The thrilling final minutes of “Tina” are all that a rock concert should be, and the main reason to see this jukebox biomusical about one of the world’s most electric performers, po…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:46PMIn the 26 years since the Russian clown Slava Polunin began touring, “Slava’s Snowshow” has been performed “thousands of times to millions of people in hundreds of cities,” accordi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMKeep those cell phones on; that’s where “User Not Found” largely unfolds. Yes, this terrific site-specific play takes place in a café near BAM in Fort Greene, where Terry O’Dono…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:06PMBrandoCapote is a play with a script by Sara Farrington inspired by a fascinating interview Truman Capote conducted with Marlon Brando at the peak of his popularity in 1957, while the movie …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:44PMOn Veterans Day, a reminder from Adam Driver, Broadway veteran and military veteran, and the founder of Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit that brings theater to the military: “The …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PM“Broadbend, Arkansas” is billed as a musical about three generations of an African-American family in the South grappling with injustice. While technically accurate, that’s a mislead…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:03PM“Whoo, that was some heavy shit,” our guide says after leading us through 400 years of African-American history. It was hard to disagree. Every inch of HERE Arts Center has been transfor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:16PMDavid Lawson made a personal sacrifice as a public service: He read 10 campaign books, all but one by current candidates for President of the United States. From his reading, he has fashione…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMIf Richard Nelson, the writer and director of “The Michaels,” were hired to direct the next Marvel movie, would Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk sit around the kitchen table in Rhinebeck, New…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:40AMPeter Dinklage’s singing voice would not normally qualify him for a role in a musical, unless in a Disney animated movie as a singing rhinoceros. But Rex Harrison couldn’t really sing ei…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:02PMBella Abzug spoke at my junior high school graduation, until Donna Florio’s mother told her to shut up. “This is my daughter’s graduation, not a political rally.” Abzug paused, apo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:21PMThe two ladies hanging out on the roof are lesbians; they just don’t know it yet. The title of Liza Birkenmeier’s play, which marks her Off-Broadway playwriting debut, may seem to promis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMAndré Bishop, head of Lincoln Center Theater: $1 million Todd Haimes, Roundabout: $922,000. Oskar Eustis the Public Theater: $659,000 Lynne Meadows, MTC: $565,000 Carole Rothman, Second Sta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMLizzie Vieh’s black comedy about a divorced couple permanently underwater in Phoenix Arizona, is clever and merciless, but it is also oddly compassionate. Exhibit A is the bit with the her…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09PMHow much were you paying attention to New York theater in October? Take this quiz and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:32AMBelow is a selection of New York theater opening in November, organized chronologically by opening date, including five on Broadway – a much anticipated epic gay play, a blockbuster m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:01PM“The Sound Inside” is a dark drama by Adam Rapp that keeps us in the dark, literally and figuratively, which works better while watching it on stage than thinking about it afterwards. Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PMWilliam Shakespeare’s only son, named Hamnet, died when he was 11 years old; a few years later, the playwright wrote “Hamlet.” The Irish theater troupe Dead Centre conjures up the Ba…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AM“How do we fight evil without becoming evil?” asks Ethan, one of the two adult characters in “Fear,” a play by Matt Williams. “Isn’t that the central question of the age, th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:44PM“Freestyle Love Supreme” is not so much Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway follow-up to “Hamilton” as it is a subsidiary of Lin-Manuel Inc. The hip-hop improv group that Miranda co-fo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:03PMTheresa Rebeck’s slight but savory comedy about running a restaurant stars Raúl Esparza as Harry, a hilariously mercurial chef-owner of a hole-in-the-wall eatery that’s become the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:32PMRefugees are in the news these days, and their stories have suddenly come to New York stages. “I think it is important to ask an audience to recognize lives that we have literally fenced o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AMThree years after he spoofed “Hamilton” in “Spamilton” (with “I am not throwing away my shot” becoming “I am not gonna let Broadway rot,”) Gerard Alessandrini paints Lin-Manu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:36PMI think if I were eight years old I might have loved “The Lightning Thief” on Broadway, but that’s mostly because I would then have been too young to have seen it at the Lucille Lortel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PMThere is one spectacularly funny moment in this musical comedy version of “Macbeth,” which is based on Billy Morrissette’s 2001 movie, and is set in a fast-food restaurant in the “po…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47PMForty-one years after Broadway said goodbye after 742 thrilling performances to its first (and last) choreopoem, and a year after its author and original performer died at the age of 70, sev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PM“Is This A Room” stages the verbatim transcript of the FBI interrogation of a 25-year-old former Air Force linguist with the improbable name of Reality Winner, who was eventually sente…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53PMDavid Henry Hwang was attacked by an unknown assailant with a knife and nearly died. That experience, along with the playwright’s shock at the results of the 2016 Presidential election and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PMThere are many cues to what’s wrong with this overly broad third Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ dated play, starring Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian immigrant se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMBooks about Bob Fosse and Yiddish theater have been named the best theater books of the year by The Theatre Library Association, which is presenting its TLA Book Awards tonight at the New…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMOscar, a fat freshman in thick bifocals meeting his college roommate for the first time, greets him with what sounds like an insult: “Hail, dog of God!” His new roommate, the street-smar…
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