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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2020
I found Netflix's new film version of this landmark 1968 gay play nearly unwatchable, even though it features the same starry nine-member cast (Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer et al)…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2020
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53AM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2020
Dancing for Democracy feels like a good catchphrase for the next five weeks in several ways. It is the name of the latest of many star-studded fundraiser by Broadway supporters of Joseph Bid…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 27, 2020
Lin-Manuel Miranda and cast members of "Hamilton" are the latest Broadway stars to create a video urging Americans to vote, reworking the lyrics of "Alexander Hamilton" and even creating a w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 26, 2020
After reading about the New York arts' shutdown, and how more than half the jobs in the fine and performing arts in the city disappeared between April and July (153,000 out of 280,000 gone),…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PM[SHARE]Friday, September 25, 2020
Among the many shows opening this weekend are five that especially intrigue. For more, check out my September calendar of openings And the weekend is a good time to catch up on theater that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2020
Mary Chase wrote fourteen published plays, six of which ran on Broadway, including "Harvey," about an amiable lush and his invisible rabbit pal, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2020
A look at" Black and Desi encounters" in the wake of Kamala Harris; an investigation of  "Othello" through the issues of 2020, a "concert cabaret requiem" for those we have lost " these a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2020
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg two days after Arena Stage debuted its hour-long "docudrama" online (watch below) gave new urgency to the argument for D.C. statehood. Directed by Molly Smit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:06PM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2020
Father-daughter Ron Cephas Jones and Jasmine Cephas Jones were among the several Broadway veterans to win trophies at the 72nd annual (and first socially distanced) Emmys, including Uzo Adub…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 20, 2020
British bloggers this month swoon over the series of new live, in-person, "socially distanced" theater, "It was wonderful and strange and made me realise how the pandemic has changed the exp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 19, 2020
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who died yesterday at age 87, was a life-long lover of the arts, including theater. Her mother introduced her to  the Brooklyn Academy of Music which was…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:39PM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2020
Watch Bulrusher below written and directed by Eisa Davis through September 20, starring Edmund Donovan, Sydney Elisabeth, André Holland, Tanis Parenteau, Corey Stoll. Kara Young It feel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2020
When André Gregory was young, he tells us, his mother had an affair with movie star Errol Flynn. When he was younger, his parents served him caviar so excessively that he was hospitalized f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Today is a Wednesday so full of theater openings  that it signals a Fall season, albeit an unconventional one,  is in full swing. Theater of War for front-line medical providers Theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2020
In 1920, Eugene O'Neill turned a Black actor into a star by casting him as the lead in his play "The Emperor Jones" " and then fired him for having changed the script during performances to …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27AM[SHARE]Monday, September 14, 2020
Joshua Henry, who is the theater world's most unlikely Annie, sang "Tomorrow" ("The sun will come out tomorrow…") at Miscast, followed by Heather Headley singing "Endless Night" from the L…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:03PM[SHARE]Joshua Henry, who is the theater world's most unlikely Annie, sang "Tomorrow" ("The sun will come out tomorrow…") at Miscast, followed by Heather Headley singing "Endless Night" from the L…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:06PM[SHARE]To mark the six months of Broadway's shutdown this past weekend, we could look back, as I did " The Best Theater in Six Months of No Theater " or we could compile suggestions for a change…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 13, 2020
Casting director Xavier Rubiano loves attending "Miscast," the annual concert produced by MCC Theater in which Broadway stars perform songs in roles for which they would never be cast. Eva N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 12, 2020
I went to the theater in New York for the last time the day after they shut down Broadway on March 12th, six months ago today. My theatergoing on Friday the 13th Off-Off Broadway (which was …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:42PM[SHARE]Exactly six months after Broadway was shut down, there is LIVE, in-person theater to go to today " although it's quite far from Broadway, or from conventional theater. And there's plenty …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54AM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2020
Things are looking up for the Apple family, but not for me, as the characters talk to one another on a Zoom call yet again. Richard Nelson's third play in four months about the same set of c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PM[SHARE]Things are looking up for the Apple family, but not for me, as the characters talk to one another on a Zoom call yet again. Richard Nelson's third play in four months about the same set of c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:41PM[SHARE]You're getting attention for "Coastal Elites," which was supposed to be a play at the Public Theater, but launches as a film on HBO September 12th, starring Bette Midler, Kaitlyn Dever, Dan …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Lynn Nottage, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (Ruined, Sweat), was put on the waitlist to see Theatre for One's "Here We Are"; ;that should give you a sense of its popularity. Not…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Week in Reviews. Week in Theater News. Week in Theater Videos. #Stageworthy News of the Week. The Fall season has officially begun, but the theater season is shaping up as the most unusual, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41AM[SHARE]Monday, September 7, 2020
Samuel Mostel supposedly got his nickname from his mother; if he didn't do better in school, he would amount to a zero. He did do better " an A student, a linguist who spoke four languages, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PM[SHARE]On past Labor Days, I've asked: Where are the American plays about unions, or workers, or even just workplaces? But now that "arts workers" have turned Labor Day into an #ArtsWorkersUnite…
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