Sunday, 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 10:28PMIs there a live theater equivalent of the summer movie blockbuster? Yes! But instead of sequels, they are original cutting edge work – or lovely, familiar classics. Instead of blasts of ho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:44PMDuring the summer, New York theater changes radically – thanks to the summer theater festivals. Some are outdoors (the others are air-conditioned.) Even New Yorkers who abandon the city fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:41PMBefore a showing of “West Side Story” at the United Palace Theater in February, Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights), interviewed one of its stars, Tony and Academy Award winner R…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24AMFriday, July 11, 2014
The casts of Wicked (ie. Christine Dwyer and Justin Guarini), Rocky (Andy Karl and Margo Seibert) If/Then (LaChanze and James Snyder) sang and danced, and Stomp hit the stage once again,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58AMThursday, July 10, 2014
The cast of the forthcoming Broadway revival of “On The Town” joined with the top 20 in season 11 of So You Think You Can Dance for this thrilling opening number, choreographed b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27AMSunday, July 6, 2014
Who is an artist – and who gets to decide? Is it the IRS? Do you have to make a living at it? Do you have to have a degree in it? Do you have to be better than average at it? Do you …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PMFriday, July 4, 2014
Musical theater that takes American history as its subject has been called a “vastly underexplored genre.” Here are some of the best known. Which is your favorite?
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:14PMTuesday, July 1, 2014
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in June — a lot of it oddness coming out of the Tony Awards? Answer these ten questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:04PMSunday, June 29, 2014
Forty-five years after the Stonewall Riots launched the modern gay rights movement, the annual LGBTQ Pride Parade has grown into a celebration with some 300 different “marching conting…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:13PMSaturday, June 28, 2014
Worrying enhances creativity, some new studies suggest, which is surely a cause for celebration in the back stages, posh offices, warren holes, wait stations and (at least in one case) polic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PMFriday, June 27, 2014
Shia LaBeouf was handcuffed and removed by police during intermission of a performance of Cabaret,and charged with one count of criminal trespassing and two counts of disorderly conduct. He …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AMTuesday, June 24, 2014
This American Life’s “The Radio Drama Episode” a the Brooklyn Academy of Music in June, 2014 included a performance from “21 Chump Street: The Musical,” perform…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PMSaturday, June 21, 2014
“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for 4,000 years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.”-John Stein…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:54PMThursday, June 19, 2014
Eighteen years after his murder at the age of 25, Tupac Shakur has made it to Broadway, in a show that has taken on the awesome challenge of weaving 21 songs and poems by the charismatic rap…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52PMWednesday, June 18, 2014
In a Master Class at Sardi’s with a group of drama teachers, Stephen Sondheim revealed some of the changes that Disney is making to its film adaptation of the stage musical “Into The Woo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:00PMMonday, June 16, 2014
This is the “Kilroy” list: “Each play is either unproduced or has had one professional production.” Authors include Theresa Rebeck, Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:11PM1st half – Act 1 2nd half – Act 2 Offside – Upstaging Extra time – mega mix Penalties – curtain call Half time – intermission Coach – dance captain …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:46PMSunday, June 15, 2014
Neil Patrick Harris and the rest of the cast from the Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch perform the song “Sugar Daddy.” Hedwig won four Tonys in 2014: Best Revival of a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:21PMOld soldiers never die and neither do old Tony winners – at least judging from the omission of the In Memoriam video from the Tony broadcast last week. Complaints against this snub were dr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:33AMSaturday, June 14, 2014
“The sometimes ugly rhetoric that people use about older audience members is in part fueled by resentment over their dominance and power. It is also, let us be frank, because there is a hi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AMFriday, June 13, 2014
Randy Harrison is winning a new generation of fans thanks to Netflix, which is streaming all five seasons of Queer As Folk, a television series that ran on Showtime from 2000 to 2005,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AMTuesday, June 10, 2014
Jersey Boys opened on Broadway on November 6, 2005, a surprise hit musical telling the true story about four young men from New Jersey with promising careers as juvenile delinquents who form…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08AMMonday, June 9, 2014
This is the video that was not shown at the 2014 Tony Awards that shows the people who died since the last Tony awards show. Here’s the full list: Jack Aaron Lamar Alford Cosmo Allegre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57PMSunday, June 8, 2014
The winners of the 68th annual Tony Awards as they are announced. (An asterisk besides the winners) Best Play Act One by James Lapine All The Way by Robert Schenkkan Casa Valentina by Har…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMWill Audra McDonald win her record-breaking sixth Tony? Will Bryan Cranston’s Broadway debut performance, as LBJ, break good for him? Will more people watch Neil Patrick Harris perform a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45PMTuesday, June 3, 2014
Warren Carlyle, the Tony Award-nominated director-choreographer of After Midnight, won the Astaire Award for Outstanding Choreographer for a Broadway show, while After Midnight cast memb…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40PMSunday, June 1, 2014
Outstanding Play Nell Benjamin, The Explorers Club Steven Levenson, Core Values Conor McPherson, The Night Alive Richard Nelson, Regular Singing Bruce Norris, Domesticated Robert Schenkkan, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27PMTyne Daly (nominated for Mothers and Sons), Sutton Foster (Violet), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (A Raisin in the Sun), Idina Menzel (If/Then), Jessie Mueller (Beautiful – The Carole Kin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:35AMSaturday, May 31, 2014
How well were you paying attention to the theater in May? Answer these 10 questions to see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20AMSomebody should launch the New York Dramamine Awards — for shows that put us to sleep? That’s about the only *theater award that hasn’t been thought up yet — most of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:21AM 
