The 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:12PMHe’s known as a playwright (“Jeffrey” and “I Hate Hamlet”) screenwriter (“Addams Family Values,” “In & Out”) novelist (Social Disease, I’ll Take It) and essayist (I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:46PMTwo-for-one tickets are on sale now for Off-Broadway Week, February 10 to 24, 2020. The following 33 shows are participating. Those with an asterisk are newly on offer. (Check out my Off B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:57AMAll these Broadway veterans participated in the 62 Grammy Awards, where “Hadestown” won Best Musical Theater Album. The other nominated albums were “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life And Tim…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AMCasts from six shows opening this season on Broadway — including shows with music by Bob Dylan and Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Tony Kushner – performed at First Look at BroadwayCon 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:40PMIn this gorgeous, enlightening and ambitious — if over-stuffed — hour-long theatrical collage, Theodora Skipitares uses the eerie visual splendor of puppetry to illuminate a serious su…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:47PMA transcript and video of the closing arguments both Thursday and Friday by Representative Adam Schiff, the House impeachment manager for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37AMCharles Fuller’s murder mystery, finally on Broadway in a fine production directed by Kenny Leon some four decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is so good that even if you’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36AM“I think I would like a divorce,” Jane Alexander as Nancy French says to her husband of 50 years, played by James Cromwell. “All right,” Bill replies. Blackout. That’s all the dial…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PMSome shows you leave needing to tell people about; some shows you leave thinking about what you are going to have for dinner. A few shows ruin your dinner. If you’re a drama critic, you ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PMWhen did “theater” become an insult? With the impeachment trial scheduled to begin in earnest this week, the one thing that the right and the left, Democrats and Republicans, seem to agr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:26AM“Leaving the Blues” dramatizes the life of the amazing jazz, blues and Broadway singer/songwriter Alberta Hunter. I long thought her story was ideal for a musical, ever since I saw her a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36PM“We must devote at least as much to our children’s education and the health of the poor as we do to the care of our automobiles and the building of beautiful, impressive hotels,” Marti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PM“You will hear an unbelievable true story,” one of the three actors from the Republic of Slovenia on a stage designed to look like a makeshift bunker, tells us at the beginning of the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:04PM…”My Name is Lucy Barton” is a sometimes poignant, often tedious 90-minute monologue… The hope was that Laura Linney would do for it what France McDormand did in the HBO miniseries t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:51PMAnn Harada, who made her Broadway debut more than 30 years ago, is philosophical about the latest character she portrays. “Sometimes you get to play glamorous roles,” she says, “and so…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:54AMThey meet on a line for a movie; the man and the woman — each disfigured by childhood accidents — are used to be stared at, and they are used to being alone. Inspired by the late Urugu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:41PMThose theatergoers drawn to “Modern Maori Quartet: Two Worlds” for the authentic music and culture of the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand might feel blindsided by what seems like …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AMThis 15 minutes of Virtual Reality offering the sensation of looking at, walking on and flying over the moon — created by performance artist Laurie Anderson and new media artist Hsin-Chien…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:06PMThe typical Broadway theatergoer is still a well-to-do , middle-aged woman from out-of-town, according to statistics presented in The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2018–2019, the 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:54PMBelow are the nominations in 24 categories for the 92nd Academy Awards, Joker” led all films with 11 nominations, including for Best Actor Joaquin Phoenix and Best Director Todd Phillips, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24AMNominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards will be announced tomorrow January 13, so it seems a good time to test your knowledge of the history of Broadway at the Oscars. (The 92nd Oscar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:25PMTickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 21 through February 9 of 21 Broadway shows, from “Ain’t Too Pr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35AMThere was a time when people made a living by starving themselves in front of a paying audience — an art form that lasted for centuries, but one that was on the wane when Franz Kafka wrote…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:04PMThe long arty title and the vague, grand description of the show in the Under the Radar festival listing are both misleading. “The Shadow” etc. has a straightforward subject and a clear …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:13PM“Wild Dogs Under My Skirt,” a rhythmic, exuberant and startling work of theater that is the first of three New Zealand plays at Soho Playhouse this month, resembles Ntozake Shange’s ch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:30PMTwo Broadway veterans — Taylor Mac, Tony-nominated playwright of “Gary” and Greg Kotis, the Tony-winning co-author of “Urinetown” – are back Off-Off Broadway this season, and why…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:44PMBroadway and Off-Broadway were represented at the 77th annual Golden Globes; click on photographs for details. (Full list of 2020 Golden Globe winners and nominees.) Theater is an art form t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AMChoose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway from January through April 2020 as of this writing, and they are listed …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48AMGenocide, suicide, murder, deportation, terror, kidnapping, mass explosion – those are some of the bleak subjects of the Off-Broadway shows I’m most looking forward to this season, liste…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:49PMFor all the Broadway lore and persistent hope that a show on the Great White Way will make new stars and break new ground, the appeal of Broadway increasingly has become its familiarity – …
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