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Broadway: ROUNDABOUT THEATRE (2022-2023 Season)
Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the line-up for its 2022-2023 theatrical season. For more info, visit Roundabout. BROADWAY – AMERICAN AIRLINES THEATRE 1776 FALL 2022 | American Airlines Theatre The multiracial company of 1776 is made up of artists who identify as female, nonbinary, or trans. It is led by Crystal Lucas-Perry as John Adams, Patrena…
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Broadway Opening: KIMBERLY AKIMBO (Booth Theatre)
YES, IT’S THAT GREAT One of my favorite musicals of the year is moving its Off-Broadway production to Broadway, which is right where it belongs. Beginning previews on October 12 and officially opening on November 10, 2022, KIMBERLY AKIMBO is one of the most refreshing and original musicals since I don’t know when. Kim is…
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Broadway Opening: SOME LIKE IT HOT (Shubert Theatre)
A NEW MUSICAL COMEDY BASED ON THE CLASSIC MGM FILM Previews Begin Tuesday, November 1, 2022 Opening Night is Sunday, December 11, 2022 Some Like It Hot will begin performances on Broadway this fall on Tuesday, November 1 and officially open Sunday, December 11 at the Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street). This brand-new Broadway musical…
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Film: HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG (directed by Daniel Geller & Dayna Goldfine)
The US theatrical premiere of Dayna Goldfine and Daniel Geller’s HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG opens at Film Forum, NYC, this Friday, July 1. Poet/singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) spent over 7 years writing “Hallelujah,” initially an obscure track on an early 80s album rejected by his record label. “Look, Leonard, we know you’re…
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Dance Recommendation: CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS (The Joyce)
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS MAKES JOYCE DEBUT FOR PRIDE, 2022 The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue at West 19th Street, concludes Pride 2022 with the debut of boundary-shattering movement artist Christopher Williams. The New York premiere of selections from his series of queer interpretations of renowned classical ballets will play The Joyce Theater from June 28-July 3,…
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Theater Review: BROADWAY BY THE YEAR: “FROM ZIEGFELD TO MOULIN ROUGE!” (The Town Hall)
Scott Siegal’s latest installment in his ongoing homage to commercial Broadway, appropriately titled Broadway By The Year, is an entertaining and enjoyable production that starts down memory lane but thrillingly winds its way back to our Broadway present. Featuring solid and familiar Broadway performers, a chorus of synchronized Rockettes and a stunning eighteen-year-old newcomer, Mr….
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New York Theater Event: RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN: A BROADWAY CELEBRATION (Transport Group at Merkin Hall)
A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING Transport Group has announced that Rodgers & Hammerstein: A Broadway Celebration will be the next installment in its Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series on Monday, June 27, 2022, at 8pm in Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center. Proceeds from the evening support The Joanna and Steven Sanders New Works Program, Transport Group’s…
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Broadway Event: BROADWAY BARES: XXX (Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS at the Hammerstein Ballroom)
Broadway Bares ’Sizzling 30th Anniversary Showto Reveal Strips that Tease Bare Beginnings Broadway Bares will celebrate 30 years of baring it all with Broadway Bares: XXX, a one-night-only extravaganza of provocative new production numbers inspired by the show’s sexy and sensual three-decade run. The in-person edition returns Sunday, June 26, 2022. Tickets available at broadwaycares.org. NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom (311 West 34th…
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Theater Interview: STUART ZAGNIT (Now Appearing in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Off-Broadway)
STUART NOT SO LITTLE In August of 1987, Stuart Zagnit took over the role of Seymour, the young botanist in the original production of Little Shop of Horrors at New York’s Off-Broadway Orpheum Theater. In April of 2022, he took over the role of Mushnik, the elderly owner of the floral shop where the Audrey…
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Attraction Reviews: SUMMIT ONE VANDERBILT | ONE WORLD OBSERVATORY (New York City)
A TALE OF TWO TOWERS The area around the erstwhile World Trade Center towers may have transformed slowly, and still under construction, but the transformation is astounding around the new high-rise replacement tower, One World Trade Center, also known as the Freedom Tower, and which is now the focal point of the Lower Manhattan skyline….
