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Cara Joy David: Magic in a Trunk

2012-05-30T18:40:46Z

Despite the trip from the Berkshires barn to the La Jolla Playhouse to New York Theater Workshop and now to Broadway, Peter and the Starcatcher has by all accounts maintained its original feel.

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Edie Falco Goes Off-Broadway

2012-05-30T14:40:55Z

NEW YORK — Edie Falco, Boyd Gaines and Richard Thomas will star in Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming 2012-2013 season.

The nonprofit Wednesday ...

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Camilla Webster: The Nuyorican Poets Café, in the Words of Ed Morales, Author, Lecturer, Journalist, Nuyorican

2012-05-30T10:11:25Z

The Nuyorican Poets Café, the legendary venue that opened first in the mid 1970s, closed in the early '80s and then re-opened in the late '80s, is one of the cultural gems that keep NYC the hotbed of creativity that it has always been.

Read more: Literature, Miguel Piñero, Nuyorican, Theater, Pedro Pietri, Music, Visual Art, Poetry, Sandra Maria Esteves, The Nuyorican Poets Café, Ed Morales, Miguel Algarín, Papoleto Meléndez, Victor Hernández Cruz, Puerto Rican, New York Natives, NY Around Town, New York News

Mark Juddery: Tony Awards: The (Next) Movie?

2012-05-29T17:00:12Z

Though Hollywood doesn't make musicals as much as they used to, they still look to Broadway for possible hits. So what will be the next hit movie musical?

Read more: The Producers, Chicago, Wicked, Glen Hansard, Rock of Ages, Leap of Faith, The Book of Mormon, Tony Awards, Theater, Broadway, Musicals, Hollywood, Peter and the Starcatcher, New York, Newsies, Nice Work if You Can Get It, Oscars, Once, Slidepollajax, Christian Borle, George Gershwin, Matthew Broderick, Entertainment News

Playwright Dies At 80

2012-05-29T11:35:55Z

NEW YORK — William Hanley, a Broadway playwright and award-winning screenwriter who scripted a pioneering TV film that dealt with incest, has di...

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James Franco: Don't Bring Your iPad to Once the Musical

2012-05-28T13:07:46Z

The play was in full swing even though the lights weren't down, and most people, including my guest, were unaware of the fight about to break out.

Read more: Once, Broadway Musicals, Theater, Once Broadway, Theater Audience, Once Musical, Ipad, Entertainment News

'Annie' Gets Its Villain

2012-05-25T20:38:28Z

NEW YORK — Katie Finneran is about to get evil – playing Miss Hannigan in the new production of "Annie" on Brodway.

Producers said Friday...

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Carnegia Hall Triumph

2012-05-25T11:43:00Z

NEW YORK — Someone forgot to tell Nina Stemme that the opera season here is supposed to be over. Thank goodness!

The Swedish soprano brought a ...

Read more: Opera Star, Theater, Nina Stemme, New York, Carnegie Hall, Opera Review, Opera, Salome, Arts News

Brad Schreiber: It Is Done : Site Specific Theatrical Chills

2012-05-24T12:12:58Z

The use of an old jukebox with calculated selections from Hank Williams and Jon Campbell's, er, hellacious wind sound design top off this welcome addition to terrific theater staged without a theater.

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Howard Sherman: The Artist Vs. The Critic

2012-05-24T10:44:06Z

Artists writing to newspapers to complain about reviews is hardly a new phenomenon. However, in my experience, it's an impotent gesture at best and a counterproductive one at worst.

Read more: Theatre, Theater, Criticism, Critics, Reviews, Theater Critics, Metropolitan Opera, The Australian, Met Opera, Met Opera Opera News, Opera News Reviews, Opera News, Peter Gelb, Officer and a Gentleman, Culture News

'Best Man' Actor Drops Out Of Show After Being Hit By A Car

2012-05-23T16:04:56Z

NEW YORK — Broadway producers scrambled Wednesday to fill Michael McKean's part in a revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" as the actor recover...

Read more: Best Man, Best Man Broadway, Best Man Gore Vidal, Video, Michael McKean Best Man, Broadway, Theater, Michael McKean, Michael Mckean Car Accident, Culture News

Andy Propst: Just Opened: New Musical February House at The Public Theater

2012-05-23T09:24:24Z

It's a fantastic tale and set of characters to bring together on the stage, and yet, Bockley's book only manages to fitfully spark to life as these individuals quarrel, make up, and orate about their passions.

