“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”, “Aladdin” and “Fun Home” had the greatest number of nominations for the 64th annual Outer Critics Circle…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:13PMWith the best title of any Broadway play this season, two always-impressive actors as the cast, and a theme of loss and aging that hits close to home, “The Velocity of Autumn” is the sor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35PMBefore she wrote the songs for the astonishing “Fun Home” or collaborated with Tony Kushner on the extraordinary “Caroline, Or Change,” Jeanine Tesori wrote the music for “Violet,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16PMThere was no applause for Daniel Radcliffe when he first enters “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” the first and first-rate Broadway production of Martin McDonagh’s harsh 1996 comedy. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:12PM“Act One,” the well-meaning stage adaptation of the beloved theatrical memoir by Moss Hart, aims to explore the intoxicating appeal of the theater, but it instead demonstrates …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMBroadway barks indeed. This season, dogs are in the casts of four Broadway shows. All four were rescued from a dog pound, and now perform eight shows a week. Are their Pooper-Scoopers monogr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:37AM“The theatre is not so much a profession as a disease, and my first look at Broadway was the beginning of a lifelong infection,” playwright and director Moss Hart wrote in Act One, his l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:16AMAnnie Baker’s The Flick has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Here is my review of The Flick. Citation: “Awarded to “The Flick,” by Annie Baker, a thoughtful dr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:04PMEight Broadway shows are opening in the next ten days. Two opened last week, Bullets Over Broadway and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. It’s tax time, which may be why there …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:21AMclick on any photo to see it enlarged Audra McDonald is the same age as the Billie Holiday she is depicting in the first Broadway production of “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:47PM“Bullets Over Broadway,” based on Woody Allen’s 1994 movie about a novice playwright in the 1920s whose show is saved by a mobster, is opening tonight at the St. James Thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PMIf/Then with Idina Menzel, A Raisin in the Sun with Denzel Washington and The Realistic Joneses with Michael C. Hall opened on Broadway; Adrian Lester gives a star turn portraying the f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PMIn “The Realistic Joneses,” a kind of “Endgame” reoriented to the American suburbs, Michael C. Hall and Marisa Tomei as a couple named Jones pay an unexpected visit to introduce the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PM“Me and my family…we are very plain people,” Denzel Washington says in “A Raisin in the Sun,” at the start of a monologue that by the end – “we are very proud people” —…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMIn “If/Then,” Idina Menzel portrays two different versions of the same character Elizabeth, and at the beginning of the musical, I was feeling like two versions of myself as well. Eliz…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:46PMEd Iskandar talked with God. Then it was Lucifer’s turn. Now he was addressing Adam and Eve. “The audience has just paid $50 to watch the Bible, so bite the fuck out of the apple …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AMIn April, there are more than 30 shows opening on Broadway, Off-Broadway or Off-Off Broadway, at least one for each day of the month, although the schedule is more chaotic than that. (Get …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PMHere Lies Love; Fun Home, and Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 received the most nominations for the 2014 Lucille Lortel Awards celebrating Off-Broadway, presented by the Off-Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:57PMHow well were you paying attention to the New York theater news in March, 2014? Answer these 10 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03PMWhen Ira Aldridge played Othello in London, they were still debating whether it was a good thing to end slavery in the British colonies. Aldridge is the real-life African-American actor port…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:54PMIn “If/Then,” the new musical by the team that created Next To Normal, Idina Menzel returns to Broadway after a nine-year absence, playing Elizabeth, a city planner who returns t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:44PMWe saw the poster of Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig – a close-up of his face with a little mascara and lipstick — but now we’re getting him in full dress — or full ho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:29AMIn the calm before the April avalanche — with 13 shows opening on Broadway alone within the next four weeks, piling up to open as close as possible to the Tony Awards cut-off deadlin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:43PMThere are 12 shows opening on Broadway in April, 2014.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13AMKevin Spacey doesn’t strangle a dog within the first few minutes, nor become President of the United States in the last few, but “Breathing Time,” a play by Beau Willimon, the c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:29PMWorld Theatre Day, created in 1961, is celebrated annually on March 27. How will you be celebrating? International Message by Bretty Bailey The 2014 World Theater Day International Message i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55AM“Time is the longest distance between two places.” — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911 — he would be 103 years old today &…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PMToni Braxton and Babyface are the guest stars of the Broadway musical After Midnight, which offers an evening of the kind of entertainment that was in Harlem’s Cotton Club in the 1930s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11AMIn “Mothers and Sons,” Terrence McNally’s well-acted, sometimes touching new play, Tyne Daly as Katherine Gerard pays an unexpected visit to Cal (Frederick Weller) the lover of her son…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09PMBroadway’s big guns fired the first volley this week of what will be a month-long assault — 13 more shows are opening within the next month, ending the 2013-14 Broadway season. B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PMThe Book of Mormon opened three years ago today. It won 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Costing about $9.1 million to mount, it has earned nearly $250 million on Broadway alone (with…
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