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The film adaptation of “Into The Woods,” the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical will be released nationally on December 25th, 2014.
In the program for “Solitary Light,” one of the four shows in this year's Theater: Village Festival, there is a paragraph that describes the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, whi…
While the Fall season on Broadway officially has begun with the opening of the first show, “This Is Our Youth,” an exciting event this week in New York theater was the announceme…
Keke Palmer, the 21-year-old actress and singers still best known for her starring role in the movie Akeelah and the Bee, has become the new Ella (aka Cinderella) in Rodgers and Hamme…
As the play "I Like To Be Here" begins, Devaj and Adela are in love, although they have never spoken to one another. He is South Asian; she is South American and barely speaks English. He wo…
All three stars – Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and the 18-year-old fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson – Â are making their Broadway debuts, as is playwright Kenneth Lonergan, in the…
In the first of Robert O'Hara's ten scenes about growing up black and gay, a young child named Sutter asks his mother some uncomfortable questions, including why she and his grandmother call…
How did Juarez, a Mexican border town said to be the birthplace of the burrito and the margarita, become labeled the Murder Capital of the World, specializing in violence against young women…
Win the chance to see theater in New York for an entire year, by entering this first-ever giveaway contest for a membership to Play-By-Play. As they explain on their website, Play-By-Play is…
What’s fun about Broadway in September — the marquees go up for the Fall season, even if the shows won’t be opening for months. The Week in New York Theater, S…
CBS announced today that James Corden will be the new host of The Late Late Show starting in 2015. New York theatergoers know him mostly for his roles in two shows on Broadway —…
There was a party on stage at the Delacorte this weekend — Big Bird, shirtless capoeira acrobats, horn-players on stilts, a loud four-piece rock band , ballerinas dressed in white, Ind…
John and Julie meet in the kitchen of what we eventually learn is a private sm sex party; he turns out to be an intern for her Dad, who's a famous artist. He's 31, she's 20. She discovers he…
The four busboys who work in the kitchen of a tony Upper East Side restaurant in the well-acted, superbly directed new play by Elizabeth Irwin, "My Manana Comes," bring home a cruel irony of…
A.R. Gurney was surprised at the Signature Theater's choice for the opening play in his playwright-in-residence season with them. "The Wayside Motor Inn was dismissed by the critics when it …
A look at the Broadway Fall 2014 Season Preview Guide and especially the Off-Broadway Fall 2014 Season Preview Guide show promise of a rich and varied season. Starting tomorrow …
How well were you paying attention to the theater news in August, some of which was quite silly, some quite sad. Answer these 11 questions and see.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, eating a banana, posed in front of a succinct summary of the 2014-2015 season at the Public Theater – including (fifth from the top) “Hamilton,” an orig…
Here’s what you missed if you went away all summer
In "And I And Silence," a challenging play by Naomi Wallace, two women, Dee and Jamie, one white, the other black, meet in prison when they are teenagers, and after they are released …
Winners of the Fringe Excellence Awards, 2014: Overall Play: Absolutely Filthy The Three Faces of Dr. Crippen This is Where We Live Overall Musical: Jump Man: A Mario Musical King of Kong Ur…
These are supposed to be the dog days of August, but too much is going on — maybe because so many theater people are pouring ice water on their heads, or because we’re looking at…
It wasn’t supposed to be on Broadway at all. Then it was only going to run for five months. But “Newsies” lasted more than 1,000 performances over two and a half years. And…
Sixteen of the most popular shows from the 2014 New York International Fringe Festival will be presented at the 10th annual Fringe Encore series,September 4 to October 5, which (lik…
Listed below, chronologically by opening dates, are the shows officially scheduled so far on Broadway in the 2014-2015 season, with basic information and my two cents for the Fall shows. Bot…
