The 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’…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AMWin two tickets to see “The Play That Goes Wrong” for free I’m holding this contest to help promote 20at20, a terrific program that offers $20 tickets to 20+ Off Broadway shows, 20 min…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34AMChoose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway from September through December 2019 as of this writing, and they are li…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:40AMRebel Verses, an exciting and thought-provoking show presenting artists ages 13 to 19 from some dozen youth theater companies, was almost as impressive for what was not on stage as for wha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PMThe dog days of August turn out to be full of theater news – even about dogs; these comfort dogs were watching Billy Elliot at the Stratford Festival, reportedly to practice what it’s l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11AMSeven Broadway and Off-Broadway shows are closing today: King Kong, The Cher Show, Pretty Woman Mojada, Broadway Bounty Hunter, Puffs, and the way she spoke Then closing August 24th: What…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMThe timing in broadcasting a two-year-old play about gun violence may seem right, but it’s terribly wrong. The WNET series Theater Close-Up has chosen to broadcast “On The Exhale,” Mar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18AM“Like most people of color, black people in the New World, I came by my passion for literature in a circuitous way, a night journey marked by music, movement, improvisation, and smells of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AM“Make Believe” begins with a child on stage silently playing with a Cabbage Patch Doll in an attic playroom; after a while her sister calls out “Mom?” a dozen times off-stage. Then…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51PMWhat is a gay play? These three very different plays in the first week of the new Rave Theater Festival could all arguably fit the label, but it would mean stretching the definition beyond t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:11PMThey installed metal detectors in the Al Hirschfeld Theater, the new home of “Moulin Rouge,” during the same week that panicking pedestrians a block away mistook a motorcycle backfiring …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28AMIt was uncanny how much “Noirtown” made me feel as if I was living inside a film noir classic like “The Maltese Falcon” or “The Big Sleep” – stylish, seductive, tough-talking a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:54PMFor the 43rd summer in a row, Theater for the New City is touring a free original outdoor musical in streets, playgrounds and parks throughout all five boroughs (See schedule below.) As in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36PM“Moulin Rouge” was thrilling from the moment I entered the theater… until about ten minutes after it began. That’s because the brightest star in this stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:16PMTom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal are certainly the reason why “Sea Wall/A Life” has now moved uptown to the Hudson… In the lobby of the Hudson, for $20 you can buy a quartet of magnet…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PM“Bat Out of Hell” is a frequently enjoyable jukebox musical running at New York City Center through September 8, using the muscular rock opera anthems from singer Meat Loaf’s trilogy …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PMActors Equity went on strike for the first time on August 7, 1919 — one hundred years ago today. Stars like Ethel Barrymore, W.C. Fields and Marie Dressler joined hundreds of their fellow …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PMIt makes sense that George Abbott is the first theater artist profiled in “The 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre” (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 288 pages, publication …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:30PMI spent much of the week in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, attending the week-long 16th biennial National Black Theatre Festival, which presented 30 plays and musicals from black theaters in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53AMThree mass shootings in a single week — in Gilroy, California last Sunday leaving three dead; in El Paso,Texas leaving at least 20 dead Sunday: in Dayton, Ohio, leaving at least nine dead …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:56AMHarold Prince, the consummate Broadway producer and director who died on Wednesday at the age of 91, had his first Broadway credit in April 1950, as an assistant stage manager for “Tickets…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:55AMIn “Hannah Senesh,” a play running through August 18th at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the title character is a Jewish teenager in Europe in the 1930s who starts keeping a diary at age…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:27AMJake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge deliver back-to-back monologues in the only show opening on Broadway in August. After a promised Broadway run was scrapped, “Bat Out of Hell” is finally…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24AMHarold Prince died this morning at 91 years of age after a brief illness, in Reykjavik, Iceland. There will be no funeral, but a celebration of his life is planned. The lights of all Bro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:43PMHow well were you paying attention to the theater news and views in July, from the Broadway Blackout to the Dunaway Dismissal? Answer these dozen questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AMBelow is the list of nominations announced tonight for the 15th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city’s independent theater — aka Off-Off Broad…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22PMOther New Yorkers may view midsummer, with its heat waves and general malaise, as time to get out of the city. Theatergoers know it as festival fever. These include some of the familiar annu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:46AMThe three shows reviewed below from this year’s New York Musical Festival are all, each in its own way, naïve…or one of the near synonyms for the word naïve, each of which offers a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:29PMIt would be easy to make some wrong assumptions about this dinner theater production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Café Fae, given its title, its marketing, and the fact that it i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMStephen Sondheim, now 89 years old, first began writing a musical about the real-life eccentric and significant Mizner Brothers when he was 23 years old; paused in his efforts when he lear…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10PMMoulin Rouge, a $28 million jukebox musical that opens tonight at the Al Hirschfeld Theater, is adapted from Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie of the same name, and expands its playlist to some 7…
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