Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Co-writers Keith Harrison and Laura Schein share the backstory to their songs, which can be heard on the original cast album released by Broadway Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMFriday, May 3, 2019
From Vox Lux to Stanley Kubrick, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMFriday, April 26, 2019
From Avengers: Endgame to Mary Quant, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFriday, April 19, 2019
From Loro to Stealing Sheep, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFriday, April 12, 2019
From Mid90s to Dave, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFriday, September 15, 2017
Meirion Bowen writes: Peter Hall played a key role in rescuing the reputation as an opera composer of Sir Michael Tippett, dismissed and mocked in the 1950s as bafflingly over-complex and bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMSunday, February 15, 2015
I’ve got all my life to live, and I’ve got all my love to give, and I’ll survive. I WILL SURVIVE! So sang Queen Diana Ross at the grand re-opening of King’s Theatre …
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 05:33PMSunday, January 4, 2015
Before the deluge of 2015 begins, let’s look at the year just past and note some favorites! I make no claim to “best” (what do you this this is? Buzzfeed?!) but these seven…
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 04:04PMSaturday, December 27, 2014
Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet, smartwatches, the return of the Large Hadron Collider, the rugby World Cup in Britain, a flood of classic drama on TV and a critical climate summit – some …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMSunday, December 7, 2014
What does a 67-year-old flop musical have to do with a new play from one of New York’s hottest young writers? Well, not much at first glance. ALLEGRO (the musical, now at CSC) and POCATEL…
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 11:55PMSunday, June 29, 2014
You can call it a comedy all you like, but MUCH ADO is nothing of the sort. Though often funny and sometimes hilarious, Shakespeare’s yarn of headstrong lovers is fascinatingly woven with …
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 08:27PMSunday, March 30, 2014
I recently got a super cool peek inside the Times Square Theater, the last of eight houses on 42nd Street to see rehabilitation since city/state seizure (and Disney) happened in the 1990s. T…
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 02:45PMSunday, January 5, 2014
theater-words is a little late to the game here—hello, January 5—but no matter: Let’s do some “best of”-ing! In descending …Continue reading »
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 02:04PMFriday, December 13, 2013
Deep in Brooklyn sits the old Loew’s 46th Street Theater, a faded film palace now annexed by a furniture store. It’s …Continue reading »
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 12:43PMMonday, November 18, 2013
The Mark Hellinger is the most beautiful theater on Broadway. It hasn’t housed a show since 1989. Sadness of sadnesses—I know. …Continue reading »
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 07:30PMSunday, November 17, 2013
There’s a lot to love about Fun Home, the hot new musical down at the Public Theater. It’s got great …Continue reading »
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 06:56PMMonday, November 11, 2013
Much of the buzz surrounding Canadian writer Alice Munro’s recent Nobel win came from her affinity for the short story, …Continue reading »
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 11:40PMWednesday, October 23, 2013
It’s always nerve-wracking to see a production that’s highly acclaimed. “Of course,” you think on the way to your seat, …Continue reading »
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 11:49PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
HEY Y’ALL! theater-words is back! After a summer hiatus, it’s time to dust the footlights… so LET’S GO! First up …Continue reading »
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 10:53PMFriday, June 7, 2013
Matthew James Thomas & Rachel Bay Jones, Pippin Ok, ok, they’re not actually nominated, but whatever: Rachel Bay Jones and …Continue reading »
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 05:56PMMonday, June 3, 2013
Tony Shalhoub, Golden Boy As a distraught, immigrant Italian father in this Odets oldie, Tony Shalhoub used a pitch-perfect accent …Continue reading »
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 09:30AMSaturday, June 1, 2013
The second act of Matilda reduced me to a blubbering snot-mess, in large part because of the title character’s touching …Continue reading »
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 10:00AMFriday, May 31, 2013
Maybe I’m just on an end-of-season, Matilda-inspired high, but Broadway seemed particularly smoosh-smashed with some truly noteworthy performances this year. …Continue reading »
SOURCE: theater-words.com at 01:43PMThursday, May 16, 2013
Every year or six it’s important to leave New York—one can only stand so much of $7 cereal and the …Continue reading »
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