Tuesday, 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 09:53PMThere was a touch of theater in the Women’s March over the weekend, with protesters’ signs adapting “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from Mary Poppins to fit current events, and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PMSaturday, January 20, 2018
Today, the first anniversary of the inauguration of Donald Trump, is Art Action Day. The day is organized by The Federation, founded last year to spread the message: Art is essential to demo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AMFriday, January 19, 2018
Nas, Dave East, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Aloe Blacc perform “Wrote My Way Out” the second of the promised monthly #Hamildrop series, which replace the initially proposed second vol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:55PMA white police officer shoots a black driver five times after pulling him over for a minor traffic violation. But things are not what they seem in “Black, White & Blue”by William Wat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PMWednesday, January 17, 2018
Death is well-suited to the stage, according to a philosopher quoted in “The Undertaking,” a play about death and dying written and directed by Steve Cosson, the artistic director of The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
Michael Luwoye takes over the title role of Hamilton on Broadway, on the same day that Sara Bareilles, the creator of Waitress, takes on the lead role as Jenna, Peter Jöback the title …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:32PMThe Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archives of Arthur Miller, from his first play “No Villain” (1936), written when Miller was at the University of M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:55PMMonday, January 15, 2018
On Martin Luther King Day, many people read or listen once again to his most famous speech, from August, 1963, I Have a Dream, But today, people are finding King’s speech below, de…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:05PMThanks to such shows as Hamilton, The Color Purple, and Allegiance, the 2015-2016 New York theater season was the most diverse on record. That is the conclusion of the latest annual report…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:43AMSunday, January 14, 2018
John Lithgow, a Tony winner for his very first Broadway show in 1973, has decided to devote his 24th to the reading of two old short stories, Ring Lardner’s “Haircut” and “Uncle Fr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:33PMJohn Lithgow, a Tony winner for his very first Broadway show in 1973, has decided to devote his 24th to the reading of two old short stories, Ring Lardner’s “Haircut” and “Uncle Fred…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:38PMSaturday, January 13, 2018
What makes us happy? The clear if indirect answer in “Pursuit of Happiness” is a lot of laughs, since that’s what the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, a notoriously inventive downtown theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:28AMThursday, January 11, 2018
It’s New Year’s Eve 1969, and a dozen fans are in the balcony of the Fillmore East watching a concert by Jimi Hendrix and his electronic blues trio, Band of Gypsys, nine months b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04PMRehearsals have begun for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which will open at the Lyric Theater on Broadway on April 22, following up on J.K. Rowling’s characters 19 years after her last…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:14PMWednesday, January 10, 2018
The Prototype Festival, which showcases what it calls contemporary opera-theater and music-theater, opened its sixth season last night with an opera called “Acquanetta,” inspired by a cu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:42PMTuesday, January 9, 2018
Enda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical Once, first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and inseparable te…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30PMEnda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical “Once,” first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PMMonday, January 8, 2018
In a program note for “Mankind,” a fun comedy that turns berserk about a future world in which women are extinct, its playwright and director Robert O’Hara explains that he foun…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PMBroadway veterans who won Golden Globes: Rachel Brosnahan, James Franco, Allison Janney, Nicole Kidman, Martin McDonagh, Frances McDormand, Ewan McGregor, Elisabeth Moss, Benj Pasek and J…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48AMSunday, January 7, 2018
“If all theatres were demolished tomorrow, would anybody miss them, and for how long?” Several characters said that at different times throughout A Room in India, a theatre piec…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:06PMWhen Andrew Schneider put on his trickster theater piece entitled “YOUARENOWHERE” in 2016, it was a mind-altering experience, changing not just one’s perception of reality, but of what…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:19AMSaturday, January 6, 2018
“How To Be A Rock Critic” is a solo play depicting a day in the life of critic Lester Bangs shortly before he died of an overdose in 1982 at the age of 33. If we are to take the title li…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PMFriday, January 5, 2018
“If all theatres were demolished tomorrow, would anybody miss them, and for how long?” Several characters said that at different times throughout A Room in India, a theatre piece that ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02AMThursday, January 4, 2018
When snow begins to fall, New Yorkers ask one question — how bad will it get? — and New York theatergoers ask three more: Will the shows be canceled? Will shows offer a snow day discoun…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:13AMWednesday, January 3, 2018
The Spring 2018 season Off-Broadway promises some thrilling shows, as the preview guide below should make clear. There are new plays by superstar playwrights — Caryl Churchill (about r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PMTuesday, January 2, 2018
Just one Broadway show is opening this month, but January is as usual one of the most robust months for theater in New York, thanks in large part to the January theater festivals. Together…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:43PMChoose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in the Spring 2018 as of this writing, and they are listed chronological…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55AMMonday, January 1, 2018
Is Mariah Carey our modern Cassandra, prophesizing the future? At the beginning of 2017, Carey, having blamed technical glitches for her disastrous New Year’s Eve performance in Times Squa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:54PMSunday, December 31, 2017
Here again, celebrating the new year by saluting a dozen Broadway veterans, aged 91 to 105. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption. Why, you may ask, is Betty White,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:01PM 
