Watch the video below for highlights of the concert that concluded the Immigrant Arts in America Summit. The summit was a two-day event that included panel discussions, a speech by John Legu…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:12PM“We’re the kind of people that Trump wants to keep out of the U.S.,” John Leguizamo says in the video below, about his family, who immigrated to New York from Colombia (“the country,…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:57AMTicket Givewaway: Win two tickets to see Indecent for free. I loved this show, a fascinating backstage tale written by Paula Vogel and wondrously staged by Rebecca Taichman (who won a Ton…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:43PM“I am a foolish man…I am crushed, I have been crushed by fate,” cried out Reg E. Cathey as King Creon, at a climactic moment in the free Saturday performance of “An…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:03PMAs “Pipeline” begins, we learn that a black teenager has gotten into a physical scuffle with his teacher and is in danger of being expelled, and arrested. But playwright Dominique Moriss…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:27PMThe actor Matthew McConaughey sells his soul to the devil, and then tries to get it back, in this musical that opened the 2017 New York Musical Festival, which describes the show in its prog…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:38PMAs you might have heard, Oscar Isaac walks around in his underpants in the Public Theater production of “Hamlet.” But the most startling visual occurs much later. There’s a sudden, str…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:30PMThere are two kinds of questions posed by the Improbable Theater Company’s production of “Opening Skinner’s Box,” a stage adaptation of the 2004 book by Lauren Slater that describes …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:31PMNear the end of this musical revue surveying 50 years in song of Jewish immigration to New York, one of the talented performers, Daniel Kahn, delivers an astounding rendition of “Roumania,…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:08AM“Who will want a play by William Shakespeare?” his wife Ann asks him, unkindly, in their home in the hick town of Stratford-Upon-Avon, as he is about to depart for London in 1589 to beco…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:45PMSummer means outdoor entertainment, much of it free– like the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concerts… Watch Groundhog Day at Bryant Park – three songs …and Broadw…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:34PMActors don’t realize how hard it is to work with animals, observes animal trainer William Berloni in the video below, during the 2017 Broadway Barks animal adoption event at Shubert Al…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:18AMIn “To T or Not To T,” a fascinating and funny autobiographical monologue, the performer known as D’Lo impersonates his father giving a speech at D’Lo’s wedding ceremony: “Even t…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:23PMIn “Cost of Living,” an eye-opening play featuring a quartet of extraordinary performances, playwright Martina Martok offers a tart retort to that sappy Barbra Streisand song about the l…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:48PMAndy Karl, Barrett Doss and more than a dozen other cast members of the Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” performed three songs at the Broadway at Bryant Park lunchtime concert to…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:24PMBefore the start of “Kim’s Convenience,” Soulpepper artistic director Arthur Schultz introduced it to the New York audience as “the most successful new Canadian play of the last deca…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:52PMAs Americans celebrate our 241st Fourth of July, it’s bracing to realize that the most patriotic new show on Broadway is “Come From Away,” a musical about Canada. But American patrioti…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:39PMThis is an unusual month for New York theater: While there are no shows opening on Broadway, and few Off-Broadway, there is plenty to see – the annual summer theater festivals, such as the…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:01PMA ninth century Pope, a 21st century female Buddha, Liberace with a notorious gangster, Errol Flynn with Fidel Castro, Matthew McConaughey with the devil, a Conquistador’s daughter w…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:40AMCanada Day, almost always on July 1st, is special this year for two reasons: 2017 marks Canada’s 150th anniversary. And it’s the first day of Soulpepper on 42nd Street. Starting …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:33PMThird Rail Projects, the dazzling experimental and self-described “experiential” company that has created engaging site-specific theater in an old mental institution in Williamsburg (“…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:24PMHow well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews this month? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:13PMThere’s a story told in “Marvin’s Room” of a young man named Clarence who took a swim during a beachfront picnic, dunking down into the water and popping back up several times, each …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:57PMNear the end of “Seeing You,” a dance and theater piece about World War II written and co-directed by Randy Weiner (a producer of both Sleep No More and Queen of the Night ), I …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:51PMIndecent, which announced it would close on Broadway today, suddenly reversed itself this week, and will play on until August 5. It seems a fitting Pride Day gift for this backstage play abo…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:34AMIt would seem just the right timing for the first adaptation on a Broadway stage of “1984,” George Orwell’s chilling 1949 novel of a future totalitarian society. The book long has been…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:25PMBelow is the 2017 Kilroys list of 37 plays by women and trans writers of color most recommended in a survey of “273 influential new play leaders” Most of the plays have never b…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:55PMTicket Giveaway: Win two tickets to “The Traveling Lady,” a play by Horton Foote at the Cherry Lane Theater. The play, about a woman who journeys to a small town in 1950’s …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:40PMWith the new production of Horton Foote’s “The Traveling Lady,” we are back on familiar Foote territory. The play, about a woman hoping to reunite with a husband recently released from…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:26PMLauren Yee’s “in a word” is, on one level, about a married couple whose seven-year-old son has been missing for two years, the mother’s grief and guilt causing a breakdown in her rel…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:36PMPerformances by Sarah Bernhardt, Martha Graham, and Meryl Streep; meetings about equal rights with Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass in 1869; a lecture by Helen Keller in 1913. The…
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