Monday, 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…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2016
Playwright Qui Nguyen is a tricky fellow. First he has an actor appear on stage, claiming to be him, welcoming the audience with the usual pre-show ritual about turning off cell phones and w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42PM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2016
The fact that William Finn and James Lapine's 1992 Broadway musical FALSETTOS began as two separate one-act musicals - parts two and three of a trilogy - that premiered Off-Broadway nine yea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 27, 2016
Despite a string of bad fortune that has kept them moving from venue to venue to venue, the genius directorchoreographer Austin McCormick's Company XIV, with its distinct style mixing classi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 26, 2016
In Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 1985 Pulitzer Prize winning musical SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, the 'art of making art' can be less about applying paint to a canvas as it is about…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 25, 2016
The tensest, most dramatic moments in director Anne Kauffman's premiere production of Adam Bock's A Life occur whenever designer Laura Jellinek's large unit set slowly rotates horizontally, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:19PM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2016
Those who have lived through it may agree that war is hell, but for the central character of David Hare's 1978 drama, Plenty, the excitement of confusing, distracting and demoralizing the Ge…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24PM[SHARE]While Jonathan Larson's RENT, his 1996 East Village adaptation of Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa's LA BOHEME, presents a romanticized look at bohemians living in poverty …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34AM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 2016
Bright bursts of light imitating the effects of flash powder photography capture the opening and closing images of all three acts of director Jack O'Brien's raucously good revival of the cla…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Though solo performer Sarah Jones is rightfully celebrated for her exacting skills that quickly morph herself into a seemingly limitless collection of female and male characters of diverse a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:45PM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2016
'A New Version by Stephen Karam' is the way the text is described in the credits for director Simon Godwin's production of Anton Chekhov's 1904 classic THE CHERRY ORCHARD, now being presente…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06AM[SHARE]Friday, October 14, 2016
If you've ever sat down with a potential lover to have a serious talk about where your relationship is and how fast it's developing, you may be pursuing a lost cause, according to German phy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Weird old people saying and doing outrageously inappropriate things have been a beloved comedy staple ever since the time Aristophanes handed a few zingers to the dirty old men and elderly a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:38AM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2016
It's been said that Irving Berlin was no fan of big musical spectacles, which is why he stopped writing songs for the ZIEGFELD FOLLIES and had the intimate Music Box Theatre built so that hi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 6, 2016
It was thirty years ago when British director Peter Brook and BAM Executive Producer Harvey Lichtenstein first peeked inside what was left of the Majestic Theatre on Brooklyn's Fulton Street…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Given the basket of deplorables that have populated the oeuvre of playwright Neil LaBute, it should be of little surprise that the storyteller of his new solo play, All The Ways to Say I Lov…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:34AM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2016
The underappreciated art of sound design takes center stage in Simon McBurney's THE ENCOUNTER, a dramatization of Petru Popescu's bookAmazon Beaming that comes off more as a demonstration of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2016
It takes a certain amount of moxie for a solo performer to begin his Off-Broadway show by looking into the audience and stating 'I am weird.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Just as modern New York City evolved from a combination of immigrant societies that eventually mingled into one great metropolis, the major art form created by the city, the American musical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:50AM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2016
As part of The Public's dedication to community outreach, the Mobile Unit was created to bring high-quality productions of Shakespeare plays to people in prisons, shelters and community cent…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 22, 2016
With his quartet of dramas concerning the Apple family of Rhinebeck, New York now being followed by his trilogy-in-progress concerning their fellow Rhinebeckers, the Gabriels, you might say …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Long before the British invaded, Elvis swiveled his hips and Bill Haley rocked around the clock, the iconic vision of a rhythm and blues vocalist playing electric guitar was popularized in t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2016
From Thanksgiving turkey to roasted corn on the 4th of July to a slice of birthday cake, we grow up associating food with familial bonding and the gathering of loved ones. When we seek a rom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:26PM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2016
The recent renaissance of appreciation for the musicals of composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick, which has included Broadway revivals of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and SHE LOVES ME, alo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:16PM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2016
'I am not gonna let Broadway rot,' raps a rising musical theatre artist who describes himself as being 'just like a savior With Mobb Deep misbehavior,' in Gerard Alessandrini's positively b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:51AM[SHARE]Monday, September 5, 2016
For the past three years some of New York's most joyous theatrical celebrations have graced the city as the first September chill starts to pervade Central Park's Delecorte, when the Public …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 4, 2016
Though his name is scarcely remembered on American shores, N.C. Hunter was one of the more popular English playwrights during the 1950s. His genteel dramas would feature such distinguished c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Being a mere triple-threat isn't enough for the talented kids of Broadway's SCHOOL OF ROCK. Playing the emotionally repressed students of the prestigious Horace Green School who learn how to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46PM[SHARE]The Drama Book Shop willwelcome playwright and critic Terry Teachout Wall Street Journal and actor John Douglas Thompson for a discussion and signing ofSATCHMO AT THE WALDORFon Wednesday, Oc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:13PM[SHARE]It's both the talk of the town and one of the best kept secrets in New York.Nassim Soleimanpour's internationally-acclaimed playWhite Rabbit Red Rabbitis a unique theatrical experience at ev…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PM[SHARE]The second coming of David Javerbaum's hit comedy, AN ACT OF GOD, which first came to Broadway in May of 2015 with Jim Parsons in the title role, will be ending its blessed 14-week limited e…
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