Some Like It Hot is the winner of the Grammy for Musical Theater Album. “Thank you Broadway first of all. Come to New York City, come to regional theater. Support live theater,” the al…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:29PMOssie Davis, the author and star of “Purlie Victorious” in 1961; Leslie Odom Jr, the star of the play’s revival in 2024. Rose McClendon, who made her Broadway debut in 1926; Audra McDo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMThere seemed more awards than usual this past month, not all of them theater awards, but all with a theater connection or two. Answer these ten questions to see how well you were paying atte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34PMJonah is sweet, awkward, inquisitive, respectful and clearly smitten – the sort of boy you might want for a first love if you were Ana, a scholarship student at a boarding school. After he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PMBelow is a calendar of theater opening* in February, including a single Broadway show — a revival of a Tony and Pulitzer winner by John Patrick Shanley opening on Leap Year Day. But a new …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:23PMChita Rivera died today at the age of 91. Born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, she originated roles in “West Side Story,” “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Chicago” and “Kiss of the S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:31PMWhat first comes to mind when you think of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” To Philip Gefter, it is not the game-changing play by Edward Albee, but Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burt…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AMThe biggest “award” this past week was for $83.3 million, but, for the end of January, there was a surprising amount of news about entertainment-related awards — including winners (of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AMBrian d’Arcy James and Kelli O’Hara return to Broadway for the first time together since 2002 to portray a couple who fall in love with alcohol as much as with one another in this musi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:09PMThe 67th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. The 23 winners are listed below, some of them linked to my reviews BEST NEW AMERICAN PLAY …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25PMThe first disturbing story that we’re told in this hour-long collage of dancing and diatribes, horror and love, concerns a man named Tantalus, who killed his son and chopped him up with th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30PMSutton Foster, trying her hand at goofy physical comedy and affecting a rapid-fire comic patter reminiscent of early Barbra Streisand, is an undeniable draw in the Encores! series revival of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:26PMNominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards were announced yesterday, and theater lovers cheered the latest Broadway connections. The Oscars have always had Broadway connections. Test you…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17AMThe complete list of nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 10 at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised LIVE on ABC. Watch the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AMThere are now twenty-one shows scheduled to open on Broadway during the Spring 2024 season, three of them announced just within the past week. As Time Out’s Adam Feldman points out, much o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:06AMFrom the wordless to the wordy, these short worldly works– all three directly or indirectly reflecting the story of race in America; all three intriguing examples of digital theater — we…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:44PMA play called “Pride House,” set in Cherry Grove on Fire Island, and produced by a gay theater company? It’s reasonable to presume it the kind of formulaic gay play that has proliferat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMThe Black couple go overboard in congratulating their daughter for coming out, donning rainbow T-shirts and hanging up a banner, but they learn to their shock that Niani is not coming out as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:15PMThere are two ways to appreciate this latest work of musical theater by Heather Christian, which is part of the eleventh annual Prototype festival of opera theater and musical theater. One i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:23PMRachel McAdams of Slings and Arrows and Michael Imperioli of The Sopranos making their Broadway debuts; a new quirky musical from the team behind “A Band’s Visit,” a new play by Paula …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:22PMAt the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night, Elton John became the nineteenth person to achieve an EGOT — winner of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — when he won for “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AM“My people were brought to America in chains. Your people were driven here to escape the chains fashioned for them in Europe,” Martin Luther King Jr. said in his address to the American …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00AM“The Color Purple” and “Mean Girls,” were both Hollywood movies adapted from books (Alice Walker’s novel “The Color Purple” and Rosalind Wiseman’s non-fiction “Queen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:12PM“Mean Girls” was Tina Fey’s smart, funny 2004 movie that she turned with her husband into an overlong, ill-timed Broadway musical (as I wrote in my review) in 2018, which has now been …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02AMI saw three shows that featured clowns at PhysFestNYC, billed as the first-ever festival in New York City to showcase physical theater, which is wrapping up its ten-day run on Sunday. P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PMIn the two years since I first saw Joshua Harmon’s ambitious, busy play about antisemitism, in which five generations of a single French family in two different eras fear for their safety,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PMTickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 16 through February 4, 2024 of 23 Broadway shows, from “& Ju…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31AM“For the theatre community, it was a time of tumult, turnover, ‘the field is in crisis’ essays, show cancellations due to illness, and budgetary shortfalls.” But also a response: “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PMHollywood and Broadway intertwined in complicated ways once again when Broadway veterans Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph both won Golden Globe Awards last night for their roles in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PMI saw these three hour-long shows from the 19th Under the Radar Festival one after the other on the same floor of the Rose building at Lincoln Center Queens of Sheba Muki Zubis stood on stag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:02PMCreated and performed by a trio who call themselves FlawBored and describe themselves as a “disability-led theater company” – two of the three are legally blind – this export from th…
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