Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Every night from now until the end of the summer, you can watch a free movie somewhere outdoors in New York City -- and whole movie series every weeknight except Tuesdays.
The movies v…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:14PMMonday, July 15, 2019
The Week in New York Theater: Incredibly, the 2019 blackout that shut down the West Side Saturday night and shuttered 26 of 30 Broadway shows -- all but the four that begin with B (Be More C…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:33AMSunday, July 14, 2019
When María Irene Fornés died last October at the age of 88, the many theatergoers who knew nothing about her suddenly learned how pioneering , prolific and influential a theater artist she…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:20PMSaturday, July 13, 2019
A power outage in midtown shuttered more than two dozen Broadway shows. The casts of some of them took to the streets — See below Hadestown, Hamilton, Come From Away, Waitress… and Carne…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:09PMIs a show that’s in bad taste necessarily a bad show? Is a tasteful show always better?
The three full productions from the first week of the 16th annual New York Musical Festival sugge…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:12AMFriday, July 12, 2019
The first of six weekly Broadway at Bryant Park concerts this summer featured surprise performances by the cast of “Bat Out of Hell,” a musical using Meat Loaf’s hits that will be perf…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:05PMThursday, July 11, 2019
The first commercial outdoor theater in the United States began in New York City, and while it no longer exists, there are several outdoor theaters this summer, not all of which are offering…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:34AMWednesday, July 10, 2019
Jerry Herman turns 88 today, which is the number of keys on a piano, an instrument he started playing more than eight decades ago, and led to his first musical 65 years ago, “I Feel Won…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:11PMTuesday, July 9, 2019
Here are 14 new or forthcoming books about theater, listed under three general categories -- Scripts and Play Anthologies; Biographies and Memoirs; Theater History, Criticism and Reference -…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:46PMMonday, July 8, 2019
It’s Summertime, and one of these mornings you’re going to rise up singing — or at least hear some singing at the 16th annual New York Musical Festival, or at the free lunchtime Broa…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:29PMSunday, July 7, 2019
In the 16th annual New York Musical Festival, or NYMF, new musicals are inspired both by tall tales and true stories: A Native American sharpshooter who became a silent film actress; an …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:17PMSaturday, July 6, 2019
After she was hired to “translate” Macbeth into an English that is “clear to the modern ear,” the playwright Migdalia Cruz took a trip to Scotland with her husband and daughter to v…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:20PMThursday, July 4, 2019
Watch videos of ten great American protest songs, some of which have become so popular that many people forget their origins in patriotic protest -- just as some seem to have forgotten the m…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:19AMWednesday, July 3, 2019
Six recommended shows from the Hot Festival, which is billed as the oldest queer theater festival in the world
I saw 15 of the 45 shows in the Hot Festival on opening night and I can say al…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:21PMTuesday, July 2, 2019
This week in New York theater: the July 4th week Broadway schedule. List of Broadway shows closing this summer. The 2019-2020 season on Broadway and at The Flea, Ars Nova, HERE Arts Center, …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:03AMMonday, July 1, 2019
“Moulin Rouge The Musical” is opening on Broadway this month, and both comedian Dave Chappelle and singer Barry Manilow will have “Broadway residencies,” which is a pretentious way …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:25PMSunday, June 30, 2019
In front of the Stonewall Inn, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which gave birth to the modern gay rights movement:
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:35PMSaturday, June 29, 2019
How well were you paying attention to theater in June? How much do you know about LGBT theater history? Find both answers in this 10-question quiz
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:14PMThursday, June 27, 2019
Theater lovers should expect “a spirit of adventure and invention” from the shows at The Shed, according to Alex Poots, the artistic director of this new $500 million arts center on West…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:48PMNear the beginning of David Cale’s shocking autobiographical one-man show, he gets a laugh when he explains that Luton, the industrial town where he grew up 30 miles north of London “h…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:08PMFor the 19th year in a row, Bryant Park is the site of free lunchtime concerts by cast members of current Broadway (and some Off-Broadway) shows on Thursdays in July and August between 12:…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:05AMTuesday, June 25, 2019
A starry cast of 18, including Annette Bening and Zachary Quinto, performed “The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts”, a 77-minute adaptation of the Mueller Report by Pulit…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:05AMAt the 11th annual Jimmy Awards, Ethan Kelso won Best Performance by an Actor as Will Bloom in Big Fish at Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Ekele Ukegb…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:31AMMonday, June 24, 2019
An all-star cast will perform a live reading of The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts, Robert Schenkkan adaptation of the Mueller Report. This one-night only event, beginning…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:33AMSunday, June 23, 2019
The 2019-2020 Broadway season is still in formation, but there’s enough exciting already scheduled to offer this preview: Lin-Manuel is producing his hip-hop improv group on Broadway, and …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:49AMSaturday, June 22, 2019
“Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes,” by the freewheeling Philadelphia-based group called The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, is being presented as part of La MaMa’s celebration …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:43PMFriday, June 21, 2019
“Avenue Q” is no more, the Bil Baird Marionette Theater died decades ago, but there is plenty of puppetry in New York, as I detail in my article for TDF Stages, 5 Theatres You Need to Kn…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:39AMThursday, June 20, 2019
Toni Stone was the first woman to play big-league professional baseball. She succeeded Hank Aaron playing second base for the otherwise all-male Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American Lea…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:00PMWednesday, June 19, 2019
“The Secret Life of Bees” – first a 2001 best-selling novel, then a 2008 all-star movie, now a musical written by theatrical all stars Lynn Nottage (Sweat, Ruined), Duncan Sheik (Sprin…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:11PMTuesday, June 18, 2019
The first publicity shot from Steven Spielberg’s movie remake of “West Side Story,” planned for December 2020, came on the same week as the death of Franco Zeffirelli, whose 1968 film …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:35AMMonday, June 17, 2019
“A Strange Loop” is a musical about a big, gay black guy who is struggling to write a musical about a big, gay black guy who is struggling….. Michael R. Jackson, the musical’s talent…
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