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Theater Subscriptions: Does anybody subscribe anymore? What are alternatives?
Robert Falls, the artistic director of the Goodman Theater in Chicago, recalls the way he was able to get good seats with his subscription to the Lyric Opera. One day Danny Newman, who handled...
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Should Ill Theatergoers Stay Home? What About The Disabled?
A theatergoer threw up in “Grace,” prompting Paul Rudd to go on David Letterman. What if the person was not drunk, but ill? About half an hour into the play “Sorry” at the Public Theater yesterday...
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My Name Is Asher Lev: What does it take to be an artist? What is the artist’s...
My Name Is Asher Lev: “You have a responsibility. Do you know what that responsibility is?” the art teacher (Mark Nelson) asks his student, an art prodigy who is also an Orthodox Jew (Ari Brand) “As...
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Top 10 Stories in 2012 on NewYorkTheater.Me
Here are the ten most-read articles from this blog this year: Will Slings and Arrows Return To TV? Slings and Arrows, a cult-like backstage television series that ran for three seasons. Its creators...
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Social Media On Stage: Theater Meets Twitter,Facebook,Youtube, Tumbler,...
Mark Lindberg in Nerve Tank’s The Attendants at the World Financial Center in New York City, one of the theatrical experiments that put social media on stage. Theater, the original social media, meets...
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Patriotism, Anarchy and Art: Can you enjoy theater you don’t agree with...
In Slant Theatre Project’s “The Steadfast,” a play that extols soldiers, three young men (John Behlmann, Alex Ubokudom, and Dellapina) walk in a cold forest toward the Canadian border to escape being...
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The Future of Broadway Is Today. TEDx Broadway
Vincent Gassetto does not work in the theater; he is the principal of a middle school in the Bronx, M.S. 343. Yet he had something worthwhile to say at today’s day-long conference about “the best that...
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Randi Zuckerberg’s Ideas For Broadway
Randi Zuckerberg and George Takei at TEDx Broadway 2013. Zuckerberg Tweeted about Takei: “He was so great talking about theater & social media, I don’t even have to speak! “ Before Randi Zuckerberg...
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New York Theater and Diversity
Should the stage reflect the demographics of the city in which it is located? That is the assumption of the second annual report from the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, the AAPAC Stats...
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When did Seth MacFarlane’s – and America’s – bigoted humor become sacred?
Humor is the greatest weapon the powerless have against the powerful. When the powerful use it against the powerless, it’s evil. Was Seth MacFarlane’s introduction of Salma Hayek at the Oscars...
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Broadway Producer Alia Jones-Harvey of The Trip to Bountiful: Lessons of...
Theater producer Alia Jones-Harvey is the only woman of color currently a lead producer on Broadway. Her company Front Row productions began with the revival of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ” in 2008,...
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Speaking Theater to Power: NYC political candidates address arts issues
The League of Independent Theater held its first political candidate forums last month, and is planning to make endorsements in New York City political races. With some 50,000 independent theater...
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Billy Elliot After Margaret Thatcher
The lyrics to “Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher” offered a dilemma after the former British prime minister’s death at age 87. So merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher May God’s love be with you We all sing...
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New York Loves Boston
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that,” a quote by Martin Luther King Jr., was one of the many sayings projected onto the wall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music building after news...
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Theater Access for the Deaf, Blind, and Autistic: New Technology, Changing...
Russell Harvard decided to be an actor at the age of seven when he saw his cousin playing the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. That ambition was confirmed when his aunt took him at 13 to...
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Save The Drama: LGBTQ Youth And The Theatre of the Oppressed NYC
A cop bumped into Tamara Williams, frisked her, mocked her, then issued her a citation for resisting arrest — a traumatic incident from last summer that became a dramatic one this weekend. It was one...
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Bert and Ernie Celebrating Gay Rights Supreme Court Rulings: New Yorker Cover
Next week’s cover of the New Yorker Magazine Tagged: Bert and Ernie, gay marriage, gay rights, Muppets, New Yorker, Supreme Court
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Off-Broadway Should Get A Tony — Every Year
In an essay I’ve written for Howlround, I ask ” Is New York City part of America?“ Next year for the first time, theaters within the five boroughs of New York City will be eligible for the Regional...
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Playwright Mark Ravenhill: ‘Be new, a freak, challenging, disruptive,...
Below is a transcript of playwright Mark Ravenhill’s opening speech at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival — necessary because the BBC reports it this way: “One of Britain’s leading playwrights has said...
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Another cast member injured in Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
Daniel Curry, 23, one of the nine dancers who dons a Spider-Man costume in “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is reportedly in Bellevue Hospital in serious condition after his leg was caught last night in...
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