Monday, December 14, 2020
August Wilson will be a "forever" stamp starting in January, the U.S. Postal Service announced last week, but the playwright is already forever stamped on American culture, which is clearer …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:21AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 13, 2020
The first reason I love the Irish Repertory Theater's "performance on screen" of "Meet Me in St. Louis" will sound like a backhanded compliment: It got me to watch the original 1944 Judy Gar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PM[SHARE]On the occasion of 74-year-old André De Shields' lifetime achievement Audelco award, I resurrect this speech by the long-time Broadway veteran from a decade ago, before his newfound acclaim…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 12, 2020
Even those who treat holiday cheer as a seasonal tyranny have to admire the pluck of the three Broadway princesses " Laura Osnes, Susan Egan and Courtney Reed (who portrayed Ella in Rodgers …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:30PM[SHARE]Friday, December 11, 2020
See  below a video of "Zazz," the musical number starring Nicole Kidman and Jo Ellen Pellman,  from The Prom, the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, released today on Netflix " t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:27PM[SHARE]For those who missed the special last night, NBC is offering  "One Night Only: The Best of Broadway" online.  I'm not sorry I saw it; among the pile-up of familiar songs from famili…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 10, 2020
Joel Grey sings "Give My Regards to Broadway" " in Yiddish. And he's not alone among the 50 performers of the Folksbiene Chanukah Spectacular, a fast-moving, entertaining 80 minutes that is …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PM[SHARE]Joel Grey sings "Give My Regards to Broadway" " in Yiddish. And he's not alone among the 50 performers of the Folksbiene Chanukah Spectacular, a fast-moving, entertaining 80 minutes that is …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2020
 Some four decades before "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" was turned into a film on Netflix featuring spectacular performances by  the late Chadwick Boseman in his final role and Viola Dav…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2020
The following 15 plays/play collections by Black playwrights make up the Golden Collection, curated by playwright Jeremy O. Harris, who has announced plans to donate the collection to lib…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2020
A good news, bad news week. IF approved by federal regulators, a vaccine could start arriving in New York City next week, and, say both Dr. Anthony Fauci and impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 6, 2020
Watch Oscar and Walt, a play by Donald Steven Olson about the real-life meeting between Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman, starring Judy Kuhn, John Rubinstein and Sam Underwood. "I come as a poet…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 5, 2020
"Mank," the new film on Netflix by David Fincher focuses on Herman J. Mankiewicz, drunk and laid up after a car accident, writing the screenplay for "Citizen Kane," one of the most lauded…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:38PM[SHARE]Below is the schedule of the new plays being presented with impressively starry casts each evening at 8 pm through Christmas, as part of the first ever New Works Virtual Festival, which will…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2020
Watch "Old Friends New Works" below until December 7 "You broke my heart. You let me down. You cut my teeth out…You pulverized my sense of self…And I recovered," Edie Falco says in Simon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 3, 2020
The credits at the end of this A Christmas Carol list a cast of 51 characters " 50 of them portrayed by Jefferson Mays. He's the narrator, as well as Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge's clerk Bob Cr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:12PM[SHARE]The credits at the end of this "A Christmas Carol" list a cast of 51 characters " 50 of them portrayed by Jefferson Mays…even The Dying Fire and An Indignant Potato…..But the main achiev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Meryl Streep made me laugh out loud, repeatedly, during "It's Not About Me," which she sings in her role as the self-absorbed Broadway diva Dee Dee Allen in "The Prom," Ryan Murphy's star-st…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 1, 2020
This ninth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation) is unlike any that have gone before it for New York area theaters, theater com…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51AM[SHARE]Below is a selection of New York theater openings* in December, organized chronologically by opening date. Starry casts feature in several revivals, such as Phylicia Rashad in  "Night of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:12AM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2020
"I'm a theater animal. I'm not really a cinema animal, " Andrew Lloyd Webber said in an interview with CNBC on Friday, "and I don't believe you can really, really ever, at the moment, have a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 29, 2020
How well were you following theater news and reviews in the month of November? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:43PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 28, 2020
My ninth annual holiday gift guide is, like theater itself, greatly altered from the previous years. Below are recommendations for albums , play scripts, librettos and new and cherished b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:45PM[SHARE]Friday, November 27, 2020
In a year when theater has been shut down, and opened up; when it's been re-defined , and in effect defunded; when it's been a force for unity, and a cause for division " in such a year as 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:38PM[SHARE]The Christmas Carols have begun " new innovative versions " and there's plenty of other theater on which to spend your time this weekend. Some of it even has nothing to do with the holiday s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2020
Watch the 94th annual Macys Thanksgiving Day Parada, which is different from the 93 preceding it: It's an event produced exclusively for at home viewing, without the millions of spectators t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00AM[SHARE]Below are the transcript and video of President-elect Joe Biden's Thanksgiving address, in which he says COVID-19 "has brought us pain and loss and frustration, and it has cost so many li…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Thoughts of Thanksgiving loom large among theater bloggers this month at a time when both Thanksgiving and theater have… changed. On Stage lists the scientific benefits of gratitude; a pla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2020
The cast recordings for Amelie " A New Musical , American Utopia on Broadway, Jagged Little Pill, Little Shop of Horrors , The Prince of Egypt  and Soft Power were nominated for best musi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:27PM[SHARE]"Writing for musical theater was not something I ever wanted to do; it was the family business," Adam Guettel, son of Mary Rodgers and grandson of Richard Rodgers, is quoted as saying in "Ro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55AM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2020
Theaters have been bursting with announcements of future shows during a week that would normally be one of the busiest of the theater season. Â Thanksgiving on Thursday may be reduced this…
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