#NYTW

[myfreakingawesomeworld]

A clip from Daniel Radcliffe (and Jonathan) performing Franklin Shepard Inc in Merrily We Roll Along at the New York Theater Workshop!

Beware that this might het deleted soon due to copyright issues.

[reggiecat85]

Pics from the opening night of Merrily; from Jonathan’s friend Katie McCarty’s Instagram reel

[droughtofapathy]

"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby

Here There Are Blueberries

June 26, 2024 | Off-Broadway | NYTW | Evening | Play | Original | 1H 20M | Talkback

A documentary-style play detailing the discovery of a photograph album of Nazi officers stationed at Auschwitz in the months before the liberation. After the play was a Pulitzer finalist, I kept an eye out for affordable tickets, and luckily a few under-forty were made available for us youngins. It's a powerful piece, as you can imagine given the subject matter. The actors all perform with aplomb, and the projection design is the most effective I've ever seen utilized on stage. There were other audience members near me who were clearly unfamiliar with Tectonic's documentary-style plays where actors portray multiple roles and act as if speaking to a camera for an interview, and they found it hard to follow, but I like this kind of theatre. I like historical pieces meant to teach, and it certainly did that. I also like that both Tectonic pieces I'm familiar with have Kathleen Chalfant in them.

Most of the play is disturbing and fascinating, but not especially emotional, given that it's primarily focused on the perpetrators, not the victims. But the final monologue from a young girl who survived? Gut-wrenching.

Given what this particular piece of theatre has to say about genocide and its perpetrators, I do hope audiences and theatremakers will recognize their own complacency with the genocide happening right now in Palestine. The play (though it does not take sides in our current conflict) makes it very clear how easy it is to be on the wrong side of history. How easy it is to be part of the oppressors and enjoy a bowl of blueberries with mass extermination just over the hilltop. Given how poorly NYTW has responded (i.e. not at all) to one of its playwright's going on a medicine strike until they call for a ceasefire...well...I'm not especially hopeful.

Verdict: Why I Love the Theatre

A Note on Ratings

[cellinoandballs]

that new film “Bottoms” is a shitty copy of “How to Defend Yourself” which was at the NYTW and had layers of depth about sexuality and assault whereas “Bottoms” deleted every angle of depth and settles for shitty humor taped onto the skeleton of the og play

[fuckyeahbriansears]

“Dreams don’t die, so keep an eye on your dream.” 

[radcliffe4ever]

12.11.22 OPENING DAY TODAY for Merrily We Roll Along❣️❤️ Break a leg!!! 💕💕💕

[frontmezzjunkies]

#NYTWamericantelevisions #frontmezzjunkies reviews: @nytw79 world premiere of #VictorICazares' new play american (tele)visions directed by #RubénPolendo with #RaúlCastillo #Clew #BiancabNorwood & #EliaMonteBrown #americantelevisionsplay at #newyorktheatreworkshop #NYTW https://frontmezzjunkies.com/2022/10/20/nytw-american-televisions/ (at New York Theater Workshop) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkBpf5oOd0m/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[holly-mckenzie]

Gather 'round, you vagabonds pickin' fruit and hoppin' freights. Anyone who's wondering, wondering why the winds have changed. I'll sing a song of a love gone wrong, between a mighty king and queen. Gather 'round and I'll sing a song Of Hades and Persephone.

HADESTOWN  | 2016 | New York Theatre Workshop

[jgroffdaily]

Photos from the closing night of “Merrily We Roll Along” posted by @jennyandersonphoto.

[myfreakingawesomeworld]

So I got to see Jonathan in Merrily We Roll Along yesterday (matinee)!!

I dont even know where to start describing the experience. It was my first time at NYTW and I was in the third row. Jonathan was basically 2 meters aways from me at times and getting to see his talent up close was overwhelming and mind blowing!

The show is phenomenal. I went it only knowing it was Sondheim, a short description and the fact that the show hat flopped originally, but it really blew me away. The emotions, the cheer and the hope were conveyed by all the actors in such an incredible way. Jonathan really got to show off his amazing talent by going through all the emotions, from layered to expressive, as well as doing a fun little skit. You could see him enjoy every second of being on that stage!

I have to say that Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez as well as the entire ensemble were amazing. Jonathan obviously stole the show for me and I spend the show wiping away tears because of how lucky I felt to be there and witness it.

I came back after the evening show and waited around but he dis not come out, and probably snuck to a car (which I fully get because of the temps, him being told off about signing and taking pictures and the holidays). But keep that in mind.

[shiningnorthernlights]

about Persephone's cut verse in Chant II.

[singerorpheus]

Hadestown - West End - 26/05/2024

Dónal Finn (Orpheus), Madeline Charlemagne (u/s Eurydice), Melanie La Barrie (Hermes), Gloria Onitiri (Persephone), Zachary James (Hades), Allie Daniel (Fate), Bella Brown (Fate), Beth Hinton-Lever (u/s Fate), Lauren Azania (Worker), Tiago Dhondt Bamberger (Worker), Lucinda Buckley (Worker Swing), Waylon Jacobs (Worker), Christopher Short (Worker)

Do not share outside of Tumblr.

In honour of Dónal leaving and Madeline becoming main Eurydice <3

[musicalgifs]

So I ask you as a brother, and I ask you as a friend, and I ask you as a lover, and I ask you once again: is it true what they say?