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New York Theater: 2022 DRAMA DESK AWARD WINNERS
AWARD WINNERS THAT STAGE AND CINEMA AGREES WITH ACROSS THE BOARD Well, well, well. Bless the 2021-2022 Drama Desk Nominating Committee. Not only were their nominations truly for achievement (versus all the awards for so-called “woke” theater from other organizations), but winners were fairly chosen, even in some very very VERY tight categories. The design…
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Off-Broadway Recommendation: CHAINS (Mint Theater)
Director Jenn Thompson Creates a Rare Behind the Scenes Look at Mint Theater’s American Premiere of CHAINS by Elizabeth Baker. Performances on now at Theatre Row. Without a doubt one of the classiest theater companies in New York, the Mint returns with an all-new live production. To miss it would be folly. I can’t…
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Off-Broadway Live & Streaming: CIRCLE JERK (Connelly Theater)
IT’S A LOT TO TAKE IN, BUT TAKE IT IN YOU MUST Fake Friends, which co-created the zany streaming event This American Wife (review), are very very bright and insightful, au courant about the internet-age zeitgeist, and as queer as a clockwork orange. This tribe is a lot to take in, but take it in you must. Now, their Circle…
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Broadway Closing: HANGMEN (Golden Theater)
DON’T GET HUNG OUT BY MISSING THIS MASTERPIECE Blimey, friends, you only have two more weeks to see my favorite play on Broadway. And not only my favorite, but the best. Martin McDonough’s thrilling comedy Hangmen contains incredibly well-drawn characters played by jaw-dropping performers, many of whom came from the West End. Additionally, it is…
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Off-Broadway Review: EXCEPTION TO THE RULE (Roundabout)
EXCEPTIONAL EXCEPTION High school is a time of many rules, sometimes excessively so. How to dress, who to hang with, what’s in, what’s out, where to go, what to listen to — do you identify with the group or be true to yourself? And that’s just from one’s peers. Run afoul of authority figures and…
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Off-Broadway Review: THE SINGING WINDMILLS (Theater 71)
A WIND BLOWS THROUGH IT In 1949, after the Moscow State Jewish Theater was closed, members of Stalin’s secret police were busy burning down stage sets, props, costumes and books. The head of the theater, Solomon Mikhoels, did not live to see that day. His life was extinguished a year earlier. He didn’t witness the…
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Off-Broadway Review: …WHAT THE END WILL BE (Roundabout)
QUE SERí, SERí Those of us of a certain age may remember the now classic opening credits of the popular, seventies, television sitcom The Odd Couple. Right before the catchy theme music would commence, a deep voiced announcer would state the show’s simple premise, “Can two divorced men share an apartment – without driving each other…
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Broadway Opening: INTO THE WOODS (Encores! Limited Engagement at the St. James Theatre)
SARA BAREILLES, BRIAN D’ARCY JAMES, PATINA MILLER, PHILLIPA SOO, GAVIN CREEL, JOSHUA HENRY TO STAR The critically acclaimed New York City Center Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods will transfer to Broadway this summer, for a strictly limited eight-week engagement at the St. James Theatre beginning Tuesday, June 28. Tickets now…
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Off-Broadway Review FAT HAM (The Public Theater)
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS FAT HAM The Father/Son relationship can often be difficult. It can be hard even when the father and son like, let alone love, each other. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the young prince is so enamored of his recently deceased father, King Hamlet, he refers to him as a “Hyperion.” In…
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Off-Broadway Live & Streaming: CIRCLE JERK (Connelly Theater)
IT’S A LOT TO TAKE IN, BUT TAKE IT IN YOU MUST Fake Friends, which co-created the zany streaming event This American Wife (review), are very very bright and insightful, au courant about the internet-age zeitgeist, and as queer as a clockwork orange. This tribe is a lot to take in, but take it in…
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