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It was a good week to test your view of New York â the 1990s Bohemia  presented in Rent Live on Fox (which was largely Rent Recorded), or the grittier view expressed by the cityâs teenagers in âGeneration NYZ,â part of Ping Chongâs Undesirable Elements series at LaMaMa?  How about by the African-American playwrights of the Fire this Time Festival? The truth is, in some ways, all of these share the sardonic and romantic view of the city by Rodgers and Hart in the 1920s, as presented by Santino Fontana as part of the Lyrics and Lyricists series at the 92nd Street Y? (Itâs very fancy on old Delancey Street, you know/The subway charms us so.)
 Week in New York Theater Reviews and Previews
Generation NYZ
To the seven young performers who tell the stories of their lives in âGeneration NYZ,â New York means subways and pizza and opportunity, but also cops and catcalling and homelessness.
They are all New Yorkers, but â as they recount for us over the course of 70 increasingly engaging minutes â either they or their parents or grandparents came from somewhere else. They tell, in other words, the story of New York, and of America.
.@BrandonVDixon, national treasure.#RentLive pic.twitter.com/RFzZ8ROjeq
â New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 28, 2019
Rent Live
I had worried that, in Rent Live, Fox television would ruin Jonathan Larsonâs musical about bohemian life in the East Village of the 1980s by bowdlerizing it. I felt it worth watching anyway because its cast of celebrated young screen stars and recording artists would make the most of the catchy tunes.
As it turns out, it wasnât the redacted content but rather a bad break and a series of poor choices that made âRentâ disappointing. And though the cast was clearly full of talent, only a few standouts brought it home in any memorable way. Brandon Victor Dixon, the one performer with the most live theater experience, floored us as Tom Collins,
Weâll Have Manhattan: Rodgers and Hart in New York
When at the age of 17 composer Richard Rodgers met 24-year-old lyricist Lorenz Hart in 1919, he instantly acquired âa career, a partner, a best friend and a source of permanent irritation.â
So Rodgers wrote, in one of the many tidbits Santino Fontana tells us in âWeâll Have Manhattan: Rodgers and Hart in New York,â Fontanaâs celebration, as part of the 92ndStreet Yâs Lyrics & Lyricists series, of the hundredth anniversary of Rodgers and Hartâs partnership
  God Said This
Leah Nanako Winkler was sitting on the couch in her motherâs hospital room in Kentucky while her mother was undergoing chemotherapy for a form of cancer called carcinosarcoma, when the playwright started writing what became God Said This. âIt just came out.â
The play, now on stage at the Cherry Lane Theater through February 15, revolves around Masako, a Japanese-born mother who is undergoing chemotherapy for carcinosarcoma, and explores the effect of her illness on her family.
The Fire This Time Festival
Over the past decade, the annual festival, created to showcase early-career playwrights of African and African-American descent, has presented some of the first New York plays of such now-celebrated writers as Katori Hall (known for such later works as The Mountaintop and Our Lady of Kibeho), Dominique Morisseau (Pipeline, Skeleton Crew and the book for the forthcoming Broadway musical âAinât Too Proudâ), and Jocelyn Bioh (School Girls or the African Mean Girls Play) .
This yearâs offerings are not particularly political, although they do touch (often obliquely) on issues as varied as gentrification, immigration, protest, feminism, homophobia, and affirmative action.
Ruthie Ann Miles as Immigration Judge Craig Zerbe
The Courtroom
Elizabeth Keathley moved to the United State from the Philippines, married an American, and three years later registered to vote, even though she was not yet a citizen. As a result, the government ordered her deported.
âThe Courtroomâis a re-enactment by Waterwell theater company of her deportation proceedings, using the transcript as edited by Arian Moayed, directed by Waterwellâs artistic director Lee Sunday Evans, with Ruthie Ann Miles as Immigration Judge Craig Zerbe, and Kathleen Chalfant as Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The play is being presented for free through February 1 in a series of court-like settings
Red State Blue State
Near the end of Colin Quinnâs stand-up comedy, which promises to âlay bare the absurditiesâŚon both sides of the political divide,â the Saturday Night Live alumnus manages to insult every single state of the unionâŚItâs a baffling routine, almost tedious and even tackyâŚemblematic of Quinnâs enterpriseâŚ.hit or miss and a missed opportunity.
Week in New York Theater News
Alanis Morissette
Anais Mitchell
Melissa Etheridge
Michael Jackson
âJagged Little Pillâ is coming to Broadway. The musical by Alanis Morissette @based on her 1995 album, put together after she was robbed at gunpoint. will open sometime in Fall, 2019, directed by Diane Paulus, who directed it for the American Repertory Theater last year.  Cast, dates and specific theater to be determined.
