13 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:08AMThey’re touting the National Theatre production of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” which will open at Broadway’s N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:17AMWhat most engaged me about Frozen, if I’m honest, is Sven the reindeer. This said more than I initially realized about the Broadway musical adaptation of the highest-grossing animated film…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PMWhat most engaged me about Frozen, if I’m honest, is Sven the reindeer. This said more than I initially realized about the Broadway musical adaptation of the highest-grossing animated film…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:05PMToday Stephen Sondheim turns 88 (the number of keys on the piano!) and Andrew Lloyd Webber turns 70. Sondheim made his Broadway debut at the age of 26 in 1956 , Lloyd Webber at 23 in 1971,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PMWith a winter storm that is expected to coat New York City with four to eight inches of snow, city schools have been shut down, but all Broadway shows (matinees and evenings) will play as sc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AMCynthia Nixon, two-time Tony winning actress best-known for portraying lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the “Sex and the City” TV series and movies, has officially entered the race for g…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:11PM“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” begins previews tonight at the Lyric Theatre, which has been newly co-designed by Christine Jones and Brett J. Banakis. Click on any photograp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:04PMIn “Admissions,” an aggressively provocative play by Joshua Harmon at Lincoln Center, a white admissions officer (Jessica Hecht), who is committed to increasing diversity at an elite pre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:34PMEscape to Margaritaville, the new Broadway musical with songs by Jimmy Buffett, promises much the same experience as the week long tropical resort vacation that it depicts — fun, relax…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:20PMEscape to Margaritaville, the new Broadway musical with songs by Jimmy Buffett, promises much the same experience as the week long tropical resort vacation that it depicts — fun, relax…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:13PMIn the week since the horrendous car crash in Park Slope that killed two young children, including the four-year-old daughter of Broadway actress Ruthie Ann Miles, and put her in the hospita…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:45PMFrozen, the Broadway musical based on the animated film, is currently in previews and will open March 22 at the St. James Theater. Below are photographic portraits of the five principal cast…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:29AMBelow are new photographs of the cast of Hamilton on Broadway as of March, 2018, three years after opening Off-Broadway at the Public Theater. It moved to Broadway, opening on August 6, 2015…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55PMModeled on an 18th century picaresque novel, Bruce Norris’s “The Low Road” on stage at the Public Theater presents the improbable adventures of a scoundrel, one Jim Trewitt, to whom an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33PMAt the beginning of Martin McDonagh’s “Hangmen,” stout, bow-tied executioner Harry Wade is about to hang an unhappy man – unhappy not just because he’s innocent, but because he’l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:19PMAmy, a movie lover with Down syndrome, is able to quote the most well-worn lines from the most familiar movies – “I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody” – and own them as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41AMIn queens, the latest resonant, heartfelt play by Martyna Majok, a Polish immigrant woman named Renia reigns over a crumby basement in the New York City borough of Queens, but she sees it as…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:00PMIn “queens,” the latest resonant, heartfelt play by Martyna Majok, a Polish immigrant woman named Renia reigns over a crumby basement in the New York City borough of Queens, but …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PMThe lesson of #Oscars90 — Viva Mexico! — New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) March 5, 2018 “The Shape of Water,” written and directed by Mexican Guillermo Del Toro, won fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PMTheater lovers tend to look for members of our tribe in whatever’s happening in the world. That means in Hollywood, of course, but it also means in Parkland, Florida. The theater veter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:54PMHow much theater did you see in the first two months of 2018? How well were you paying attention to the theater news? Test your theater IQ with these 11 questions, two of them about performe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AMSix shows are opening on Broadway this month, including the much anticipated “Frozen,” and starry revivals of both “Angels in America” and “Three Tall Women,&…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:04AM“The Zoo Story” was Edward Albee’s first play, and in a way mine too. He wrote it when he was 29, and the short one-act play launched his much-honored career as the American playwright…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PMThe Black Plague has just claimed another victim among the 14th century acting troupe rehearsing “Noah’s Flood,” when the playwright comes on stage to explain what he’s trying to do …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45PMAzeem is angry. The title character of “An Ordinary Muslim,”a British-born son of Pakistani immigrants, is angry at his wife Saima for her wanting to wear a hajib at her office, fearing …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMIt’s hard to know what to call “Black Light.” It’s an entertainment for certain. It’s also an act of healing and an act of warning in these turbulent times. It begins: What…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:21PMIt might sound unenlightened to call Relevance a catfight between two feminists. Jayne Houdyshell and Pascale Armand, after all, are portraying characters explicitly identified as “public …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:30PMIt might sound unenlightened to call Relevance a catfight between two feminists. Jayne Houdyshell and Pascale Armand, after all, are portraying characters explicitly identified as “public …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PMIn “Is God Is,” when twin sisters Racine and Anaia hear from their mother for the first time in 18 years, it is to urge them to find and kill their father – as revenge for the fire he …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PMDavid Mamet has revealed in an interview in the Chicago Tribune that he has written a play about Harvey Weinstein. “I was talking with my Broadway producer and he said, ‘Why don’t you …
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