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Breaking Bad, with just one episode left, won outstanding drama series for the first time, although many were surprised that neither of its leads, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, won in th…
‘Romeo and Juliet” opened on Broadway last week (my review below), the first of two shows opening on Broadway in September; this week there’s The Glass Menagerie. There wil…
Romeo rides in on a motorcycle, swaggering in ripped dungarees and a leather jacket. Â Juliet, wearing white, swings on a swing child-like and timid. Â It is unclear why director David L…
The man they sat us next to at the 13th episode of Mike Daisey's 29-part theater piece All The Faces of The Moon had been to all 12 of the previous monologues, and was apparently planning to…
Elmo looks shocked to be in the company of such aristocrats of the theater as Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen. It’s not the only odd pairing: Muhammad Ali’s friendship w…
 Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see “A Time To Kill,”  playwright Rupert Holmes' stage adaptation of the first-ever of John Grisham’s bestselling novel to …
"Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play" Â could be called a musical based on "The Simpsons" animated TV series; that would be accurate, but it would miss the point. Â It is so much more than t…
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay), world heavyweight boxing champion, remains decades after his prime the embodiment of black pride, strength, and accomplishment. Stepin Fetchit (born Lincoln…
Since his death at age 92, Horton Foote, who during his lifetime was known primarily for his Oscar-winning film adaptation of "To Kill A Mockingbird" and for his original screenplay for "Ten…
The construction of One World Trade Center, formerly Freedom Tower, as it was constructed from 2004 to 2013. Tagged: Freedom Tower, One World Trade Center
They have their new Rocky They have their new (19th?) Sally Bowles. Michelle Williams and Il Divo are making their debuts; Neil Patrick Harris has set the date; Harvey Fierstein has a new pl…
Ticket Giveaway: Win tickets to any two shows on the list of 20at20. The 20at20 program is a bi-annual celebration of Off-Broadway.  From now until September 22, 2013, some 4…
New plays by both August Wilson and Horton Foote, both of whom have been dead for years? The return of Sarah Jessica Parker and Betty Buckley — and Mandy Patinkin — to the stage?…
The director of "Amelie,"Â Jean-Pierre Jeunet said he was "disgusted" by the plans to turn his film into a Broadway musical, selling his rights only because he wanted to give the money to…
Test how well you were paying attention to the New York theater news in August with these ten questions, culled from New York Theater blog's weekly summaries.
Broadway Week, which runs September 2 to 15, and http://20at20.com/ 20 At 20, September 22 to 22, both offer theatergoers steep discounts. Also offering discounted tickets: Season of…
Seventeen of the most popular shows from the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival will be presented in two separate Encore series this year. Solo in the City at the Baruch Performing …
“After tallying more than 27,000 public votes, The Humane Society of the United States is pleased to announce the winners of our Chimpanzee Art Contest. “ …”Brent is …
Architect Pam Campbell, who was in charge of the renovation of the Stephen Sondheim Theater, where The Trip to Bountiful is currently showing, takes us on a tour to point out the environment…
The news that both Justin Bieber and the boy band One Direction have launched their own lines of perfumes  is not just odd, embarrassing and baffling. It’s also inspiring. If these …
On 28 August, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the following speech at the March on Washington: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demons…
In his twenties, Ruben Santiago-Hudson saw "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," the first play by August Wilson that appeared on Broadway, and "I was smitten, captured, put in a spell,” he says…
Waiting for Waiting for Godot, a comedy about life on stage, was one of the three winners of the New York International Fringe Overall Play Excellence Awards, and Gertrude Stein Saints!, …
“God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other…”~Julie Harris (1925-2013), often called the first lady of the American theater, who died on Saturday …
Julie Harris has died at the age of 87. She was a veteran of film and television, and some three dozen plays on Broadway, for which she won an unprecedented five Tony Awards. “Joan of …
