'Ink' focuses on the early days of 'The Sun,' before Murdoch's global news empire profoundly shaped—and coarsened—the world we live in.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMIn Taylor Mac's new play, an updated take on 'Titus Andronicus,' Nathan Lane plays a street clown who survived the hangman and one day dreams of being called a fool.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:18AMThe road to 'Hadestown' was paved with good intentions, but the material that was a hit in Anaïs Mitchell’s 2010 concept album drags as a Broadway show.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMMichael James Scott has paid his dues for decades; now the super-trouper gets top Broadway billing in 'Aladdin.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:09AMThe newest from The Mad Ones, 'Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie' invites us to play sociologists behind the fourth wall, watching a group of parents reveal their biases while discussing children's …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMIt's witty, smart, handsomely shot and stuffed with juicy cameos.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00AMIn 'What the Constitution Means to Me' Heidi Schreck shows how the memoir-monologue can be electrified it within a harrowing historical context.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMFrom 'Hillary and Clinton' to an opera at the Met Museum, here are the must-see dance, opera and theater performances of the spring.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:00PMDirector Scott Ellis navigates the antique attitudes of the original 'Kiss Me, Kate' material deftly, giving this classic musical an update that meshes with our age.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMTheater is Kryptonite for superheroes. 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' proved it, yet Second Stage's new musical from John Logan and Tom Kitt tackles the theme anyway.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:23PMIts audience might be pretty niche.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMIn 'Sea Wall/A Life,' Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge deliver quietly shattering monologues about what we make of grief, and what grief makes of us.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMSeeing Freestyle Love Supreme, the rap-improv troupe that Miranda founded in college, will give you a new understanding of the phenomenon known as 'Hamilton.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMCasting is key when it comes to the warring brothers of Sam Shepard's 'True West.' Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano face off in Roundabout's new production.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMMany of the productions of the past year were tinged with a political aura.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 06:42PMThe Moonlight writer offers a big-hearted portrait of young African Americans navigating class and sexual differences in private school.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:36PMAaron Sorkin has left his fingerprints all over this stage adaptation, to mixed results.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 10:36PM'Clueless, The Musical' hoped we’d care enough about the heroine, Cher, to overlook its synthetic tackiness.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMDespite great acting, this techno-savvy adaptation is strangely out of step with some of the more searing themes in the original film.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:36PM'The Cher Show’ is a sequined Wikipedia entry with karaoke breaks.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:01AM'When you’re starting out in New York, you have to grab them by the balls and make them hear you.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00AM“We tamed the beast—you and I—we brought him to this city,” crows Carl Denham, the filmmaker and impresario in the new Broadway musical “King Kong.” The production’s beast tame…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 08:00AM'The Prom' may be a candy-colored pop musical, but in a Broadway season dominated by atrocities like 'King Kong' and 'Pretty Woman,' it's a winner.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30PMAlthough Christopher Demos-Brown s play covers important issues of race, the story and characters are two-dimensional.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 04:06PMMCC Theater brings back Jocelyn Bioh’s 'School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play,' a cutting comedy with an emotional wallop centered around six school girls in Ghana preparing for a …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMThe whiskey flows, rainbows are spotted, tall tales are told and Irish dancing breaks out over dinner.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:04AMBackstage, they apparently call it 'Woke-lahoma!'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:31PMDylan songs sprinkle 'Girl From the North Country.' So do clichés.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMA swashbuckling Janet McTeer plays idolized French actress Sarah Bernhardt in a play about her shocking 1899 depiction of Hamlet.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMA hybrid theater-video installation by Rob Roth, 'Soundstage' casts Rebecca Hall as the archetype of a 'strong female lead,' and the object of obsession for Roth's reclusive protagonist.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:01PMFrom 'The Cher Show' to productions featuring Bryan Cranston and Snoop Dogg, our picks for what will be this fall's 'Hamilton.'
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