Tuesday, August 2, 2011
The 2011 New York Innovative Theater Award nominees, announced August 1st, include 166 individual artists, 55 different productions and 45 Off-Off-Broadway theater companies. Winners will be…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:09AMSunday, July 24, 2011
The replica of the Stratford-upon-Avon theater that the Royal Shakespeare Company has built inside the Park Avenue Armory looks from the outside like the bottom half of a rocket ship, which …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 03:36PMSunday, July 17, 2011
I saw “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2” on the same day as Shakespeare in the Park’s “All’s Well That Ends Well” and was struck by their similarities: Both are d…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:47PMSunday, July 10, 2011
The Broadway shows announced so far for Fall, 2011, include a revival of a Stephen Sondheim musical, and the debut of a new Woody Allen play; a play imagining the night before Martin Luther …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:51AMThe Broadway shows announced so far for Fall, 2011, include a revival of a Stephen Sondheim musical, and the debut of a new Woody Allen play; a play imagining the night before Martin Luther …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:51AMThursday, July 7, 2011
Tyne Daly has said she didn’t think she was a fit to play the great and tragic opera diva Maria Callas, when playwright Terrence McNally asked her to take on the role in the current reviva…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:52PMTuesday, July 5, 2011
Broadway vet David Chase explains this vital position As a young man, David Chase told a Broadway dance arranger he wanted to move to New York and become a dance arranger himself, eve…
SOURCE: TDF at 10:40AMThursday, June 23, 2011
Speaking before Harvard’s Secret Court investigating the crime and embarrassment of homosexuality on campus, an undergraduate named Stanley Gilkey explains that the only reason he associat…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:12PMSpeaking before Harvard’s Secret Court investigating the crime and embarrassment of homosexuality on campus, an undergraduate named Stanley Gilkey explains that the only reason he associat…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:47PMWednesday, June 15, 2011
This new play about the courtship of two residents of a nursing home follows a predictable course but is also fresh and lively, thanks to two veteran actors.
SOURCE: Backstage at 12:32PMMonday, June 13, 2011
At the beginning of the second act of Spider-Man 2.0, the evil Green Goblin explains how he was transformed from scientist Norman Osborne to genetic mutant: It took weeks and cost $65 millio…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:37PMSunday, June 12, 2011
Below is the list of winners for the 2011 Tony Awards, so far. (Winners will be indicated, as they are announced throughout the evening, in bold face with *). (Scroll to the bottom for early…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:08PM“The Book of Mormon” has won the 2011 Tony for Best Musical and eight other awards, and “War Horse” has won for best play, and in four other categories, in a ceremony…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:08PMThursday, June 9, 2011
Even in his most popular work, Tennessee Williams offered a hint of what the New York Times recently called (in an editorial about Anthony Weiner) the “profoundly squalid and offensive.”…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:57PMSunday, June 5, 2011
“Lysistrata Jones,” a new musical being staged in a church gymnasium, should be very annoying. It takes Aristophanes’ bawdy anti-war comedy out of Greece and turns it into “Grease.�…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:27PMMario Fratti's four short "gay-themed" plays all end with a twist, but the biggest twist is how little any of them say about contemporary gay life.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:07AMMonday, May 30, 2011
Quiz: What musical has won most theater awards so far this season? How is Daniel Radcliffe being a good sport? John Malkovich will appear on stage in a musical about a serial killer, true or…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:11AMThursday, May 26, 2011
The finale to This season’s finale of American Idol, which crowned 17-year-old Scotty McCreery after tallying an unprecedented 122 million votes, included a number of guest performers,…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:29AMTuesday, May 24, 2011
It has 75 performers, 88 crew members, stunts with names like “Wheel of Death,” and even a plot of sorts — and it opens in June. The difference between “Spider-Man:…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:40PMMonday, May 23, 2011
Tony Nominee Derek McLane’s approach to set design
What you notice first in Derek McLane’s studio are not the scale models of his theatrical sets—he has designed almost two doz…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:38PM“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” “You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:16PMSaturday, May 21, 2011
Spider-Man’s composer Bono tells Nightline that he and The Edge agree with the negative reviews of Spider-Man. “We really should have known that this is an incredibly difficult thing…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:50AMThursday, May 19, 2011
Steven Spielberg is working on a Broadway musical — sort of. He is the executive producer of “Smash,” a TV series on NBC in the fall about the making of a musical about Mar…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:31PMTuesday, May 17, 2011
Below are the winners of the 2011 Obie Awards, given for 56 years by the Village Voice for achievement Off-Broadway Performance F. Murray Abraham, sustained excellence of performance André …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:23AMMonday, May 16, 2011
Tony nominee Todd Rosenthal designs “The Mothef**ker With the Hat”
More complicated than telling people the name of The Motherf**ker With The Hat is describing the set, especiall…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:57PMThis 70-minute drama, about a baseball player refusing to sing the national anthem after the death of his brother in Iraq, promises provocation but winds up largely an unsurprising sports …
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:45AMThe resumption of previews for “Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark,” with a new Playbill cover (the one at far right) managed not to upstage much else this week in New York theater, si…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:30AMFriday, May 13, 2011
By most accounts, the Broadway 2010-2011 had a high number of quality plays and musicals. But there were, by common agreement, some real clunkers too. There are SO many theater awards for qu…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:41AMThursday, May 12, 2011
A minister with a terminal illness presides over a Christmastime gathering of his estranged family in a play with appealing characters but marred by an overly slow pace.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMMonday, May 9, 2011
As soon as the Tony Award nominations were announced at the top of this week in New York theater, theatergoers hurrahed and griped, sliced and diced. Some were delighted that The Scottsboro …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 03:59PMSunday, May 8, 2011
What does a woman want? What does a marriage mean? Is Socialism the answer? Was “My Fair Lady” a fluke? These are the questions raised by “A Minister’s Wife,” a musical adapted fro…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:00PM 