 When it opens on Broadway April 17, @Hadestown will feature the same cast that just appeared in Londonâs @NationalTheatre: left to r: @pagepatrick, #AmberGray, @Andre_DeShields, @EvaNoblezada @reevecarney pic.twitter.com/NgMmBsG3X4
â New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 28, 2019
.@metheridge will provide the score to a musical based on the 1988 movie Mystic Pizza, the first time we noticed Julia Roberts! MT They are writing the script now and I am looking forward to getting to work on it pic.twitter.com/3xMQCAfJwa
â New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 22, 2019
The Michael Jackson musical, @dontstoponbway (Donât Stop âTil You Get Enough) premieres Oct 29 â Dec at the James M. Nederlander Theatre (@broadwaychicago) before a 2020 Broadway run. Book by @Lynnbrooklyn ! Music by the King of Pop pic.twitter.com/jShiAsLdnk
â New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 23, 2019
.@AudraEqualityMc & Michael Shannon will star in a revival of Terrence McNallyâs Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune @fandjbway . Starts in May, 2019 for 16 weeks at a Shubert theater on Broadway. Details to come pic.twitter.com/2gHdflj3SG
â New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 23, 2019
Thanks @USPS for this new postage stamp of Broadwayâs own Gregory Hines, Tony winner for âJellyâs Last Jam.â He died in 2003 of cancer at age 57 pic.twitter.com/nbFRnATWel
â New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 28, 2019
Finalists for the 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, honoring women playwrights
Jackie Sibblies Drury
Ella Dickson
Lily Padilla
Martyna Majok
Nina Raine
Ella Road
Heidi Schreck
Lauren Yee
Hilary Bettis (U.S.)- 72 miles to goâŚ
Jackie Sibblies Drury (U.S.)- Fairview
debbie tucker green (U.K.)-  ear for eye
Ella Hickson (U.K.)- The Writer
Martyna Majok (U.S.)- Sanctuary City
Lily Padilla (U.S.)- How to Defend Yourself
Nina Raine (U.K.)- Stories
Ella Road (U.K.)-The Phlebotomist
Heidi Schreck (U.S.)- What the Constitution Means to Me
Lauren Yee (U.S.)- Cambodian Rock Band
.@magicmikebway, a musical thatâs touted as a prequel to the Magic Mike movies, Nov 30, 2019- Jan 5, 2020 @EmColonial in Boston prior to an expected Broadway run. Music by the Next to Normal team pic.twitter.com/JfC6gyXU3e
â New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 24, 2019
the third annual WOW â Women of the World Festival. March 12-17@ApolloTheater âPerformances, conversation, activism.âhttps://t.co/3x7F0eP5yM pic.twitter.com/1y10Y8S7I2
â New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 24, 2019
House Seats, a series thatâs part of @ThirteenWNETâs forthcoming streaming service @AllArtsTV, will launch Feb 3 w/ screening of @TheaterofWarâs #AntigoneinFerguson. I saw the play in a playground in Brownsville in 2017, & wrote about it for @HowlRound:https://t.co/iDapHiXSxP pic.twitter.com/fYEnCiOYCp
â New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 24, 2019
Applications to compete in the 2019 @RogerReesAwards for Excellence in Student Performance are being accepted until Feb 4 at https://t.co/gAN1zmqZBa pic.twitter.com/t6dFM5X7gv
â New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 24, 2019
What Should We Do About Scandalous Artists? Accusations of misconduct against beloved creators are changing the way we think about genius
today as in the past, one of the most visible ways that our culture negotiates changing ideas about morality is by thinking about art and artists. Is an artistâs work tainted by his personal wrongdoing? Should we give honor and respect to people who excel in their art but are deficient in what we consider ordinary morality? These questions have been at the heart of modern thinking about art since the 19th century; but since the advent of the #MeToo movement, they have begun to receive new kinds of answers.
if Oscar Wildeâs case were being tried today, he might once again be widely scornedânot because the prostitutes he patronized were male, but because they were young, poor and powerless. The hostile gossip that surrounded him at the time, English critic Kate Hext writes, âwould be nothing compared to the long lenses and comments section of Daily Mail Online, or the verdicts of social media.â
REST IN PEACE
RIP Kaye Ballard, 93, Broadway veteran (The Golden Apple, Carnival, The Pirates of Penzance), familiar face on TV, funny lady. She was impersonating Maurice Chevalier at age 5)https://t.co/6cMmnOm1ji pic.twitter.com/yfSs5MZk1L
â New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 22, 2019
RIP JoJo Smith, 80, Broadway veteran, dancer and choreographer. @msdebbieallenâs teacher, #JohnTravoltaâs dance consultant on #saturdaynightfever pic.twitter.com/URzdmuj9D2
â New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater)
RIP JoJo Smith, 80, Broadway veteran, dancer and choreographer. @msdebbieallenâs teacher, #JohnTravoltaâs dance consultant on #saturdaynightfever pic.twitter.com/URzdmuj9D2
â New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 28, 2019
Rockers on Broadway: Alanis, AnaĂŻs, Melissa and Michael Jackson. New York on Stage: Rent, Generation NYZ, Rodgers and Hart. #Stageworthy News of the Week It was a good week to test your view of New York -- the 1990s Bohemia  presented in Rent Live on Fox (which was largely Rent Recorded), or the grittier view expressed by the city's teenagers in "Generation NYZ," part of Ping Chong's Undesirable Elements series at LaMaMa? Â
#Alanis Morisette&039;s Jagged Little Pill coming to Broadway#Magic Mike coming to Broadway#Michael Jackson musical coming to Broadway#scandalous artists#Susan Smith Blackburn finalists#Women of the Wolrd Festival
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