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From the Dramaturg’s Desk: November 7-13 It was this week in 1953 that Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas died in New York City. On November 4 of that year, Thomas—who was famously enthusiastic about alcoholic beverages—went on a drinking binge at the White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village and died five days later. Up [...]

This Week in History: October 31–November 6 During this week in 1905, the character of Peter Pan made his American stage debut when Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up opened on Broadway at the Empire Theatre on November 6. In retrospect, this date is significant because it was largely responsible for the creation of a [...]

This Week in History: October 24–30 It was this week in 1967 that the the building now known as the Public Theater first opened when the original incarnation of the musical Hair premiered on October 29. The New York Shakespeare Festival had made a name for itself putting on free Shakespeare in Central Park at the Delacorte Theater since 1962, [...]

This Week in History: October 17–23 It was this week in 1932 that George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s comedy Dinner at Eight made its Broadway debut. But the evening of Saturday, October 22 was hardly a typical opening night. During most Broadway premieres, co-author and director George S. Kaufman would pace to and fro backstage during the [...]

This Week in History: October 10–16 In the late 1980s, Broadway hit what many people consider to be a lull. While there were plays by dramatists like Neil Simon, August Wilson, and David Henry Hwang, and musicals by Stephen Sondheim, the Golden Age of musical theatre was over, and some bemoaned increasing commercialization and greater dependence [...]

6 ladies.  Playing every role in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.  Watch their promo, and check out their website for more info! The Tempest – Trailer from Tempest Ladies on Vimeo.

This Week in History: October 3–9 On this week in 1979, the Broadway community celebrated the glory days of burlesque and vaudeville when Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller opened in Sugar Babies at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on October 8. The 1970s were a nostalgic time for the New York theatre district. Follies, another throwback to vaudeville, ran from [...]

Peter & I will be playing from October 6th-16th at the American Theatre of Actors (54th between 8th and 9th). Based on true events, Peter & I is a musical brimming with questions of faith, loss, salvation, love and immortality. It explores the mysteries surrounding the life and death of Michael Llewelyn Davies; one of [...]

This Week in History: September 26–October 2 It was this week in 1928 that an entire Broadway cast was arrested, when New York City police raided the Biltmore Theatre, immediately following the opening performance of The Pleasure Man on October 1. Mae West, between first making a name for herself in Vaudeville and becoming a film icon, [...]

Simon Cowell is developing a new stage show based on the popular reality-competition series “The X Factor” that he hopes to open in London’s West End.  Vomit. In. My. Mouth.  This sounds worse than a jukebox musical about a group that nobody has ever heard of that had one hit song once (Baby, I don’t [...]