Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin will star on Broadway in “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” a new comedy marking the Broadway debut of acclaimed theater artist Taylor Mac (A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Hir.) Directed by George C. Wolfe, “Gary” is set just after the blood-soaked conclusion of William Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus. Civil war has ended and the country is in the hands of madmen. Casualties are everywhere; two Lane and Martin portray servants charged with cleaning up the corpses. The play is set to open at the Booth Theater April 11, 2019
With the 2018 Emmy® Award win in the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category for “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert,” Andrew Lloyd Webber joins a distinguished list of artists who have won Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and Tonys — EGOT — as do John Legend and Tim Rice
Below: News about Be More Chill, Beetlejuice; Al Roker and Tatiana Maslany make Broadway debuts. Lin-Manuel Miranda celebrates his friends and neighbors in a TV commercial Also: Remember public funding for the arts? And: how Burt Reynolds made a mark on live theater.
The Week in NY Theater Reviews
Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin
Private Peaceful
Gospel at Colonus
Heartbreak House
Remember Public Funding for the Arts?
The Culture Wars in America began on May 18, 1989, according to a new show entitled “THE AЯTS” that launches the new season at La MaMa, when Senator Al D’Amato of New York ripped up an art gallery catalogue on the floor of the Senate, and Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina called artists jerks….
“Something happened to us after that,” says Kevin Doyle. “We’ve forgotten the bold, beautiful arguments that created the NEA and the NEH [National Endowment for the Humanities] in the first place.”
The Week in NY Theater News
Beetlejuice will open at Broadway’s Winter Garden in April, 2019.
Be More Chill will transfer to Broadway, opening at the Lyceum March 10, 2019
Off Broadway Week on sale now, 2-for-1 tickets to 38 Off-Broadway productions, for performances from September 24 through October 7.
Tatiana Maslany joining Network, which will open at the Belasco
TV weatherman Al Roker to play Joe the cook in Waitress
Rosemary Harris steps into the role of Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Ladybeginning tonight.
Congratulations to @jeremyoharris for winning the @vineyardtheatre‘s @VogelPaula Playwriting Award. His “Slave Play” debuts at @NYTW79 this season. Still a student at @yaledrama ! pic.twitter.com/RWNhIAzgh8
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) September 7, 2018
New York Stage and Film artistic director Johanna Pfaelzer will become the new artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre beginning September 1, 2019. S
Geoffrey Owens, Cosby Show alum & veteran actor who has appeared in Shakespearean roles on Broadway four times (and who was recently shamed, then supported, for having a day job), will be teaching 2 courses on Shakespeare at @primarystages this Fallhttps://t.co/fuuO5PiUPx pic.twitter.com/jSkWQF9PLB
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) September 8, 2018
At the curtain call for @FrozenBroadway this week
, a theatergoer held up a huge Trump2020 banner. Actor @TimothyHughes44 snatched it away. “What does it say about our country and politics when a man felt the need to protest Disney’s Frozen…?” pic.twitter.com/3EQOsA6pxo— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) September 8, 2018
Signs of the times in Central Park, good and bad pic.twitter.com/r54okBOCaP
— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) September 6, 2018
Burt Reynolds has died at 82. A good ol boy movie star (Deliverance, Smokey and The Bandit, Boogie Nights), and 70s sex symbol, he performed once on Broadway – in “Look, We’ve Come Through,” written by Hugh Wheeler, in 1961 which lasted 5 performances.
But he also bolstered theater in Florida; his Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre, in tiny Jupiter, Fla. ran for more than a decade, until 1989, and presented 116 productions. It has since become the Maltz Jupiter Theater Florida’s “largest award-winning regional theatre”
“I want a theater for people who haven’t seen live theater, at prices they can pay,” Reynolds said, when he launched the theater.
“I also want to have a place where actors, friends of mine who most producers don’t have access to, can work… . I’ve made friends who grew up in theater. They just don’t want to get clobbered by the New York critics. They want to have fun….You really aren’t an actor till you’ve been on the stage.”
So we made this over the summer!
Very proud to be working with @AmericanExpress, supporting small businesses in my community, and boy was it fun to make an ad in my ‘hood uptown, with my friends & loved ones. Enjoy.#AmexLife #AmexAmbassador pic.twitter.com/cYdK9ufELY— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) August 30, 2018
