Follies 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00AMShakespeare knew Kavanaughs well: “Say what you can, my false o’erweighs your true” The 2018-2019 Broadway season, launching in earnest this week with two plays, is shaping up after se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:16AMLa Femme’s revival of Tennessee Williams’ late, little-known play about four women living and working and bickering with one another, offers something you won’t find in A Glass Menager…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05PMAs the family gathers for a Thanksgiving right before everything starts to fall apart, Knox (Russell Harvard) gives thanks for “three things I used to think weren’t gifts at all: Deafnes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00AM“Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2” tops the list of what will be the most produced plays nationwide among the 531 non-profit theaters that are part of the Theatr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:50AMThe devotion that Dorothea “Polly” Noonan (Edie Falco,) a foul-mouthed political operative, shows to Erastus Corning 2nd (Michael McKean,) the long-time mayor of Albany, is so intense …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:24PMAs Polly Noonan, Edie Falco, late of The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie, can make almost any show more engaging than it would otherwise be, even a relatively sedate one like “The True,”……
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PMKarma, a “dirty little hood rat” of 17, is looking for her missing former foster brother Terrell, though she didn’t know him long and he didn’t like her much. He was, however, all sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32PM2018 Theatre Hall of Fame inductees: Actors Rene Auberjonois, Christine Baranski, Cicely Tyson Playwrights Maria Irene Fornes, David Henry Hwang, Adrienne Kennedy Director Joe Mantello Produ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:35AMAlthough billed as “an intimate immersive production,” what “Stars in the Night” actually offers, at its best, is the exact opposite — a spectacular public setting. An audience…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PMWhen Jenna Gavigan made her Broadway debut at age 16 as a member of the ensemble in the 2003 revival of Gypsy, she shared the stage at the Shubert Theater not just with stars Bernadette Pete…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM“I think there has been a growth in Trump fatigue,” says Tony Stinkmetal, who admits that he himself shares it — which is why it’s surprising that he has created a show c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36PMThe full title of “Collective Rage,” Jen Silverman’s playful, bawdy, and episodic genderqueer/feminist/lesbian comedy about five women named Betty, is 47 words long. Only once does it …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:14PMNathan Lane and Andrea Martin will star on Broadway in “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” a new comedy marking the Broadway debut of acclaimed theater artist Taylor Mac. D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AMSandbags and British flags abound in the air raid shelter where we have gathered, in the basement of London’s Ambassador Hotel in 1940, in the midst of the Blitz of London. This is a fine …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:55PMThe Culture Wars in America began, according to a new show running from September 13-30 at La MaMa called “THE AЯTS,” on May 18, 1989, when Senator Al D’Amato of New York ripped up …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PMLee Breuer and Bob Telson’s glorious gospel musical, an inspired retelling of Sophocles’ “Oedipus at Colonus” as if it’s an African-American Pentecostal church service, de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMSeven years after “War Horse” appeared on Broadway, New Yorkers are getting another British stage adaptation of another young adult novel by Michael Morpurgo about the horrors of World W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PMBefore Hershey Felder says or sings or plays the piano as Irving Berlin, there are signs that, in this one-man show about arguably the greatest of American songwriters, we’re in for an eve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31PMThe Village Voice shut down on Friday after 63 years. The Obie Awards, honoring Off & Off-Off Broadway, which the Voice launched in 1955 and still co-sponsored, will continue, acc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13AMIt was while attending the current revival of Lillian Hellman’s 1936 play “Days to Come,” which is set during a strike at a brush factory in Ohio, that I suddenly wondered: Where are…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AMOff-Broadway in the Fall promises a new musical with book by Conor McPherson and music by Bob Dylan (“Girl from the North Country”); Glenn Close as Joan of Arc’s mother (…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33PMSarah Bernhardt returns to Broadway, in the person of Janet McTeer, in a new play by Teresa Rebeck about the actress’s pursuit in 1899 of the role of Hamlet. ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41AMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:38PMPolice in the United States shot and killed 36 unarmed black men in 2015; 18 in 2016; 19 in 2017, and 12 so far in 2018, according to the Washington Post. In “Scraps,” Geraldine Inoa, m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PMBelow is a list of movies opening from September to December, organized chronologically by release date. Among the movies featuring theater veterans: Oscar Isaac in “Operation Finale…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26AM“Remnant,” according to Theater Mitu’s director Ruben Polendo, is a meditation on war, death and loss. It is Mitu’s first piece in the first building that the 20-year-old company can…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PMBuzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon (nine minutes after the first, Neil Armstrong), 50 years ago next summer. “No one will think of them as ‘the first men on the moon.’N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMPlaywright Neil Simon, who dominated Broadway with his many comedies for more than two decades, died on Sunday at the age of 91. His is the latest death of a theater artist in a week full of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AMLillian Hellman herself described “Days to Come,” her 1936 play about labor strife and family conflict, as “an absolute horror of a failure.” She wrote it two years after her first B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51PMLeonard Bernstein, who was born on August 25, 1918, was “the greatest pianist among the conductors, the greatest conductor among composers, the greatest composer among pianists,”…
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