Thursday, August 19, 2021
What would be the most effective play about climate change? That’s the question that Australian playwright Melissa-Kelly Franklin seems to have asked herself while writing this short pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMWednesday, August 18, 2021
Alma and Baya are living in the only home they’ve ever known, a two-person pod far from Earth, with malfunctioning machines and a dwindling food supply, when an unexpected stranger comes k…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PMTuesday, August 17, 2021
Amy Winehouse meets Karen Carpenter on a bench outside a cosmic nightclub, both reluctant to “face the music,” in “Close to Black,” the second play in “Triple Bypass,” whic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30PMMonday, August 16, 2021
During last week’s heat wave, theater continued to heat up, with the official opening night of Pass Over pushed up to this Sunday, August 22nd (which may confuse people who thought that t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27AMSunday, August 15, 2021
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which last year went entirely digital, is back in person in Scotland this year through August 30th, though smaller than usual — only about a thousand shows a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:56PMSaturday, August 14, 2021
“Here is Future” presents terrific actors in a half dozen thought-provoking new plays by acclaimed American playwrights, most of them women, all of them BIPOC.* There are also practic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PMFriday, August 13, 2021
Baba Israel asked us to light up an imaginary joint, before he and his band rapped about the history and heroes of marijuana. Ali Stroker marveled at how we were all creating community, b…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21PMThursday, August 12, 2021
New York City’s first-ever official Puppet Week features, besides a fringe festival, exhibitions both downtown and (way) uptown, honoring the art of celebrated theater artists who work wit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:04PMWednesday, August 11, 2021
What’s an opening night without a red carpet? The second biannual International Puppet Fringe Festival of New York began with a parade of inanimate objects brought to life — a giant skel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46PMTuesday, August 10, 2021
“Merry Wives,” Jocelyn Bioh’s adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s least performed comedies, which officially opened Monday night, is supposedly set among African immigrants during pre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:23AMMonday, August 9, 2021
Live, in-person theater this summer in New York has been vigorous, innovative and outdoors, as I recount first-hand in an article for HowlRound. But theatergoers seem to be focusing their en…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PMSunday, August 8, 2021
While watching “Together Apart,” the latest online anthology about life during the pandemic, I wondered: Will COVID-19 inspire great theater? Has a pandemic ever done so? Yes, Shakespea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PMSaturday, August 7, 2021
Some of the legendary stories that make up Broadway lore are told by the theater stars who lived them in this PBS documentary that looks at Broadway from 1959 to the early 1980s, a sequel to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46PMFriday, August 6, 2021
The first thing anybody does in Dominique Morisseau’s drama “Detroit ’67,” which Signature Theatre of Arlington is streaming online on Marquee TV through September 16, is put the Tem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33PMThursday, August 5, 2021
“Marie Antoinette,” David Adjmi’s contemporary take on the “Let them eat cake” beheaded French queen, seems a baffling choice for the latest Zoom reading on Play-PerView. When M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35PMWednesday, August 4, 2021
The pandemic has given theater artists an opportunity to innovate like never before, their innovations (like digital theater) are here to stay — and these are good things, because the enti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:22PMTuesday, August 3, 2021
In the middle of “Critical Care,” Theater for a New City’s original hour-long musical touring New York City streets and parks through September 12, a dancing chorus of nursing home …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PMMonday, August 2, 2021
August, usually a downtime in the theater, is this year a month of excitement, anticipation…and uncertainty. Excitement: August theater events include not just play openings Off-Broadway, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35AMSunday, August 1, 2021
Below is a selective list of theater that is opening in August*, usually one of the relatively fallow months for theater, but now full of excitement…and anticipation. Although no shows are…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PMSaturday, July 31, 2021
Humanitarians, honorees, money and masks made the theater news in July. How well were you paying attention? Take these 10 questions (plus a bonus question) to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:50PMFriday, July 30, 2021
At a time when playwrights and actors are demanding to be treated as “arts workers” crucial to the economy, along comes this new book by Christin Essin, a former professional stagehand t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PMThursday, July 29, 2021
By Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell reflects on a number of live, in-person productions that have taken place in New York City over the course of summer 2021.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:14AMWednesday, July 28, 2021
I did not react well to the news that the musical “Come from Away” would commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11 by giving a free concert of the musical at the Lincoln Memorial in Wash…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMTuesday, July 27, 2021
Last week, the Public Theater canceled three performances of its production of “Merry Wives” in Central Park after learning a production member had tested positive for the coronavirus. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04AMSaturday, July 24, 2021
It’s just 35 minutes long, and available only until Sunday, but the free online excerpt from Signature’s forthcoming new production of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” is startling, in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20PMFriday, July 23, 2021
The following five works — three festivals, one play, and one virtual preview of a future in-person production — are all ending Sunday, July 25, 2021. Those I’ve seen and especially re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AMThursday, July 22, 2021
Marylouise Burke is one of the secret weapons of this collection of five original short plays. The familiar 80-year-old character actress appears in four of them, albeit just a brief cameo i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:28PMWednesday, July 21, 2021
How can you go wrong with Jason Alexander as a sleazy lawyer, Patti LuPone as an avenging angel, and Santino Fontana as a conscience-stricken priest? The stellar cast of “Judgment Day�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AMTuesday, July 20, 2021
The art of theater poster design is inextricably linked to its commercial appeal:“I must distill a two-and-a-half hour stage production into an image that is memorable and eye-catching, bu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PMMonday, July 19, 2021
Off Broadway, like Broadway, is in transition. It’s also returning with a flourish. It also (unlike Broadway) has already opened! The Lucille Lortel Foundation announced today it has purch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PMSunday, July 18, 2021
The photographs of Edwin Booth as Iago in “Othello” in 1871 and Meryl Streep with John Lithgow in “Secret Service” 105 years later are among some 30,000 photographs that chronicle so…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:12PM 
