Monday, July 22, 2024
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Of the new musicals slated for the 2024-25 Broadway season, Redwood has the greatest air of mystery. It’s a brand-new title with a brand-new score, and not only brings Tony winner Idina Me…
SOURCE: Broadway.comCritics slammed the idea of “restricting audiences on the basis of race,” but at a recent performance, Black spectators praised producers for creating a safe space.
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Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Executive Director Tom Viola is retiring from the philanthropic nonprofit organization after 36 years. Viola will retire at the end of 2024 and will be su…
SOURCE: The Hollywood ReporterThe renowned Harlem theater will be the first institution to receive the honor. Artists being recognized are Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval and the Grateful Dead.
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Alongside Colman Domingo and Paul Raci, ex-inmates shot “Sing Sing” in a decommissioned correctional facility. Then came the screening in the actual prison.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThree-time Tony nominee Carolee Carmello will play Kimberly in the national tour of Kimberly Akimbo. As previously announced, the national tour will kick off in Denver, Colorado on September…
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The Kennedy Center's upcoming production of the Maury Yeston-Arthur Kopit musical Nine, starring Steven Pasquale as Guido Contini, has its complete cast. Directed by Andy Blankenbuehler, …
SOURCE: Broadway.comThe emerging field of dance neuroscience is finding that dance, with its multifaceted demands, engages the mind as intensively as the body.
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A theater director and playwright were sentenced to prison, a stark indication of the increasing suppression of free speech since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, their lawyers and critics say.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionCole Escola is dressing the part of a red-carpet star after achieving a new level of fame as the star of the play “Oh, Mary!”
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Years before they ascended to influential leadership roles, they worked at the Public Theater and became cheerleaders for each other’s professional dreams.
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Grégory Milan, who works with Biles and the French national team, has found a home in gymnastics, though his pure dance background is unusual in the sport.
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After a tremendous “Swan Lake” performance, Chloe Misseldine was promoted onstage at the Metropolitan Opera House. The audience went nuts.
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The playwright Jeremy O. Harris’s “Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.” wears its intellectual references on its sleeve.
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The model-turned-actress-turned-businesswoman is the new president of Actors’ Equity. In an interview, she explained what she’s doing there.
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Jonathan Tunick, Stephen Sondheim’s longtime collaborator, unveiled a grand orchestration of “A Little Night Music” that deserves more than a concert.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionFifty years ago, Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union. He discusses that day, the war in Ukraine and the challenges facing Russian artists today.
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The organization, which won this year’s best play revival Tony Award for “Appropriate,” has chosen Evan Cabnet as its next artistic director.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription“BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical” had a run in Chicago late last year. It is slated to open at a Shubert theater in April.
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After it closes at the Nederlander Theatre, the rock musical will launch a national tour.
SOURCE: PlaybillThe awards, which celebrated excellence in high school musical theater on Monday, have become a launchpad for future stars and Tony nominees.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe play will be produced by Second Stage, which is also planning an Off Broadway production of a two-character drama by Donald Margulies.
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As the most devoted fans of musicals will tell you, the best way to appreciate a musical is probably to listen to its cast album (click here to check out my BroadwayRadio colleague Michael …
SOURCE: Broadway & MeHe left a career in tech and found success as a producer, winning four Tonys. His mission: staging productions about underrepresented communities.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe English actor was injured during a performance of “Player Kings,” and the show was abruptly canceled. He is expected to perform again on Wednesday.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAfter an $80 million expansion, the Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening with a more welcoming approach — and all 82 of its First Folios on view.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAbout three-quarters of the way through every performance of David Adjmi’s Tony-winning play Stereophonic, two characters – Holly, the British keyboardist/vocalist (played by Juliana Can…
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BAM, which has faced cutbacks in recent years, unveiled a reorganization as it announced its Next Wave Festival for the fall.
