Playwrites News: NYC Theater
NYT > TheaterIn ?It Must Be Him,? a comedy by Kenny Solms, Peter Scolari plays a television writer who?s trying to revive his career.
For beginning hoofers or advanced, Broadway dance routines can be an alternative to the gym.
Actors recall how long-ago backstage encounters with their idols changed their lives.
Sometimes performers make you see familiar characters in new ways.
The Jets took in an early private performance of the show ?Black Angels Over Tuskegee? on Wednesday in Manhattan.
At the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, a ?Troilus and Cressida? that doesn?t shortchange the title characters.
The Public Theater and Lincoln Center Theater, both nonprofits, are undertaking financially ambitious productions for the 2010-11 Broadway season.
In Luigi Creatore?s ?Error of the Moon,? the jealous Edwin Booth is partly responsible for John Wilkes Booth?s assassination of Lincoln.
The musical, about two World War II G.I.'s whose friendship turns into romance, has been delayed until the fall of 2011.
Producer Elizabeth I. McCann, who had announced she would mount the show in November, said on Thursday that she is now aiming for a spring opening.
The grants, for $20,000 each, will go theaters in Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Washington and Princeton, N.J.
Selective listings by theater critics of The New York Times of noteworthy shows in New York.
A site-specific production of Ibsen?s ?Hedda Gabler? is performed for an audience of two dozen in an East Village town house.
Layon Gray?s play ?All-American Girls? puts together an all-black female baseball team during World War II for a whodunit.
In ?The Memory Show,? the young composer Zach Redler has written a score that follows the patterns of minds grasping, often in vain, for clarity, conviction and lost time.
The Belasco Theater, a Broadway house known for its relative intimacy and its subtly gothic ambience, has been restored to its original grandeur.
The much-praised London theater company Donmar Warehouse, despite the success of its ?Red? on Broadway, does not plan to transfer plays willy-nilly to New York.
Brooke Shields broke her hand during rehearsals for a show in Los Angeles; the first Horton Foote Prize for playwrights has been awarded for two plays.
Several shows at this year?s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including ?Roadkill? and ?Sub Rosa,? tinker with the traditional audience construct.
Show-business people who commute from Manhattan to South Orange and Maplewood have banded together to form a theater company called Midtown Direct Rep.
Mr. Lloyd brings his ?Taxi? and ?Back to the Future? sensibility to Arthur Miller?s liked-but-not-well-liked everyman, in Weston, Vt.
