Broadway Plays

Judy Garland Sisterhood: Three Actresses To Have Portrayed Gay Icon Unite

AP | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.27.2012

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NEW YORK -- It is late on a Wednesday night, after the final bows have been delivered on Broadway. The applause has died down and the last audience me...

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Magic/Bird on Broadway a Must See

Terry Lyons | Posted 06.04.2012

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Magic/Bird is to Broadway what Rocky was to the motion picture industry.

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Middle School Social Studies Teacher Sees Lessons In Teaching Own Play

AP | By DORIE TURNER | Posted 02.01.2012

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ATLANTA -- Playwright Margaret Edson talks proudly about her Pulitzer Prize and her work appearing on Broadway, but she's the most animated when she d...

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Martin Luther King Jr. Reaches The Mountain Top

Arielle Hixson | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: The Mountain Top, Angela Bassett, Civil Rights Movement, Samuel L. Jackson, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr., Broadway, Black History, Racism, Race, Broadway Plays, Civil Rights, Black History Month, Mlk, Black Voices News

Extremely original, The Mountain Top is a story about Martin Luther King Jr. as an ordinary man, a man that the public may have never seen. We manage to see him not as an intangible, iconic figure in history, but as a sweet yet complex individual with flaws.

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Broadway Review: Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross Dazzle in a Sparkling Revival of Private Lives

Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Noel Coward, Anna Madeley, Simon Paisley Day, Kim Cattrall, Paul Gross, Private Lives, Slings and Arrows, Broadway Plays, Arts News

Noel Coward's timeless comedy opened last week at the Music Box Theatre, and if you have the privilege of seeing Paul Gross's long-awaited Broadway debut, you'll enjoy a nuanced, charismatic star turn.

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Theater: Bring On Bring It On

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: In the Heights, Next to Normal, Musical Theater, Ahmanson Theater, Avenue Q Theater, Musicals Broadway, Theater Cheerleading Broadway, Broadway Plays, Los Angeles Theater, Arts News

A new musical from the creators of Avenue Q, In the Heights and Next to Normal just opened in LA and it is a smash-mouth cheerleading sensation.

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'Relatively Speaking': Steve Guttenberg On Woody Allen's New Play

HuffingtonPost.com | Nicki Gostin | Posted 12.21.2011

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Steve Guttenbeg is Broadway-bound! The actor is starring in "Relatively Speaking," a new show that opened this week, comprised of three one-act plays ...

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Woody Allen To Return To Broadway This Fall

AP | Posted 07.17.2011

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NEW YORK — Three one-act plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May are being bundled together and heading to Broadway this fall. Allen is...

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*Motherf**ker* on Broadway: The First Amendment Gets a Workout

Regina Weinreich | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Anna D. Shapiro, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Chris Rock, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Yul Vazquez, Bobby Cannavale, Annabella Sciorra, The Motherf**Ker With the Hat, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Theatre, Broadway Plays, Theater Reviews, Arts News

An arsenal of language is deployed in this play, making you titter until the words themselves stop meaning what they mean, becoming pause, punctuation, and, at times, punishment.

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Muti's Otello and War Horse

Howard Kissel | Posted 06.18.2011

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Othello and War Horse are both works on a monumental scale. On these evenings I was reminded of why I chose to spend my life sitting in darkened theaters.

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First Nighter: Stephen Adly Guirgis's Play, *The Motherf**ker With the Hat*, Earns Its Broadway Asterisks

David Finkle | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Todd Rosenthal, Public Theater, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Motherf**Ker With the Hat, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Chris Rock, Yul Vasquez, Bobby Cannavale, Annabella Sciorra, Theatre Reviews, Broadway Plays, Anna D. Shapiro, Arts News

Language has failed -- that's Guirgis's story and he's gallantly sticking to it. This modern rom-com is to be greatly admired, enjoyed and seriously pondered after the final fade-out.

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Priscilla, How to Succeed

Howard Kissel | Posted 05.29.2011

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Perhaps I found Priscilla dispiriting because I had been so exhilarated the night before by Rob Ashford's revival of Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

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Coming: A Rock Musical of Biblical Proportions

Liz Black | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you're religious to the point you refuse evolution as a concept, this is not the play for you. But for the rest of the world, Coming is that bitch-slap that will shock you and leave its impression after you leave.

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‘Spider-Man’ Musical Previews, Off To A Rough Start

nytimes.com | PATRICK HEALY | Posted 05.25.2011

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All $65 million of the new Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" took flight on Sunday night at its first preview performance, but not with...

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The Future of Playbills Rests in the iPad

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Broadway, Playbill, Magazine Apps, Playbill Magazine, Digital Magazines, iPad Magazines, Broadway Musicals, iPad Apps, Playbill App, Theater Apps, Broadway Plays, Broadway Apps, Arts News

There is a wide-open landscape on the iTunes app store merely waiting for serious Broadway content. Playbill must look beyond its website and in-theater booklets and focus on engagement and digital creativity.

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BROADWAY: Shows You Can't Miss This Holiday Season (Catch Them Before They Close!)

Posted 05.25.2011

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With the holiday season securely upon us, it is basically a universal truth that throngs of visitors will enter New York City for a glamorous white Ch...

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First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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To call Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson "sophomoric" is to flatter it. "Freshmanic" might be closer to describing its juvenile quality. Or maybe just plain "manic."

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On Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andy Jackson All About 2010 Election

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the show points out, it didn't matter what Jackson believed so long as he pitted himself against those more educated and serious politicians who actually believed the federal government could do some good.

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That Thing in Your Pants

Cara Joy David | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dear theatergoer: You have yet to realize that leaving your phone on vibrate does produce noise. And, yes, I did at first entertain the possibility you may be a doctor or be waiting for some emergency call.

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Broadway Legend Patti LuPone's Memoir

The Los Angeles Times | Charles McNulty | Posted 05.25.2011

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When an actor is described as "turbulent" or "difficult," it's typically a euphemism for "a royal pain." Patti LuPone, one of the most celebrated musi...

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Ben Stiller & Edie Falco Headed To Broadway

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Ben Stiller and Edie Falco are teaming up for a revival of "The House of Blue Leaves" on Broadway this spring. Producers say the act...

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On the Verge of a New Fall Season

Cara Joy David | Posted 05.25.2011

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Each year as August fades, I look forward to cooler weather and the start of the fall theater season. This year there was no big summer opening, so al...

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The Day the Plays Died

Cara Joy David | Posted 05.25.2011

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This season on Broadway, the successful plays revolved around stars. The presence of these types of productions creates a very different Broadway landscape.

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First Nighter: Polly Stenham's That Face Hard to Face

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Noel Coward, David Zinn, That Face, Polly Stenham, Broadway, Broadway Plays, Manhattan Theater Club Stage 1, Entertainment News

Handed Stenham's outlandish manuscript for That Face, helmer Sarah Benson and ensemble don't have much choice but to fling themselves into it body and soul -- mostly body.

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Actors, Singers, Dancers, Christians and a Republican: The 2010 Tony Awards Show Roasted

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

It was a poor decision to hand out the Tony awards on the day of the Gay Pride Parade and Festival in West Hollywood, thereby losing its entire West Coast audience.

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