Molly Brown, a socialite, social activist and survivor of the Titanic disaster in real life — turned into a Tony-winning Tammy Grimes on stage and Debbie Reynolds at her pluckiest on scree…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PMWhat’s most remarkable about Ivo van Hove’s shake-up of West Side Story is, for all the Belgian director’s ruinous choices – chief among them, an overabundance of distracting video p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PMEighteen thousand New York City public school students went to Madison Square Garden this afternoon to watch a performance of “To Kill A Mockingbird,” becoming reportedly the largest aud…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:08PMWe’re all in pain – because of loneliness or loss, betrayal or illness – and playwright Young Jean Lee wants to offer us some comfort. This might not be immediately apparent, given the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMNatalie Portman is Keyonna’s imaginary friend, and also her crush. The 16-year-old has other crushes – all white actresses, pictures of whom she has cut out of magazines and pasted into …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PMAs Black History Month comes to an end, a new edition of a book about the white supremacy of Broadway musicals (with the too obviously ironic title of The Great White Way) has been published…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PMBelow are some of the latest posts from the few still active New York City theater bloggers: About Last Night and Broadway Journal tell two different West Side Stories; Broadway and Me analy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26AM“Generator” is part art installation, part dance theater that evokes the evolution of life forms on earth. It starts with performers as single cell organisms dressed in hazmat suits, pla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMIn the course of his four-decade career, the Belgian director Ivo van Hove has created more than 100 productions of theater, opera, and movies throughout the world, with more of them in Ne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:48PMThis fifth Broadway revival of “West Side Story,” opening tonight, is different from the previous productions of the modern-day version of Romeo and Juliet, with its multiracial cast of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:54PMAre Broadway musicals covert vehicles for white supremacy? That’s more or less the argument that theater writer Warren Hoffman made in his 2014 book. The title apparently proved popular en…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PMThe calendar for the 74th annual Tony Awards,: Thursday, April 23rd: Official cut-off for 2019-2020 Tony Eligibility Tuesday, April 28th: Nominations announced April 30th: Meet the nominees…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35AMThe current president of the United States has been depicted largely satirically on out-of-the-way New York stages, but nearly every past president has made it to Broadway over the last ce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02AMTwists on “Romeo and Juliet” are big this month in New York — in West Side Story on Broadway, of course, but also Beyond Babel, and Romeo and Bernadette, and Juliet and her Romeo It�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:39PMHow much do you know about the 41 Broadway theaters? In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Broadway Up Close , a company that gives a variety of walking tours of these theaters, founde…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:32PMFor the fourth year in a row, the Trump budget proposes shutting down the National Endowment for the Arts, along with many other cultural agencies — the National Endowment for the Humaniti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11AMThe audience is invited to sing and dance along with the performers in an actual fandango, which is a lively, spontaneous, communal musical celebration. But that’s only after the 100 minut…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:08PMParasite was the biggest winner at the 92nd Academy Awards, and Broadway veterans were the biggest losers. Below is the list of the winners. (Check out the full list of nominations). An aste…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:08AMTen of the 19 performers nominated for the Academy Awards in 2020 are Broadway veterans, four of them Tony winners. Click on the photographs below to learn details.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:52PMTrilobites were actual crab-like creatures of the sea who lived on earth 150 million years before the first dinosaurs – and, like dinosaurs, are long extinct. But they remain as sturdy fos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:59PMGod I blew that answer I blew that answer He hates my single-payer plan So sing the candidates in the Iowa Stage Theatre Company’s production of “Adore Us! Line,” a musical that uses A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:52PMAlthough Kirk Douglas, who died yesterday at the age of 103, was known primarily as a movie star, he was also a veteran of Broadway. (Obituaries in CNN, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times) B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PMAs he’s done for close to 40 years, Charles Busch sprinkles his latest campy melodrama with Oscar Wilde wit, Barbara Stanwyck grit, Marlene Dietrich glamour and Mae West shtick: “I don�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:57PMFifty-two Senators, all of them Republicans, voted to acquit Donald Trump of abuse of power. The lone Republican who voted to convict, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, explained his reasons why ea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:19PM“So you’re doing a whole show on borders, huh?” says Border Patrol Special Agent Lopez, the first of 11 people whom Dan Hoyle impersonates over 75 minutes in “Border People,” re-cr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:47PMA film of “Hamilton,” with its original Broadway cast, is coming to cinema screens across the U.S. and Canada on October 15, 2021, released by The Walt Disney Studios, (which reportedly …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in January 2020? Answer these dozen questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PMBelow is a selection of New York theater openings in February, organized chronologically by opening date. There’s just one show opening on Broadway this month, but it’s a doozy: The fift…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PMOur safety word was “stunt reporter,” as Nellie Bly, one of the 19th century’s most celebrated journalists, took along the 18 of us undercover to the mental institution at Blackwell Is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PMFrom the get-go, the “Medea” on stage at BAM looks less like a modern update of Euripides’ tragedy than a fashion shoot: Bobby Cannavale talks quietly with Rose Byrne against an empty,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19PMThe Alexander in the title is Dr. Alexander Wiener, a pioneering scientist in the use of blood to identify individuals in ways similar to fingerprints, and co-discoverer of the Rh factor in …
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