Q.1
Cate Blanchett made her Broadway debut in January in a play entitled The Present, which is an adaptation by her husband Andrew Upton of the first play by which playwright?
Aeschylus
Beckett
Chekhov
Ibsen
Aaron Sorkin
Q.2
True or false: “Jitney,” which opened on Broadway in January, was the first play August Wilson wrote in his ten-play American Century Cycle, but the last of the ten to be produced on Broadway.
True
False
Q.3
Which of the following events in January that directly or indirectly protested the Trump inauguration was not created by theater artists?
Concert for America
Ghostlight Project
The Hillary Speeches Concert
Inaugural Ball at HERE
The Resister Project
Writers Resist
Q.4
Which Broadway veteran accepted an invitation to perform at Trump’s inauguration and then, after receiving flak, declined the invitation and apologized to her fans “for my lapse of judgment?”
Jennifer Damiano
Jennifer Holliday
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Simard
Barbra Streisand
Q.5
Saturday Night Live spoofed Trump aide Kellyanne Conway’s ambition with a parody of which Broadway musical
Chicago
Little Shop of Horros
Urinetown
Wicked
Q.6
True or false: Six times as many shows closed on Broadway in January than opened during the month.
True
False
Q.7
The Oscar nominations were announced in January. Which of the following nominees is performing in a play that opened Off-Broadway the week after the announcement?
Andrew Garfield
Lucas Hedges
Natalie Portman
Emma Stone
Denzel Washington
Q.8
Which of the following shows that opened Off or Off-Off Broadway in January featured an all-puppet cast?
The Dork Night
Made in China
Mope
Peer Gynt and the Norwegian Hapa Band
Tell Hector I Miss Him
Q.9
The Blueprint Specials” was presented as part of the Under the Radar festival, one of a raft of annual theater festivals that take place in January. What is not true about “The Blueprint Specials?”
They were musicals written during World War II to lift the morale of the U.S. troops.
They were called Blueprint Specials because the Army packaged and distributed them as a complete script, with scenic and costume drawings, etc. so that soldier could put them on in the field, without the aid of professional cast or crew.
As talented as the composers were, none of them became famous professional theater artists
The four surviving musicals had not been produced since the war.
They were performed in January aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid aircraft carrier, now a museum
The performers for the revival were a mix of Broadway stars and active military officers and veterans
Q.10
January saw the death of photographer Martha Swope at age 88, and actress Mary Tyler Moore at age 80. True or false: They both won Tony Awards.
True
False