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…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2018
The late afternoon and early evening rain that had been steadily falling last Friday didn't stop the faithful from arriving at Central Park's Delacorte Theater for Shakespeare In The Park's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2018
'I sound like Borat and I look like Seinfeld,' jokes the Russian-accented illusionist Vitaly Beckman, who indeed sports a resemblance to 9th Avenue's most famous diner patron.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 28, 2018
Coming in at the heels of landmark musicals like AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH and INNER CITY, composerlyricist Micki Grant's DON'T BOTHER ME, I CAN'T COPE was an important part of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:18PM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2018
Fans of late 16th Century pastoral poetic narrative tragicomedy have been all abuzz anticipating the Broadway arrival of the new song and dance adaptation of a Sir Philip Sidney classic. But…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2018
There was plenty to admire when playwrightdirector Young Jean Lee's STRAIGHT WHITE MEN opened at The Public Theater in November of 2014. Those familiar with the exceedingly non-traditional w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:39AM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2018
When the smash hit revue SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, celebrating the pop classics of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, opened on Broadway in 1995, director Jerry Zaks staged each beloved number with sna…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 21, 2018
'If life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one,' sings a character from Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's INTO THE WOODS while pondering whether the intimate encounter she j…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2018
It's a classically-styled cinematic pose. The kind that tends to define a certain era of film noir. A woman stands alone on the Coney Island boardwalk on a chilly day. Covered in a tan trenc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2018
The person seated in the back of the orchestra section on opening night of the Encores Off-Center concert mounting of GONE MISSING, who was loudly sobbing during the closing song, was by no …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2018
'Now that the winter formal gives way to glorious spring fling,' recites our antihero at the outset of Mike Lew's enormously clever contemporary riff on Shakespeare's RICHARD III, titled Tee…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 7, 2018
This is not shaping up to be a good year for Oscar Hammerstein II, American musical theatre's most important writer, who spent the first half of the 20th Century not only making significant …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2018
'We're all fully interested in navigating this brave new world with them,' says an exasperated character in Jordan Harrison's comedy of social politics, Log Cabin, 'but it sometimes seems li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2018
Jason Robert Brown was just 25 years old when his SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD took the stage of Off-Broadway's intimate WPA Theatre. As he played piano and led the handful of musicians in director…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:58AM[SHARE]Friday, June 29, 2018
Perhaps some of the good people at Britain's Royal Court are in need of a hug these days. This week New York playgoers welcomed two transfers of exceedingly violent productions from that cel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2018
On the surface, the plot of CYPRUS AVENUE is just a little too weird to take seriously, and that's one of the strengths of David Ireland's creepy drama, as director Vicky Featherstone, Artis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2018
The existence of queer people of color, particularly of African descent, has repeatedly been washed over, or forgotten altogether, writes Donja R. Love, whose SUGAR IN OUR WOUNDS is receivin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 24, 2018
If upon entering a theatre, the stage is populated by a young black man sleeping under a street lamp as another young black man quietly scrutinizes all in attendance, while the pre-show musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2018
David Friedman and Peter Kellogg may be billed, respectively, as composer and bookwriterlyricists of the rollickingly fun new musical comedy DESPERATE MEASURES, which has just moved from the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Is there anything more charming than watching two older people falling in love Well, perhaps. Like when the romance occurs, as instructed by playwright Charles Mee in his 2001 one-act, FIRST…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2018
From the very beginning, one of the most important tenants of Joseph Papp's vision of free Shakespeare in Central Park has been the insistence the company of actors audiences see on stage wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 17, 2018
'We are women more willing to be vile receptacles then we are willing to be dead,' says a character identified as Item 2 in Eve Ensler's FRUIT TRILOGY, which is receiving its New York debut …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2018
'Vassar. See yourself there,' a successful adult advises a high school student who has impressed him with her talent for writing poetry, but not with her low expectations for securing a spot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 10, 2018
Commencing in 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward was a 5-year plan to convert Communist China's largely agricultural economy into government-run farming collectives, freeing up r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2018
From the mid-1960s through to the early years of this century, the musicals scored by the team of John Kander and Fred Ebb have exemplified Broadway pizzazz while exploring darker issues und…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2018
A younger playgoer knowing nothing about Mart Crowley's classic 1968 Off-Broadway comedydrama The Boys in the Band except, perhaps, that its original run is regarded as an important landmark…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2018
The fact that Broadway hasn't seen fit to provide a role for Lois Smith in over twenty years can be regarded as one of the top arguments denouncing the popular assumption that Times Square i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AM[SHARE]Friday, May 25, 2018
The setup would make a hell of a piece of theatrically-minded erotica. Call it Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and Mouse, as sexual sparks ignite when elegant playwright on the verge of stardom, Tenne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 24, 2018
There's an empty casket on display and a pants-less mourner screaming. 'What kinda fuckin' world is this' when the lights suddenly go up on Stephen Adly Guirgis' wild New York escapade, Our …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AM[SHARE]Monday, May 21, 2018
Depending on how snobby you are about the belief that no American play can truly be said to have premiered until it has opened in New York, Paradise Blue, the ravishing new jazz noir drama b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Ranking up there with MEDEA and OEDIPUS REX, Eugene O'Neill's family tragedy LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT would most likely make any playgoer's list of inappropriate classics to revive on M…
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