With the past year bringing in a new administration with a new Secretary of Education, the national awareness of how overworked, undercompensated and financially burdened America's public sc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30AMAll too often, the word dated is misguidedly used to diminish the impact a play of a bygone era can have on contemporary audiences. Take, for example, the puritanical attitude towards pre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15AMAs the ground-breaking theatre troupe Split Britches - which they founded with former member Deb Margolin in 1980 - Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver have been challenging both gender norms and the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09AMFear not, all you American playgoers whose comprehension skills usually require a few minutes of ear adjustment whenever a production from Britain or Ireland crosses over with its native cas…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AM'So what the hell is this,' John Lithgow quizzically quips to the audience at the outset of his Broadway solo stint.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMSavvy playgoers attending British lip-sync artist Dickie Beau's RE-MEMBER ME at this year's Under The Radar Festival will notice that when a recording of Michael Douglas, playing Broadway di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThat old adage that if men got pregnant, abortion and reproductive health would be fully funded by the federal government gets quite a workout in playwrightdirector Robert O'Hara's wild gend…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10AMBe careful about expressing your admiration for certain artists during Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's hard-edged solo play, HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC. Though the audience is encouraged to eng…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:08AMNinety-nine years before television producer Aaron Spelling first invited viewers aboard 'The Love Boat,' Gilbert and Sullivan made good on their promise of shipboard romance with their endu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:49AMBoris Karloff... Peter Boyle... Shuler Hensley... and Robert Fairchild. One of these things is not like the others.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42AMSure, HAMLET may be William Shakespeare's dramatic masterpiece, but when pining for some romantic comedy, it's hard to beat Twelfth Night.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMFans of trained actors filling Broadway houses with the richness of their unamplified voices not to mention those who believe electric lights are overrated have reason to rejoice. Shakespea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:05AMIt may not be as well-known a holiday tradition as seeing the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, but for the fifth straight year, the Summoners Ensemble Theatre's delightful presentation of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:46AMWhen you consider the number of years that humans have been the dominant species on this planet, it was a comparatively quick burst of industrialization that set up the very real dilemma of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51AMDespite its provocative title, and despite a game effort by director Scott Elliott's ensemble cast, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's fact-inspired drama DOWNTOWN RACE RIOT, is a bit of a bore.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42AMBefore every performance by The Public Theater's Mobile Unit, the audience is reminded of Joseph Papp's credo that the plays of William Shakespeare belong to everyone. The theatre pioneer cr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:16AMFeel free to lavish director Tina Landau with a flood of praise for spinning seaweed into gold with SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, the hyperactive new musical based on the long-running Nickelodeon a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:05AMWhile there's nary a mention of global warming or human-made climate change in Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens', captivating and joyous Caribbean story-theatre musical ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48AMDon't be fooled. That familiar-sounding melody played at the top of Matthew Lombardo's hilariously subversive WHO'S HOLIDAY is not Welcome Christmas, the joyous chorale from the beloved t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:50PMDonald Trump hadn't even won his first Republican primary when Henri Becque's comedy of sexual liberation, LA PARISIENNE, created such an uproar at it's 1895 Paris premiere. But while the c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:03AMThey say communication is the key to a successful relationship. They also say there's such a thing as overdoing it.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:22AMFor over a decade, the unquestionably brilliant directorchoreographer Austin McCormick's Company XIV has been dazzling audiences with unexpected wonders.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18AMThe almost completely circular, arena style seating of Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater makes it a perfect venue for The Wolves, Sarah DeLappe's 2017 Pulitzer finalist drama about …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33PMThough the teenage girls at the center of Jocelyn Bioh's endearing and poignant SCHOOL GIRLS OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY all have wonderful qualities that should be appreciated and nurtu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:23PMWith the audience seated family style at several long tables, director Andrew Neisler seats the actors at elevated places around the perimeter. As they talk across the room to each other, i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30AMHOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS which really could be called Home For Christmas since that's the only holiday mentioned is a 90-minute concert starring three vocalists who first gained fame by winni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:05AMThough her aggressive style of dishing out insults has earned her the title of standup comedy's Queen of Mean, Lisa Lampanelli comes somewhat closer to being the Empress of Empathy in her co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:35PMLike the city where it was born and nurtured, the American musical play differs from similar stage entertainments because it was developed by a combination of cultures merging into a unique …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05AMWhen David Henry Hwang's 1988 Best Play Tony-winner M. BUTTERFLY, inspired by the romance between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Peking opera singer Shi Pei Pu, who the Frenchman didn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMWhen John Leguizamo's poignant, provocative and, yes, downright hilarious LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS premiered at The Public Theater in March of this year, a country that was created by white …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMSex is sex and rape is rape. That's the cut and dry explanation we often hear nowadays. And while there are obvious instances where any reasonable person would determine that rape has occu…
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