Wednesday, May 11, 2016
One of the most interesting musicals to appear on Broadway this season brings a new look to an almost century-old story. Ninety-five years ago, Shuffle Along was an unprecedented sightÂ�…
SOURCE: WQXR at 01:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2016
The 2016 Tony nominees were announced on Tuesday, and Charles Isherwood, theater critic of The New York Times, joins WQXR morning host, Jeff Spurgeon, to gab about the big news. Most n…
SOURCE: WQXR at 05:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2016
This spring, England's Royal Shakespeare Company has taken up residence at the Harvey Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It's presenting four of Shakespeare's plays " Richard II…
SOURCE: WQXR at 02:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Dry Powder, a new play that just debuted at The Public Theater, is bringing the same discussions about the world of finance to the stage as the film The Big Short brought to the mov…
SOURCE: WQXR at 01:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Zimbabwean-American playwright Dania Gurira is having a moment. Her play Eclipsed has just transferred to Broadway in a production starting Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o at the Golden Theat…
SOURCE: WQXR at 08:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2016
As the Obama era is about to begin, four brilliant, accomplished people "Â Harvard types, all of them "Â consider racism in America in "Smart People" by playwright Lydia R. Diamond. Whil…
SOURCE: WQXR at 01:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Actor Len Cariou has enjoyed a long and distinguished career. Among his many appearances, he created the role Sweeney Todd in the eponymous Stephen Sondheim musical. Perhaps less well-…
SOURCE: WQXR at 09:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 2, 2016
While on the latest of her many supposed deathbeds, a "tart-tongued" mother, played by Tony-winner Linda Lavin, reveals to her children the details of a tryst from decades past that may r…
SOURCE: WQXR at 05:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 26, 2016
To mark last year's centennial of the birth of the writer and theologian Thomas Merton, the Actors Theater of Louisville has produced a play about him called "The Glory of the World." …
SOURCE: WQXR at 07:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Michael Frayn's frantic 1982 sex farce-within-a-farce "Noises Off" returns to Broadway for a third run this season under the auspices of the Roundabout Theatre Company. This time around t…
SOURCE: WQXR at 07:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Jacobean era dramas are rarely seen on major New York stages, but the enterprising Red Bull Theater company, under the artistic directorship of Jesse Berger, has made a specialty of them. It…
SOURCE: WQXR at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 5, 2016
The beloved 1964 musical "Fiddler on the Roof," with its book by Joseph Stein and score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, is back on Broadway this season. Based on writer Sholem Aleichem…
SOURCE: WQXR at 08:26PM[SHARE]Monday, December 21, 2015
Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge" hasn't exactly been a stranger to Broadway. It has already been revived three times, most recently in 2010 in a production starring Liev Schrei…
SOURCE: WQXR at 02:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 15, 2015
The new musical "These Paper Bullets!" at the Atlantic Theater Company bills itself as a "modish ripoff" of Shakespeare's comedy "Much Ado About Nothing."Â The new adaptation is by Rolin J…
SOURCE: WQXR at 09:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2015
One of the world's most successful musicians returns to his musical roots in his latest Broadway show. Andrew Lloyd Webber, best-known for "Phantom of the Opera," "Evita" and other shows …
SOURCE: WQXR at 06:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 1, 2015
A downtown theater playwright, a sensational Broadway actress and a most unusual family are all part of the show called "Hir" (pronounced "here").
Playwright Taylor Mac is probably best know…
SOURCE: WQXR at 06:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Actor George Takai is best known as Sulu from "Star Trek," as well as for his LGBT activism and funny posts on Facebook. He and Lea Salonga, the original Kim in "Miss Saigon," are the …
SOURCE: WQXR at 06:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 17, 2015
A Broadway season just wouldn't be complete without a jukebox musical it sometimes seems. This year's model comes courtesy of the 1980s pop star Gloria Estefan.
"On Your Feet!" charts the st…
SOURCE: WQXR at 08:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2015
In his 1995 play "Sylvia," A.R. Gurney threw a couple of curve balls at the theme of a man dealing with a mid-life crisis. Instead of the man threatening his marriage by falling in love with…
SOURCE: WQXR at 03:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 3, 2015
A show most famous for putting Bernadette Peters in the spotlight is getting a bigger spotlight of its own. The musical "Dames at Sea" started in a tiny café Off-Off-Broadway in 1966 and he…
SOURCE: WQXR at 05:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2015
The holiday season is approaching ... or looming, you might say, depending on how you feel about holidays and family get-togethers. A middle-class family Thanksgiving in lower Manhattan i…
SOURCE: WQXR at 03:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
A new play on a tough topic is part of this season's Underground season at Roundabout Theatre Company. The play is "Ugly Lies the Bone," written by Lindsey Ferrentino. The topic is the strug…
SOURCE: WQXR at 09:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Razzle Dazzle is the jazzy title of a new book about the history of Broadway by Michael Riedel, the New York Post theater columnist and co-host of the show "Theater Talk." The book, which wa…
SOURCE: WQXR at 11:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
The Tony-winning musical "Spring Awakening" has returned to Broadway. Although the original production of the musical by Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik closed only in 2009, and thus might see…
SOURCE: WQXR at 02:39PM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2015
Playwrights Horizons kicks off its fall season with "The Christians," a play by Lucas Hnath about a schism in an evangelical church. In the production, directed by Les Waters, Andrew Garman …
SOURCE: WQXR at 03:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2015
The new Off Broadway show "The Legend of Georgia McBride"Â by Matthew Lopez is a comedy about a young Elvis impersonator named Casey who's barely making a living performing in a Florida Pa…
SOURCE: WQXR at 06:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Labor Day, the semi-official end to the summer, is now in the rearview mirror. Which means that theater-watchers will be eagerly getting ready for the fall season. Broadway already has seen …
SOURCE: WQXR at 03:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 1, 2015
A new Off Broadway play by Sherie Rene Scott and Dick Scanlan tells the semi-autobiographical account of their experiences working with prison inmates.
The play's unusual title " "Whorl I…
SOURCE: WQXR at 06:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2015
The latest play from the prolific A.R. Gurney comes with a forthright title, "Love & Money." The Signature Theatre Company production features Maureen Anderman as the wealthy, elderly…
SOURCE: WQXR at 04:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Annie Baker won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for her play "The Flick," which has been restaged this summer at the Barrow Street Theatre. But Baker also has a new play concurrently on the board…
SOURCE: WQXR at 02:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
The Public Theater's second free Shakespeare in the Park presentation this summer is the late romance "Cymbeline," a twisty tale of duplicity and betrayal directed by Daniel Sullivan. The ca…
SOURCE: WQXR at 04:35PM[SHARE] 
