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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06PM[SHARE]Watch this starry line-up in support of Biden/Harris, by Broadway for Biden. Featured some 200 artists, including: Billy Porter, Judith Light, Derrick Baskin, Laura Benanti, Victoria Clark, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PM[SHARE]"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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Shortly after the Tony Awards announced its much delayed 2020 nominations in the middle of a pandemic-induced shutdown, I brought actor and writer Kevin James Doyle back to Times Square for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:08PM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2020
 With 15 days left to Election Day,  the theater community's focus on voting " such as the Hamilton Town Hall for Biden/Harris this weekend featuring the original cast of the musical,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 18, 2020
Even nurses dedicated to kindness have their breaking point. Connie Britton portrays a nurse forced to care for a COVID patient who had worked at a risky job never wearing a mask, and then p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 17, 2020
Viewers might be astonished that Heidi Schreck's funny, poignant and pointed play feels like a direct response to the Senate hearings on Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court "…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:59PM[SHARE]We got many questions that we'll be answering tonight, "most of them about Jonathan Groff's spit," Tommy Kail, Â the director of "Hamilton," announced at the outset of a 90-minute virtual …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AM[SHARE]Friday, October 16, 2020
Below are six must-see* theater "opening" this weekend, plus five more still available, Â two Meet The Tony Nominees events, and another two pro-democracy soirees. The theater " two recent…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PM[SHARE]Angela Lansbury, born 95 years ago today the daughter of an Irish actress and a British politician, came relatively late to Broadway, appearing in her first role on the Rialto at the age of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2020
Spike Lee filmed David Byrne's American Utopia on the stage of Broadway's Hudson Theater earlier this year; it is arriving on HBO on Saturday, October 17, Â in a completely different era. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:32PM[SHARE]Â Â Jagged Little Pill and Moulin Rouge lead in the much-delayed 74th annual Tony Award nominations for the much-truncated 2019-2020 Broadway season, selected from 18 eligible shows, w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AM[SHARE]Spike Lee filmed David Byrne's American Utopia on the stage of Broadway's Hudson Theater earlier this year; it is arriving on HBO on October 17, Â in a completely different era. Taking evi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Political theater is different this year,  and not just because it's on screens rather than stages. There is a palpable sense of urgency. The weeks counting down to Election Day may h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PM[SHARE]Books about dancer Ted Shawn and New Orleans theater before the Civil War have been named the best theater books of the year by The Theatre Library Association, which is presenting its TLA B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2020
With exactly three weeks to go until Election Day and, as we learned officially last Friday, at least another eight more months until Broadway reopens, it's hard not to feel anxious. But the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02AM[SHARE]"It has been said that the wheels of justice turn slowly. Injustice, on the other hand, can move at lightning speed, as we are seeing here today." " Senator Amy Klobuchar. Full video and tra…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:50AM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2020
"When is the last time you went to live theater like this"? I asked one of the seven other audience members waiting for Voyeur to begin, an hour-long play that takes place in the streets…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36PM[SHARE]Larissa FastHorse, who last week was announced as one of the winners of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Awards, riffed on Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day in her satirical play "The Tha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 11, 2020
When "Static Apnea" began its theatrical run, live and indoors, a big selling point for me was that it would be safe: One theatergoer at a time (mask required) would watch a single perfo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 10, 2020
Below are seven must-see shows this weekend, two of them "reunion readings," another two star-studded new versions, of acclaimed plays; a fifth a reunion concert of the original cast of Six;…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PM[SHARE]Friday, October 9, 2020
Broadway will remain shut down at least through May 30, 2021, The Broadway League announced today., the fifth implicit target date for reopening since Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered the theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AM[SHARE]Watch "The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America" below, available through October 15, a 50-minute video written by Tony Kushner, and directed by Ellie Heyman, featuring Glenn Clo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2020
"The American people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any Presidential administration in history, and here are the facts. 210,000 dead people in our country in just the past fe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Patti LuPone has made Twitter and YouTube her stage to perform some blunt take-downs of Donald Trump, in response to his debate performance and his post-hospital  balcony scene, which she…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2020
When Renata Hinrichs was five years old, a black girl beat her up, and a black boy rescued her. She re-enacts this scene about halfway through "Random Acts," her solo autobiographical play t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2020
Politically, the October surprises have been piling up in a way that seems to crowd out everything else. But at such a time, the arts are not irrelevant; they are a necessity. That helps…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 4, 2020
.. As recent news should make abundantly clear, wearing masks is crucial for everybody " and that includes theatergoers " as part of a vigilant safety regimen that also includes social dista…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 3, 2020
I saw my first live, in-person, indoor theater in six months this week, at Theatre 80 in the East Village " a matinee entitled "Different Shades of Comedy," comprised of two one-act plays pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31PM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2020
This weekend there are at least a dozen plays by playwrights ranging from Sophocles to Ionesco to Kevin R. Free; seven starry concerts from Josh Groban to a cavalcade of Broadway stars of La…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2020
Below is the day-by-day calendar of "theater openings"* in October 2020. During this seventh full month when "theater" mostly means "online," Audra McDonald and Hillary Clinton are headlinin…
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