Monday, November 12, 2018
Though it often involves individuals speaking prepared material into a microphone in front of paying customers who may be enjoying a libation or two, and though generating laughter is usuall…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14AMSunday, November 11, 2018
'We are a great country,' presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy assured his supporters in a speech given moments after winning the Democratic Party's 1968 California primary and moments b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46PMFriday, November 9, 2018
Using Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 cinema classic 'King Kong' as the inspiration for a musical theatre piece really isn't such a bad idea. Among the film's notable achiev…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48AMThursday, November 8, 2018
'Cuddles the puppy had fallen into the 50 foot deep well and was trapped,' an unseen television anchor is heard reporting at the outset of Patricia Ione Lloyd's chilling and evocative EVE'S …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
There are many factors, grant and school board requirements that we need to fulfill with this piece, the director explains to the cast on the first day of rehearsal of a Thanksgiving play fo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMMonday, November 5, 2018
A frustrated African-American woman, convinced that the young, armed, white police officer she's alone with isn't revealing everything he knows about her missing son, loses control of her te…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24AMSunday, November 4, 2018
For most New York playgoers, the words Shakespeare In The Park will immediately bring to mind the free performances at Central Park's outdoor Delacorte Theater, created decades ago by The Pu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04PMThursday, November 1, 2018
The play is no longer titled TORCH SONG TRILOGY and the venue is no longer known as The Little Theatre, but there's still a marvelous homecoming taking place at The Helen Hayes, where Second…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PMWednesday, October 31, 2018
'I hate white people,' blurts out a diminutive, small-voiced white teenager, trying to convince the white activist she just met that she would be a valuable addition to his commune. 'I can't…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:32AMTuesday, October 30, 2018
It was October 31st, 1926 when the world famous escape artist Harry Houdini succumbed to the one thing in life that's inescapable, and every year since, believers hold seances on Halloween n…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:04AMSunday, October 28, 2018
You're more afraid of looking like a racist than you are of being a racist, an African-American college student surmises when her white professor reacts with panic when it becomes clear that…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMThursday, October 25, 2018
'The whole neighborhood is changing,' is the oft-repeated melancholy observation of the 85-year-old woman at the center of Kenneth Lonergan's 2001 Pulitzer-finalist, THE WAVERLY GALLERY.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18PMFor the past five years the very fine actor John Kevin Jones has been drawing packed houses to East 4th Street's 1832 landmark Merchant's House Museum building for Summoners Ensemble Theatre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
Falling in love is the easy part. Functioning day to day as a couple can take work, especially when sexual incompatibility becomes an issue.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33AMAs the grand finale of their fourteen year residency at Christopher Street's Lucille Lortel Theatre, before moving to their brand new Hell's Kitchen digs, Manhattan Class Company brings in a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42AMMonday, October 22, 2018
The angry graffiti painted on the red bricks of the Bogside alleyway, memorializing Irish Republicans who have fallen in the cause of independence, contributes to the ominous mood of the ope…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36AMSunday, October 21, 2018
'I grew up in working class Toledo,' says the subject of Emily Mann's Gloria A Life, arguably the most potent, informative, emotionally riveting and ultimately uplifting theatre piece curren…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:12AMFriday, October 19, 2018
'I take liberties with things that deepen the central truth of the piece,' explains writer John D'Agata. 'Don't get bogged down in the details, keep your eye on the big picture.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12AMThursday, October 18, 2018
Behind most poverty-to-celebrity stories, there's usually a hard-working parent or two who dreamed of a better lifefor their child, but perhaps never imagined that better life might include …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMTuesday, October 16, 2018
While it would be easy to exit the York Theatre these days having been absolutely swept away by Mark Sonnenblick's wonderfully engaging and ear-tingling score for his new musical, MIDNIGHT A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54AMSunday, October 14, 2018
Savvy New Yorkers will immediately have a clear picture of the work environment when Azgi, the narrating character of playwrightactor Aasif Mandvi's solo piece SAKINA'S RESTAURANT, says he's…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48PMFriday, October 12, 2018
'A Jew In heaven Jews' an incredulous 92-year-old Cosima Wagner asks her delirium-induced vision of her long-gone husband, Richard, at the outset of Allan Leicht's history-based My Parsifal …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
Though designer Rachel Hauck's set for Heidi Schreck's inescapably truthful, yet eventually hopeful autobiographical performance piece WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME is based on the autho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
Do not expect a rousing 'Rainy Day Woman''Blowin' In The Wind''Mr. Tambourine Man' dance mega-mix.at the end of Girl from the North Country, playwrightdirector Conor McPherson's lovely, intr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12AMThursday, September 27, 2018
British playwright Richard Bean made a riotous Broadway debut six years ago with the knockabout farce ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS, but his newest hit to cross the Atlantic, The Nap, while full of g…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54PMTuesday, September 25, 2018
'All that privilege and he can't figure out how to do anything,' ponders one of the world's greatest actors as she attempts to delve into the psyche of one of the world's greatest theatrical…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:32PMThe press script provided to critics reviewing Craig Lucas' somber and overstuffed drama, I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU, specifies that the play was created to be performed by Deaf and hearing a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:24AMMonday, September 24, 2018
Don't be surprised to immediately sense a bit of familiarity in the dynamic between the two main characters as director Austin Pendleton's very fine La Femme Theatre production of the lesser…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06AMFriday, September 21, 2018
Dorothea Polly Noonan, the real-life central character of Sharr White's new political drama, THE TRUE, was the grandmother of current United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. If times were …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18AMWednesday, September 19, 2018
While the exact location of composer Ben Green, lyricist Greg Edwards and bookwriter Allan Rice's funny and frothy new musical dating adventure, Neurosis, is never revealed, it's a safe bet …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04AMMonday, September 17, 2018
For the better part of the present decade, playwrightdirector Richard Nelson has been going seriously Chekhovian, first with a quartet of plays set during the Obama years in the Rhinebeck, N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AM 
