Monday, August 1, 2016
Bad-history plays are a thing now. By “bad” I don’t mean poorly researched, but ones incongruously reframed for comic or deconstructive effect (Drunk History, but arty). Out with perio…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:02PMSunday, July 31, 2016
My gateway show was not Cats—nor was it Les Miz or Phantom. I grew up, like any self-respecting theater snob, disdaining such tourist trash from afar. Lacking youthful nostalgia for Andrew…
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When Mark Zuckerberg was recently photographed with his laptop camera and microphone jack covered in tape, complacent technophiles began to sweat. If the head of Facebook worries about perso…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:02AMSaturday, July 16, 2016
Growing up a straight white boy in small-town New Hampshire, I wasn’t exactly destined to care about Broadway musicals, much less love them and write essays about how we may be living in a…
SOURCE: Time Out at 08:01AMThursday, July 14, 2016
Silence is golden in Bess Wohl’s exquisite play set at an upstate meditation retreat where six strangers take (and mostly break) a vow not to speak. But baser metals also emerge from the v…
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The New York Musical Festival officially begins today, which means that thousands of NYMFomaniacs with soon be swarming into Midtown theaters in the hope of discovering the next big musical-…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:50PMFriday, June 10, 2016
Anyone who attends Conor McPherson’s Shining City a second time won’t be surprised by a certain coup de théâtre at the very end. Those who saw it at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2006 know…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:02AMThursday, June 9, 2016
To help whet your whistle for the Ailey engagement, one of New York’s premiere dance shows, here are twelve of the beautiful dancers (including Yannick Lebrun) who will be performing in th…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:57PMWednesday, June 8, 2016
The 70th annual Tony Awards will be broadcast on CBS on June 12 from the Beacon Theatre. So now it’s time for our annual tradition, dear reader, of bestowing our can’t-lose predictions a…
SOURCE: Time Out at 03:24PMDrama cannot happen without a controlled release of information that keeps the characters in the room and the audience wanting more. It helps to have vivid dialogue, an unpredictable plot an…
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Divas and dancers stop the show on our definitive ranking of the best musical Tony Awards performances of all time
SOURCE: Time Out at 03:46PMThursday, May 26, 2016
British pop star Leona Lewis will play faded-glamour puss Grizabella in the upcoming Broadway revival of Cats, the production confirmed today. This is good news for theater fans who had worr…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:47PMThe global neocircus giant Cirque du Soleil does things no else on Broadway can. Its acrobats execute quadruple backflips off a teeterboard, their heels seeming to brush the rigging high abo…
SOURCE: Time Out at 01:02PMWednesday, May 25, 2016
In the myth, Eurydice didn’t have much of a choice. She died, woke up in the underworld and waited around for Orpheus to save her. Not so in Hadestown, singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:32AMBritish playwright Nick Payne excels at a subgenre let’s call the Science Weepie. He deploys facts to frame or metaphorize the problems of his protagonists, and the collision of data and h…
SOURCE: Time Out at 05:31AMMonday, May 16, 2016
Bars are outstanding factories for human suffering—and deliverance. Everywhere from Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh to Louis C.K.’s hauntingly great web series Horace and Pete, wa…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:58AMTuesday, May 10, 2016
Audra McDonald has always been full of surprises, and her latest is a lulu. The national treasure and Tony Award hoarder, currently starring in Broadway's Shuffle Along, announced today that…
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:42PMSunday, May 1, 2016
There’s a fiery revival of Tennessee Williams’s great drama buried under the truckload of 1990s regietheater clichés that Benedict Andrews dumps all over St. Ann’s Warehouse’s playi…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:13PMThursday, April 28, 2016
The full title of this extraordinary showbiz excavation-renovation masterminded by George C. Wolfe—Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed—is v…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:30PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
At the dramatic crux of Tuck Everlasting, a 102-year-old man trapped in a 17-year-old body asks an 11-year-old girl to wait six years until she’s legal, at which point she will drink from …
SOURCE: Time Out at 12:15AMSunday, April 24, 2016
One’s sorely tempted to praise the delightful new musical Waitress using lots of bakery metaphors. After all, its hero is a pastry genius with relationship woes named Jenna (Jessie Mueller…
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016
From Death of a Salesman to his first show on Broadway, Time Out New York's David Cote ranks Arthur Miller's 10 best plays
SOURCE: Time Out at 04:33PMThursday, March 31, 2016
There are two types of audience members attending Ivo van Hove’s The Crucible: those who take their seats and, when the curtain rises, wonder, Why’s it set in a classroom? and the other …
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:27PMSunday, March 20, 2016
For a play about test subjects going through extremes of sadness, lust, joy and despair, The Effect leaves you slightly cold.
SOURCE: Time Out at 11:48PMFriday, March 18, 2016
Desire is chemical, or so the scientists say. When that special someone draws near, their scent can cause a fuss in the hypothalamus, prompting a rush of dopamine, adrenaline and oxytocin. P…
SOURCE: Time Out at 10:17AMMonday, February 22, 2016
Contrived and gently pretentious, Greg Pierce’s Her Requiem is the Off Broadway equivalent of a New Yorker short story (an improvement, I suppose, on all the new plays that seem like Netfl…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:49PMTuesday, January 26, 2016
RUTHLESS! The Musical: Evil little blond girls never get old. When Tina Denmark, a precocious song-and-dance sociopath who garrotes a rival for the lead in her grade-school play, made her de…
SOURCE: Time Out at 06:39AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Explaining why a thing is funny is hard enough. Trying to account for something you know is hilarious—but then isn’t—is tougher still. Case in point: The Roundabout Theatre Company has…
SOURCE: Time Out at 09:53PMSunday, December 20, 2015
Although the titans Zero Mostel, Jerome Robbins and Harold Prince are reflexively linked to this 1964 classic, there’s another, uncredited, father of Fiddler on the Roof. It’s Marc Chaga…
SOURCE: Time Out at 07:47PMSaturday, December 19, 2015
Yesterday, we wrote about the rich history of the 112-year-old Hudson Theatre, which will soon be restored to its former glory as a Broadway house. But the Hudson is not the only jewel-box v…
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