Andrew 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, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AMWhy did I have a far more muted reaction to “The Visitor,” a well-acted, well-meaning new musical at the Public Theater about the friendship between a widowed economics professor and an …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15PMI like “Morning Sun,” which stars these three amazing actresses Edie Falco, Blair Brown and Marin Ireland, and I also hate it. Maybe that is a metaphorically apt reaction to this latest …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11PMIt’s Election Night, 1929, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia (“The Little Flower”) is thundering against his opponent, the incumbent mayor, Jimmy (“Beau James”) Walker, at their final mayo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:51PMThere are at least three startling moments in Signature Theater’s revised production of this 29-year-old play that each in a different way bolsters my conviction that Anna Deavere Smith is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PMAnother injury has caused another delayed opening. Judith Ivey has had to drop out of the Off-Broadway revival of Paul Osborn’s Morning’s at Seven because of a torn tendon, and will b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21AMBelow is a day-by-day selection of New York theater that is scheduled to open in November, organized by opening date.* That includes six more Broadway shows, two of them reopening hits — …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:50PMCostumes, masks, makeup, macabre wit: Is there a difference between Halloween and the theater? Answer the ten questions to find out how well you paid attention to the theater on stage and of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PMIn “Brecht on Brecht,” TBTB presents a fascinating collage – more like a barrage – of the poems, stories, songs, plays, parables and sayings by the prolific and consequential Germ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:33PMIf you had just graduated from college and learned for the first time that your mother got her start as a prostitute and made her fortune as the owner of a string of brothels, how would you …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20AMAs the title character of “Caroline, or Change,” Sharon D. Clarke sings a breathtaking 11 o’clock number called “Lot’s Wife” that sparks thunderous applause; the audience at Stud…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:02PMSix weeks after the hoopla greeting reopening night of four hit Broadway musicals, the longest-running show in Broadway history returned this week, heralded with a block party, DJ-ed by comp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23AMThe recipe for Fairycakes: Start with a cast of beloved New York stage actors known for their comic flair (Julie Halston, Anne Harada, Jackie Hoffman, et al), stick rhyming couplets in their…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:25PMIn “Best Life,” two strangers start talking to one another (or at least at each other) while sitting at different tables in a café. Lourdes, a Black woman (Cherrye J. Davis), says: �…
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