The eerie true story of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre’s encounter with the elusive Mayoruna tribe while lost in the Amazon rainforest is made stranger still in Simon McB…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:25PMIt is possible to enjoy Holiday Inn, subtitled “The New Irving Berlin Musical,” although there is little new about it. The Broadway adaptation of the 1942 Crosby/Astaire movie features a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:07PMPresident George W. Bush was convicted of war crimes at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, on the night I attended The Trial of an American President, an earnest, informative and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:08PMThose of us who have followed her splendid career since Judith Light returned to the New York stage in 2010 welcomed the news that she would be appearing in a new solo play written by Neil L…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16PMNat Turner in Jerusalem, a new play by Nathan Alan Davis at New York Theatre Workshop, is yet another retelling of Nat Turner’s 1831 slave insurrection, a story that has been told and reto…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:07PMThe National Museum of African-American Culture and History officially opened this past weekend in Washington D.C. Among the almost 37,000 objects in its permanent collection are photograp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMWhat Did You Expect?, the second installment of Richard Nelson’s trilogy at the Public subtitled The Gabriels: Election Year In The Life Of One Family, is literate (the characters tell a s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:14PMPrivacy,a play exploring the death of privacy, is inspired by Edward Snowden’s revelations about surveillance. Snowden even appears on stage (via video.) But, for all its alarming info, th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:02PMNew York Spectacular, a new summer show at Radio City Music Hall that features the Radio City Rockettes and some terrific sets, aims to tap into a similar demographic as Broadway, where more…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:00PMThe all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew in Central Park, with Janet McTeer as the macho Petruchio and Cush Jumbo as the shrew he starves into obedience, seems to be working hard…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:22PMContrary to popular belief, more than one worthy show opened on Broadway this past season, although admittedly Hamilton has become a much-ballyhooed phenomenon in the culture at large. The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:06AMNew York Times drama critic Charles Isherwood inadvertently sparked a controversy when, in a discussion of the 2016 Tony Awards, he commented about Hamilton: “I do find it slightly puzzlin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AMActors train to get into character, but how do they get out of it? What happens at the end of a night’s intense performance, or at the conclusion of a run? Watch the videos below for answe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:51AM“Don’t get me wrong, I do care about this country,” Joe Morton as comedian Dick Gregory says in Turn Me Loose. “Where else but in America can a poor black boy like Michael Jackson gr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:55PMWhile Broadway is reacquainting audiences with Shuffle Along, Off-Broadway is opening our eyes to another landmark Broadway show from the 1920s – this one an all-Jewish, lesbian-themed dra…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:30PMDaphne’s Dive, a play about a family of regulars at a North Philly bar, is put together by a family of exciting artists: Samira Wiley (Poussey in Orange is the New Black) and Daphne Rubi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24PMRodgers and Hammerstein wrote 11 Broadway musicals; five remain among the most popular ever written. Rodgers and Hart wrote some three dozen. Rodgers and Sondheim wrote only one, which neith…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:59PMDo you remember which play or musical made you fall in love with theatre? Yesterday, Jonathan Mandell attended the Drama Desk Awards reception and asked this year’s nominees – m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:25AMThe title character in the musical Dear Evan Hansen is a clinically anxious high school student who is so friendless that he can’t get any classmates to sign the cast on his broken arm, ex…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PMFrom now until the Tony broadcast on June 12th, theater fans will undoubtedly sound like baseball fans, as they weigh in with predictions, protests and probabilities. This is true every year…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:01PM“Shuffle Along is jazzy, tuneful, full of pep,” says one of the rave reviews from 1921 printed on the curtain during intermission at the Music Box Theater, where George C. Wolfe has moun…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:37PMJessie Tyler Ferguson, Mitchell on “Modern Family”, is starring on Broadway in Fully Committed, portraying Sam, a struggling actor who works as a reservations clerk at a trendy M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:27PM“None of us can help the things life has done to us,” Jessica Lange says as Mary Tyrone. Mary is talking about one of her sons, a drunk, but she herself, a convent girl who married a mat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:38PMThe members of the Tuck family spend two hours trying to explain why it’s a curse to live forever, but it is only in the final 15 minutes of Tuck Everlasting that the musical drives home w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50PMThere are good reasons to savor Waitress, the sweet and tart new musical confection about love and pie, deliciously performed at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theater. Some of the reasons hav…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:25PMAmerican Psycho, a musical about a fashion-conscious serial killer, is not the most misbegotten show ever on Broadway. It only feels that way for a couple of moments – such as the produc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:49PMIn one way, Hamilton Clancy has outlived William Shakespeare, who died 400 years ago this week at the age of 52. Clancy is older than that. But Clancy has also died many times, and it’s al…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:45AMFew could have been surprised that the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama (and $10,000) was awarded to Lin-Manuel Miranda for the musical Hamilton, who after all has already won an astonish…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AMThe Father, a deliberately disorienting new play starring Frank Langella, is the second work that I’ve seen on a New York stage in the last two months that focuses on a character strugglin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:56PMNathan the Wise, a fascinating old play that recalls an era when Jews, Muslims and Christians got along, begins at Classic Stage with an acknowledgement of the present: All the actors are ar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39PMIn Head of Passes, Phylicia Rashad portrays Shelah, a woman so religiously devout she objects to Deviled eggs. Her faith is tested in the Public Theater’s well-acted, richly atmospheric pr…
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