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After seven books and eight movies, J.K. Rowling thought she was done with Harry Potter. “I genuinely, I didn’t want Harry to go onstage,” Rowling said in the video below. …
Below is a map showing the location of some 50 tables at today's 31st Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Click on it (several times) to …
KPOP, the wildly (and loudly) entertaining immersive theater piece offering the audience a tour of a Korean pop music factory, begins and ends with 15-minute concerts by the Korean boy group…
KPOP, the wildly (and loudly) entertaining immersive theater piece offering the audience a tour of a Korean pop music factory, begins and ends with 15-minute concerts by the Korean boy group…
Below is the list of the most-produced plays compiled by American Theatre Magazine of member theaters of Theatre Communications Group (in other words, non-profit theaters throughout the Unit…
“West Side Story” opened on Broadway on September 26, 1957. To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Google Arts & Culture is presenting a virtual exhibition that explains its hist…
The 33rd Annual Artios Award ceremony will be held in Los Angeles and New York on January 18, 2018, celebrating outstanding achievement among members of the Casting Society of America. Here …
With its big clue of a title and its two characters named Joe and Jose, one expects "Neighbors: A Fair Trade Agreement" to be an allegory about the political relationship between Mexico and …
Below is the list of Emmy winners, with Broadway veterans in red. (Off-Broadway vets in green.) Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series " John Lithgow, The Crown Outstanding Suppor…
The nominees for the 69th annual Emmy Awards include, as usual, many whom theatergoers like to claim as our own. All the Emmy-nominated performers pictured above are Broadway veterans, altho…
With Lin-Manuel Miranda ("Hamilton") and John Leguizamo ("Latin History for Morons") serving as co-hosts, the Broadway League presented its annual Viva Broadway concert Friday evening, as…
Choose the three shows that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates in the Broadway 2017-2018 season as of this writing, and they are listed chro…
“She Loves Me," "Falsettos," "Noël Coward's Present Laughter" "Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn" and “Indecent” will all be broadcast on Friday nights this Fall on PBS, with …
The first production photographs of Frozen the Musical, which opens tonight at the Buell Theatre in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. It will move to Broadway’s St. James Thea…
In the months after her defeat by Donald Trump in the race for President, Hillary Clinton was so devastated, she writes in her new memoir, “What Happened,” that she had trouble f…
In honor of Michael Friedman (September 24, 1975 – September 9, 2017) here is my October 29, 2011 review of "Let Me Ascertain You: Occupy Wall Street, Stories From Liberty Square,̶…
Tommy Tune was presented with the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award last night at the 2017 Chita Rivera Award, the newly named awards for dance and choreography in New York theater and on…
Audra McDonald has been inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame, along with Matthew Broderick, Oskar Eustis, Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, Marin Mazzie, Daryl Roth and Ernie Schier. The …
This is a time of natural disasters, which dwarf everything else, including the steady assault of man-made disasters (even major anniversaries), if only for the moment. Of course, people are…
it would be to sum up the talent of composer, lyricist, dramaturg, artistic director, Â political activist and theater visionary Michael Friedman -- and how great the loss his early death.
Since 2015, 45,000 have taken my Hamilton quiz. Why not try the updated one, to find out whether you're Aaron Burr (originally portrayed by Leslie Odom Jr.) Thomas Jefferson (Daveed Diggs) K…
Sex and violence — also sex, drugs and rock n roll — are the subjects of several shows opening Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway in September (There are no Broadway openings.) Bu…
The New York theater season is officially underway  (Check out my Broadway 2017-2018 Preview Guide, and my Off-Broadway Fall 2017 Preview Guide) " and there are incentives to get our butt…
Off-Broadway in the Fall promises a homoerotic dystopia (“A Clockwork Orange”); a revival of Harvey Fierstein’s breakthrough play starring Michael Urie (“Torch Song&#…
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in August, a month full of controversies, and sad deaths? Answer these 10 questions and see.
