The 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PMWhen the grim-faced actors in the revival of “Les Miserables” man the barricades and wave the red flag at the Imperial, to my surprise, I didn’t just see red. For this third pr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59PMStephen Sondheim turns 84 today, and in honor of his birthday, a poll that shows the extraordinary range of Broadway plays and musicals, world-famous and completely obscure, with which he ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:32AMIdina Menzel, who is starring on Broadway in the new musical “If/Then,” which opens on Sunday, is on the cover of Billboard next week. It says: “It’s taken her 18 y…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMIn Aladdin, the new Disney musical on Broadway, the genie grants theatergoers the first of their wishes – to be entertained. The genie is James Monroe Iglehart, and he is the one who provi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03PMPeter Michael Marino once got hit in the face with a garbage can in Stomp — but that was nothing compared to the damage caused by his first musical. The musical he wrote based on the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PMThe cast recording of the Broadway musical Beautiful will be released digitally by Ghostlight Records (Sh-K-Boom) April 1, 2014 and in stores May 13. Beautiful - The Carole King M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AM“I wish I could transmute my middle aged gay pain into some zombie vampire Lena Dunham comedy superhero reboot movie but I can’t,” Mike Albo says in his one-man show “The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:52PMHas an actor ever actually chewed the scenery? Is there a company that makes edible backdrops? Something tells me we’re going to find out in the next six weeks, where a new play opens …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:28PMThe cast and orchestra of Aladdin perform the songs together for the first time during the rehearsal period. That’s called Sitzprobe, a Broadway word adopted from the German; it litera…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:21PMHalfway through Rocky, a crowd-pleasing musical that’s a faithful stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1976 movie, the lights flicker to show Rocky Balboa, his face shrouded in a grey hoo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:18PMBryan Cranston made his Broadway debut in All The Way, about LBJ, one of five shows I reviewed this week in a season that’s heating up. Fiddler on the Roof will play once more on Broadwa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:34PM“If you went away for a week and I spent the whole time in bed with a photographer, would you be mad?” nosy neighbor Marge asks her husband Charlie in “The Bridges of Madison County,�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50AM“Everybody wants power; and if they say they don’t, they’re lying,” Bryan Cranston snarls in “All The Way,” Robert Schenkkan’s play about President …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:49PM“Antony and Cleopatra,”which is being given a colorful and ambitiously reworked production at the Public Theater, has a tragic/romantic ending reminiscent of “Romeo and Jul…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27PM“Hello, Dolly is a piece of shit.” This is the voice of Louis Armstrong, after the final concert of his life, as depicted in Terry Teachout’s first play, “Satchmo at the Wald…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13AMDavid Letterman joined the chorus of those making fun of John Travolta’s mispronunciation of Idina Menzel’s name on the Academy Awards. You too can Travoltify your name, via Slat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47AMTicket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Daniel Radcliffe in his third show on Broadway: The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh, opening at the Cort Theater on April 20, 2014. (Previews…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16PMBy the end of Stage Kiss, the man and the woman have kissed 288 times. This is according to the woman’s husband, who is a banker and loves numbers, and has not been in on the kissing. In S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:06PMBroadway was one of the winners of the 86th Academy Awards. Bobby Lopez won the EGOT — only the 12th person in history to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony in competitive categories …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:17PMOn this, the 30th anniversary of This is Spinal Tap, I profile Michael McKean in New York Theatre Magazine. McKean is now playing the villainous J. Edgar Hoover in the Broadway play All T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AMIn March, it’s possible to attend a Broadway, Off-Broadway or Off-Off Broadway opening nearly every single day; many days, there are two; occasionally three! Below is a list, organized c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMDid you know 2014 Oscar nominated director Martin Scorsese directed a musical on Broadway? It was called The Act, it featured music by Kander and Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago) and it starred Liza M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:20AMHow well were you paying attention to the theater news in February? Answer these 11 questions and see.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21AMJohn Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902. He wrote Of Mice and Men, both the story and the play, which is being revived on Broadway starring James Franco, making his Broadway debu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:24PMHere is the poster for a newly announced show on Broadway. Five-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald will play Billie Holiday, for a 10-week limited engagement, in Lanie Robertson’s Lady …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:56PMFans of Bruce Lee, the martial artist and actor who died four decades ago at age 32, are likely to be delighted at the sheer physical excitement of ”Kung Fu,” which has opened …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22PMCall it the Upper West Side Story: Lin-Manuel Miranda interviewed Rita Moreno about her Oscar-winning role in the 1961 film “West Side Story” before a screening of the film at …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PMCelebrated Comedian Takes on Villainous Role as J. Edgar in All the Way Wherever he goes, Michael McKean—actor, writer, comedian, … Read More →
SOURCE: nytheatremag.com at 12:46AM“The Bridges of Madison County,” the new Broadway musical based on Robert James Waller’s bestselling novel about the brief affair between Francesa, an Italian-born Iowa f…
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