Wednesday, December 13, 2017
From December 13 to 15th, get free tickets to live theater, and other live events — dance, comedy, opera — through Goldstar’s Comp Train promotion. You pay a small service …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
To outsiders, a rock musical that presents a long-dead public official as a tragic villain, and a disagreement over public policy as high drama, might sound ludicrous from the get-go. But th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:11PMIn “Hundred Days,” a musically engaging autobiographical concert by The Bengsons, Abigail and Shaun Bengson tell us they met one another at “the first rehearsal of a massive anti-folk …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMMonday, December 11, 2017
The “virtual choir” put together by Dear Evan Hansen’s musical supervisor Alex Lacamoire and sound designer Nevin Steinberg, which puts a real-world spin on the rapidly spr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:18PMAs if to underscore what a demoralizing year this has been, theater lovers can’t just snuggle up with the rash of new openings, usual holiday season sentimentality and end-of-year assessme…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41AMSunday, December 10, 2017
The first Broadway revival of “Once on This Island,” a stunning storybook production of a Caribbean-flavored folktale, begins in the aftermath of a natural disaster, as a story of love a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:55AMFriday, December 8, 2017
“SpongeBob SquarePants” ends with a cascade of confetti…AND crepe paper streamers…AND soap bubbles…followed by beach balloons. This more or less sums up the approach of the Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39PMReverting to his early-career wackiness, Steve Martin enlists four phenomenal performers, including Amy Schumer making her Broadway debut, for a joke-filled, overlong, trickster comedy ske…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AMReverting to his early-career wackiness, Steve Martin enlists four phenomenal performers, including Amy Schumer making her Broadway debut, for a joke-filled, overlong, trickster comedy ske…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMThursday, December 7, 2017
In its forty-seventh year, Mabou Mines is inaugurating its first permanent home, the ninety-nine-seat Mabou Mines Theater in the East Village, with a newly devised piece called Glass Guignol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:49PMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Uma Thurman and Josh Lucas neither kill a dog nor bed an FBI agent in The Parisian Woman, a tame, tidy, talky and only superficially timely play about a D.C. power couple engaged in politica…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:04PMUma Thurman and Josh Lucas neither kill a dog nor bed an FBI agent in The Parisian Woman, a tame, tidy, talky and only superficially timely play about a D.C. power couple engaged in politica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:50PMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Playwright Rajiv Joseph aims high in this ambitious, pertinent, resonant, sometimes compelling but often confusing drama that sprawls over 90 years (and three hours), taking place in Poland,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:10PMYou are not alone. That was the message o the Town Hall on sexual harassment in the theater that was held on Monday at the Public Theater, which included both comments from dozens of peopl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:59AMSunday, December 3, 2017
In September, 1976, at least 20 young men charged into Washington Square Park and swung bats, chains and pipes at any African-Americans and Latinos they found there, as they shouted racial e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:28PMSaturday, December 2, 2017
“Who are you?” Billy Crudup asks near the end of “Harry Clarke,” as he looks in an imaginary mirror, a tight spotlight on his face, the rest of him in darkness. It’s the question a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:39PMFriday, December 1, 2017
The death from AIDS of theater artist Michael Friedman in September at the age of 41 was a shocking reminder that, yes, people still die from AIDS — and yes it is still affecting the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:16PMFour shows are opening on Broadway in December, two musicals and two plays, placing Mark Rylance in 18th century Spain, Lea Salonga in the Caribbean of the 19th and 20th centuries, and a mix…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in November? Answer these 12 questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12AMTuesday, November 28, 2017
On this sixth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters and theater companies.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AMMonday, November 27, 2017
Cyber Monday deals are not just for gadgetry. They extend to shows, as offered by theaters and ticket services. This week in New York Theater: Broadway stars give Thanksgiving greetings, Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AMThursday, November 23, 2017
The 91st annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade had two big balloons that are also Broadway shows — and performances by such Broadway shows as Dear Evan Hansen (with the new Evan Hansen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:15PMWednesday, November 22, 2017
The holiday show tradition in New York ranges way beyond Radio City Music Hall and family entertainment, to include shows that are offbeat and others that are decidedly not for children. Let…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMMy sixth annual Broadway gift guide below includes links and information on shopping for theater tickets, theater subscriptions, cast recordings, play scripts, librettos and new and cherish…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:37AMMonday, November 20, 2017
Ben Platt left “Dear Evan Hansen,” the Tony-winning musical that made him a star. That was yesterday. Tomorrow marks the publication of the behind-the-scenes book and libretto …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMSunday, November 19, 2017
Readers who cherish Jane Austen’s 1813 novel “Pride and Prejudice” can certainly enjoy Kate Hamill’s stage adaptation, now at the Cherry Lane, as long as they accept that the tone ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PMIn his dressing room at “Dear Evan Hansen,” Ben Platt has kept an anonymous letter from a fan: “You stopped me from letting go.” That letter kept him going when “I don’t want to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:33PMFriday, November 17, 2017
Scroll below for the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving week. On Thanksgiving Day this year, theater lovers will be able to see “SpongeBob SquarePants” twice — both as a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:32PMThursday, November 16, 2017
Paulina is the most popular, the most ambitious and by far the meanest girl in the Aburi Girls Boarding School at the outset of Jocelyn Bioh’s often unsubtle but ultimately stimulating new…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23PMFor some theatergoers wondering whether to see the hour-long romantic comedy bravely entitled “Hot Mess,” it might be enough to know that Max calls his girlfriend “Poopy Pants.” Or t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:52PMWednesday, November 15, 2017
The ushers are wearing “Ghetto Scholar” sweatshirts in Studio 54, where for his sixth solo show John Leguizamo stands in front of a blackboard and lectures on the history, politics, cu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42PM 
