The show, originally created by Bob Fosse in the late 1970s, has been reimagined with the blessing of his daughter. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Theater”
Douglas McGrath, Playwright, Filmmaker and Actor, Dies at 64
By Gotham Rex on November 4, 2022
His one-man Off Broadway show, “Everything’s Fine,” directed by John Lithgow, had opened just weeks ago. Source: New York Times
Ben Platt on the Unfortunate Timeliness of His ‘Parade’ Revival
By Gotham Rex on October 31, 2022
The 29-year-old actor, best known for his Tony-winning turn in “Dear Evan Hansen,” this week returns to the stage at New York City Center. Source: New York Times
Halloween’s a Big Day for Off Broadway Sendup of ‘Stranger Things’
By Gotham Rex on October 31, 2022
Jonathan Hogue, a writer who loves parody, didn’t enjoy Halloween as a child. The haunted houses were too scary. Source: New York Times
‘Straight Line Crazy’ Review: The Road Rage of Robert Moses
By Gotham Rex on October 26, 2022
Off Broadway at the Shed, Ralph Fiennes is glorious in David Hare’s sputtering portrait of the man who paved New York. Source: New York Times
‘Tell the Story Every Way You Can’: Bess Wohl on ‘Camp Siegfried’
By Gotham Rex on October 25, 2022
How a real-life pro-Nazi summer camp on Long Island inspired a “deeply American play” about seduction. Source: New York Times
Nathan Lane to Return to Broadway This Winter in ‘Pictures From Home’
By Gotham Rex on October 25, 2022
The play, written by Sharr White and directed by Bartlett Sher, will also star Danny Burstein and Zoë Wanamaker. Source: New York Times
‘Back to the Future’ Musical to Open on Broadway Next Summer
By Gotham Rex on October 21, 2022
The show, now in London, has a creative team that combines veterans of the film with some Broadway stalwarts. Performances will begin on June 30. Source: New York Times
Times Square May Get One of the Few Spectacles It Lacks: A Casino
By Gotham Rex on October 19, 2022
The battle to win a New York City casino license has heated up in Manhattan, with real estate and gambling giants offering competing proposals for Times Square and Hudson Yards. Source: New York Times
Jeff Weiss, an Unconventional Theatrical Force, Dies at 82
By Gotham Rex on October 18, 2022
Downtown, he was known for sprawling works and vivid performances, but later in his career he drew praise as an actor in mainstream productions, too. Source: New York Times
For Broadway’s ‘1776’ Revival, the Drama Is Offstage
By Gotham Rex on October 18, 2022
A cast member criticized the consciously progressive revival for its handling of race in rehearsals, saying there had been “harm done.” She later apologized for her comments. Source: New York Times
Patti LuPone Says She Resigned From Stage Actors’ Union
By Gotham Rex on October 17, 2022
The actress left months ago, and revealed her exit on Monday after her name arose during discussion of the errant reprimanding of a “Hadestown” patron who was using a captioning device. Source: New York Times
‘A Strange Loop,’ Which Won Best Musical, Will End Broadway Run
By Gotham Rex on October 11, 2022
The meta-musical, which won the Tony Award this year and the Pulitzer Prize in 2020, announced it would close on Jan. 15. Source: New York Times
Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else
By Gotham Rex on October 5, 2022
The first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama has four shows this season. “If you can hear the world singing, it’s your job to write it down,” she said. Source: New York Times
How to Honor a New Yorker? Name a Street After Them.
By Gotham Rex on October 5, 2022
Jim Houghton Way, near the Signature Theater on West 42nd Street, is the latest in roughly 2,000 “co-namings” of city streets. Source: New York Times