Friday, September 22, 2017
KPOP, the wildly (and loudly) entertaining immersive theater piece offering the audience a tour of a Korean pop music factory, begins and ends with 15-minute concerts by the Korean boy group…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:25PMBelow is the list of the most-produced plays compiled by American Theatre Magazine of member theaters of Theatre Communications Group (in other words, non-profit theaters throughout the Unit…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:27AMThursday, September 21, 2017
“West Side Story” opened on Broadway on September 26, 1957. To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Google Arts & Culture is presenting a virtual exhibition that explains its hist…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:21PMThe 33rd Annual Artios Award ceremony will be held in Los Angeles and New York on January 18, 2018, celebrating outstanding achievement among members of the Casting Society of America. Here …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:21AMWednesday, September 20, 2017
With its big clue of a title and its two characters named Joe and Jose, one expects “Neighbors: A Fair Trade Agreement” to be an allegory about the political relationship between Mexico …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:35PMSunday, September 17, 2017
Below is the list of Emmy winners, with Broadway veterans in red. (Off-Broadway vets in green.) Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series – John Lithgow, The Crown Outstanding Suppor…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:49PMThe nominees for the 69th annual Emmy Awards include, as usual, many whom theatergoers like to claim as our own. All the Emmy-nominated performers pictured above are Broadway veterans, altho…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:23PMSaturday, September 16, 2017
With Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Hamilton”) and John Leguizamo (“Latin History for Morons”) serving as co-hosts, the Broadway League presented its annual Viva Broadway concert Friday eveni…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:17AMFriday, September 15, 2017
Choose the three shows that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates in the Broadway 2017-2018 season as of this writing, and they are listed chro…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:36AMThursday, September 14, 2017
“She Loves Me,” “Falsettos,” “Noël Coward’s Present Laughter” “Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn” and “Indecent” will all be broadcast on Friday nights this Fa…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:47PMThe first production photographs of Frozen the Musical, which opens tonight at the Buell Theatre in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. It will move to Broadway’s St. James Thea…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:37AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
In the months after her defeat by Donald Trump in the race for President, Hillary Clinton was so devastated, she writes in her new memoir, “What Happened,” that she had trouble f…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:04PMIn honor of Michael Friedman (September 24, 1975 – September 9, 2017) here is my October 29, 2011 review of “Let Me Ascertain You: Occupy Wall Street, Stories From Liberty Square,…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:30AMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Tommy Tune was presented with the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award last night at the 2017 Chita Rivera Award, the newly named awards for dance and choreography in New York theater and on…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:37AMMonday, September 11, 2017
Audra McDonald has been inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame, along with Matthew Broderick, Oskar Eustis, Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, Marin Mazzie, Daryl Roth and Ernie Schier. The th…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:02AMThis is a time of natural disasters, which dwarf everything else, including the steady assault of man-made disasters (even major anniversaries), if only for the moment. Of course, people are…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:53AMSunday, September 10, 2017
it would be to sum up the talent of composer, lyricist, dramaturg, artistic director, political activist and theater visionary Michael Friedman -- and how great the loss his early death.
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:27AMFriday, September 8, 2017
Since 2015, 45,000 have taken my Hamilton quiz. Why not try the updated one, to find out whether you’re Aaron Burr (originally portrayed by Leslie Odom Jr.) Thomas Jefferson (Daveed Diggs)…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:50PMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Sex and violence — also sex, drugs and rock n roll — are the subjects of several shows opening Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway in September (There are no Broadway openings.) Bu…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:13PMTuesday, September 5, 2017
The New York theater season is officially underway (Check out my Broadway 2017-2018 Preview Guide, and my Off-Broadway Fall 2017 Preview Guide) – and there are incentives to get our butt…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:35PMSunday, September 3, 2017
Off-Broadway in the Fall promises a homoerotic dystopia (“A Clockwork Orange”); a revival of Harvey Fierstein’s breakthrough play starring Michael Urie (“Torch Song&#…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:23PMFriday, September 1, 2017
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in August, a month full of controversies, and sad deaths? Answer these 10 questions and see.
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:03PMWednesday, August 30, 2017
“Inanimate,” a new play by Nick Robideau about a young woman who falls in love with a Dairy Queen sign, is most noteworthy for being the first play to be presented in the new buil…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:43PMTuesday, August 29, 2017
The nation’s second-largest theater district, a 17-block area in the heart of downtown Houston, is among the casualties of Tropical Storm Harvey, the flooding from its torrential rain …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:01PMSaturday, August 26, 2017
In his new memoir Sense of Occasion, Hal Prince explains that Prince of Broadway, the new Broadway revue celebrating and sampling Prince’s extraordinary 70-year career in the theater, “w…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:25PMFriday, August 25, 2017
Harold Prince’s new memoir, “Sense of Occasion” (Applause Books, $29.99) — a conversational chronicle and candid analysis of his many hits, seminal musicals and occasiona…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:01PMTuesday, August 22, 2017
What is your favorite show on Broadway that explores serious issues in an entertaining way? Below are some answers to this question, which I asked in a recent contest for tickets to a show, …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:22AMMonday, August 21, 2017
My Broadway 2017-2018 Preview Guide has been updated, thanks to a flurry of new shows announced, a couple this past week: Denzel Washington will lead the 20-member cast for the fifth Broadwa…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:10AMSunday, August 20, 2017
What was the most underrated show you’ve ever seen on a New York stage? Below are the answers to that question, which I asked in a now-ended contest to win tickets to a show I feel fits…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:23PMSaturday, August 19, 2017
Aaron and Wes have broken up, but Aaron can’t seem to let go, in “Last Ditch Playlist,” Brad Baron’s semi-autobiographical play about his first love and his first breakup, which is r…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:55PMFriday, August 18, 2017
All 17 members of The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities resigned today to protest President Trump’s comments on the events last weekend in Charlottesville, as The …
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