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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39AM[SHARE]Friday, November 13, 2020
Watch Bedlam's The Machine Stops below for a limited time. Directed and adapted by David Keohane from a story by E.M. Forster, it stars Zuzanna Szadkowski, Awesta Zarif, and Miguel Long. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PM[SHARE]The Theatre on Film and Tape Archive " TOFT to those in the know " has turned 50. The archive, launched in November 1970 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Cen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 12, 2020
The most timely play you can watch right now is the replay of "Conscience," the story of how Margaret Chase Smith became the lone Republican to speak out against Senator Joseph McCarthy. In …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Watch "Long" below through November 14, written by Charlie Oh, directed by Dustin Wills, starring Daniel Liu, Christian DeMarais, Tara Summers, Raymond Lee. Stage Directions " Alexander Shaw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Armie Hammer turns his fingers into an imaginary gun, puts it in his mouth, and pulls the trigger (his thumb.) He is portraying US Army Sergeant Joe Garnier, who is on leave with his wife…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:46PM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2020
What will the election of Joseph R. Biden Jr as President of the United States do for the theater, and the other arts? "The future of who we are lies in the arts," Biden told Lin-Manuel Mira…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 8, 2020
What is the soul of America? It's a question that engaged the composer George Gershwin nearly a century before it became a part of the 2020 American election, as we learn in this fascinating…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 7, 2020
"It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric. To lower the temperature. To see each other again.To listen to each other again. To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:18PM[SHARE]"And when our very democracy was on the ballot in this election, with the very soul of America at stake, and the world watching, you ushered in a new day for America." "…while I may be the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:41PM[SHARE]"Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been elected president of the United States, defeating President Trump by promising to restore civility and stability to American politics and vowing more aggressive…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AM[SHARE]Friday, November 6, 2020
Aunt Dan is hardly the typical Trump supporter. The character portrayed by Kristen Johnston in the New Group's online reunion reading of Wallace Shawn's play was the youngest American ev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 5, 2020
Looking for a way to stop obsessing over the 2020 electoral count, I landed on watching this 1925 play about a fictional election. Â I previously had resisted this Mint Theater recording b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 4, 2020
As Election Day ended without an official declared winner for President, or word of which party will control the Senate, Broadway Tweeters urged patience and calm. "It's gonna take awhile to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Phillipa Soo and Steven Pasquale sing a song of their own composition "The Vote Song," Leslie Odom Jr. raps "Wait for It" " wait for the results, which will not be available on Election nigh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2020
The nine days of early voting ended Sunday, with more than 1.1 million New Yorkers casting ballots. That is 41 percent of New York City's total voter turnout in the 2016 Presidential electio…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 1, 2020
 Below is the day-by-day calendar of "theater openings"* in November 2020. Despite the return of some familiar plays with the original casts, there is little that's comforting about this…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 31, 2020
Wallace Shawn wouldn't get into the elevator with me a while back. The elevator was large and empty (except for me) " the one at Lincoln Center Theater that brings theatergoers up to the Cla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15PM[SHARE]How well were you following theater news and reviews in the month of October? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:12PM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2020
Con Melody is a drunk saddled with a run-down tavern outside Boston, who fancies himself a European war hero born in an Irish castle. He's a vain, moody character living an illusion in "A To…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2020
Eighty-four years after theaters in 17 states across America simultaneously opened "It Can't Happen Here," a dramatization of Sinclair Lewis' cautionary tale imagining the rise of fascism in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:44PM[SHARE]Reading these monologues from the early days of COVID-19, many of which I had watched online, made me think of the way Trump impersonator Adam Baldwin on Saturday Night Live recently spoofed…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Below is the video and transcript of the speech by former President Barack Obama in Orlando, Florida on October 27, 2020, in which he lets loose on President Donald Trump. "…you've got a p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2020
In the week until Election Day, there are overtly political plays, musicals, and operas opening every day, listed below. Also check out political shows that have already opened and are avail…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:38PM[SHARE]Monday, October 26, 2020
 The owners of six Off-Broadway theaters and two comedy clubs filed suit against New York on Friday demanding to be allowed to reopen. "Casinos, malls, movie theaters, restaurants, gyms,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PM[SHARE]Week in Theater Videos: Trailers for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and The Prom. To Be Human from Hercules. I'm Losing You from Ain't Too Proud. There will be no Village Halloween Parade next Sat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 25, 2020
"Dear Evan Hansen," Â "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Death of a Salesman" were among the plays and musical familiar to American audiences whose recent British productions won 2020 Olivier Awar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 24, 2020
The staged reading of an 18-year-old episode of the TV series "The West Wing" might seem like a peculiar exercise in nostalgia, and maybe vanity, by its creator Aaron Sorkin, who's gone on t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57PM[SHARE]Friday, October 23, 2020
These five highly recommended plays opened earlier this week, most of them ending this weekend, all of them worth seeing. There are other, terrifically-sounding shows that are actually openi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2020
On a day when non-theater people are revving up talk about "political theater," theater bloggers Janice Simpson and Samuel Leiter offer a different take on the term " theater about politics.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 21, 2020
"I think what we do is evil but I still want to do a good job at it," says Nikolai, one of the Russian trolls trying to sway the American Presidential election in Sarah Gancher's funny and f…
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