Wednesday, 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 07:42PMThe 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, cult…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Millions of African-Americans moved from the rural South to industrial cities in the North in the decades after World War I, one of the largest migrations in the history of humanity, ignored…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:35PMMonday, November 13, 2017
Today is the 20th anniversary of the opening of “The Lion King.” Now the third-longest running show in the history of Broadway, the musical is worth celebrating. Based on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17PMSunday, November 12, 2017
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s efforts to aid Puerto Rico in recovering from Hurricane Maria took the logical next step during his visit there this past week, when he announced his return to his sta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29AMSaturday, November 11, 2017
Today is Veterans Day, a day that’s always been special to me because my father was not only a U.S. military veteran; he was born on Veterans Day, which was originally called Armisti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMFriday, November 10, 2017
Jeopardy had the following answers in a “Broadway 2017” category during the Double Jeopardy Round of the Tournament of Champions earlier this week. Guess the questions: $400 R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52AMThursday, November 9, 2017
What happens when a lovely, low-key musical based on an offbeat Israeli film moves from Off-Broadway to a Broadway theater five times its size? You get the same widely acclaimed show – wit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMWhat happens when a lovely, low-key musical based on an offbeat Israeli film moves from Off-Broadway to a Broadway theater five times its size? You get the same widely acclaimed show – wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:35PMWednesday, November 8, 2017
Dennis, the sullen and unsettling student at the center of Julia Cho’s play “Office Hour” is strongly reminiscent of the real-life student Cho Seung-Hui, an English major at Virginia P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:18PMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Len Cariou, one of the five performers who recently reminisced about having originated roles in musicals by Stephen Sondheim, recalls getting the script for “Sweeney Todd” and thinking �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40AMMonday, November 6, 2017
“When did money become the thing – the only thing?” a character asks at the beginning of “Junk,” a play by Ayad Akhtar, who seems to answer: In the 1980s. Akhtar, the playwrigh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:26AMSunday, November 5, 2017
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in September and October, some of which was pleasing, much of which was disheartening or worse? Answer these 11 questions and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PMSaturday, November 4, 2017
The bad news hits relentlessly, from the horrific — on Halloween, New York endures the worst terrorist attack since 9/11 — to the ugly — accusations of sexual harassment …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54AMFriday, November 3, 2017
That Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother is fated and – 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex – familiar. But Luis Alfaro’s modern adaptation of Sophocles’ trag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PMWednesday, November 1, 2017
“M Butterfly” has returned to Broadway after 30 years, not so much revived as revised. It was risky for playwright David Henry Hwang to tweak his career-making, Tony-winning play…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51PMIn the five Broadway shows opening in November, Amy Schumer and Uma Thurman are making their Broadway debuts; playwrights Ayad Akhtar and Steve Martin are delivering new plays; and two shows…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AMTuesday, October 31, 2017
At one moment in “Stuffed,” a scattershot play about our disordered relationship with food, Lisa Lampanelli talks with disdain about a skinny friend of hers who turned down dessert, sayi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PMMonday, October 30, 2017
Before Hamilton, A Chorus Line, Hair, before Joseph Papp built the Public Theater into an institution, he was faced with a fight for survival of his newfound free Shakespeare in Central Park…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:05PMBefore Hamilton, A Chorus Line, Hair; before Joseph Papp built the Public Theater into an institution, he was faced with a fight for survival of his newfound free Shakespeare in Central Park…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PMSunday, October 29, 2017
Jason Alexander plays a Mama’s boy who recently married a “Puerto Rican firecracker” half his age; Sherie Rene Scott, a twice-widowed Greek bombshell, is shacking up with a dumb, moon-…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12PMSaturday, October 28, 2017
This is a tennis match? There’s no net, no ball, no racquet, and no final score, although the set at Roundabout’s Off-Broadway theater does include a scoreboard. There is only the whoosh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:48AMThursday, October 26, 2017
Diller Island is back! Plans for Pier 55, Barry Diller’s arts complex on the pier off 14th Street — with theatrical productions organized by such experienced hands as playwright Geor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33AMWednesday, October 25, 2017
“Drugs and alcohol have never let me down. They have always loved me,” Emma (Denise Gough) tells the doctor at the rehab clinic, not quite halfway through Duncan Macmillan’s play. Her …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:41PMMonday, October 23, 2017
Two killers in adjoining prison cages face off about God in this killer revival of one of the earliest plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the streetwise New York playwright of such acclaimed rec…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PMTwo killers in adjoining prison cages face off about God in this killer revival of one of the earliest plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the streetwise New York playwright of such acclaimed rec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM“Ferguson,” a play by Phelim McAleer, presents verbatim testimony from the Grand Jury that declined to indict white Police Officer Darrell Wilson for the August 9, 2014 shooting death of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:00PMIn honor of the opening tonight of the revival of Jesus Hopped the A Train, and the launch of the 2017-2018 Signature residency of Stephen Adly Guirgis, below is my April, 2011 review of Gui…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AMThursday, October 19, 2017
“It’s crazy”, says Michael Urie as Arnold, that “after all these years I’m still trying to justify my life.” Arnold means his life as a gay man, and though he is talking …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04PMIt’s crazy, says Michael Urie as Arnold, that “after all these years I’m still trying to justify my life.” Arnold means his life as a gay man, and though he is talking specifically t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:36PMWednesday, October 18, 2017
Fifty years ago, Hair was the very first show to play in the old Astor mansion, which was transformed into Joseph Papp’s first year-round Public Theater. (even though it feels like the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:51PM 
