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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:50PM[SHARE]About 15 minutes into the HBO film adaptation of "Between The World and Me," Ta-Nehisi Coates best-selling 2015 book framed as a letter to his son about what it means to be Black in America,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PM[SHARE]About 15 minutes into the HBO film adaptation of "Between the World and Me", Ta-Nehisi Coates best-selling 2015 book framed as a letter to his son about what it means to be Black in America,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:28AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 22, 2020
"The Burdens" is a dark comedy starring William Jackson Harper and Ali Ahn as a brother and a sister who plot to kill their grandfather. But it's also a play on words, and that makes i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 21, 2020
Neil LaBute's surprisingly faithful adaptation of Chekhov's 1899 play nevertheless feels forged in the present day " even in this very moment: The proceedings remind me of a Thanksgiving din…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:04PM[SHARE]Friday, November 20, 2020
"Existentialism; that word puts us to sleep," master clown Bill Irwin was saying on my computer screen, "even though true questions of existence…keep us awake at night." The word "Existent…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PM[SHARE]There are many terrific-sounding shows opening this weekend, listed in my day-by-day monthly calendar but the seven plays below are treats for serious theater lovers " which is not to sa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2020
Actors' Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA have resolved their differences over streaming theater during the pandemic, a conflict that arose when theater buildings are shut down, and theater c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:23PM[SHARE]Below are half a dozen shows launching on Netflix (and one on HBO) in the weeks before the end of 2020 that theater lovers are likely to love " and not just "The Prom" and "Ma Rainey's Black…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2020
In the nine-minute video below, Billy Porter imagines how he would adapt and direct the 1997 Broadway musical "The Life," which told the story of Black sex workers in Times Square in the 198…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 17, 2020
William Berloni sat in front of a mural of some of the dogs he's turned into stars " from Annie, Legally Blonde, Oliver " and explained his method to the members of the American Theatre Crit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PM[SHARE]Monday, November 16, 2020
When theater returns, said Hamilton's Christopher Jackson, there will be a party, there will be a collective exhale. "Out of all this madness, and out of all this pain, will grow some opport…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:07PM[SHARE]The Broadway League will today be sending out to its producers and theater owners news of a contact tracing system that it hopes will be put in place to make theatergoers feel safe when Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:54PM[SHARE]"Until The Flood" is the third play I've seen inspired by the killing by police officer Darren Wilson of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014, each of them atten…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 15, 2020
"Out of all this madness, and out of all this pain, will grow some opportunity for new voices, new creators." So says Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical Productions and curren…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 14, 2020
Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater since 2005, spoke about the ways theater (and the Public itself) has been shaken up during this time of crisis, in a conversation wit…
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