Thursday, January 17, 2019
James Earl Jones, 20-time Broadway veteran (most recently in The Gin Game in 2015) three-time Tony winner, was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi on January 17, 1931 – 88 years ago today.
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:39AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Carol Channing, 12-time Broadway veteran, three-time Tony winner, who became a Broadway legend thanks to two roles — the gold-digging Lorelei Lee in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:18AMMonday, January 14, 2019
Xander wore a different costume each of the three days of BroadwayCon 2019: Lola from Kinky Boots on Friday, Aubrey II and Seymour from The Little Shop of Horrors on Saturday (left), and Gus…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:53PMSunday, January 13, 2019
Cast members from several forthcoming Broadway musicals performed at “First Look,” one of the last sessions at the last day of BroadwayCon 2019. From left to right (and top to bo…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:57PM“I, I, I took the blows, in my face, and my body,” Marin Ireland as Alison says dramatically falling to the floor of the church-run halfway house in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Car…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:48PMSaturday, January 12, 2019
In an extraordinary work of theater put together by Argentine director Lola Arias, six veterans who fought on opposite sides of the 1982 war between Argentina and Great Britain met and, unde…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:24AMFriday, January 11, 2019
If you’re playing a character that somebody else originated, Anthony Rapp was saying, you respect the original but ..redecorate. “He built the house that I walk around in. But I find a …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:44PMValerie Solanas, the mentally ill woman who shot Andy Warhol in 1968, has had a remarkably long run. Her SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men), which called for the overthrow of the go…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:53AMThursday, January 10, 2019
Pharus Jonathan Young is black, gay and gifted, like the playwright who created him, Tarrell Alvin McCraney, best known for the Oscar winning film Moonlight. McCraney is making his Broadway …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:05PMTuesday, January 8, 2019
Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Thomas Kail, theater owner James L. Nederlander, and producer Jeffrey Seller are saving the Drama Book Shop — by buying it, according to an announcement th…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:25AMIn “Ink: A Piece for Museums,’ which ran for two days at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, the musician-storyteller duo of James …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:43AMMonday, January 7, 2019
Playwright Sarah Kane killed herself at the age of 28 shortly after writing her fifth play, which offers a harrowing taste of what it’s like to live with, and die from, depression. Now two…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:16PMNew Saloon, an intellectually playful experimental theater company founded in 2012, returns to Under the Radar with an updated version of their Uncle Vanya adaptation, which they debuted at …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:19AMSunday, January 6, 2019
In between the exuberant dancing, lively singing and infectious African beat, the ten Nigerian actresses in “Hear Word: Naija Woman Talk True,” wearing the colorful clothing of their cou…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:14PMAs it did last year at the Under Radar Festival, the Chicago-based theater company with the completely apt name of Manual Cinema is charming the audience at the Public Theater by presenting …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:25AMSaturday, January 5, 2019
“I am a man,” says a middle aged white woman, Dominique (Rebecca Gibel), at the beginning of “Real,” which you could call a ghost story. “I am a man because it’s how you see me…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:48PMFriday, January 4, 2019
Below is a selection from an Off-Broadway season full of starry faces like Daveed Diggs, Jake Gyllenhaal, Isabelle Huppert, Uzo Adubi et al, in plays by Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Ma…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:27PMThursday, January 3, 2019
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. In other words, if you have just one show you could see on Broadway all spring, which of these 15 would it be? The list below is for sho…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:49AMWednesday, January 2, 2019
Just a couple of plays are opening on Broadway this month — “Choir Boy,” and “True West” — and a handful Off-Broadway, but January is one of the most robu…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:48PMTuesday, January 1, 2019
When the ball dropped in Times Square, signaling the start of a new year, it took a while for the smoke and the confetti and the fireworks and the rain to clear before we could even make out…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:01PMMonday, December 31, 2018
Here again, we celebrate the new year by saluting a dozen Broadway veterans, aged 91 to 105. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption. Why, you may ask, is Betty White…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:42AMSunday, December 30, 2018
Some of the most memorable moments on stage this year were not just unplanned — they were on unexpected stages. The student survivors of Marjory Stoneman Douglas H.S. gave a surprise p…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:22PMThe 10 videos directly below were the most viewed of those I posted on my YouTube channel, New York Theater, in 2018, arranged in order of popularity. All three videos from “Be Be Mo…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:23AMSaturday, December 29, 2018
Recall what happened in theater in 2018 — some of it just plain weird — by answering these 20 questions, many adapted from my monthly quizzes throughout the year.
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:41PMBelow are the five best reads posted in 2018: an essay about actors’ bodies; a contemplation of what life would be like without theater; a profile of an engineer who fixes theater to m…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:25AMFriday, December 28, 2018
Below is a list of theater books to read in 2019, most of which were published in 2018. Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four categor…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:12PMYes, 2018 in theater was the Year of Leonard Bernstein (centennial celebrations and new movies underway) and of Andrew Lloyd Webber (who got his EGOT, published his memoir, Unmasked, and got…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:56PMThursday, December 27, 2018
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2018.
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:52AMWednesday, December 26, 2018
My annual New Year’s Eve last-minute guide to events that are still available to do on New Year’s Eve 2019 (when 2018 turns into 2019) in New York City New Year’s Eve in New Y…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:41PMMonday, December 24, 2018
This is the last Christmas Eve New Yorkers will be spending with Christmas Eve, the character originated by Ann Harada in Avenue Q, because, after 15 years, Avenue Q will close in April. All…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:39AMIt seems apt that the Up Close Festival at the New Ohio Theater is likely the last work of theater I will see in 2018, because it reminded me what there is to love about theater, and how I c…
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