Monday, November 18, 2019
So many people (and journalists!) complained that the public impeachment hearings made for dull theater that others angrily denounced the “theater critic school of journali…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:30AMSunday, November 17, 2019
Elaine Stritch kicked Rick Borutta in the stomach every day. That, anyway, is how he says it felt at the beginning. “Other than that, she was rather likable,” says Borutta, who worked as…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:22AMSaturday, November 16, 2019
It would be hard to overstate the city-wide trauma that occurred in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in August, 1991, nor the power of “Fires in the Mirror,” the groundbreaking documentary play a…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:27PMFriday, November 15, 2019
The thrilling final minutes of “Tina” are all that a rock concert should be, and the main reason to see this jukebox biomusical about one of the world’s most electric performers, po…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:46PMThursday, November 14, 2019
In the 26 years since the Russian clown Slava Polunin began touring, “Slava’s Snowshow” has been performed “thousands of times to millions of people in hundreds of cities,” accordi…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:00PMWednesday, November 13, 2019
Keep those cell phones on; that’s where “User Not Found” largely unfolds. Yes, this terrific site-specific play takes place in a café near BAM in Fort Greene, where Terry O’Dono…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:06PMTuesday, November 12, 2019
BrandoCapote is a play with a script by Sara Farrington inspired by a fascinating interview Truman Capote conducted with Marlon Brando at the peak of his popularity in 1957, while the movie …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:44PMMonday, November 11, 2019
On Veterans Day, a reminder from Adam Driver, Broadway veteran and military veteran, and the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that brings theater to the military: “The …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:37PMSunday, November 10, 2019
“Broadbend, Arkansas” is billed as a musical about three generations of an African-American family in the South grappling with injustice. While technically accurate, that’s a mislead…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:03PM“Whoo, that was some heavy shit,” our guide says after leading us through 400 years of African-American history. It was hard to disagree. Every inch of HERE Arts Center has been transfor…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:16PMSaturday, November 9, 2019
David Lawson made a personal sacrifice as a public service: He read 10 campaign books, all but one by current candidates for President of the United States. From his reading, he has fashione…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:49AMFriday, November 8, 2019
If Richard Nelson, the writer and director of “The Michaels,” were hired to direct the next Marvel movie, would Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk sit around the kitchen table in Rhinebeck, New…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:40AMThursday, November 7, 2019
Peter Dinklage’s singing voice would not normally qualify him for a role in a musical, unless in a Disney animated movie as a singing rhinoceros. But Rex Harrison couldn’t really sing ei…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:02PMWednesday, November 6, 2019
Bella Abzug spoke at my junior high school graduation, until Donna Florio’s mother told her to shut up. “This is my daughter’s graduation, not a political rally.” Abzug paused, apo…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:21PMTuesday, November 5, 2019
The two ladies hanging out on the roof are lesbians; they just don’t know it yet. The title of Liza Birkenmeier’s play, which marks her Off-Broadway playwriting debut, may seem to promis…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:30PMMonday, November 4, 2019
André Bishop, head of Lincoln Center Theater: $1 million Todd Haimes, Roundabout: $922,000. Oskar Eustis the Public Theater: $659,000 Lynne Meadows, MTC: $565,000 Carole Rothman, Second Sta…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:12AMSunday, November 3, 2019
Lizzie Vieh’s black comedy about a divorced couple permanently underwater in Phoenix Arizona, is clever and merciless, but it is also oddly compassionate. Exhibit A is the bit with the her…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:09PMSaturday, November 2, 2019
How much were you paying attention to New York theater in October? Take this quiz and find out.
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:32AMFriday, November 1, 2019
Below is a selection of New York theater opening in November, organized chronologically by opening date, including five on Broadway – a much anticipated epic gay play, a blockbuster m…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:01PM“The Sound Inside” is a dark drama by Adam Rapp that keeps us in the dark, literally and figuratively, which works better while watching it on stage than thinking about it afterwards. Ma…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:56PMThursday, October 31, 2019
William Shakespeare’s only son, named Hamnet, died when he was 11 years old; a few years later, the playwright wrote “Hamlet.” The Irish theater troupe Dead Centre conjures up the Ba…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:36AMWednesday, October 30, 2019
“How do we fight evil without becoming evil?” asks Ethan, one of the two adult characters in “Fear,” a play by Matt Williams. “Isn’t that the central question of the age, th…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:44PMTuesday, October 29, 2019
“Freestyle Love Supreme” is not so much Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway follow-up to “Hamilton” as it is a subsidiary of Lin-Manuel Inc. The hip-hop improv group that Miranda co-fo…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:03PMMonday, October 28, 2019
Theresa Rebeck’s slight but savory comedy about running a restaurant stars Raúl Esparza as Harry, a hilariously mercurial chef-owner of a hole-in-the-wall eatery that’s become the…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:32PMRefugees are in the news these days, and their stories have suddenly come to New York stages. “I think it is important to ask an audience to recognize lives that we have literally fenced o…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:40AMSunday, October 27, 2019
Three years after he spoofed “Hamilton” in “Spamilton” (with “I am not throwing away my shot” becoming “I am not gonna let Broadway rot,”) Gerard Alessandrini paints Lin-Manu…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:36PMSaturday, October 26, 2019
I think if I were eight years old I might have loved “The Lightning Thief” on Broadway, but that’s mostly because I would then have been too young to have seen it at the Lucille Lortel…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:05PMWednesday, October 23, 2019
There is one spectacularly funny moment in this musical comedy version of “Macbeth,” which is based on Billy Morrissette’s 2001 movie, and is set in a fast-food restaurant in the “po…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:47PMTuesday, October 22, 2019
Forty-one years after Broadway said goodbye after 742 thrilling performances to its first (and last) choreopoem, and a year after its author and original performer died at the age of 70, sev…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:30PMMonday, October 21, 2019
“Is This A Room” stages the verbatim transcript of the FBI interrogation of a 25-year-old former Air Force linguist with the improbable name of Reality Winner, who was eventually sente…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:53PMDavid Henry Hwang was attacked by an unknown assailant with a knife and nearly died. That experience, along with the playwright’s shock at the results of the 2016 Presidential election and…
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