The latest revival, by Target Margin Theater, called “Show/Boat: A River,” begins performances on Thursday at NYU Skirball, in partnership with the Under the Radar festival. As the title ...

Set between the 1880s and 1927, Show Boat follows a group of people on the Cotton Blossom, a floating theater (or, um, show boat) on the Mississippi River. It traces the tragic love story between ...

Show Boat forever changed the face of American theater. The first show to integrate its music and plot, Show Boat presented complex characters grappling with timely, realistic themes woven into a ...

Target Margin Theater is presenting the world premiere production of Show/Boat: A River, a daring reconsideration of the seminal musical Show Boat, featuring an ensemble cast of ten actors ...

Unlike the waterway of its most famous song, the landmark 1927 musical “Show Boat”—which integrated ... Consequently, musical-theater lovers will naturally be drawn to the staging at the ...

This new adaptation of the groundbreaking piece Show Boat reframes the 1927 production for today. From the 1880s to 1927, the United States moved from steamboats to airplanes, from vaudeville to ...

Showboat will show its last movie on Sept. 14. The theater is hoping to start construction on a new location, which is ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Theater Review “Show/Boat: A River” reverses the racial lens on the great-grandfather of American musicals. By Jesse ...

Stephanie Weeks in Show/Boat: A River. Marisa Tornello In terms ... decades as the founder of experimental company Target Margin Theater. Kaye Voyce’s bracing scenic design includes such blunt ...

Consequently, musical-theater lovers will naturally be drawn ... so much on offer—or radical reinterpretation. Styled as “Show/Boat: A River,” Mr. Herskovits’s version of the show is ...