Monday, September 16, 2019
Below is the complete list of winners of the 15th annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards, honoring outstanding work Off-Off Broadway. Multiple-winning shows include “Eight Tales of Pe…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:01PM“As Much As I Can,” a show that illustrates the continuing AIDS crisis among African-American men, exists on two different planes, which are not in complete alignment with one another. I…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:57PMPhyllis Newman, 86, has died. She was an entertainer from the age of 4; veteran of 11 Broadway shows (Tony winner for Subways Are For Sleeping, pictured); daughter of a fortune teller and …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:51AMSunday, September 15, 2019
In his Broadway debut, Derren Brown performs some dozen mind games and magic tricks over 150 minutes that depend on audience participation, all of which are meant to provoke us to ask: “Ho…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:15PMSaturday, September 14, 2019
Talmudic scholars and kung fu movie fans will both find something familiar in this singular hour-long hybrid by the eight-year-old theater company Meta-Phys Ed., in which four performers r…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:19PMFriday, September 13, 2019
In my article for TDF Stages, I look at three new plays that focus on AIDS — “The Inheritance” by Matthew Lopez, which begins performances on Broadway September 27, opening in November…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:20PMThursday, September 12, 2019
Who should do a cabaret act? That was a question posed in a recent ticket giveaway contest for the cabaret 54 Below. Here are some of the responses, listed alphabetically by performer, follo…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:53AMWednesday, September 11, 2019
On the surface, “American Moor,” written by and starring Keith Hamilton Cobb, is about a veteran African-American actor auditioning to play Othello for a clueless young, white director…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:50PMTuesday, September 10, 2019
Some of the most thrilling theater in New York this Fall, and certainly much of the weirdest, promises to be Off-Broadway. There are revivals Off-Broadway of Tony Kushner’s first play, one…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:08PMMonday, September 9, 2019
The 2019-2020 Broadway season has begun, with the first Fall Broadway opening of 15 scheduled from September through December, and the first of the Fall previews, some covering the wa…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:52AMSunday, September 8, 2019
The audience creates the show in “Play!” The audience is the show in “Theatre in the Dark: Carpe Diem.” Those are the uncomfortable ideas embedded in the two latest theater pieces,…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:20PMSaturday, September 7, 2019
To appreciate these first two productions of the five-play Mac Wellman festival at The Flea, entitled “Perfect Catastrophes,” it helps to know that Wellman — the 74-year-old co-fou…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:00PMFriday, September 6, 2019
Theatrical showman was born 120 years ago today, and, though he died in 1966, he lives on through The Billy Rose Theatre Division of The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, one of t…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:49PMThursday, September 5, 2019
Harold Pinter’s 1978 play about an adulterous triangle, which is being revived on Broadway starring Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox and Zawe Ashton, is one of the most accessible and most f…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:06PMWednesday, September 4, 2019
Win two tickets to see the show of your choice at Feinstein’s/54 Below for free – plus $50 in food credit! Feinstein’s/54 Below, a cabaret that calls itself Broadway’s Supper Club,…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:10PMTuesday, September 3, 2019
At the beginning of this eye-opening musical written, composed, directed and largely performed by artists of Filipino descent, Felix Starro has returned from the Philippines to San Francis…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:09PM“Hercules,” a stage adaptation of the 1997 Disney cartoon, is the latest free, Labor Day weekend spectacle at the Delacorte in Central Park by the Public Theater’s Public Works, which …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:31PMComing to Broadway this season: Katrina Lenk and Patti Lupone will star in a “re-gendered” revival of “Company” (which was a hit in London), opening at Bernard Jacobs Theater on M…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:44AMMonday, September 2, 2019
Where are the American plays about unions, or workers, or even just workplaces? Of some 200 new plays I’ve seen or read since I first asked that question exactly a year ago, on the la…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:44AMSunday, September 1, 2019
In this eclectic opening month of the New York Fall theater season laid out below, legendary theater artists Mac Wellman (74),JoAnne Akalaitis (82), and Peter Brook (94) each get showcase…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:13AMSaturday, August 31, 2019
“Something didn’t make sense,” Celia Keenan-Bolger as Scout Finch tells us, the first words in Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird.” She’s …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:23PMFriday, August 30, 2019
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these 14 questions and find out!
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:08AMThursday, August 29, 2019
Theater Mitu’s latest devised theater piece is a 70-minute tech-heavy sensory bombardment, a collage of disparate images, monologues, songs and sounds that are focused (if that’s the r…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:02AMWednesday, August 28, 2019
Win two tickets to see “Fiddler on the Roof” for free I loved this production directed by Joel Grey, which is in Yiddish with both English and Russian Supertitles. I loved it when it w…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:45PMTuesday, August 27, 2019
Below is a list of movies opening in the U.S. from September to December, organized chronologically by release date. Among the movies of interest to theater lovers: Finn Wittrock (Death of A…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:42PMMonday, August 26, 2019
Good Morning America host Lara Spencer laughed at Prince George (aged 6), the future King of England, for taking ballet classes. The best thing about her ignorant comments is the support …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:33PMSunday, August 25, 2019
Two books, one a novel and one non-fiction, bring us back to New York in the 1950s and the effect of the Red Scare on the theater.
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:41PMSaturday, August 24, 2019
Watch director Richard Nelson’s much lauded production of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” here online. It was broadcast last night on WNET Channel 13 as part of the TV series Theater Close U…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:21PMFriday, August 23, 2019
The Labyrinth Theater Company’s new show, which it has entitled “Installation on America” and calls a weekend-long “guerilla theater/pop-up performance art/installation that unmasks …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:20PMThursday, August 22, 2019
The 2019 Henry Hewes Design Awards have been given to scenic designer Charlie Corcoran for The O’Casey Trilogy, at Irish Repertory Theatre; costume designer Montana Levi Blanco for Ain’…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:03AMWin two tickets to see “The Play That Goes Wrong” for free I’m holding this contest to help promote 20at20, a terrific program that offers $20 tickets to 20+ Off Broadway shows, 20 min…
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