Tuesday, January 17, 2017
The 1998 Tony Award ceremony was quite a history-making night, as THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE's Garry Hynes became the first woman to be awarded a Tony for directing a play. Her honor was r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42AMSunday, January 15, 2017
While the title MARK FELT, SUPERSTAR may receive befuddled reactions from those not fully familiar with American political scandals, you can't blame bookwritercomposerlyricist Joshua Rosenbl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:47PMSaturday, January 14, 2017
When Americans think of the shows that entertained soldiers during World War II, visions of Bob Hope on a temporary outdoor stage wisecracking for thousands of servicemen, courtesy of the US…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
The opening fanfare of one of the most exhilarating overtures ever to hit Broadway signals the joyous return of New York City Opera. After financial woes threatened to pull down the curtain …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:05AMMonday, January 9, 2017
Those introspective, philosophical, womanizing man-children who inhabit the oeuvre of Anton Chekhov tend to be annoying bores, so even though the unpublished manuscript discovered after the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:54AMWednesday, January 4, 2017
As the history books and Stephen Sondheim tell us, in 1853 Matthew C. Perry, Commodore of the United States Navy, sailed to Japan on a mission to forcibly end the island empire's policy of n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMWednesday, December 21, 2016
While the McKittrick Hotel's ongoing attraction SLEEP NO MORE requires audience members to seek out its immersive entertainment as they venture from floor to floor and room to room, the venu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:03AMSaturday, December 17, 2016
While David Yazbek's moxie-driven melodies and clever, character-creating lyrics are best known from his fast and funny Broadway hits THE FULL MONTY and DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, his captivat…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:14AMWednesday, December 14, 2016
Since its first publication in 1843, Charles Dickens' holiday classic, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, has been adapted countless times for various stages, screens and pages, but undoubtedly the most aut…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:14PMSunday, December 11, 2016
When the a cappella musical In Transit played Off-Broadway in 2010, most musical theatre fans would identify 'Let It Go' as composerlyricist David Yazbek's finale song for musical version of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12PMSometimes when somebody offers you a job you have no time for that's a lot of work for no pay and no credit you just have to reply, 'Yeah, I'm in.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:24AMSaturday, December 10, 2016
Dan LeFranc's RANCHO VIEJO, now receiving its world premiere in a handsome Playwrights Horizons production featuring a terrific cast, is one of those three-hour long plays that may find you …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18PMFriday, December 9, 2016
As audience members enter the Minetta Lane Theatre's auditorium for producerdirector Luke Comer's abstract multi-media theatre piece THE PORTAL, they're greeted by a projected slide summariz…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06AMWednesday, December 7, 2016
The Long Island Rail Road doesn't have a station in Levittown, so the central character of Richard Greenberg's clever, sentimental and occasionally steamy drama travels the play's namesake, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:57PMThe Twentieth Century was only in its teens when playing Times Square's Palace Theatre was established as the pinnacle of success for vaudeville artists, so it's very appropriate that the la…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:21AMSunday, December 4, 2016
While FUN HOME and HAMILTON have certainly not been the only high-quality new musicals to hit Broadway in the past two seasons, they've both displayed the kind of originality and relevance i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:08PMFriday, December 2, 2016
When the new musical based on Chazz Palminteri's autobiographical solo play, A BRONX TALE had its world premiere at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse earlier this year, it boasted a solid fi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:48PMThursday, December 1, 2016
For a musical about the accidental death of six teenagers and a contest to select just one of them to return to life, Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond's Ride the Cyclone, mounted by MCC aft…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:24PMFriday, November 25, 2016
While Debra Barsha and Hollye Levin's A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME isn't the first musical to contrast the accepted female gender roles of the 1950s with the liberated revolution of the 1960s O…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:56PMWednesday, November 23, 2016
As with their Vineyard Theatre success of five years ago, THE LYONS, in THIS DAY FORWARD, the team of playwright Nicky Silver and director Mark Brokaw display an impressive talent for packag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:47PMMonday, November 21, 2016
Ever since it opened in 1966 as the Broadway production that made the Palace Theatre go legit, the final scene of Neil Simon book, Dorothy Fields lyrics and Cy Coleman's music hyper-swinging…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:27AMSunday, November 20, 2016
While the work of director John Doyle has been a frequent presence at Classic Stage Company for the past few years, his tenure as the company's artistic director gets off to an impressive st…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:48PMFriday, November 18, 2016
To say that The Q Brothers put a new spin on OTHELLO might be too obvious a pun, but their fun and lively hip-hop retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy of racism and revenge, Othello The Remix …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:24PMThe term 'generation gap' first came into use during the 1960s, when sociologists and trend-watchers began noting the extreme differences in lifestyle, politics, fashion, music and language …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54AMTuesday, November 15, 2016
No, you didn't fall asleep on the Q train on your way to Broadway's latest musical and accidentally wind up at the largest, and perhaps rowdiest Russian supper club in all of Brighton Beach.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:11AMThe symbolic nature of Suzan-Lori Parks' 1990 free-form dramatic riff, THE DEATH OF THE LAST BLACK MAN IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD AKA THE NEGRO BOOK OF THE DEAD is made apparent to viewers as…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:49AMMonday, November 14, 2016
It can be safely assumed that the majority of playgoers filing into The Public's LuEsther Theater for the 730 opening night performance of authordirector Richard Nelson's Women Of a Certain …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:05AMWednesday, November 9, 2016
The subject of sensitive, well-intentioned white people growing up unaware of their own privilege has been receiving more and more attention in American, but back in 1982, South African play…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06PMMonday, November 7, 2016
The doorway to the neighborhood bar designed with great detail by John Lee Beatty for director Kate Whoriskey's tense and finely-acted mounting of Lynn Nottage's hard-hitting new drama, Swea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:37AMSaturday, November 5, 2016
Placed throughout Anna Deavere Smith's revealing new theatre piece, NOTES FROM THE FIELD, are violent video clips that have become all too familiar to any American with access to YouTube.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:46PMMonday, October 31, 2016
An older man makes it clear that he intends to have his way with a young woman who trusted him. When she struggles, he assures her that she won't be believed if she says she wasn't asking fo…
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