#Hamilton‘s Schuyler Sisters (Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jasmine Cephas Jones) slay “America The Beautiful” #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/I4BtzUrvQw
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) February 5, 2017
The original Schuyler sisters of “Hamilton” – Phillipa Soo (soon to be back on Broadway in Amelie), Renee Elise Goldberry, and Jasmine Cephas Jones — sang “America the Beautiful” before Super Bowl LI, which kicked off at 6:30 p.m. on Fox. Lady Gaga is headlining the Super Bowl LI halftime show.
On its Twitter feed, The Tony Awards have been helpfully interpreting the Super Bowl for Broadway fans.
(By the way, the New England Patriots play the Atlanta Falcons.)
With dystopian novels all suddenly best-sellers again — 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, Animal Farm, It Can’t Happen Here, Fahrenheit 451 – it seems fitting that a London stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 is coming to Broadway’s Hudson Theater starting June 22, 2017.
Sonia Friedman and Scott Rudin are producing the adaptation by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, a UK hit that was presented last year in several theaters in the U.S. as well. Casting has yet to be announced.
February 2017 theater openings
January 2017 New York theater quiz
Week in New York Theater Reviews
Yen, a bleak British play that opens tonight Off-Broadway, stars Lucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated last week for his role in Manchester by the Sea, and Justice Smith, of the Netflix hip-hop drama The Get Down, as two teenage brothers living alone, with no school, no friends, little food and one t-shirt to share between them….….Playwright Anna Jordan leaves little doubt that her play is meant to explore the damage caused by a lack of love….Particularly absorbing is the interaction between Justice Smith and Lucas Hedges, with their contrasting characterizations. …
A new TV series, starring Judd Hirsch and Jermaine Fowler that is based on the Broadway play by Tracy Letts that I reviewed in 2009, calling it sitcom-like. I reprint my Broadway review, which focuses on how different the play was from Letts’ previous work.
Three recent productions in New York City—Made in China, Confucius, and Caught— explore US-China relations.
More New York Theater News
Alison Wright (the duped FBI secretary in the TV series “The Americans”) has been hired as the ninth and final cast member of “Sweat” by Lynn Nottage. She is the only member of the Broadway cast who didn’t also perform the show Off-Broadway.
Watch videos from the Actors and Activism panel of BroadwayCon, with Celia Keenan-Bolger, Hamilton’s Okieriete Onaodowan, Shuffle Along’s Amber Iman (who founded Broadway for Black Lives Matter), In Transit’s Margo Seiberg (who co-founded Racket) – and director Tina Landau, who helped found The Ghostlight Project.
“Last Days of Judas Iscariot” by Stephen Adly Guirgis, will be performed at La MaMa March 9-26, directed by Estelle Parsons, artistic director of the Actors Studio, where the production originated. “We plan to do most of the plays of Stephen Adly Giurgis,” Parsons said, “because they are brilliant & don’t get done much”
Ribbon-cutting ceremony for @hudsonbway next Wed, w/ @SundayBroadway stars #JakeGyllenhaal & @TheAAshford pic.twitter.com/DkaZNl6kAs
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) February 3, 2017
“Why am I paying you all this money?”
“Because I’m 1 of the greatest orchestrators in the history of Bway”https://t.co/Id4wE7625u— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) February 1, 2017
NYC is the puppetry capital of US, home of boundary-pushing directors like Lee Breuer & Julie Taymor https://t.co/5ZFDFQ7ffs
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) February 1, 2017
Provocative,unpersuasive essay in @Salon that arts advocates economic argument make it easier to kill #NEAhttps://t.co/3eD7GtXPYg pic.twitter.com/lHKkhxhqbz
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) February 1, 2017
Happy 96th birthday, Carol Channing!
A member of this exclusive club
–> https://t.co/R8GxmVjB23 pic.twitter.com/XHDEJP3TPN— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 31, 2017
The Actor’s Fund’s Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts opens in theater district in March
Trailer for the film adaptation of Stephen Karam’s first hit play, “Speech & Debate”
Cast portrait from Roundabout’s revival of Arthur Miller’s ThePrice , starring Jessica Hecht, Tony Shalhoub, Danny DeVito making his Broadway debut, and Mark Ruffalo. The play begins Feb 16, opens March 16.
