Saturday, September 22, 2018
As the family gathers for a Thanksgiving right before everything starts to fall apart, Knox (Russell Harvard) gives thanks for “three things I used to think weren’t gifts at all: Deafnes…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:00AMFriday, September 21, 2018
“Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2” tops the list of what will be the most produced plays nationwide among the 531 non-profit theaters that are part of the Theatr…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:50AMThursday, September 20, 2018
As Polly Noonan, Edie Falco, late of The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie, can make almost any show more engaging than it would otherwise be, even a relatively sedate one like “The True,”……
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:30PMWednesday, September 19, 2018
Karma, a “dirty little hood rat” of 17, is looking for her missing former foster brother Terrell, though she didn’t know him long and he didn’t like her much. He was, however, all sh…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:32PMMonday, September 17, 2018
2018 Theatre Hall of Fame inductees: Actors Rene Auberjonois, Christine Baranski, Cicely Tyson Playwrights Maria Irene Fornes, David Henry Hwang, Adrienne Kennedy Director Joe Mantello Produ…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:35AMSunday, September 16, 2018
Although billed as “an intimate immersive production,” what “Stars in the Night” actually offers, at its best, is the exact opposite — a spectacular public setting. An audience…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:01PMSaturday, September 15, 2018
When Jenna Gavigan made her Broadway debut at age 16 as a member of the ensemble in the 2003 revival of Gypsy, she shared the stage at the Shubert Theater not just with stars Bernadette Pete…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:54PMFriday, September 14, 2018
“I think there has been a growth in Trump fatigue,” says Tony Stinkmetal, who admits that he himself shares it — which is why it’s surprising that he has created a show c…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:36PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
The full title of “Collective Rage,” Jen Silverman’s playful, bawdy, and episodic genderqueer/feminist/lesbian comedy about five women named Betty, is 47 words long. Only once does it …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:14PMTuesday, September 11, 2018
Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin will star on Broadway in “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” a new comedy marking the Broadway debut of acclaimed theater artist Taylor Mac. D…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:32AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Sandbags and British flags abound in the air raid shelter where we have gathered, in the basement of London’s Ambassador Hotel in 1940, in the midst of the Blitz of London. This is a fine …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:55PMSaturday, September 8, 2018
The Culture Wars in America began, according to a new show running from September 13-30 at La MaMa called “THE AЯTS,” on May 18, 1989, when Senator Al D’Amato of New York ripped up …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:45PMFriday, September 7, 2018
Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s glorious gospel musical, an inspired retelling of Sophocles’ “Oedipus at Colonus” as if it’s an African-American Pentecostal church service, de…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:23AMThursday, September 6, 2018
Seven years after “War Horse” appeared on Broadway, New Yorkers are getting another British stage adaptation of another young adult novel by Michael Morpurgo about the horrors of World W…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:06PMWednesday, September 5, 2018
Before Hershey Felder says or sings or plays the piano as Irving Berlin, there are signs that, in this one-man show about arguably the greatest of American songwriters, we’re in for an eve…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:31PMTuesday, September 4, 2018
The Village Voice shut down on Friday after 63 years. The Obie Awards, honoring Off & Off-Off Broadway, which the Voice launched in 1955 and still co-sponsored, will continue, acc…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:13AMMonday, September 3, 2018
It was while attending the current revival of Lillian Hellman’s 1936 play “Days to Come,” which is set during a strike at a brush factory in Ohio, that I suddenly wondered: Where are…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:58AMSunday, September 2, 2018
Off-Broadway in the Fall promises a new musical with book by Conor McPherson and music by Bob Dylan (“Girl from the North Country”); Glenn Close as Joan of Arc’s mother (…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:33PMSaturday, September 1, 2018
Sarah Bernhardt returns to Broadway, in the person of Janet McTeer, in a new play by Teresa Rebeck about the actress’s pursuit in 1899 of the role of Hamlet. ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet”…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:41AMFriday, August 31, 2018
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:38PMThursday, August 30, 2018
Police in the United States shot and killed 36 unarmed black men in 2015; 18 in 2016; 19 in 2017, and 12 so far in 2018, according to the Washington Post. In “Scraps,” Geraldine Inoa, m…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:38PMWednesday, August 29, 2018
Below is a list of movies opening from September to December, organized chronologically by release date. Among the movies featuring theater veterans: Oscar Isaac in “Operation Finale…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:26AMTuesday, August 28, 2018
“Remnant,” according to Theater Mitu’s director Ruben Polendo, is a meditation on war, death and loss. It is Mitu’s first piece in the first building that the 20-year-old company can…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:52PMBuzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon (nine minutes after the first, Neil Armstrong), 50 years ago next summer. “No one will think of them as ‘the first men on the moon.’N…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:00PMMonday, August 27, 2018
Playwright Neil Simon, who dominated Broadway with his many comedies for more than two decades, died on Sunday at the age of 91. His is the latest death of a theater artist in a week full of…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:02AMSunday, August 26, 2018
Lillian Hellman herself described “Days to Come,” her 1936 play about labor strife and family conflict, as “an absolute horror of a failure.” She wrote it two years after her first B…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:51PMSaturday, August 25, 2018
Leonard Bernstein, who was born on August 25, 1918, was “the greatest pianist among the conductors, the greatest conductor among composers, the greatest composer among pianists,”…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:43PMFriday, August 24, 2018
Charlie Copeland is a Broadway fixer, who’s worked on everything from “The Phantom of the Opera” to “Frozen,” tangibly changing the experience for a generation of theatergoers. Cop…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:58AMThursday, August 23, 2018
Philip Santos Schaffer pulls back the curtain and introduces himself as “your server and savior” to me and the only other member of the audience. After chatting idly for a while,…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:39AMTuesday, August 21, 2018
The National Asian American Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy is unlike any you’ve seen in New York before. This is true largely because you are unlikely e…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:33PMMonday, August 20, 2018
For 20 years, August was the month when New Yorkers who hated the beach and couldn’t afford to travel could have a “staycation” sampling some 200 shows at the New York International Fr…
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