“ i am calling on all you independents and all you undecideds. ¥ou know this is true. You know I am telling you the truth. That values and character matter most of all. In leadership and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03AMBefore Doug Emhoff explained the embarrassing moment that led to his first date with Kamala Harris, he began his speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention by introducing his “big…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:16PM“For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us,” Michelle Obama said at Day 2 of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, talking about herself and he…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47AM“Six years ago, I was taking omelette orders as a waitress in New York City. I didn’t have health insurance. My family was fighting off foreclosure and we were struggling with bills afte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11AMHow close has legitimate theater come to capturing the political theater of Presidential campaigns and party conventions, especially the real-life implausible whiplash political dramas of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:54PMWhat we know about Lot’s wife from the Bible is that she looked back at the city of Sodom, although forbidden to do so, and became a pillar of salt. Lots more happens in Genesis 19 – a m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41PMMore than 7,000 languages currently exist in the world, of which an astonishing 700 are spoken in New York City — more than anyplace else on earth. “Language and music are portable homel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57PMHere are some of the stars scheduled to appear on a New York stage in the 2024-2025 season, several for the first time in many years, or ever: Christian Borle, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Burr, M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31AM“Once Upon A Mattress” opened tonight for its third turn on Broadway, with Sutton Foster’s performance as Princess Winnifred the Woebegone the same goofy and intense workout that prove…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PM“Mike was going on again about the perfidious people who keep theatrical diaries,” Eric Idle writes about Mike Nichols in his own theatrical diary, meticulously dated October 20, 2004 at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:17PMSeven shows currently on Broadway were preceded by a movie with the same name: They are either direct adaptation of the movies (Aladdin, Back to the Future), or inspired by them (Harry Potte…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18PM“Some of us are old enough to remember when it was Republicans who were talking about freedom. It turns out now, what they meant is the government should be free to invade your doctor’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25PMWhat happened to the dog days of summer? Sure this weekend saw the 26th annual Broadway Barks starry pet adoption event with hosts Bernadette Peters and Sutton Foster. But that’s just one…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50AMIn June 2016, at the height of the Presidential election, a Russian lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya met at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr. and six other people, reportedly telling the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMThere’s been lots of political drama off-stage over the past month. Oddly, much of it can be connected to what’s been happening in New York theater. Answer these nine questions, plus a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:46PM“Six” Queen Didi Romero served as the host for the final Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert of the year, which featured a lot of hugs — see first video below
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22PMBelow is a selection of theater opening* in New York in August, including one show on Broadway: “Once Upon A Mattress,” starring Sutton Foster, which originated as an Encores! concert …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AM“Loss is loss,” Thom says to the five other members of the weekly grief support group. “Twenty years ago, our dog died. It took me fifteen years to even entertain the thought of gettin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28PM“Job” is the second 80-minute play this month that has powered onto Broadway after sold-out runs downtown. (The other is“Oh, Mary!” .) That this two-character play about a therapy se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:30PMLuigi Pirandello, the Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright who wrote “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” was for a time a member of the National Fascist Party and a follower of Be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:04PM“I look at the world for what I hope it’s going to be, a wonderful world – especially with what’s happened this week,” That was James Monroe Iglehart at this weekend’s BroadwayCo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:31AMIn “Sing Sing,” a movie that has opened in New York cinemas to universal critical acclaim and goes nationwide next week, Colman Domingo portrays an inmate at Sing Sing named John “Divi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:26PMBelow are videos of the four shows that were presented at the “First Look” concert at the ninth annual BroadwayCon: “Suffs,” “The Outsiders,” “A Wonderful World: The Lo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:12PMWatch the current casts of three long-running musicals — Chicago (on Broadway since 1996), The Book of Mormon (2011), Moulin Rouge (2019) – perform favorites at the Broadway in Bryant Pa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:48AMWatch the video of the two songs that cast members from “Suffs” sang at the Broadway in Bryant Park noontime concert. Both of which are inspired by some fascinating real-life history in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:22PMIt was “Macbeth” that drew Judi Dench to the theater, after she overheard her older brother in a school production recite the line from the play: “What bloody man is that?” and s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMChoose the five Broadway shows that you are most looking forward to, among the 15 that are opening on Broadway in September, October, November and December 2024. The shows are listed belo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:14PMThe startling political developments of late are being viewed through a theatrical lens, repeatedly. A surprising number of professional commentators have invoked Shakespeare, sometimes …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:35PMThere is a moment in Ryan Spahn’s backstage play that leaves the characters screaming and the audience gasping, but also laughing at how shocking it is, fulfilling anybody’s expectations…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMJoseph Biden Jr. announced on social media that he is withdrawing from the race for the Presidency. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PMIn the summer of 1932, some 17,000 veterans and their families descended on Washington D.C. to demand the pay that Congress had promised them years earlier as a bonus for their service durin…
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