Tuesday, November 13, 2018
In celebration of the Blue Wave – which has grown steadily in the week since Election Day — a silly observation: There have been 51 Broadway shows with “Blue” in the title. I’m…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:31AMMonday, November 12, 2018
“The New One “isn’t literally new. Mike Birbiglia’s solo show debuted Off-Broadway three months ago – where it sold out quickly. It’s now on Broadway – same cast (i.e. …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:47PMSunday, November 11, 2018
“The Female Role Model Project” is a pioneering work of theater by a new company called Transforma, in which artists and scientists collaborate to explore attitudes about women, and ques…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:44PMSaturday, November 10, 2018
Afong Moy was the first Chinese woman in the United States. Brought to New York in 1834, she was put on display in a museum. Out of this true story, playwright Lloyd Suh has fashioned “Th…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:01PMFriday, November 9, 2018
My favorite character in Frozen on Broadway by far is Sven the reindeer. I’ve been a fan of Avenue Q before it opened Off-Broadway the first time. Does anybody doubt The Lion King o…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:33PMThursday, November 8, 2018
While anxiously waiting in a Miami police station for word of what happened to her son Jamal, an educated African-American woman named Kendra (Kerry Washington) talks with her estranged whit…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:35PMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Today is Election Day! If you live in NYC, find your polling site here. If you live anywhere in America, you can go to Vote.org for some cool info — like, for example, what’s on …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:58AMMonday, November 5, 2018
The 1982 Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy, starring Harvey Fierstein as Arnold Beckoff, a sometime drag queen and gay Jewish romantic searching for love and acceptance, could be cre…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:45PMSaturday, November 3, 2018
“It’s a terrible time to be alive. There’s just nothing left to discover,” says Jake (Noah Robbins) in the second half of Lewiston/Clarkston, two powerfully affecting plays by Samuel…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:32PMFriday, November 2, 2018
Food for the Gods is about the killing of black men; Exodus addresses the current refugee crisis; Blind is a solo work about disability. These may not sound like typical subjects for puppet …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:49AMThursday, November 1, 2018
Six shows are opening on Broadway in November. And yes, one of them features a giant ape feeling unwelcome in New York City, and another marks the annual holiday stopover for a perennially…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:34AMWednesday, October 31, 2018
How well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in October? Answer these 10 questions to find out.
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:25AMMonday, October 29, 2018
This has been a wonderful week for theater – with openings for terrific Broadway shows The Ferryman, The Waverly Gallery, The Lifespan of a Fact. And not just on Broadway: The 21st New Yor…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:40PMSunday, October 28, 2018
“India Pale Ale,” a play by Jaclyn Backhaus running Off-Broadway, suddenly becomes shockingly timely with the killing of 11 Jews in a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Halfway through the play, a…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:45PMSaturday, October 27, 2018
By the time “The Ferryman” has ended, we have been treated to a breathtaking mix of revenge action thriller, romance, melodrama, family saga, and a feast of storytelling – ghos…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:33AMThursday, October 25, 2018
Elaine May is back on a Broadway stage after more than 50 years, and making the most of it in The Waverly Gallery, Kenneth Lonergan’s meticulously observed, funny and sad play about a woma…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:31PMLast year, James Franco’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to a theater that was going to present Kevin Broccoli’s play “James Franco and Me,” insisting they stop marketing the…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:41PMWednesday, October 24, 2018
I take “The Lifespan of a Fact” personally. On the one hand, Cherry Jones, Bobby Cannavale and Daniel Radcliffe, are three of my favorite actors in the universe, performing in a …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:25AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
Currently on New York stages are several shows starring beloved actresses that offer decidedly different takes on the role of women in society (see reviews below): Two reports released this …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:42AMMonday, October 22, 2018
Carmel Dean had worked closely with celebrated musicians and theater artists ranging from Green Day to Chita Rivera, but she panicked when she met Stephen Sondheim, not because she revered h…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:59PMSunday, October 21, 2018
Gloria Steinem herself came out in the last twenty minutes of Gloria: A Lifeto lead the “talking circle,” an unscripted conversation with the audience. This was the officially designated…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:32PMFriday, October 19, 2018
The Rev. Charles Emmanuel Grace, a hero of the Civil Rights Movement, and his pregnant wife Olivia, who writes his stirring sermons for him, seem to find great joy in one another when he lif…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:48PMThursday, October 18, 2018
A man stands in front of the army tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests. A woman helps topple a dictator, with surprising results. A man tries to rescue a child in a plane crash. Anoth…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:36PMDuring the 2017–2018 season, the average age of Broadway theatergoers was 40.6, the lowest since 2000, according to a newly released report by the Broadway League, the trade group for the …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:09PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Genghis Khan had a mother; so did Amelia Earhart and Dwight Eisenhower. Perhaps Mother of the Maid, starring Glenn Close as the woman whom Joan of Arc called Ma, will start a trend of offeri…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:02PMTheater is often awesome, even when in need of repair, and this week is no different. Scenes from @FringeNYC Hub on a Tuesday in October pic.twitter.com/5uECyWnkjj — New York Theater (@New…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:35PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
In this well-acted, finely directed Off-Broadway production of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2009 play, Stockard Channing portrays Kristin Miller, a long-time activist, American expatriate and…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:20PMMonday, October 15, 2018
“Opening Night” begins with hilariously feuding twin sister Hollywood stars, who are brilliantly named Margo Nightingale and Joan de Tuileries, each presenting what they thought was a on…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:00PMSunday, October 14, 2018
Emma and Max are the toddlers in the care of a Barbadian nanny, Britney, who is fired by their parents in the awkward first scene of “Emma and Max,” a jarring play about racism written a…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:00PMSaturday, October 13, 2018
Edward Einhorn’s latest play is based on the jaw-dropping true story of a quack doctor who became rich and famous in the 1920s by implanting goat testicles as a cure for male impotence, an…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:17AMFriday, October 12, 2018
Lady Gaga, Madonna, Kesha, U2 and Panic! At the Disco were among the answers to the question: What recording artist or band would you most like to see providing the score for a musical on Br…
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