Long 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:47PMBelow is the complete list of winners of the 15th annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards, honoring outstanding work Off-Off Broadway. Multiple-winning shows include “Eight Tales of Pe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:01PM“As Much As I Can,” a show that illustrates the continuing AIDS crisis among African-American men, exists on two different planes, which are not in complete alignment with one another. I…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:57PMPhyllis Newman, 86, has died. She was an entertainer from the age of 4; veteran of 11 Broadway shows (Tony winner for Subways Are For Sleeping, pictured); daughter of a fortune teller and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51AMIn his Broadway debut, Derren Brown performs some dozen mind games and magic tricks over 150 minutes that depend on audience participation, all of which are meant to provoke us to ask: “Ho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PMTalmudic scholars and kung fu movie fans will both find something familiar in this singular hour-long hybrid by the eight-year-old theater company Meta-Phys Ed., in which four performers r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:19PMIn my article for TDF Stages, I look at three new plays that focus on AIDS — “The Inheritance” by Matthew Lopez, which begins performances on Broadway September 27, opening in November…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:20PMWho should do a cabaret act? That was a question posed in a recent ticket giveaway contest for the cabaret 54 Below. Here are some of the responses, listed alphabetically by performer, follo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:53AMOn the surface, “American Moor,” written by and starring Keith Hamilton Cobb, is about a veteran African-American actor auditioning to play Othello for a clueless young, white director…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50PMSome of the most thrilling theater in New York this Fall, and certainly much of the weirdest, promises to be Off-Broadway. There are revivals Off-Broadway of Tony Kushner’s first play, one…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:08PMThe 2019-2020 Broadway season has begun, with the first Fall Broadway opening of 15 scheduled from September through December, and the first of the Fall previews, some covering the wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AMThe audience creates the show in “Play!” The audience is the show in “Theatre in the Dark: Carpe Diem.” Those are the uncomfortable ideas embedded in the two latest theater pieces,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:20PMTo appreciate these first two productions of the five-play Mac Wellman festival at The Flea, entitled “Perfect Catastrophes,” it helps to know that Wellman — the 74-year-old co-fou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:00PMTheatrical showman was born 120 years ago today, and, though he died in 1966, he lives on through The Billy Rose Theatre Division of The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, one of t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PMHarold Pinter’s 1978 play about an adulterous triangle, which is being revived on Broadway starring Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox and Zawe Ashton, is one of the most accessible and most f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:06PMWin two tickets to see the show of your choice at Feinstein’s/54 Below for free – plus $50 in food credit! Feinstein’s/54 Below, a cabaret that calls itself Broadway’s Supper Club,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:10PMAt the beginning of this eye-opening musical written, composed, directed and largely performed by artists of Filipino descent, Felix Starro has returned from the Philippines to San Francis…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:09PM“Hercules,” a stage adaptation of the 1997 Disney cartoon, is the latest free, Labor Day weekend spectacle at the Delacorte in Central Park by the Public Theater’s Public Works, which …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:31PMComing to Broadway this season: Katrina Lenk and Patti Lupone will star in a “re-gendered” revival of “Company” (which was a hit in London), opening at Bernard Jacobs Theater on M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:44AMWhere are the American plays about unions, or workers, or even just workplaces? Of some 200 new plays I’ve seen or read since I first asked that question exactly a year ago, on the la…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:44AMIn this eclectic opening month of the New York Fall theater season laid out below, legendary theater artists Mac Wellman (74),JoAnne Akalaitis (82), and Peter Brook (94) each get showcase…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13AM“Something didn’t make sense,” Celia Keenan-Bolger as Scout Finch tells us, the first words in Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird.” She’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:23PMHow well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these 14 questions and find out!
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:08AMTheater Mitu’s latest devised theater piece is a 70-minute tech-heavy sensory bombardment, a collage of disparate images, monologues, songs and sounds that are focused (if that’s the r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AMWin two tickets to see “Fiddler on the Roof” for free I loved this production directed by Joel Grey, which is in Yiddish with both English and Russian Supertitles. I loved it when it w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:45PMBelow is a list of movies opening in the U.S. from September to December, organized chronologically by release date. Among the movies of interest to theater lovers: Finn Wittrock (Death of A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42PMGood Morning America host Lara Spencer laughed at Prince George (aged 6), the future King of England, for taking ballet classes. The best thing about her ignorant comments is the support …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:33PMTwo books, one a novel and one non-fiction, bring us back to New York in the 1950s and the effect of the Red Scare on the theater.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PMWatch director Richard Nelson’s much lauded production of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” here online. It was broadcast last night on WNET Channel 13 as part of the TV series Theater Close U…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21PMThe Labyrinth Theater Company’s new show, which it has entitled “Installation on America” and calls a weekend-long “guerilla theater/pop-up performance art/installation that unmasks …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:20PMThe 2019 Henry Hewes Design Awards have been given to scenic designer Charlie Corcoran for The O’Casey Trilogy, at Irish Repertory Theatre; costume designer Montana Levi Blanco for Ain’…
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