The Band’s Visit won best musical and Oslo the best play in the 32nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Outstanding Play: Oslo Outstanding…
The Off-Broadway Alliance, the organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals, has announced the nominees for the 7th Annual Of…
Tony Award nominee and composer of the new hit musical, The Band's Visit, David Yazbek returns to Feinstein's54 Below for two shows in January and February.
Playwright Itamar Moses and composer/performer David Yazbek discuss the Atlantic Theater Company production of "The Band's Visit,"Â a new musical based on the critically acclaimed screenpl…
Seven musicians of Egypt's Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra have been sent to Israel to open the new Arab cultural center at Petah Tivah. Due to a mix up at the border, they end up in …
While David Yazbek's moxie-driven melodies and clever, character-creating lyrics are best known from his fast and funny Broadway hits THE FULL MONTY and DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, his captivat…
By Paulanne Simmons
At the beginning of The Band's Visit, Dina (Katrina Lenk), the proprietor
of a cafe in a small Israeli town called Bet Hatikvah, tells the audience, "Once
not long ago gr…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 1:13am on December 16, 2016☆⚑
In his latest column, MIchael Riedel of the New York Post has speculated on a Broadway future forThe Band's Visit, the critically acclaimed new show currently running at theAtlantic Theater,
On the menu today: Some Shubert Alley scuttlebutt. Everybody's wondering if "The Band's Visit," the new critics' darling down at the Atlantic Theater, will move to Broadway in the spring and…
It's a hit! The Band’s Visit has extended for a second time and will now run through January 8, 2017 (instead of January 1). Starring Tony nominees John Cariani and Tony Shalhoub, …
A Visit We're Sorry to See Come to an End
By: Lauren Yarger
Ari'el Stachel, David Garo Yellin, George Abud, Tony Shaloub, Harvey Valdes, Sam Sadigursky, Alok Tewari
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SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:23am on December 14, 2016☆⚑
We Can All Just Get Along After AllBy Lauren YargerWhat happens when you mix some lost Egyptian musicians with some Israeli residents bored with life in the dessert? With Director David Crom…
The members of the creative team behind "The Band's Visit," a delightfully low-key musical starring a memorably paired Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk, have taken a 2007 Israeli film that is …
