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"Tin Bucket Drum," the Imbewu Trust's South African fable of a girl born with rhythm who challenges a police state, is told lyrically by Mpume Mthombeni.
Two shows are opening on Broadway this coming week, the middle of the summer: "Bring It On: The Musical" on Wednesday and "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth" on Thursday. This past week in New Yo…
Today is National Dance Day, and the United States Postal Service today issues four new stamps pays tribute by issue stamps of four “Innovative Choreographers” — Â Isador…
Bob Fosse is shown on the set of Sweet Charity (1969) on this United States Postal Service stamp, issued today, which is National Dance Day, as part of their Innovative Choreographers ser…
Four members of the Broadway cast of Jersey Boys sang three songs from the musical, which opened Nov 6, 2005 and tells the story of Franki Valli an the Four Seasons, a 60's group whose songs…
The cast of The Fantasticks sang four songs at Broadway in Bryant Park, including child pop star Aaron Carter, and new cast member John Davidson gave a short funny speech. Davidson says in t…
The first preview of Into the Woods at the Delacorte Theater got a mixed response, none more controversial than a tweet by actress and singer Morgana James (Godspell, Wonderland, The Addams …
Here are the nominees for the New York Innovative Theatre Awards. Winners will be announced in a ceremony on September 24th. Outstanding Ensemble The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions …
"He was young, abstract, and therefore cruel," Dostoevsky writes of a character in Crime and Punishment. "Some things are not forgivable: Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable," Blanche says …
Monday, July 16, 2012 One more cast addition to Sondheim’s Into The Woods this summer at the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park: Glenn Close will be the voice of the Giant. Yes, …
Ghost the Musical sent its stars to perform at the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert — an unusual move for a Broadway musical; the understudies perform in most of the other mus…
Wicked, which tells the story of the witches leading up to the Wizard of Oz, opened on Broadway on October 30, 2003. Two years earlier, Bryant Park began presenting songs from Broadway shows…
Berry Gordy, founder of Motown records and producer and book writer of the planned Broadway musical “Motown,” is casting a wide net for an actor to play young versions of Michael…
The actor is Richard Fleeshman, star of Ghost the musical, reenacting the pottery wheel scene with a lascivious Sharon Osbourne in a recent appearance on TV's The Talk. His shirt is now the …
The Drilling Company's crowd-pleasing production of Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is played as a gentrification battle on the Lower East Side.
For the 14th year in a row, Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore were hosts of Broadway Barks, the organization they founded that involves Broadway performers encouraging people to adopt d…
In playwright-director Yoshvani Medina's "Probation," at Repertorio Español, first-rate acting rescues a half-baked plot about Cuban immigration to America.
My @BackStageCast review of @RioTheMusical from @NYMF: Propulsive beat, but has Capeman-like problems bit.ly/LOK2VM — Jonathan Mandell (@NewYorkTheater) July 13, 2012
The cast of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess presented three songs on July 12th as part of the first of six Broadway in Bryant Park concerts this summer, every Thursday through mid-…
As part of the summer Thursday lunchtime concert series in Bryant Park, the Broadway cast of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark sang three songs on July 12. 1. Bouncing Off the Walls 2. Ris…
Cast members from “Phantom of the Opera,” the longest-running show in the history of Broadway, performed today in Bryant Park, the first of a six-part concert series on Thursdays…
"Rio," at NYMF, a tuneful musical with a propulsive beat that sets the story of "Oliver Twist" in the slums of Brazil, is undermined by errant stagecraft.
"Every moment at the theater is magical," Anna Kivela wrote, one of more than 100 theatergoers who responded to the question: "What was the most magical moment you have witnessed on a New Yo…
For the seventh year on the lawn at Bryant Park, the most popular as well as the newest shows on Broadway, and several Off-Broadway, will offer a series of six free weekly concerts over the …
This week saw some beginnings — Â the New York summer theater festival season, Real Raging Bull Jake LaMotta going thespian to thespian with Mike Tyson — but too many endings: …
