Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Teal Wicks and Zak Resnick in Piece of My Heart
(©Jenny Anderson)
Who was Bert Berns? Chances are that pop music aficionados will know the answer, but the general public will not. B…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:34AMMonday, July 21, 2014
Jason Cruz and Everett Quinton in Drop Dead Perfect
(©John Quilty)
Passions run high, secrets threaten to boil over, and camp theatrics are rife in Erasmus Fenn's melodramedy Drop Dea…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:56AMTuesday, July 15, 2014
Seth Tucker, Marty Thomas, Alex Ringler, Curtis Wiley, Nic Cory, Nick Cearley in Pageant
(©Jenny Anderson)
As the musical Pagaent, which opened last night at the Davenport Theatre, st…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:16AMMonday, July 14, 2014
Scott Haze in The Long Shrift
(©Joan Marcus)
There must be something in the air. Or maybe it's that Gen Xers are hitting the point that they're contending with hitting middle age, but…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:00AMSunday, July 13, 2014
Hershey Felder in Maestro Bernstein
(©Michael Lamont)
On July 17, Hershey Felder will perform Maestro Bernstein: A Play with Music at New York's Town Hall. It's a show that he premier…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 01:53PMWednesday, July 9, 2014
A scene from Wayra
(©Jacob Cohl)
It was good to be back in the Daryl Roth Theatre on Union Square East for Wayra, the new incarnation of the highly popular, long-running Fuerza Bruta t…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 05:06AMTuesday, July 1, 2014
Last Friday's presentation of The Ambassador Revue at Town Hall should have been thrilling. After all, when, if ever, will a New York audience get another chance to experience over a dozen …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:14AMMonday, June 30, 2014
Samuel Ray Gates, Bill Dawes, Amir Arison, and Mather Zickel in The Muscles in Our Toes
(©Monique Carboni)
Stephen Belber's new play The Muscles in Our Toes, which the Labyrinth Theate…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:13AMFriday, June 27, 2014
Benjamin Scheuer in The Lion
(©Matthew Murphy)
There's a lot that's really pretty about Benjamin Scheuer's new one-man musical, The Lion, which opened last night at City Center (Stage…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:15AMFriday, June 20, 2014
Saul Williams and Saycon Sengbloh in Holler If Ya Hear Me
(©Joan Marcus)
Wouldn't it be marvelous to report that with the opening last night of Holler If Ya Hear Me at the Palace Thea…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:45AMWednesday, June 18, 2014
Zoe Kazan in When We Were Young and Unafraid
(©Joan Marcus)
The times, they are a-changin', in Sarah Treem's new play When We Were Young and Unafraid, which opened last night at City …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:59AMTuesday, June 17, 2014
Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater in Much Ado About Nothing
(©Joan Marcus)
Love is a battlefield in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, or, as is the case in Jack O’Brien&#…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:46AMThursday, June 12, 2014
Peter Friedman, Adam Chanler-Berat and Michael McCormick in Fly By Night
(©Joan Marcus)
A goofy, whimsical nostalgia combines with a metaphysical worldview in the new musical Fly By Ni…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:47AMWednesday, June 4, 2014
Starting this week, music theater lovers will find they have a new must-visit online destination ....
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:50PMJim Dale in Just Jim Dale
(©Joan Marcus)
Watching the new one-man show that opened last night at Roundabout Theatre's Laura Pels Theatre, the word "endearing" comes to mind over and. …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:07AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Scott Richard Foster and Marcus Stevens in Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging
(©Carol Rosegg)
Probably one of the best things about spring in New York in my book is the knowledge t…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 04:07PMFriday, May 2, 2014
Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall and Tracy Letts in The Realistic Joneses
(©Joan Marcus)
If Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Thornton Wilder were to have co-written a pl…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:30AMMonday, April 21, 2014
Sutton Foster in Violet
(©Joan Marcus)
What a pleasure to find Tony Award winner Sutton Foster (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes) in a show where her formidable talents are put…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:48AMThursday, April 10, 2014
Suzanne Bertish, Paxton Whitehead, and David Pittu in The Heir Apparent
(©Richard Termine)
A trio of connivers work feverishly to make sure a dying man's wealth falls to them in David …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:55AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
David Cromer, Bryce Clyde Jenkins, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Anika Noni Rose,
Denzel Washington, and Sophie Okonedo in A Raisin in the Sun
(©Brigitte Lacombe)
The sound of theater…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 03:32PMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Laura Osnes and Michael Park in The Threepenny Opera
(© Kevin Thomas Garcia)
For a show that's supposed to be "so cheap that even a beggar could afford it," Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Wei…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:36AMMonday, March 31, 2014
Brian Sutherland and Diane Sutherland in A Second Chance
(© Joan Marcus)
Through the Shen Family Foundation, Ted Shen has spent over a decade supporting some of the most exciting new m…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:43AMSaturday, March 29, 2014
A scene from Amaluna
(Photo courtesy of Cirque du Soleil)
With the new show Amaluna, Shakespeare has come to Cirque du Soleil's Grand Chapiteau in Amaluna, which has been erected at CitiFie…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:27AMThursday, March 27, 2014
Matt Doyle in Jasper in Deadland
(Photo: Matthew Murphy)
Hunter Foster and Ryan Scott Oliver put a contemporary and youthful spin on the Orpheus myth in Jasper in Deadland, a new musical t…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 10:11AMSunday, March 23, 2014
Margo Seibert and Andy Karl in Rocky
(Photo: Matthew Murphy)
Put aside all preconceived notions that you may have about the musical version of the classic 1976 movie Rocky, which opened la…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:21AMWednesday, March 19, 2014
Nina Ariadna and Michael Esper in Tales From Red Vienna
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
Playwright David Grimm has takes on some weighty topics in Tales From Red Vienna, which opened last night at Ci…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:30AMFriday, February 21, 2014
If Our Town were to be crossed with Oklahoma! and infused with a dose of opera, the resulting hybrid might look and feel something like the new musical, The Bridges of Madison County, which …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:12AMSteven Pasquale and Kelli O'Hara in The Bridges of Madison County
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
If Our Town were to be crossed with Oklahoma! and infused with a dose of opera, the resulting hybrid …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:56AMSaturday, February 8, 2014
Let's face it - theater folk know that their talents have the ability to help people heal. And when artists like Nicky Blonsky, Phillip Boykin, Michael Cerveris, Robin De Jesus, Micky Dolen…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:14PMThursday, January 30, 2014
Austin Cauldwell and Déa Julien in Intimacy
(Photo: Monique Carboni)
There's a lot of sex in Thomas Bradshaw's new play Intimay, which opened last night at the Acorn Theatre at Theatr…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:21AMFriday, January 17, 2014
Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector in Machinal
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
For anyone who's ever felt trapped by their job, their relationships, or just life in general, there's always a good possib…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:47AM 
