The New York Times – Film:
This 1993 memoir, which became a film with Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, is now a play with songs by Aimee Mann. Here’s how the latest iteration came to be.
Category: Public Theater
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‘The Seat of Our Pants’ Review: Songs for the World’s End
The New York Times – Music:
Ruthie Ann Miles, Shuler Hensley and Micaela Diamond lead a dream-team cast in Ethan Lipton’s musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth.”
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‘Oh Happy Day!’ Review: And God Told Keyshawn to Build an Ark
The New York Times – Music:
An urgent family mission propels Jordan E. Cooper’s pain-spiked supernatural comedy, a very loose riff on the biblical story of Noah.
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How David Henry Hwang Remade Theater in His Own Image
The New York Times – T Magazine:
Long the leading Asian American playwright, he was writing autofictional works about identity politics decades before those were cultural obsessions.
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How John Leguizamo Spends a Day Before Taking the Stage
The New York Times – Film:
The actor fits in tennis with his son, a writing session and lots of dancing before performing his new show at the Public Theater.
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The Tony Nominee Starring in Alicia Keys’s ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ on Broadway
The New York Times – Music:
Maleah Joi Moon almost gave up on theater. Now, in her first professional role, the “Hell’s Kitchen” star is a Tony nominee.
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Alicia Keys’s ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ to Open on Broadway This Spring
The New York Times – Music:
The musical, now midway through a sold-out Off Broadway run at the Public Theater, will transfer to the Shubert Theater in March.
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‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Review: Alicia Keys’s Musical Is Ambitious
The New York Times – Music:
A promising Off Broadway jukebox musical features hits by the R&B star (including “Fallin’,” “If I Ain’t Got You” and “No One”) and a story much like her own.