Dance is an awfully limiting word when applied to a performance by Milwaukee Dance Theatre.
The company’s Thursday evening premiere of “The Initial Urge to Suck,” a piece by Isabelle Kralj and Mark Anderson, is a captivating, entertaining and sometimes moving tapestry of spoken word, music, video, automatics and dance with its roots in an early-1990s […]
Women’s movement pioneer — and the co-founder of the Ms. Foundation — Gloria Steinem will host a special sneak preview of the new musical A Woman of Will May 5 in Manhattan.
The musical, written by Amanda McBroom and Joel Silberman, is scheduled to open at an Off-Broadway theatre-to-be-announced some time in fall 2005. Originally titled […]
Once in a while, it is the chorus girl who gets the big break. “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” which tours to Salt Lake City’s Capitol Theatre this week, offers a couple of examples.
A little-known understudy named Sutton Foster took over the starring role of Millie during the show’s tryouts at La Jolla Theatre in San Diego […]
Racism is an ugly word, but it is a far uglier reality.
The state-sanctioned racism of apartheid is the backdrop for Athol Fugard’s ” ‘Master Harold’ . . . and the boys.” The racism that flows between a white teenager and the two black men employed in his parent’s restaurant is the poignant foreground.
Next Act Theatre’s […]
HERE LIES JENNY, the smash theatrical event starring two-time Tony and Emmy Award winner Bebe Neuwirth and featuring the music of Kurt Weill will play San Francisco’s Post Street Theatre (450 Post Street) for a strictly limited engagement, with previews on Sunday, May 1st and Monday, May 2nd, and a press opening on Tuesday, May […]
“Doubt,” which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for drama, is up for another honor, the 20th annual Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding off-Broadway play.
The play by John Patrick Shanley is one of five Lortel best-play nominees, a group that also includes “After Ashley” by Gina Gionfriddo, “Going to St. Ives” by Lee Blessing, “Intimate Apparel” […]
Broadway favorite Rebecca Luker will be part of the York Theatre Company’s upcoming presentation of Darling of the Day.
Part of the Off-Broadway theatre’s acclaimed “Musicals in Mufti” spring season, Darling of the Day will be mounted April 15 at 8 PM, April 16 at 2:30 and 8 PM and April 17 at 2:30 and 7:30 […]
Gina Gionfriddo’s hit After Ashley featuring Anna Paquin, Kieran Culkin, Grant Shaud and Tim Hopper ends its Off-Broadway run at the Vineyard Theatre April 3.
Terry Kinney (Beautiful Child, “Oz”) directed the New York premiere of the black comedy which began performances Feb. 11 and opened Feb. 28 at the downtown venue for a run originally […]
Ron Rifkin — who starred in the world premiere of The Paris Letter in Los Angeles — as well as John Glover, Lee Pace and Daniel Eric Gold are expected to star in the upcoming Off-Broadway staging, Playbill.com has learned.
Previews will begin for the New York premiere of the new Jon Robin Baitz drama on […]
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot are played out in court one final time when Stephen Adly Guirgis world premiere play directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman closes Off-Broadway, April 3.
The new LAByrinth Theatre Company staging presented in collaboration with The Public Theater began previews Feb. 8 and opened March 2 at The Public Theater’s Martinson […]
Julia Gibson and Reg Rogers join Marin Hinkle in the cast of the upcoming Craig Lucas adaptation of Miss Julie at Off-Broadway’s Rattlestick Theatre.
The new take on August Strindberg’s classic is set to play May 11-June 9 at the downtown stage with an opening scheduled for May 19. Anders Cato directs.
In Miss Julie, a flirtation […]