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Maria and Sonia Friedman discussed their long history with “Merrily We Roll Along,” after a bittersweet Tony Awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription“The Heart of Rock and Roll” is the first new Broadway musical to announce a closing plan following Sunday’s Tony Awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAs part of a wave of reimagined Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, a new revival of “Cats” unfolds as a ballroom competition.
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UPDATE, with League statement: Actors’ Equity Association, the labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, will cease issuing contract…
SOURCE: DeadlineThe two stars brought down the house with “Empire State of Mind,” their 2009 love song to New York City, which they had recorded earlier on a grand marble staircase outside the auditoriu…
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SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAlicia Keys and Jay-Z’s high-wattage performance was a highlight, as were first-time wins for Kecia Lewis, Jonathan Groff and David Adjmi.
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The gritty, bloody and relentlessly youthful musical features some of the most effectively vivid violence seen on a Broadway stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionIt was the fifth award of the night for the production, a meditation on the joy and torture of creative collaboration.
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SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAs Broadway prepares to celebrate the best of the season, our theater reporter explores what the nominations tell us about the industry and the art form.
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An open letter to the theatre industry from Theatrely Editor-in-Chief Kobi Kassal
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SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe Tony Awards are Sunday. Each year we photograph nominated performers and talk to them about their craft. This time, we asked about early theater memories.
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The institution, Seattle’s pre-eminent repertory theater, says it is making the cuts so it can focus its resources on productions.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAshley R.T. Yergens’s “Surrogate,” premiering at New York Live Arts this week, explores how trans men experience pregnancy and I.V.F.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionIn the Tony-nominated “Mother Play,” the writer conjures warm memories and thorny ones, not to judge her mother, but to understand — and to forgive.
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A reworked opening number, less historical bulk and a general push to “have fun with these women” helped a musical find its way.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription“Floyd Collins,” a musical about a trapped spelunker and the media circus surrounding his failed rescue, had a brief Off Broadway run in 1996.
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From Broadway to the city’s smaller stages, a flurry of shows with wide-ranging appeal, familiar faces and rising talent.
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Tony Award leaders today affirmed their decision to bar Broadway co-producers from the stage of the David Koch Theater on June 16, while offering the investors and bundlers a consolation …
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Benjamin Millepied, an organizer of La Ville Dansée — a daylong event in Paris and its environs — wants “to tell the invisible stories of the city.”
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Broadway had been making progress toward an industrywide recovery, but new data shows halted momentum in the most recent season. According to data from the industry trade group The Broadwa…
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The play, about a group of English sisters who reunite at their mother’s deathbed, plans to open in New York in September. It ends a London run this month.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionThe Delacorte Theater is being renovated, so a musical version of “The Comedy of Errors” is touring some of the city’s outdoor spaces.
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Adaptations of films will be a factor at the Tonys this year. Surprisingly the best of these shows are not always the most faithful.
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Madison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez star in the meet-cute “All of Me” — proof that depictions of disability onstage don’t have to be “a buzz kill,” as Ferris puts it.
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The six-time Tony-winning actress will play musical theater’s most famous stage mother in a production directed by George C. Wolfe.
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Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon will star in the two-hander, a psychological thriller that previously found success downtown.
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The veteran and the newcomer each had their own fears as they joined the Broadway revival of the beloved all-Black musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times SubscriptionAs Ballet Tech, a tuition-free public school, prepares for its Joyce season, Dionne Figgins teaches the students to see the big picture of their art form.
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She takes office immediately. The previous leader, Kate Shindle, had been president since 2015, and did not run again.
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Sunday, May 19, 2024
What’s it like to attend twelve productions in nine days? Michael Paulson, the Times theater reporter, shared his sprint around Midtown Manhattan.
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“I love older theaters in particular,” said the actress, who is up for her third Tony for “Cabaret.” “The new ones don’t have as many ghosts.”
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The revival, which had an earlier run at New York City Center, is scheduled to open in August and close in November, followed by a run in Los Angeles.
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