Monday, March 15, 2021
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 15 and March 21. This includes the return of Viral Monologues on its first anniversary, a celebration of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13AM[SHARE]The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations in 23 categories for the 93rd annual Oscars,which will air on ABC on April 25 (delayed because of the pandemic.) "Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 14, 2021
"I was in denial, I knew it was all a mistake, Kathleen would be calling any minute," Sandy Duncan as Peg says about her daughter, killed during 9/11 in "Middletown," a play by Dan Cla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28PM[SHARE]Jagged Little Pill wins best musical album at the 63rn annual Grammy Awards. Alanis Morissette's original album was the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1996. The new musical (my review) crea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 13, 2021
"I see unbelievable passion, dedication and drive from artists," Chita Rivera, masked, says in the video below, one of the Broadway stars who that joined dancers and a small crowd in face ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:54PM[SHARE]Friday, March 12, 2021
It was a fitting way to spend the afternoon of a grim anniversary, Women's Day on Broadway, a two-hour virtual conference that felt at times more like a support group, full of candor about i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 11, 2021
No the virtual reunion reading of Three Days of Rain doesn't star Julia Roberts or Bradley Cooper " but that is a good thing. The two made their Broadway debuts in a 2006 productio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Below are the winners of the ACTAs " American Connected Theater Awards* " for theatrical storytelling created and presented online during the year between March 2020 and March 2021. These ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 9, 2021
"Lifeboat Drill," an obscure 1979 play by Tennessee Williams, and "For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls," Christopher Durang's better-known 1994 parody of Williams' "The Glass Menagerie," were …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PM[SHARE]From Stars in the House to Jake Gyllenhaal singing an original mini-musical, from Ratatouille the TikTok Musical to Sondheim's 90th birthday concert, as well as countless Zoom readings and r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45AM[SHARE]Monday, March 8, 2021
In the year since the threat from COVID-19 shuttered first Broadway (on March 12, 2020) and then the remaining physical stages in New York (on March 15), there has been much suffering " l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 7, 2021
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 8 and March 14, which coincides with the anniversary of the shutdown of physical stages in New York. It's am…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 6, 2021
"To The Moon" begins with scenes of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden  in "The Honeymooners" showing his fist to Audrey Meadows as his wife Alice ("To the moon, Alice"), and ends some tw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23PM[SHARE]Friday, March 5, 2021
"Jericho," Jack Canfora's 2011 play about two characters directly affected by 9/11, should have repelled me. It uses sitcom rhythms, Jewish stereotypes, the hoary devices of a sympathetic gh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 4, 2021
"We are in an irregular time," one college administrator says to another, an excuse for why the school bureaucracy has so failed to meet the challenge of the pandemic period that its losses …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 3, 2021
An actor on the autism spectrum writes about how theater is "a surprisingly welcoming place," and you can see how some theater bloggers over the past month have been reacting to a year of is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:06PM[SHARE]The Music Box Theater on Broadway is among the theaters scheduled to reopen on April 2nd for a series of NY PopsUp events, that will serve as a "pilot program" for safety protocols "that wil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 2, 2021
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in February? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading… Never miss another answer: Enter your email address to subs…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:05PM[SHARE]Monday, March 1, 2021
Voting for the Tony Awards starts today, and in less than four months New Yorkers will start voting for mayor. The candidates have been offering their plans on how to bring back Broadway, wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PM[SHARE]Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 1 and March 7, including the launching of galas and festivals celebrating Women's History Month, science, da…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 28, 2021
Among his many talents, Mike Nichols had a talent for celebrity, which meant in part a talent for friendship, as we learn early and often in Mike Nichols: A Life (Penguin Press. 688 pages.).…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 27, 2021
"Theatre: A Love Story" by Caridad Svich, which opened tonight and runs through March 27, begins with a vertiginous video tour through the streets of the theater district in Cincinnati, unti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38PM[SHARE]Friday, February 26, 2021
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress," André De Shields thunders as Frederick Douglass, the great 19th century Black orator, writer, social reformer and statesman, in the 45 minut…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2021
After watching last night's streaming of six short plays by the students of Labyrinth's summer workshop as part of the theater company's Barn Series 2021, I was struck by what these shows sa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2021
The first reaction to "Love Life" (before even watching the Encores! 15-minute video about it with Kate Baldwin and Brian Stokes Mitchell below) has to be: Where have you been all my life? A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2021
In this virtual production of Theresa Rebeck's 2003 one-woman comedy, Andréa Burns portrays Haley Walker, a Texas divorcee who moved with her daughter and her 600 pairs of shoes to Manhatta…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2021
There was a powerful if unintended lesson over the weekend with the start of the state-sponsored NY Pops Up performances at the cavernous and near-empty Jacob Javits Convention-turned-vaccin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 21, 2021
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between February 22 and February 28. In this final week of the month, Labyrinth Theater is offering an original new play e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 20, 2021
I have spent the past week watching one online theater piece after another that, for remarkably varied reasons, left me debating whether I should commit to saying anything publicly about the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PM[SHARE]At the start of MTC's new virtual reading of Richard Wesley's short play "The Past is the Past," available for free through February 28th, a middle aged man named Earl (Ron Cephas Jones, Emm…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PM[SHARE]Friday, February 19, 2021
Benjamin Scheuer ("The Lion") and the Birmingham Royal Ballet collaborate on this five minute video, "dedicated to the ambition to keep ballet and performance alive." It illustrates Scheuer'…
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