Read more: Off-Broadway, The February House, Public Theater, Gabriel Kahane, NY Around Town, Theater, Musicals, Culture, Arts News

Cara Joy David: Talkin' 'Bout a Miracle and Rita Lyons

2012-05-22T12:00:49Z

She laughed at a few remarks, but others that led to an uproarious response in most people, caused my mother to roll her eyes in disgust. You see, at the root of it, she was shocked by the somewhat nasty Rita Lyons and she didn't want her to be Jewish. She felt it was somehow an affront.

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Howard Sherman: Anatomy of Flop

2012-05-22T07:35:46Z

A word that is thrown about with abandon, 'flop' is not merely a pejorative, but an economic distinction. We would serve work better if our collective focused on the succès d'estime, rather than the success of an accountant's pen.

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David Schwimmer Heads To New York By Way Of 'Detroit'

2012-05-21T15:49:58Z

NEW YORK — David Schwimmer is coming back to the New York stage – by way of "Detroit."

The former "Friends" star will make his Playwright...

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Little Orphan Annie Finds A Home

2012-05-21T14:17:00Z

NEW YORK — Little Orphan Annie has found a home finally – the Palace Theatre.

Producers of "Annie" said Monday that the revival of the mu...

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New South African Playhouse Uses Theater For Change

2012-05-21T07:52:12Z

JOHANNESBURG — Playwright, director and actor John Ledwaba gave up theater during South Africa's turbulent 1980s and left his Soweto home to tra...

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Bess Rowen: Star Power: Peter and the Starcatcher

2012-05-18T17:25:02Z

I am not saying that cross-dressing can't be funny, but I am saying that it is not a joke in and of itself. It is also simply old hat to laugh at a male character who seems emasculated. Haven't we moved past this?

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Lanie Zipoy: Playwright Daniel Talbott Comes Full Circle With Slipping

2012-05-18T12:48:32Z

When Slipping opens at the New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco on May 18th, it will be a sweet homecoming for playwright Daniel Talbott.

Read more: Theater, Daniel Talbott, New York, Gay, New Conservatory Theatre Center, Juilliard, Play, San Francisco, Arts News

Michael Giltz: Theater: New Play Cock Not as Provocative as Title, Sad to Say

2012-05-17T23:06:33Z

If you call your play Cock, it better be a button-pushing bit of provocation that toys with gender and sexuality in ways both funny and shocking. We keep waiting, not unreasonably, for Cock's big moment, a soliloquy to sex, a panegyric to the penis, a colloquy on cock.

Read more: Theater, Comedy, Video, Off-Broadway Theater, Off-Broadway, Mike Bartlett, Cock, Cock Off-Broadway, Theatre, New York Theater, Culture News

Judge Gives 'Spider-Man' Stuntman A Boost

2012-05-17T16:30:45Z

NEW YORK — Producers of Broadway's "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" were ordered Thursday to turn over any relevant information to a stuntman who...

Read more: Spider Man Turn Off the Dark, Richard Kobak Spider Man Lawsuit, Spider Man Stuntman, Spider Man Injuries, Video, Spider Man Broadway, Spider Man Lawsuit, Theater, Richard Kobak Spider Man, Richard Kobak, Culture News

Andy Propst: Closing Soon: Four Theatergoing Options This Weekend

2012-05-17T12:30:31Z

This evening of short plays from Nick Jones addresses contemporary issues with a decidedly quirky and dark wit. For instance, the title piece in this show focuses on a pair of brothers, barely teenagers, whose views of sex have been completely shaped by the porn they've seen online.

Read more: Off-Broadway, Here Arts Center, Off-Off-Broadway, New Plays, David Rabe, Mark Ravenhill, NY Around Town, Theater, The-Flea-Theater, Nick Jones, The Flea Theatre, Ps 122, Arts News

Uloop: Your Guide to Surviving Shakespeare in College

2012-05-17T10:45:57Z

This is the one time in class where viewing the movie is beneficial. Shakespeare was written as a play, not a book, so seeing the scenes played out is helpful when trying to decipher the plot-line and character motivation.

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Erika Milvy: Charlie Varon's New Play Buffers in a YouTube Video Smackdown Between Ex-spouses

2012-05-17T10:25:25Z

In FWD: Life Gone Viral, two of the four characters in this two-actor play are tiny flies on the wall -- spying on their exes. That is, they are spyin...

Read more: Cancer, The Marsh, Charlie Varon, Theatre, Theater, San Francisco, Comedy, Youtube, Arts News

Another Broadway Play Bites The Dust

2012-05-16T18:15:58Z

NEW YORK -- The wild – and exuberant – ride of "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" is coming to an end on Broadway.

Producers said Wednesday ...

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