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. …
SOURCE: WQXR at 04:35PMTuesday, August 4, 2015
The story behind one of the best-known hymns in the English language is the subject of the new Broadway musical "Amazing Grace." The show tells the story of the man who wrote, “I once was…
SOURCE: WQXR at 06:39PMMonday, June 22, 2015
The young playwright Joshua Harmon made a splash with his comedy “Bad Jews” in 2012, which was initially presented at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s black-box theater and was later p…
SOURCE: WQXR at 06:43PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Even when everybody knows what’s planned, you can never be sure of what will actually happen when friends get together. In Bruce Norris's new play “The Qualms,” what’s supposed to …
SOURCE: WQXR at 09:56PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
The 2015 Tony Awards ceremony was Sunday night at Radio City Music Hall. The new musical Fun Home had the most fun, winning awards for Best Musical, Book, Score, Leading Actor, and Director.…
SOURCE: WQXR at 01:53AMTuesday, June 2, 2015
An awkward sweetness and a laconic wit are qualities the actor Jim Parsons wields with Emmy Award-winning skill in his role as Sheldon Cooper on the television series “The Big Bang Theory.…
SOURCE: WQXR at 05:06PMTuesday, May 26, 2015
A quiet play about a group of people working in a run-down Massachusetts movie theater is getting its second New York City production. Annie Baker’s “The Flick” might be quiet onstage…
SOURCE: WQXR at 03:19PMWednesday, May 6, 2015
A show that can take on both Shakespeare and a group of Tony nominees sounds like a wonder and “Something Rotten” appears to be just that. The new musical has racked up an impressive 10…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, April 29, 2015
Broadway has been going to the movies for so long now that it’s almost surprising that the beloved 1951 movie-musical “An American in Paris” has only now been turned into a stage show.…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, April 22, 2015
The 1958 movie musical “Gigi,” about a young woman being groomed for a life as a courtesan, won an impressive nine Oscars, including Best Picture. But a 1973 theatrical production did no…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
Social scientists tell us that relocating and setting up a new home is one of life’s big stresses. So the pressure is really on when a young, upwardly mobile black man moves back to his ol…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Robert Askins’s dark comedy Hand to God has already had two productions Off Broadway, at Ensemble Studio Theatre and MCC Theater. Now it’s making the leap to the big time, opening on Bro…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
The spring theater season is traditionally dominated by Broadway openings, as the deadline for Tony awards considerations arrives at the end of April. But Off Broadway doesn’t go into hibe…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, March 25, 2015
The late Wendy Wasserstein hit the playwright’s jackpot in 1989, when The Heidi Chronicles took home the Tony Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Drama Desk and New York Critic’s Circle Awa…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, March 18, 2015
Larry David was one of the masterminds behind the megahit sitcom “Seinfield,” but since then he’s become better known for playing a version of himself in the HBO series “Curb Your …
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, March 11, 2015
Helen Mirren won an Oscar for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 movie “The Queen.” Now she picks up the famous handbag again in the play The Audience, written by Peter Morgan, wh…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, February 18, 2015
If you’ve been in a dive bar in New York, or anywhere else, just those simple words are enough to conjure the bleak decor, the smell of stale drink and something more. Eugene O’Neill�…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, February 11, 2015
A new production from The Civilians, a journalistic theater company, is called Pretty Filthy and is an exploration of the pornography industry centered in Southern California’s San Fer…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Decades before Anton Chekhov’s plays about the struggles of existence among ostensibly successful and wealthy Russians, Ivan Turgenev wrote A Month in the Country, a play that contains m…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, January 28, 2015
"Boy meets girl” is a fine start for so many stories, including Let the Right One In, a play adapted by Jack Thorne and based on the Swedish novel and film of the same name by John Ajvide…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, January 21, 2015
What can happen when two people meet? The possibilities are endless, but every relationship winds up following a single path, better known as “what actually happened.” But what about all…
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
Courtney Love, a famous rock widow and an actor and rock star in her own right, is making a low-key return to performing in the new musical theater piece Kansas City Choir Boy at HERE Arts …
SOURCE: WQXR at 12:00AMMonday, March 4, 2013
The works of Stephen Sondheim have been recognized with numerous revivals and awards in recent years. The composer and lyricist came to The Greene Space on Valentine's Day for an hour of con…
SOURCE: WQXR at 11:37PMThursday, February 14, 2013
WQXR celebrates the beloved American composer and lyricist, just in time for the Classic Stage Company's New York revival of his and James Lapine's 1994 Tony Award-winning musical, "Passion.…
SOURCE: www.thegreenespace.org at 08:33AM 
