a century, playwright Conor McPherson has fashioned a slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece set in a run-down boardi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04PMUsing 20 songs that Bob Dylan composed over half a century, playwright Conor McPherson has fashioned a slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece set in a run-down boardi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11PMHow well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in September? Answer these 13 questions to find out. Keep abreast of what’s happening with my weekly summari…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AMBob Dylan, Glenn Close, Daniel Radcliffe, and Gloria Steinem are all on a New York stage one way or another in October, always a good month for theater. This year’s October is likely the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMHow, one wondered, would British playwright Richard Bean, whose hilarious farce One Man, Two Guvnors made a star out of James Corden, create something as funny for Americans out of the Briti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PMHow, one wondered, would British playwright Richard Bean, whose hilarious farce One Man, Two Guvnors made a star out of James Corden, create something as funny for Americans out of the Briti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:32PMAt the very end of Bernhardt/Hamlet, a new play on Broadway by Theresa Rebeck, we see an actual 1899 film clip of the renowned 19th century actress Sarah Bernhardt on stage, in the role of H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:04AMBernhardt/Hamlet, a new play on Broadway by Theresa Rebeck about Sarah Bernhardt deciding to perform as Hamlet, is being given a first-rate production, with a winning cast led by Janet McTee…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:38AMThe latest odd hybrid by the Ensemble for the Romantic Century, combining a one-woman show about the poetry and life of Emily Dickinson with a chamber music concert of 19th century composer …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PMJournalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered on Vladimir Putin’s birthday in 2006, as if the assassins were giving him a present for getting rid of this woman deemed an “enemy̶…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11PMSarah Bernhardt remains the most famous stage actress of all time, the subject of the play Bernhardt/Hamlet on Broadway. But during her lifetime she had a rival, Eleanora Duse. The two didn�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:08PMFollies at the Astoria Performing Arts Center was a big winner in the 14th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city’s independent theater — aka …
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