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Cast members from the new revival of the musical “On The Town” presented three songs in the last Broadway in Bryant Park lunch-time concert of this summer. Tony Yazbeck and two u…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:47PMWednesday, August 13, 2014
It is easy to feel bewildered by a title that sounds as if it is translated from the Icelandic. But as it turns out, the dialogue and the lyrics sound that way as well. “Revolution in the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:46PMActress Lauren Bacall has died at age 89. Best known as a sultry siren of the silver screen, having made more than 40 films, Bacall was also a six-time Broadway veteran, winning Tony Awar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AMMonday, August 11, 2014
Robin Williams is reported to have died today at age 63. He was such a strong performer that his brilliance shines through even when he was just voicing a cartoon character, as in this scene…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:22PMA hundred years ago, our tour guide was saying, New Yorkers were such idiots that they stopped throwing away their garbage, and the city disappeared under a pile of rubbish, mostly coffee cu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51AMSunday, August 10, 2014
Making art, and sport, out of Taylor Swift’s love life is far from original; the popular singer-songwriter has done so herself many times; it’s easy to argue that her career is largely b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:19PMSaturday, August 9, 2014
As the Fringe begins, the exciting announcements about the Main Stem tumbled out all in two days (See August 6 and 7 below) The Week in New York Theater 4 Piece of My Heart: the Bert…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20AMThursday, August 7, 2014
In “Phoenix,” a slight and slightly dark romantic comedy with several twists that theoretically should make it feel like a more substantial play, Julia Stiles portrays Sue, an an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMWednesday, August 6, 2014
The 18th annual New York International Fringe Festival runs Friday, August 8th through Sunday, August 24th, 2014, with some 75,000 theatergoers expected for more than 200 shows. Here is a gl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:24PMTuesday, August 5, 2014
In the first King Lear seen at Shakespeare in the Park since 1973, John Lithgow plays the king, his two ungrateful daughters are Annette Bening making her Central Park debut and Jessica …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40PMSunday, August 3, 2014
Many stars made themselves known this week – for shows we’ll be seeing after summer is over. One Broadway revival alone featured a rotating cast of nine little-seen celebrities…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:15PMThursday, July 31, 2014
Walter was shot by a cop ten years ago, and has lived on booze and pie and regret ever since – but it’s more complicated than that. For one thing, Walter was himself a cop. And h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35PMHow well were you paying attention to the theater news in July? Answer these 10 questions to see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48PMIt isn’t easy being 12 years old and a demigod with dyslexia. Percy Jackson may be the son of Poseidon, but that hasn’t stopped him from getting expelled from school after school…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40AMWednesday, July 30, 2014
“Sex With Strangers,” Anna Gunn, who played Bryan Cranston’s wife in “Breaking Bad,” couples with Billy Magnussen, who portrayed sexy, half-naked Spike in Van…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58PMThe film version of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical, “Into the Woods,” is set to arrive in movie theaters on December 25th. Meanwhile, Disney has released the follo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:51PMTuesday, July 29, 2014
When “An American in Paris” opens at the Palace Theater on Broadway in April, it won’t look exactly like these two photographs, which were taken in Paris, where the musical…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AMMonday, July 28, 2014
John Leguizamo is presenting his solo show Ghetto Klown tonight free at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park starting at 8 p.m. (Get there early.) This is the same show he performed on Broadw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:18PMSaturday, July 26, 2014
Summer theater means festivals, many outdoors, and many presenting William Shakespeare. But it also means lounging on the grass to listen to free music, including the music from Broadway mus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:01PMThursday, July 24, 2014
When the producers of Bullets Over Broadway announced this week that the Woody Allen musical would close on August 24th, having played 156 regular and 33 preview performances, Nick Cordero w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:56PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
The nominees listed below for the 10th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, honoring theaters and theater artists working Off-Off Broadway, include 130 individual artists, 58 di…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:32PMAlan Menken was born on July 22, 1949 – 65 years ago. He has been composing music for musicals on stage and screen steadily for 35 years, starting with his collaboration with Howard As…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:15PMMonday, July 21, 2014
Almost half a century after his death, Bronx-born songwriter and record producer Bert Berns, the subject of the new Off-Broadway musical “Piece of My Heart,” is getting the kind of buzz …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PMSaturday, July 19, 2014
“You cannot tell the audience a lie; they know it before you do….” ‘If you can’t give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don’t have the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26PMFriday, July 18, 2014
In Atomic, a musical about the making of the atomic bomb and its aftermath, Jeremy Kushnier portrays Einstein pupil, nuclear physicist Leo Szilard, who helped create the bomb and then tried…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23PMNikki James, currently Eponine on Broadway in Les Miserables, made her debut on Broadway at the age of 19, and won a Tony for originating the role of Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon. “I’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PMThursday, July 17, 2014
“Elaine Stritch, the brassy, tart-tongued Broadway actress and singer who became a living emblem of show business durability and perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim’s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
In The Long Shrift, a play that marks James Franco’s debut as a New York stage director, a high school student is sentenced to ten years in prison for raping his date. But five years into …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:05AMTuesday, July 15, 2014
CD Giveaway: Win the Broadway cast recording — released today both digitally and in stores – of “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar Grill,” starring Audra McDonald, who …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PMSunday, July 13, 2014
Near the end of Atomic, a musical about the making of the atom bomb, there is an arresting piece of stagecraft when the bomb at Hiroshima goes off: A Japanese couple were quietly speaking at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28PM 
