Lin-Manuel Miranda was host of Saturday Night Live this week, which sparked unusual attention on Broadway not only in the show, but during the commercials.
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Fringe will skip 2017, in order to give the artistic director Elena Holy time to rethink the festival after its twentieth anniversary.
Laurie Metcalf, Chris Cooper, Jayne Houdyshell and Condola Rashad will star in Lucas Hnath’s new play on Broadway, A Doll’s House, Part 2 which will pick up Henrik Ibsen’s story of Nora, last seen exiting the Helmer household. It is set to open April 27, 2017 at the Golden Theater
Starry cast for Sondheim/Lapine Sunday in the Park with George, Oct 24-26 at New York City Center:
Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford
will be joined by Brooks Ashmanskas,
Phillip Boykin, Max Chernin,
Carmen Cusack, Gabriel Ebert,
Claybourne Elder, Lisa Howard,
Zachary Levi, Liz McCartney,
Michael McElroy, Ruthie Ann Miles,
Stephanie Jae Park, Solea Pfeiffer,
Gabriella Pizzolo, Phylicia Rashad,
Jaime Rosenstein, Lauren Worsham.
Congrats to Bedlam Theater for being the only NYC winner of @TheWing’s 2016 National Theatre Company Grant of $10,000.
The Future of Storytelling Festival
#TeatrofestNYC2016
8 theaters (e.g. @TeatroCirculoE4, @pregonesprtt) 20 shows,thru Nov 15@teatroslatinoshttps://t.co/eXGqNn01Le pic.twitter.com/3kLVHPL3eD— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) October 7, 2016
1. Politics w/out politicians. 2. Politics as performance art. 3. Can theater provide civic discourse?https://t.co/xsyvvRbW8K pic.twitter.com/91mguz55kO
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) October 6, 2016
Playwrights & @CherryLnTheatre mentors @CookieRiverside @RajivAJoseph #LucyThurber @antondudley in FREE panel discussion
Oct 28 pic.twitter.com/7PIjJpb3py— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) October 5, 2016
Reviving past practice, The Front Page producer Scott Rudin is eliminating any press previews, inviting critics instead to opening night. (Does this mean they’ll also be reviving the ticket prices of the past? )
Ex @WhiteHouse pastry chef @yossesbill to make (#bloodygood?) pies for @sweeneytoddnyc. Opens March 1 @BarrowStTheatre pic.twitter.com/qJZYxm10ul
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) October 5, 2016
Ivo van Hove and his @tgamsterdam return to @BAM_Brooklyn w/ “Kings of War,” three Shakespeare history plays in one. Nov 3–6 pic.twitter.com/KxGVP6N0Eg
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) October 5, 2016
RIP Gordon Davidson, founding artistic director of @CTGLA, the “Moses of L.A. theater.”https://t.co/6t4543kLah pic.twitter.com/SNaV21K7ok
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) October 4, 2016