Friday, December 25, 2020
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2020, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph to read the caption. Also: In Memoriam to New York City's frontline h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 24, 2020
The artist who calls himself Mur has written a musical about trees. On the surface, artist and subject differ greatly. Trees can live for thousands of years; a spruce in Sweden is said to be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Yes, there was good theater this year, enough to fill the Top 10 lists below. Â "Take Me To The World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration" Â followed by "Russian Troll Farm," "The Line…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 22, 2020
"Being Alive"and "Losing My Mind" " are there any better Sondheim songs to sing at the close of a year full of loss, unrequited yearning and obsession? That they are sung by performers who h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:32PM[SHARE]"Being Alive"and "Losing My Mind" " are there any better Sondheim to sing at the close of a year full of loss, unrequited yearning and obsession? That they are sung by performers who have mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:34PM[SHARE]Monday, December 21, 2020
Congressional leaders announced an agreement on a nearly $900 billion stimulus package on Sunday that includes some $15 billion for theaters and other cultural venues in the Save Our Stag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 20, 2020
On January 1, 2020, I explored seven possible major theater trends  of the new decade, asking: What will the future of theater turn out to be? The future arrived abruptly without warning …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 19, 2020
My ten favorite individual New York stage performances from 2020 are listed alphabetically, with explanations for my choices largely excerpted from my reviews. I say "New York stage performa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10PM[SHARE]Friday, December 18, 2020
The beloved annual holiday shows return this year with two distinct differences: All are online, and many are free. That includes the two oldest and best-known: Radio City Christmas Spectacu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 17, 2020
What kind of weird holiday show is this? That was my initial reaction " not my usual reaction to a show by Taylor Mac, which is more  often: Wow ( to Hir, and A 24 Decade History o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AM[SHARE]Many people in the theater community have stepped up to this moment of multiple crises, including those I detail below, listed roughly in alphabetical order. They stand in for all the others…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2020
What kind of weird holiday show is this? That was my initial reaction…"Taylor Mac's Holiday Sauce Pandemic!" begins with the star looking like a tropical fruit monster, or as Mac had …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:17PM[SHARE]How do you make your "A Christmas Carol" so different that it stands out in a season piled high with streaming versions of Dickens' heartwarming tale? That seems to be the main aim of Stream…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 15, 2020
A solo musical about Mother Teresa performed in drag inside a closet? This may sound like an irreverent campy nun musical boosted to greater sacrilege because she is now officially Saint Ter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:04PM[SHARE]Ann Reinking, Tony-winning choreographer, dancer, actor, Broadway veteran (Cabaret, Coco, Chicago, A Chorus Line, etc) Â Bob Fosse's muse and lover, has died at the age of 71. The cause wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:13AM[SHARE]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…
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