Tony Awards Fallout. The Pippin Approach. Scott Rudin Roars.
Two Broadway shows already have announced their early closing in the week after the Tony Award nominations, prompting odd pushback from the producer of one of the shows. (see 4 below) The Tony Awards...
View ArticleTop (and Weirdest) Theater Stories of 2013
2013 was the year of Shakespeare, and cross-dressing, and people getting naked in tubs on stage. It was a year full of solo performances and celebrity Broadway debuts and shows that sound on paper so...
View ArticleBroadway Fall 2014 Preview Guide
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. Both the...
View ArticleOff Broadway Fall 2014 Preview Guide
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 original hip-hop musical created...
View ArticleDecember 2014 Openings Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway
Two Broadway shows — The Illusionists and The Elephant Man – are opening in December, as are a handful of Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway# plays and musicals. (The bulk of the openings this season...
View ArticleThe Invisible Hand Review: Homeland-Like Tension + An Economics Lesson
With scenes that recall hair-raising episodes from both “Homeland” and “Breaking Bad,” Ayad Akhtar’s latest play, which continues the winning streak begun with his Pulitzer-winning Disgraced, tells the...
View ArticleDisgraced: Win Signed Script, Playbill. Closing Too Early?
Win a script signed by the playwright or a Playbill signed by the entire cast of Disgraced, the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Ayad Akhtar that just announced it will close on Broadway on March 1,...
View ArticleNovember 2017 New York Theater Openings
In the five Broadway shows opening in November, Amy Schumer and Uma Thurman are making their Broadway debuts; playwrights Ayad Akhtar and Steve Martin are delivering new plays; and two shows that were...
View ArticleJunk Review: 1980s Wall Street Greed by Ayad Akhtar
“When did money become the thing – the only thing?” a character asks at the beginning of “Junk,” a play by Ayad Akhtar, who seems to answer: In the 1980s. Akhtar, the playwright of “Disgraced,” the...
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