“Mrs. Doubtfire,” a musical adaptation of the 1993 Robin Williams movie about a divorced man who disguises himself as a woman so that he can spend time with his children as their nanny, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:45PMThere are so many shows currently on Broadway either based on a movie, or the inspiration for a movie – and so many more scheduled for the season ahead – that I thought an apt follow-up …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:51PMThis year, when we’ve spent so much time looking at screens, was a banner year for movie adaptations of shows that originated on stage: “In The Heights,” “The Humans,” “Dear Evan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:31PMIn his new Off-Off Broadway play, John Patrick Shanley – Oscar-winner for “Moonstruck,” Tony and Pulitzer winner for “Doubt” – imagines what it would be like if Romeo and Juliet …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:26PMBelow is a day-by-day selection of New York theater that is scheduled to open in December, organized by opening date.* That includes the gender-bending revival of “Company,” by Stephen S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:56PMWhatever other superlatives you can apply to Stephen Sondheim – that he was the most significant, the most ambitious, the most revered of Broadway theater composer-lyricists for more than …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:19PMOn this tenth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters and theater companie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24AMThe outpouring after the sudden death of Stephen Sondheim the day after Thanksgiving has been overwhelming — in innumerable encomiums (e.g. “an artistic genius on the level of Shakespear…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:10AMMy gratitude this year is greatest for theater in general: grateful that in-person, live performances have returned; that the experimentation in digital and hybrid theater continues; that…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:51PMStephen Sondheim, the central figure in contemporary American musical theater., as died at age 91. His works include: “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” “Company,” “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PMBelow are videos of some of the musical numbers performed by the casts of Broadway shows at the 95th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade – plus Thanksgiving Day Tweets from the casts o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46PMMy tenth annual theater gift guide below includes links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions,cast recordings,play scripts and books about the theaterand thea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:44PMIn “Clyde’s,” a savory comedy written by Lynn Nottage, better known for her bitter tragedies, Uzo Aduba portrays Clyde, the sexy but heartless owner of a truck stop where all four of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:12PMOnly one Broadway cast recording has been nominated for Best Musical Theater Album in the 64th Grammy Awards, which will take place on January 31, 2022. This makes sense, given how few n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:32PMCatch all the cameos in the “Sunday” musical number at the Moondance Diner in “tick,tock…BOOM”? You may be a theater geek. This is your week. On Thanksgiving Day Thursday, the Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AMBelow is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2021, which differs from the usual week’s schedule: Only three shows have performances on Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, November 25) but …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29PMSee photos and watch videos from the film below. “tick, tick…Boom!” is a film for musical theater geeks. It is adapted from “Rent” composer Jonathan Larson’s earlier autobiograph…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:33PMThe Montgomery bus boycott, the Hollywood blacklist, and the lynching of Emmett Till were all current events when “Trouble in Mind” debuted Off-Broadway in 1955, and Alice Childress i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34PMTwo plays are opening Off-Broadway tonight, one featuring a cast of five Black women, the other a cast of five Black men. Both are about Black people struggling to survive in the face of del…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:19PMThe surprise of “Diana the Musical,” which is opening tonight at the Longacre Theater, is that it’s more enjoyable – better! — on Broadway than it is on Netflix, where a recording …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:32PMThe ads for Broadway have started to appear this week on digital screens and posters in the subway, as promised, recreating a 1977 campaign that intended to boost sales, and morale, at a sim…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57AMOne of the pleasures in this latest revival of “Morning’s At Seven,” a quietly funny and surprisingly astute evergreen comedy about four aging sisters and their families who live cheek…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:50PM“Assassins,” the 30-year-old musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman about nine of the 13 people who have tried to kill an American president, is certainly clever; when is Sondhei…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PM“The Ding Dongs” and “Is Edward Snowden Single?” are two of the three plays being presented in repertory at the New Ohio Theater through November 20th by The Pool, which is describ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:49PMOn Veterans Day, it’s time to call up Adam Driver, three-year military veteran and three-time Broadway veteran, who understands the connection between soldiers and artists goes back t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AMLike the title character in “Dear Evan Hansen,” Andrew Norlen began with the idea of writing himself a letter – and then it just grew. In “When the Lights Are Bright Again: Letters a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:37PMDid the British invent musical theater? That’s what the reader is told in “Pick a Pocket Or Two: A… History of British Musical Theatre” (Oxford University Press, 352 pages) by Ethan …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36PM“The Theatrical Renaissance is here right now in this city, around the country and around the world” Ken Davenport proclaimed with breathless optimism in his welcome to the hundreds of v…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49AMWatch Andrew Lloyd Webber below talking about his career, how he works, how he cures writer’s block, why some shows work and others don’t (clues: The Zeitgeist; timing), at the Theaterma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:51PM“Generation Rise” is being presented live on stage at New Victory Theater through November 14, billed as a show in which six New York teens voice their own experiences growing up in a gl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PMAndrew Lloyd Webber is not the only one who will be delivering his keynote address Sunday at the fifth annual Theatermakers Summit. Brandon Kazen-Maddox will be sharing the screen with him, …
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