The feud between the writers Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy began on public television, so it’s fitting that the play about their quarrel, “Hellman v McCarthy,” with the great Rober…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:23PMIn Terrence McNally’s backstage comedy “It’s Only A Play,” bound for Broadway in 1978 and finally arrived there 36 years later, a group of stars — played by a g…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PMThe Broadway marquees will dim for two theater artists, Geoffrey Holder and Marian Seldes, who both died this week – tonight (Wednesday) for Seldes and Friday night for Holder. In a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:05PMIn their walk around Greenwich Village – the last artist walk of the Elastic City Walks Festival, which has a closing night benefit tonight – theater director Niegel Smith, pla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20PMBroadway is one of the ten greatest streets in America in 2014, according to the American Planning Association, to which the average New Yorker might reply — “Just in 2014?…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57AMLike the unusual character at its center, “The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time,” a stage adaptation of a beloved book, overcomes a couple of daunting challenges to become�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:02PMTo help explain how “The Country House” could be so mediocre despite an award-winning playwright’s classic inspiration, a first-rate production and an exemplary cast, let’s start wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:09PMThe lives, loves and letdowns of women in an office in John Van Druten’s 1931 play “London Wall” were presented a little differently at the Mint Theater earlier this year than on telev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03AMFinally, the Lear nobody’s been waiting for, a Lear for people not in the mood for tragedy, a Lear Light, an economic Lear, cast with just eight actors, who not only portray multiple chara…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMSome of the shows opening in October. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged. October is one of the three busiest theater months in New York, with some 40 shows opening sometime this mon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:38PMIn “Indian Ink,” Tom Stoppard’s complex, challenging beautifully acted and sometimes fascinating play about an Englishwoman in pre-independence India, Stoppard does something that su…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:20PMHow well were you paying attention to the theater news in September? Answer these 10 questions, mostly involving playwrights, and find out. Tagged: playwrights
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:45PMAt the age of seven, David Holthouse was raped by his teenage neighbor. Twenty-five years later, he decided to kill the man – both to avenge the crime, and to prevent any more from occurri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM“Your family and mine … it just wouldn’t work.” Alice, the most normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family in the old-fashioned crowd-pleasing comedy “You Can’t Take…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:19PMAbove is a rare look at the map of the Broadway theaters in the sidewalk of Father Duffy Square, rarely visible through all the feet covering it. Below are links to the entire broadcast of S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PMIs this OUR Youth? His sister was murdered six years ago, his rich, abusive father has just kicked him out of the house, and 19-year-old Warren, portrayed by Michael Cera in the crackling Br…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00AMIf there’s a gimmick to “Love Letters,” the Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney’s two-character play about a man and woman writing to one another over half a century, it isn’t the pres…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:17AMThrilled at intermission by the new stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s “Scenes from A Marriage,” I poured out my enthusiasm about director Ivo van Hove’s unusual staging to my ex, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58PMHere are the list of winners of the 10th annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards, chosen from some 2,000 Off-Off Broadway (aka independent) productions. Nominated this year we…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:09PMIn “The Money Shot,” a comedy by Neil LaBute whose humor rests largely on the playwright’s contempt for the two Hollywood couples he has created, it takes more than an hour for the aud…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:35PMFiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway on September 22, 1964 – 50 years ago today. Initially playing for eight years and some 3,300 performances, it’s been back on Broadway four times, p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:37PMEmily Padgett and Erin Davie as the Hilton Sisters (attached twins and vaudeville performers) sing “Who Will Love Me As I Am” from Side Show, a musical that begins perform…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AMIs it possible to lust after a statue? Of course, one of the curators of the Metropolitan Museum of Art says, as portrayed by a member of the theater company The Civilians in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:37PMIn “To The Bone,” an exquisitely acted and splendidly directed new play by Lisa Ramirez that’s part of the Theater:Village Festival, Reina greets her niece Carmen, who is newly arr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PMWin a free copy of the book Tradition by Barbara Eisenberg, subtitled The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World’s Most Belo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:17AMThe film adaptation of “Into The Woods,” the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical will be released nationally on December 25th, 2014.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:00PMIn the program for “Solitary Light,” one of the four shows in this year’s Theater: Village Festival, there is a paragraph that describes the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23PMWhile the Fall season on Broadway officially has begun with the opening of the first show, “This Is Our Youth,” an exciting event this week in New York theater was the announceme…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PMKeke Palmer, the 21-year-old actress and singers still best known for her starring role in the movie Akeelah and the Bee, has become the new Ella (aka Cinderella) in Rodgers and Hamme…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:45PMAs the play “I Like To Be Here” begins, Devaj and Adela are in love, although they have never spoken to one another. He is South Asian; she is South American and barely speaks English. H…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:29AMAll three stars – Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and the 18-year-old fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson – are making their Broadway debuts, as is playwright Kenneth Lonergan, in the r…
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