Saturday, February 24, 2018
In “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 01:49PMFriday, February 23, 2018
David 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43PMThursday, February 22, 2018
Jerry Springer the Opera is profane, vulgar, obvious, offensive and irresistibly entertaining – at least in the first act, when it offers a high art version of the TV talk show that has ai…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32PMJerry Springer the Opera is profane, vulgar, obvious, offensive and irresistibly entertaining – at least in the first act, when it offers a high art version of the TV talk show that has ai…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:21PMWednesday, February 21, 2018
The announcement of forthcoming Broadway productions of Torch Song, a pioneering play about a gay character, and a stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a drama about a ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
Eller (Deirdre O’Connell) is losing her mind, and thus lives in two worlds on stage in “Terminus,” a lyrical, Southern Gothic stew of a play by Gabriel Jason Dean running through M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PM”There is one thing about which we all agree, left, right, center: Money has corrupted our politics,” says Rep. Sydney Millsap (Eisa Davis), summing up the point and the plot of “Kings…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:07PMMonday, February 19, 2018
Below is my annual Presidents Day photo essay of a century’s worth of stage depictions of American presidents. Nearly every president has been depicted on the stage at one time or ano…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57AMThursday, February 15, 2018
The mass shooting on Valentine’s Day at a Florida high school is the latest in a long line of school shootings, some of which are instantly identifiable: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Ho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
“Nice to meet you, Kevin. Do you want me to actually kiss Kevin, or Kevin, do you mind if we kiss? You look young, I don’t want to traumatize you.” That’s what the actress says to he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:18PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
President Donald Trump’s 2019 budget proposes ELIMINATING the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:05PMMonday, February 12, 2018
Remarkable changes are underway to make Broadway more accessible – hastened by technology, hindered by public attitudes as I explain in an article in HowlRound based on the Broadway Acces…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51AMSaturday, February 10, 2018
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Encores! concert series at City Center is doing something in “Hey Look Me Over” that it’s never done before – and, judging from the results, pr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AMFriday, February 9, 2018
I went to The Tank for a show that wasn’t playing until the next night; I’d gotten the dates mixed up. So, since I’d made the trip, I asked if there was anything else playing in the th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:37PMWednesday, February 7, 2018
Perhaps you’d think it chutzpah that in “In The Body of the World,” the latest solo show by Eve Ensler, best known for “The Vagina Monologues,” she merges her story of her fight ag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
It’s always sad to have to say goodbye to an artist whom we’ve loved, so how thrilling to welcome one into the world. Int. Hospital Room. Night. [The screams reach a delirious cr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMMonday, February 5, 2018
Hands down the most watchable commercial during the Super Bowl 2018 game was the “Dirty Dancing” sequence starring Eli Manning and Odell Beckham, Jr. of the New York Giants, in what …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:02PMJoni’s rock star boyfriend Noah breaks up with her on stage in front of an arena full of his fans at the beginning of “Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill,” an often fun, over-the-top c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:42AMThursday, February 1, 2018
Fire and Air could not have looked more promising –a starry cast performing a new play by Terrence McNally about one of the most celebrated of dance companies, the Ballets Russes. Pica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51PMFire and Air could not have looked more promising –a starry cast performing a new play by Terrence McNally about one of the most celebrated of dance companies, the Ballets Russes. Pic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:45PMNo shows are opening on Broadway in February, but there are many snippets of Broadway musicals all on one stage — a 25th anniversary celebration of Encores! concert series creates a ne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:42PMWednesday, January 31, 2018
The two 17-year-olds are in love. Yet Chris (Tom Pecinka) is the son of the white patriarch from his hometown in Georgia, and Kay (Juliana Canfield) is the mixed-race daughter or another wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMMonday, January 29, 2018
The third annual BroadwayCon demonstrated that theatergoers can be as creative as theater makers — witness above the trio of cosplay artists as (left to right) Natasha, Pierre and the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PMSunday, January 28, 2018
Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda and original cast members of “In The Heights” sing some of the dozens of songs that Miranda wrote, but left out of, the Tony-winning Broadway musical, du…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:22PMSaturday, January 27, 2018
Speakers at three of the panels at BroadwayCon — Beyond the Heights: Latinx Representation in Theatre; Fan Tan Fantastic: Asian American Representation; and Being A Critic of Color …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PMFriday, January 26, 2018
“I wasn’t afraid of the risk; I don’t know why, maybe I’m stupid,” Anthony Rapp said in answer to an audience member’s question about the difficult of goi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51PMThursday, January 25, 2018
The third annual BroadwayCon, conceived by Anthony Rapp and fashioned after ComicCon, runs this Friday to Sunday at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Those attending really need to check o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway on January 26, 1988. A gala tonight (two days early) celebrates the 30th anniversary of the longest-running show in Broadway history. Watch the Red Ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PMTuesday, January 23, 2018
Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” was nominated for 13 Oscars, just shy of the record, and Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman in history nominated for best director, for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AMMonday, January 22, 2018
“Miles for Mary” is the Mad Ones theater troupe’s spot-on, deadpan funny look at a year’s worth of planning committee meetings for a local telethon at an Ohio high school. Originally…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PM 
