New York Theater Quiz October 2018

How well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in October? Answer these 10 questions to find out.

The Drama Book Shop, which announced that it is closing

The Gypsy of the Year competition has been renamed

The Aggie song from Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Playwright Dominique Morisseau, winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant

The Lifespan of a Fact 1 Pictured L to R, Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones, and Bobby Cannavale, Photograph by Peter Cunningham

Paddy Considine as Quinn Carney (center, standing) and the company of The Ferryman

Joan Allen and Elaine May in The Waverly Gallery

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New York Theater Quiz September 2018

How well were you paying attention to the theater, and theater news, in September? Answer these 13 questions to find out.

The actual Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra 1890

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New York Theater Quiz August 2018

How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these 11 questions and find out.

Barbara Harris

Broadway dimming its lights for Neil Simon

George Salazar

Dear Evan Hansen t-shirt

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New York Theater Quiz July 2018

How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in July? Answer these 10 questions and find out.

Theo Stockman & Peter LaPrade in This Ain’t No Disco

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Tab Hunter

Peppermint (center) as Pythio, The Oracle of Delphi and the ensemble

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New York Theater Quiz June 2018

How well were you paying attention to New York theater news in June, including the 72nd annual Tony Awards? Answer these 11 questions and find out.

Robert De Niro at the Tonys

Sasson Gabai, star of both the film and now the musical of The Band’s Visit

Eli Gelb, Idina Menzel and Will Brittain in Skintight at Laura Tells Theatre

Michael Jackson

Glenda Jackson in the 2016 UK production of “King Lear.”

Anika Noni Rose as Carmen Jones

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New York Theater Quiz May 2018

How well were you paying attention to New York theater in May? Answer these 10 questions to find out.

Jim Parsons and Matt Boman in Boys in the Band on Broadway

Irina Dvorovenko and Tony Yazbeck.in the beast in the Jungle

Dance Nation

Katy Sullivan in Cost of Living

Juan Francisco Villa and Daniel K Isaac in Gentleman Caller

RISE — “Opening Night” Episode 110 — Pictured: Auli’i Cravalho as Lilette Suarez, portraying Wendla in Spring Awakening — (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)

Hair

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New York Theater Quiz March 2018

How well were you paying attention to New York theater in March? Answer these 14 questions to find out.

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New York Theater Quiz Winter 2018

How much theater did you see in the first two months of 2018? How well were you paying attention to the theater news? Test your theater IQ with these 11 questions, two of them about performers up for Academy Awards.

Oscar nominees

Andrew Lloyd Webber

David Mamet

Stories from the Heart

Robert Sean Leonard, At Home At The Zoo

Jerry Springer the Opera

scene from The Amateurs

Jan Maxwell (Phyllis Rogers Stone) and Gentlemen of the Ensemble in Follies

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New York Theater Quiz December 2017 Special Year End Edition

Who wants to remember 2017, much less answer questions about it? To make this quiz slightly easier to take, references to Donald Trump have been (largely) avoided (and put into a separate quiz, Trump and Theater 2017.) Test how much you were paying attention to the theater news in 2017 by answering the 13 questions below, most selected from my monthly quizzes.

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Barbara Cook

Sam Shepard

Dear Evan Hansen

Anthony Rapp

the original Schuyler Sisters

Lin-Manuel Miranda in the recording studio

Okierete “Oak” Onaodowan

Lin-Manuel Miranda as Salman Rushdie and F. Murray Abraham as the Ayatollah in Fatwa the Musical

Superior Donuts, TV series and Broadway play

Bette Midler accepting her Tony as Best Actress in a musical, in a speech that rambled on for more than four minutes.

Olaf the balloon from Frozen

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