The new “Carousel” has the most glorious singing on Broadway, as well as thrilling choreography and picturesque sets and costumes that seem lifted from great American paintings by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:43AMElephants might become extinct in 20 years because of poaching for their ivory, we learn from “Mlima’s Tale,” the unusual new play by Lynn Nottage, the Pulitzer prize winning playwrigh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:05PMKing Lear begins with a foolish ruler swayed by flattery, and ends with what Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Greg Doran calls “a strange, profound unease.” Shakespeare’s tr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:00PM“King Lear” begins with a foolish ruler swayed by flattery, and ends with what Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Greg Doran calls “a strange, profound unease.” Shakespeare�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PMAt the end of “Mean Girls,” Cady, the new girl in high school who tries so hard to fit in that she’s become phony and superficial, tells her classmates that she’s learned her les…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56AMThe first Broadway revival of “Children of a Lesser God,” the award-winning, boundary-breaking 1980 play by Mark Medoff about the romance and eventual marriage between a hearing teacher …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:44PMIn “Dutch Masters,” a new play written by Greg Keller and directed by Andre Holland, a young black man meets a young white man on the subway, with unexpected results. In “Dutchman,” …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:28AM“Miss You Like Hell,” a new musical by “In The Heights” book writer Quiara Alegría Hudes and singer-songwriter Erin McKeown, depicts the most American of adventures, the road trip. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PMIn “This Flat Earth,” 13-year-old Julie (Ella Kennedy Davis) doesn’t understand why the newspaper article about the school shooting that killed nine of her classmates has the word “A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMHamilton takes home seven Olivier Awards – not a record (matched by Matilda and beaten by Harry Potter), but not a bad showing. More on the Oliviers below. The Week in New York Thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52AMIn “Feeding the Dragon” — Sharon Washington’s delightfully acted memoir about an enchanted childhood spent literally living in a branch of the New York Public Library — we …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PMYou can say that Harriet Smithson, a famous Shakespearean actress, is the star of the Symphonie Fantastique by composer Hector Berlioz; she is also in a way the star of the Symphonie Fan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47AMThe nominations for 33rd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards are: Outstanding Play Cost of Living Produced by Manhattan Theatre Club in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival Written by Mar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PMThe theater community always takes April Fools Day seriously: “The Lion King Will Become First Musical to Play Seven Continents- Antarctic Production Will Open in 2019” BroadwayWorl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AMMiss Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “Jesus Christ Superstar Live” on NBC on Sunday, April 1st? Watch it below:
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:41PMThe nine shows opening on Broadway in the month of April include four musicals and five plays – the old ones among the most beloved (Carousel, My Fair Lady) or respected (by Eugene O’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:20PMJesus Christ Superstar Live, the Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andrew Rice musical that was broadcast live on NBC Sunday, April 1, 2018, has received ecstatic reviews — 100 percent on the tomat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09AMBelow are a dozen images from the dress rehearsal of the NBC live broadcast tonight at 8 p.m. ET of “Jesus Christ Superstar” the rock opera about the final week in the life of Je…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AM“I was tall and I was strong,” recalls the oldest woman in Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, and you believe it, because it is Glenda Jackson, who commands even as she winces in pain …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:21PM“I was tall and I was strong,” recalls the oldest woman in Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, and you believe it, because it is Glenda Jackson, who commands even as she winces in pain or…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater in March? Answer these 14 questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:05PM“Lobby Hero,” which presents a quartet of characters (two security guards and two cops) in the lobby of a high rise apartment building in Manhattan, is more than just the modest comedy i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AMAndrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar, NBC’s celebration of the the 70th birthday of the composer of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “Jesus Christ Supe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:10AM“Imagine Mozart and Beethoven talking, and suddenly Freddie Mercury arrives,” singer Rob Evans said (in the only words anybody spoke all evening) about halfway through “Rocktopia.” I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PMHas My Fair Lady turned its source material, Pygmalion, into an outdated curiosity? Bedlam dares you to compare, deliberately mounting its production of George Bernard Shaw’s century-old p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:00PMHas My Fair Lady turned its source material, Pygmalion, into an outdated curiosity? Bedlam dares you to compare, deliberately mounting its production of George Bernard Shaw’s century-old p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMToday is World Theatre Day. Created in 1961,it is celebrated annually on March 27. How will you be celebrating? This year, five different artists from five continents are delivering…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27AMThis week, “Frozen” opened on Broadway the day after the latest blizzard, and “Angels in America,” which includes scenes from Antarctica and co-stars Nathan Lane as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42AM“The great work begins!” Prior Walter, a character with AIDS who stays defiantly alive, proclaimed at the end of “Angels in America” when it debuted 25 years ago on Broadway.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PM“The great work begins!” Prior Walter, a character with AIDS who stays defiantly alive, proclaimed at the end of Angels in America when it debuted 25 years ago on Broadway. By the time P…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PM13 dead at Columbine. 26 dead at Sandy Hook. 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas. What those figures about the most infamous school shootings over the past two decades fail to capture, write…
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