Sunday, October 28, 2018
You're more afraid of looking like a racist than you are of being a racist, an African-American college student surmises when her white professor reacts with panic when it becomes clear that…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2018
'The whole neighborhood is changing,' is the oft-repeated melancholy observation of the 85-year-old woman at the center of Kenneth Lonergan's 2001 Pulitzer-finalist, THE WAVERLY GALLERY.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18PM[SHARE]For the past five years the very fine actor John Kevin Jones has been drawing packed houses to East 4th Street's 1832 landmark Merchant's House Museum building for Summoners Ensemble Theatre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Falling in love is the easy part. Functioning day to day as a couple can take work, especially when sexual incompatibility becomes an issue.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AM[SHARE]As the grand finale of their fourteen year residency at Christopher Street's Lucille Lortel Theatre, before moving to their brand new Hell's Kitchen digs, Manhattan Class Company brings in a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42AM[SHARE]Monday, October 22, 2018
The angry graffiti painted on the red bricks of the Bogside alleyway, memorializing Irish Republicans who have fallen in the cause of independence, contributes to the ominous mood of the ope…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 21, 2018
'I grew up in working class Toledo,' says the subject of Emily Mann's Gloria A Life, arguably the most potent, informative, emotionally riveting and ultimately uplifting theatre piece curren…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AM[SHARE]Friday, October 19, 2018
'I take liberties with things that deepen the central truth of the piece,' explains writer John D'Agata. 'Don't get bogged down in the details, keep your eye on the big picture.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2018
Behind most poverty-to-celebrity stories, there's usually a hard-working parent or two who dreamed of a better lifefor their child, but perhaps never imagined that better life might include …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2018
While it would be easy to exit the York Theatre these days having been absolutely swept away by Mark Sonnenblick's wonderfully engaging and ear-tingling score for his new musical, MIDNIGHT A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 14, 2018
Savvy New Yorkers will immediately have a clear picture of the work environment when Azgi, the narrating character of playwrightactor Aasif Mandvi's solo piece SAKINA'S RESTAURANT, says he's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48PM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2018
'A Jew In heaven Jews' an incredulous 92-year-old Cosima Wagner asks her delirium-induced vision of her long-gone husband, Richard, at the outset of Allan Leicht's history-based My Parsifal …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Though designer Rachel Hauck's set for Heidi Schreck's inescapably truthful, yet eventually hopeful autobiographical performance piece WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME is based on the autho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Do not expect a rousing 'Rainy Day Woman''Blowin' In The Wind''Mr. Tambourine Man' dance mega-mix.at the end of Girl from the North Country, playwrightdirector Conor McPherson's lovely, intr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2018
British playwright Richard Bean made a riotous Broadway debut six years ago with the knockabout farce ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, but his newest hit to cross the Atlantic, The Nap, while full of g…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2018
'All that privilege and he can't figure out how to do anything,' ponders one of the world's greatest actors as she attempts to delve into the psyche of one of the world's greatest theatrical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32PM[SHARE]The press script provided to critics reviewing Craig Lucas' somber and overstuffed drama, I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU, specifies that the play was created to be performed by Deaf and hearing a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24AM[SHARE]Monday, September 24, 2018
Don't be surprised to immediately sense a bit of familiarity in the dynamic between the two main characters as director Austin Pendleton's very fine La Femme Theatre production of the lesser…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06AM[SHARE]Friday, September 21, 2018
Dorothea Polly Noonan, the real-life central character of Sharr White's new political drama, THE TRUE, was the grandmother of current United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. If times were …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2018
While the exact location of composer Ben Green, lyricist Greg Edwards and bookwriter Allan Rice's funny and frothy new musical dating adventure, Neurosis, is never revealed, it's a safe bet …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04AM[SHARE]Monday, September 17, 2018
For the better part of the present decade, playwrightdirector Richard Nelson has been going seriously Chekhovian, first with a quartet of plays set during the Obama years in the Rhinebeck, N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 13, 2018
Eat your heart out, THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. Paul Weiss' 1963 h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06AM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2018
There are times in musical theatre when a talented cast performing their hearts out can make questionable material not only endurable, but even somewhat enjoyable. Sadly, this is not the cas…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2018
Perhaps if Clifford Odets' landmark pro-union drama, WAITING FOR LEFTY, hadn't opened the year before,Lillian Hellman's 1936 labor drama, DAYS TO COME, the sophomore Broadway effort of the p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18AM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2018
With an innocuous book more focused on moving to plot points than creating interesting leading characters and a platitude-heavy score that tends to linger on moments instead of expanding on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 16, 2018
The past several Broadway seasons have seen extraordinary developments in musical theatre, with a steady stream of new shows, usually transferring from non-profit Off-Broadway, offering smar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2018
The stage is quite empty, save for a makeshift throne in a corner and a couple of rows of ordinary looking chairs in the back, where actors not involved with scenes sit. The costumes are con…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 11, 2018
It may not have the romantic sweep of 'Some Enchanted Evening' or the driving intensity of 'Don't Rain On My Parade,' but so far, the best new theatre song of this young season is a finely-c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Back in the days, really not very long ago, when self-effacing gags about failed diets were one of the few topics of discussion deemed acceptable for women in comedy, the punchline Renee Tay…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 7, 2018
The last time an actor appeared in a Broadway musical playing a role he had previously essayed on film, it was 1983, when Anthony Quinn opened in the revival of ZORBA. Sharing that unusual d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 4, 2018
One of the most exciting and important voices to emerge from the 1980s-90s American performance art movement, Karen Finley might be regarded as one of the country's most noted censored artis…
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