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SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMThe boys are on Broadway, and they are fabulous. Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and the rest of the nine-member cast of The Boys in the Band look like they are enjoying themselves …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:36PMThe boys are on Broadway, and they are fabulous. Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and the rest of the nine-member cast of “The Boys in the Band” look like they are enjoyin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:14PMThe 2017-2018 Broadway season was “the best attended and highest grossing season in Broadway recorded history,” according to The Broadway League, which presented its annual statistics to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12AMYes, there are several theater awards still to be given out for the season just past – Drama Desk, June 3; Theatre Worlds, June 4; Tonys, June 10 – but summer theater in New York is push…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:07PMOn Memorial Day, we remember those who died in U.S. wars. Memorial Day has its origins in the aftermath of the Civil War, which remains the bloodiest of U.S. wars in terms of American casual…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30AMOn the sixth anniversary of NewYorkTheater.me, a look at the six most popular photographs to be posted on the site since it began, and the most popular posts in each of the past six years. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09PMReaction occurs in three distinct stages to “The Beast in the Jungle,” an unusual new show at Vineyard Theater, inspired by a novella by Henry James, with music composed by John Kander. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PM“We don’t want you to suffer and die,” one of her granddaughters says to Mary Frances (Lois Smith), as she lies in bed. “We just want you to die.” “Yeah,” agrees Mary Frances w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:16PMEighteen minutes from The Band’s Visit, via NPR. The first Broadway musical ever to get the Tiny Desk concert treatment. SET LIST “Soraya” “Omar Sharif” “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48PMRajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night won the award for Best New American Play, and $1,000, at the 63rd Annual Obie Awards, celebrating Off and Off-Broadway Theater, which spread the love arou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10PMThe winners of the Drama League Awards and the Chita Rivera Awards were announced this past week (see results below), and the Obies will be held tonight. But they and all the other awards …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PM“What kinda f—in’ world is this?” It is the first line in the first scene of “Our Lady of 121st Street,” asked by a man in his underwear, ranting to a detective at the Ortiz Fune…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:23PMHarry and Meghan got married this morning. Prince Harry is now the Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton and Baron Kilkeel. Meghan Markle will be known as Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Susse…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AMIn the original 2011 production of Jordan Harrison’s prescient play, a married couple overwhelmed with the stresses and complications of their lives in the city, leave their high-powered j…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:10AMBump, a play by Chiara Atik that is as entertaining as it is informative, intertwines three different threads about pregnancy and childbirth – the most surprising of which turns out to be …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PMSummer begins next week in the city, theatrically speaking. That’s when the first of the summer theater festivals start presenting shows that are cheaper (often free), more cutting-edg…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:22PMNow that the hard-working, good-looking students of Stanton High School in dreary Stanton, Pennsylvania have put on the musical “Spring Awakening” in the season finale of “Rise,” i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:07PMWith the sudden countertrend of shows with long running times — “Light Shining at Buckinghamshire” at New York Theater Workshop (180 minutes), “Long Day’s Jo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44AMChristian Borle clowns like an old-time vaudevillian, Laura Michelle Kelly sings like a classic chanteuse, and director Warren Carylyle choreographs the topnotch cast like a 1930s showman; t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42PMBy the end of the Broadway revival of Long Days Journey Into Night two years ago, when Jessica Lange as mother Mary Tyrone rejoins her family, she is an ethereal ghost, her mind and body num…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24AMBy the end of the Broadway revival of Long Days Journey Into Night two years ago, when Jessica Lange as mother Mary Tyrone rejoins her family, she is an ethereal ghost, her mind and body num…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44PMWilliam Inge jumps Tennessee Williams within the first few minutes of meeting him, ripping off his clothes to have sex with him, in “The Gentleman Caller,” a new, two-character play by P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:04PMHere are the results of the survey in which I asked you to pick your personal preferences (not predictions) in 15 of the 26 categories in the 72nd Annual Tony Awards. Best Play Nominated: T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:46AMDance Nation is a surprise, and a shock, and a delight. Although the characters are a team of 13-year-old competitive dancers from Liverpool, Ohio aiming to win the Boogie Down Grand Prix in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42PMDance Nation is a surprise, and a shock, and a delight. Although the characters are a team of 13-year-old competitive dancers from Liverpool, Ohio aiming to win the Boogie Down Grand Prix …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27PMThe Theatre World Awards for outstanding New York stage debuts during the 2017-2018 theatrical season have been given to: Anthony Boyle, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child Jamie Brewer, Amy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:18PMTo director Rachel Chavkin, her revival of Caryl Churchill’s early play about the English Civil War is a well-timed political work about a failed revolution, whose characters may in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42PMTo director Rachel Chavkin, her revival of Caryl Churchill’s early play about the English Civil War is a well-timed political work about a failed revolution, whose characters may inspire A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:02PMAmong the surprises during this intense theater award week is the awarding of the 2018 Regional Theatre Tony Award to La MaMa, “for celebrating diversity and helping to introduce the Off…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PMHarry Potter and the Cursed Child won for new Broadway play, SpongeBob SquarePants for new Broadway musical in the 68th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. Admissions won for Off-Broadw…
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