Oscar, 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07PMThe announcement of the latest very unscientific results from the nightly poll conducted in the lobby of Lincoln Center, is a marketing gimmick for “The Great Society” that strikes me as…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:41PMIn “The Thanksgiving Play,” a satire by Larissa FastHorse that debuted at Playwrights Horizons last year and has become one of the most produced plays throughout the country, Jaxton, the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31AMOn Thursday night, CNN held an “LGBTQ Town Hall” in which nine of the Democratic candidates for President separately answered questions on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and qu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:33PMWhen I saw “Slave Play” Off-Broadway last December, it felt like the work of a novice playwright – promising, provocative, and well produced, but too derivative, too long, too full of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:30PMCan an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet? That’s a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts’ latest play…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM“The Wrong Man,” a sung-through musical starring the spectacular Joshua Henry, may remind people of “Hamilton” in its catchy rap-inflected eclectic score and jerky hip hop chore…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PMDiahann Carroll, who died Friday at the age of 84, is best known as the first black woman to star on a TV series, “Julia” in 1968, but she was a barrier breaker on Broadway too. Born in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:55PMConservatives don’t all think alike; some of them hate Trump; some don’t see Liberals as evil (some do.) Some are deeply weird. It is a sure sign of the political divisiveness in America…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33PM“Chalk,” a 40-minute comedy in which silent comic Alex Curtis creates an entire world for the audience using little more than a piece of chalk, is exactly the sort of show I always hope …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:20PMAt the 22nd annual New York International Fringe Festival, which is running through the end of October, there are 40 shows in six venues – plus more than 25 shows at The Nuyorican Poe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:14PM“Immersive theater” has come to mean something separate from the dictionary definition of the word “immersive” – in much the same way that phrases Absurdist Theater and Abstract Ex…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:56PM“Moulin Rouge” on Broadway has several things in common with Bated Breath Theater Company’s low-budget show about the same people, place and period, especially in my reaction to them b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:58PMI was struck in seeing “The Great Society,” which depicts President Lyndon Johnson’s turbulent full term in office, how Robert Shenkkan’s play represents political theater in more…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:07PMThe Great Society, a play by Robert Schenkkan that offers a largely sympathetic portrait of the 36th president of the United States as it chronicles the final four years of Lyndon Johnson�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:36PMOctober is always a busy month for theater in New York, but it’s gone up a notch this time. Below is a selection, organized chronologically by opening date. On Broadway alone, eight shows …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00PMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in September? Answer these ten questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:38PMThree generations of black, queer theater artists – actor André De Shields, 73; playwright Kevin R. Free, who is 50; and director Zhailon Levingston, 25 — are collaborating on a pla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28AMThose for whom theater is their religion are more likely to appreciate “Why?,” a 70-minute theater piece about theater that, aptly, begins with a whimsically modified Biblical tale: God …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PMThe same playwright who gave us “The Father” with a demented Frank Langella and “The Mother” with a depressed and possibly deranged Isabelle Huppert now offers us…dead Jonathan Pry…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:35PMEthereal, stylized and visually stunning, Japanese director Satoshi Miyagi’s production of “Antigone,” at the Park Avenue Armory through October 6, fuses several theatrical traditions,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PMThe artist known as Dyalekt (pronounced dialect) greets us looking like a young Allen Ginsberg in his Yippie Uncle Sam phase, holding up a bucket labeled “dead words,” asking us for word…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:12PMThe city has announced plans to build a performing arts center dedicated to Immigrants. The proposed Immigrant Research and Performing Arts Center will go up in Inwood, the northernmos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:38PMBilly Porter won an Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for “Pose.” — the first openly gay black man to win the lead actor in a drama category “The category is love, y�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28PMBelow is a map showing the location of the more than 50 tables at today’s 33rd Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Beneath that are t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:03AMThere are three ways of looking at Mac Wellman's “The Invention of Tragedy” that offer some satisfactions – as a political parable, as a metaphor for Western theater, or as entertain…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48PMTaping live Broadway shows for the screen is no longer seen as an experiment. It’s a routine practice, and it’s moved from movie theaters to home computers. Life is not all that’s gon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:03PMHow do people care for one another in dangerous times? That’s the still-relevant question underlying this beautiful, sad, enraging, uplifting, and awesomely staged theater piece that sweep…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55PM“A Doll’s House, Part 2” by Lucas Hnath and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens have tied as the most produced plays scheduled for the 2019-2020 season,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:51PMExactly seven weeks after Harold Prince died at the age of 91, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has opened the exhibition “In The Company of Harold Prince: Broadway prod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:55PMLong before our current cultural moment, when major new Hollywood films depict them as pure evil, and scientists try to explain why so many people find them creepy, my college guidance cou…
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