Friday, April 2, 2021
"…you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on," Samuel Beckett wrote in 1953; Terry Teachout quotes that line in his blog About Last Night, right before his entry on the same day that he …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 1, 2021
Below is the day-to-day listing of theater that is opening in the month of April* " which includes digital theater, and in-person shows (three on April 2! Another on April 9) in addition to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 31, 2021
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in March? Answer these dozen questions " about the anniversary of the lockdown and awards and vaccines and in-person and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Below are the nominations for the 87th Annual Drama League Awards, the first major theater award to honor the theater that has been created this year " which is to say digital theater.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:38PM[SHARE]Monday, March 29, 2021
As the first New York theaters reopen at reduced capacity this coming Friday, the hope for a wider reopening rests on a stepping up of vaccinations. To that end, there was good news on the f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PM[SHARE]How some fancy footwork (and many stairs) made stars of the Newsies newsboys, including Ryan Steele and Ephraim Sykes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 28, 2021
The new documentary about the performer Tina Turner includes scene about both the Broadway musical "Tina, the Tina Turner Musical" and the 1993 Hollywood movie,  "What's Love Got To Do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 27, 2021
"Art in all its forms is vital to the health and well-being of us as individuals and as communities," Dr. Anthony Fauci concludes his remarks in the March 23rd National Endowment for the Art…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13AM[SHARE]Today is the 60th annual World Theatre Day. As we await the reopening of physical theaters throughout the world, British actress Helen Mirren delivers the annual International World Theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:39AM[SHARE]Friday, March 26, 2021
"[hieroglyph]," a play by Erika Dickerson-Despenza, begins with a mystery:Â Â Why is a teenager named Davis placing strange symbols on her drawings for art class? They are disturbing eno…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 25, 2021
"We will move heaven and earth to bring Broadway back," Mayor Bill de Blasio declared in announcing dedicated Covid-19 vaccination sites on Broadway for the theater industry, with a mobile v…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 24, 2021
David Rockwell " who has designed the sets for more than 60 theatrical productions, including 27 on Broadway, and has helped create offices, restaurants, nightclubs, playgrounds, and theater…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 23, 2021
This new production of "Fully Committed," starring Maulik Pancholy as a beleaguered restaurant reservations clerk and some 40 comically difficult characters with whom he interacts, is at lea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33PM[SHARE]In response to the killing last week of six Asian-American women in Atlanta and a rise in anti-Asian violence, AAPAC, the advocacy group for Asian-American performers, released a statement t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AM[SHARE]Monday, March 22, 2021
"Afterwardsness" by Bill T. Jones was slated to begin at the Park Avenue Armory this week, the first of the productions in some half dozen New York theaters permitted to reopen at reduced ca…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 21, 2021
Below is a day-to-day list of theater that is opening between March 22 to March 31, a starry ten days that includes World Theatre Day! Monday, March 22 BKLYNStream Theatre3:30 p.m. ET availa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 20, 2021
The Irish Rep's award-winning season continues with its tenth online production since the shutdown, "The Aran Islands,"Â Â which demonstrates the glory and the beauty of Irish storytelli…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25PM[SHARE]Friday, March 19, 2021
"We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we've ever seen since the Jim Crow era. This is Jim Crow in new clothes. Since the January elect…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PM[SHARE]There is no "return to normal," says Alex Poohs, artistic director of The Shed in the interview below. But there is a return.Of all the theaters that the pandemic forced to shut down in New …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 18, 2021
I had a mixed reaction to the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Dream," a 30-minute online experiment inspired by the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which is being presented l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 17, 2021
In both the film "Nomadland," nominated for six Academy Awards, and the play "Passing Through," the first musical that Goodspeed is presenting virtually,  a  lone character trave…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 16, 2021
These arts-related cartoons are part of the Cartoon Campaign created by a partnership between the artist activist group Be An #ArtsHero and Counterpoint, a group of editorial cartoonists …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AM[SHARE]Monday, March 15, 2021
Beware the Ides of March, indeed. A year ago today, the mayor shut down all remaining New York City theaters (the governor had shut Broadway three days earlier).   "I think we a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:43PM[SHARE]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…
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