Wednesday, April 1, 2020
There are no "openings" on stage likely this month, but there is much to see online for theater lovers and screen enthusiasts alike. Â Below is more than just the usual streaming services …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2020
"Plague shaped Shakespeare's life," Kathryn Harkup writes in her new book. Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts (Bloomsbury Sigma, 368 pages, May 2020 publication da…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:51PM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2020
Congress passed, and the president signed, a $2 trillion stimulus deal that includes specific relief for arts organizations and artists, although advocates say not enough. Officially titled …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 29, 2020
More than 70 students at the Berklee College of Music created this video of Burt Bacharach/Hal David's classic What The World Needs Now. And they're not alone. All the music videos below wer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 28, 2020
This month's roundup of some of the latest posts from the few still active theater bloggers offers varying reactions and responses to COVID-19, from practical (Broadway & Me, JK Theater …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22PM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2020
 Today is the 59th annual World Theatre Day. Created in 1961, it  is celebrated annually on March 27. With much of the world in lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, we may …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2020
Step-by-step advice for surviving isolation from an astronaut, a journalist, and a political prisoner, who each spent long stretches alone. Click on the links and look at the videos for elab…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2020
In "The Siblings Play," a teenage girl and her two brothers are left to raise one another in a Harlem apartment where the rent is past due, after first their father and then their mother aba…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Theater Wit's production of Mike Lew's play, which is running online through April 19th, has changed the way we view this teenage comedy turned melodrama based on Shakespeare's "Richard III"…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33PM[SHARE]Playwright Terrence McNally, 81, has died, Â reportedly from complications from the coronavirus. His prolific career included winning Tony Awards for the plays "Love! Valour! Compassion!" …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:36PM[SHARE]Monday, March 23, 2020
On his 90th birthday, Stephen Sondheim sang Happy Birthday to Andrew Lloyd Webber…while washing his hands for 20 seconds in his bathroom sink "Â a playful gesture that is an instantly ic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 22, 2020
Check out on the YouTube channel below for the one-night only return of the Rosie O'Donnell Show with a cavalcade of Broadway stars " Rosie promises "3,000 guests." Donation page for The Act…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:55PM[SHARE]Today Stephen Sondheim turns 90 years old, a milestone birthday that theater lovers have been celebrating for weeks now. Here are 10 videos of terrific permeances of his songs, and some Twit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 21, 2020
"It's a challenging time, but it's also an inspiring time," said John King, one of the eight downtown artists who performed in La MaMa's Downtown Variety #1 (full video below), the first of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:17PM[SHARE]The Broadway League and the 14 Broadway unions have reached an "emergency relief agreement," which means that producers will pay cast and crew during the first few weeks of the shutdown and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:10AM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2020
As a follow-up to yesterday's post, Where to Get Your Theater Fix, here's today's schedule, which includes Taylor Mac's launching of #stillHere; the debut of LaMaMa's Downtown Variety show v…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2020
The threat of COVID-19 is shutting down theaters across the world, but it's not killing theater " which is increasingly going online. There are two types of online theater now " the ongoing …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24PM[SHARE]The threat of COVID-19 is shutting down theaters across the world, but it's not killing theater " which is increasingly going online. There are two types of online theater now " the ongoing …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Since the 1957 Broadway debut of  "West Side Story," the adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" with a score by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, there have been five Broadway r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2020
As a follow-up to my post "What can I watch online that's like Broadway?" below is a list with links to newly created/promised livestreamed theater, mostly free, Â from La MaMa to the Metr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:25PM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2020
Within just the last two weeks, after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in New York City on March 1, the number of cases in NYC alone grew to 329, all of Broadway has been shut down at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2020
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the closing of the remaining small theaters, as well as schools, movie theaters, restaurants, bars and nightclubs "Our lives are all changing in ways tha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44PM[SHARE]With a virus threatening the city, it made sense to me to see Taylor Mac's "The Fre," at the Flea, although all Broadway and most Off-Broadway theaters had already shut down. The Flea was th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 14, 2020
The theater kids are putting on a school show, and, like the TV series Glee, the lead actor is a recently recruited football player. But unlike Glee, or Smash, or Rise, the show they're doin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55PM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2020
Although Gov. Cuomo shut down for a month all venues with 500 or more seats, which includes all of Broadway, that left the option of smaller venues staying open, but at 50 percent capacity. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:54PM[SHARE]With Broadway shut down for at least a month, I asked on Twitter: Anything online that's like a Broadway show? Here are some of the choicest responses. (And stay tuned, because there is seri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2020
All Broadway theaters will close at 5 p.m. today, and all Broadway performances will be suspended at least until April 12th, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in a press conference today. Cuom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2020
 Biographic Audrey(Ammonie Press, 98 pages) by Sophie Collins is less a biography of the actress Audrey Hepburn than a PowerPoint presentation about her " a deeply weird book of infograp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2020
To the main question on New Yorkers minds " how bad will the Coronavirus epidemic get in New York? " New York theatergoers are asking several more: Will Broadway theaters be shut down becaus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:07PM[SHARE]In this musical by Michael Friedman making its New York debut 30 months after his shocking death from AIDS at the age of 41, it would be impossible not to think of him from the very first…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:20AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2020
As local news of the spread of the coronavirus grows more alarming (with Governor Cuomo having declared a state of emergency in New York over the weekend), the theater community has been …
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