Friday, May 15, 2020
Below are eight "theater openings"* today, including acclaimed plays from Broadway (Simon McBurney's The Encounter), Off-Broadway (Dominique Morisseau's Pipeline), Â Off-Off Broadway (Mabo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2020
Watch Joshua Harmon's "Significant Other" live online with the original cast, the second in a series of new live-streamed productions of old plays produced by Broadway's Best Shows When the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PM[SHARE]"We have a humanitarian crisis in prison that will blow up in our faces," says André De Shields, speaking sonorously and looking grave in a clerical collar and a salt-and-pepper beard, as t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AM[SHARE]'We have a humanitarian crisis in prison that will blow up in our faces," says André De Shields, speaking sonorously and looking grave in a clerical collar and a salt-and-pepper beard, as t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2020
In the first ever virtual edition of Symphony Space's long-running Selected Stories, four familiar actors are reading the following stories: Riding Solo by Simon Rich Performed by Maulik Pan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:40PM[SHARE]Watch "Frankie and Will," a new one-act play by Talene Monahan, launching MCC's new LiveLab series. It stars Michael Urie as William Shakespeare and Ryan Spahn as his unpaid apprentice. It's…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:34PM[SHARE]This play about cookbook author Julia Child is a recipe for how not to do online theater. To Master the Art falls flat, despite some great ingredients. This is not how I expected to react. F…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PM[SHARE]This play about cookbook author Julia Child is a recipe for how not to do online theater. "To Master the Art" falls flat, despite some great ingredients. This is not how I expected to react.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Look at Tommy Tune mid-flight with top hat and cane, and he's the quintessential song-and-dance man of his generation; he's billed himself as Broadway's tallest tapper. But among what's impr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PM[SHARE]The Broadway League has announced that all of Broadway's 41 theaters would remain shut down at least through Labor Day. This simply recognizes the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AM[SHARE]Monday, May 11, 2020
As the shut-down of theaters enters its third month, theater artists vow "we'll be back" " that this is just intermission. But will audiences be back? A new three-part survey  by Shugoll …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:32PM[SHARE]Below is the complete list of the  70th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Honorees. This year all the shows and artists listed  in each of the 27 categories are winners. Multiple hono…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:23PM[SHARE]Stageworthy News of the Week. At the finale for the Broadway Does Mother's Day virtual concert yesterday, the cast of Hamilton sang different lyrics to a King George number: We'll be back Ju…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2020
In the hour-long video below, the casts of more than a dozen Broadway shows, and their mothers…and their kids… along with their pets….made jokes, performed shtick, sang songs, and t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 9, 2020
Watch the live Saturday matinee below of "Blithe Spirit," Â a comedy by Noel Coward about a clash of ghosts, starring Angel Desai, Montego Glover, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Â William Jacks…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2020
Below are a selection of the exciting starry theater that's launching today through Sunday, as well as a big Broadway bash to celebrate Mothers Day. Shows I recommend that opened earlier thi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2020
 Below watch "November" a political comedy by David Mamet, live from 8 to 9:45 p.m. tonight May 7th, 2020 " one-time only. It will not stay online. The virtual production stars John Malk…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PM[SHARE]The pandemic has produced two kinds of theatrical Netathons , which is my name for oversized online theatrical events by established artists in support of a charitable cause. The first are t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AM[SHARE]The pandemic has produced two kinds of theatrical Netathons , which is my name for oversized online theatrical events by established artists in support of a charitable cause. The first are t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 6, 2020
 Watch the live-streaming below of Nia Vardalo's adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's best-selling book of advice,  with Teddy Canez, Hubert Point-Du-Jour, Nia Vardalos, and Natalie Wool…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2020
"Put on your leggings," Rosie O'Donnell tells Carol Kane, as mother to daughter, near the beginning of the play "Love, Loss and What I Wore."; The daughter has a tantrum. "If you don't, you …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17PM[SHARE]"The city that never sleeps is at least napping," says Sarah Henry on the Museum of the City of New York in "New York, Paused," Â a stunning and thought-provoking four-minute video, narrat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AM[SHARE]In the short videos below of highlights from the appearance at Stars in the House of cast members of the current Netflix series "Hollywood," Darren Criss sings "Singing' in the Rain" and tal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2020
Just announced: Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama. When I saw it last June at Playwrights Horizons Off-Broadway, I wrote: A Strange Loop is a mu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32PM[SHARE]Michael R. Jackson's musical A Strange Loop won this year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The two finalists were Will Arbery's play Heroes of the Fourth Turning and Soft Power, the musical by…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:31PM[SHARE]"So, are you drunk yet? Are you high?" host Mario Cantone asked near the end of the 35th annual Lucille Lortel Award, which for the first time was presented online. "When this is over, I'm h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AM[SHARE]Below are the nominations for the 86th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced during the once-only Gratitude Awards on April 30th*. Below the list of nominations is the complete vi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 3, 2020
Winners of the 2020 Lucille Lortel Awards (chosen from this year's nominees is being streamed online for the first time. Outstanding Play BLKS Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven" " Heroes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08PM[SHARE]"Felt Sad, Posted Frog," the title of this collection of six new works of online theater by playwrights from six different countries (on three continents), is what one of the characters tell…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 2, 2020
How well were you paying attention to the news and views " and awards " of theater in the month of April, when it all went online? Answer these dozen questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:20PM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2020
The New York public library has put together an album of city noise we no longer hear " cabs honking during rush hour, dogs barking in a city park, fans roaring in a stadium, a barfly breaki…
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