Leonard 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,”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43PMCharlie Copeland is a Broadway fixer, who’s worked on everything from “The Phantom of the Opera” to “Frozen,” tangibly changing the experience for a generation of theatergoers. Cop…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:58AMPhilip Santos Schaffer pulls back the curtain and introduces himself as “your server and savior” to me and the only other member of the audience. After chatting idly for a while,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AMThe National Asian American Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy is unlike any you’ve seen in New York before. This is true largely because you are unlikely e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33PMFor 20 years, August was the month when New Yorkers who hated the beach and couldn’t afford to travel could have a “staycation” sampling some 200 shows at the New York International Fr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PMFrom its first moments, Gettin’ The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot, uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, and cli…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54PMFrom its first moments, Gettin’ The Band Back Together feels like the tackiest show on Broadway, an impression advanced by its lazy plot, uninspired garage rock score, dopey jokes, and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:59PMVivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04PMVivian (Samantha Banks) is a hooker, Edward (Andy Karl) is a killer corporate raider who meets her on Hollywood Boulevard, and if the ensuing romance is no less a fable than it was in the hi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMWith two Broadway shows opening this week — “Gettin The Band Back Together” and “Pretty Woman” — it’s hard to say we’re in the Dog Days of Aug…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AM“Shakespeare in the Theater” is the not-quite-clever title of a festival at the Brick Theater that presents itself as an alternative to New York summer staples, Shakespeare in the Park a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:33PMTo outsiders, Be More Chill is a hyper-energetic pop-rock musical opening tonight Off-Broadway, starring Will Roland (Dear Evan Hansen) as a high school student named Jeremy Heere who sees h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33PMTo outsiders, “Be More Chill” is a hyper-energetic pop-rock musical opening tonight Off-Broadway, starring Will Roland (“Dear Evan Hansen”) as a high school student n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PMFor the 42nd summer in a row, the Theater for the New City’s touring Street Theater Company is presenting an original show for free in the streets and parks throughout New York City. (…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PMAlzheimer’s, homophobia, transphobia, immigration, the 1960s, and emojis: These were some of the subjects in the 15th annual New York Musical Festival, or NYMF, which presented 30 musica…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:48PMWearing t-shirts that said “Now showing: Truth,” Rosie O’Donnell and dozens of other performers who had traveled from New York for the day participated in the 22nd day of p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AMRuthie Anne Miles performed for the first time after her terrible loss, Julia Roberts visited the musical adaptation of the movie that made her a star, Rosie O’Donnell is leading a bus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PMFour musicals in the 2018 New York Musical Festival tied for the most awards, five apiece: Between the Sea and the Sky, Emojiland, Interstate and Pedro Pan. Below the list of winners and no…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:04PMMargaret, a widow and well-meaning mother, is dressed in pearls while making her special buttermilk biscuits for her daughter Laura, who’s back home listless with severe memory loss after …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PM“I am tall when I’m young but short when I’m old. What am I?” That’s the first of the three riddles that Sam (short for Samantha) poses to the mysterious woman in white in order to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AMThis week’s Broadway at Bryant Park was an all-Disney concert, with cast members from three Disney musicals on Broadway — Aladdin, Frozen and The Lion King — performing 10 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PMWhen Mike Birbiglia announced that his fourth one-man show would be playing at the Cherry Lane, he wouldn’t say what it would be about; he simply called it “The New One.” (“I hat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:28PMTwo shows are opening this month on Broadway, one a musical adaptation of a 1990 Julia Roberts movie, “Pretty Woman,” starring Andy Karl and Samantha Barks; the other, “Get…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:07AMI compared Shaina Taub’s musical adaptation of “Twelfth Night” to a party and to a variety show when the Public Theater presented it in Central Park over Labor Day weekend in 2016. The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:16PMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in July? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PMIn “The House That Will Not Stand,” Marcus Gardley’s historically fascinating, lyrical and surprisingly funny play, nobody much cares for Beartrice Albans – not her three beautiful d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01PMSoon after this… .@Lin_Manuel,Hollywood mogul? 1 Starring in @MaryPoppins 2. Directing movie Tick, Tick…Boom! 3. Executive producer on @FX TV series about Bob Fosse & Gwen Ve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:46AMFor all its high-energy hedonism featuring handsome half-clad bodies, “This Ain’t No Disco,” the rock opera at the Atlantic Theater set in the New York City club scene of the 1970s, do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39PMBefore the musical “’68” begins, newspaper headlines are projected on the stage a, marking some of the tumultuous events in the year 1968 — the assassinations of Martin Lu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38AMThere is a full-out gospel number, with swaying red choir robes, heavenly belting and devilishly deft dancing, in this last of this season’s Encores Off-Center concerts. But, as directed a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13PMHead Over Heels is a mash-up that sounds weird and unworkable: It’s a jukebox musical using 18 songs by the 1980s all-female L.A. punk band The Go-Go’s. But it’s also a loose adaptatio…
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