Friday, March 12, 2021
It was a fitting way to spend the afternoon of a grim anniversary, Women’s Day on Broadway, a two-hour virtual conference that felt at times more like a support group, full of candor about…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PMThursday, March 11, 2021
No the virtual reunion reading of Three Days of Rain doesn’t star Julia Roberts or Bradley Cooper — but that is a good thing. The two made their Broadway debuts in a 2006 production …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02PMWednesday, March 10, 2021
Below are the winners of the ACTAs — American Connected Theater Awards* — for theatrical storytelling created and presented online during the year between March 2020 and March 2021. Thes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26PMTuesday, March 9, 2021
“Lifeboat Drill,” an obscure 1979 play by Tennessee Williams, and “For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls,” Christopher Durang’s better-known 1994 parody of Williams’ “The Glass Men…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMFrom Stars in the House to Jake Gyllenhaal singing an original mini-musical, from Ratatouille the TikTok Musical to Sondheim’s 90th birthday concert, as well as countless Zoom readings and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45AMMonday, March 8, 2021
In the year since the threat from COVID-19 shuttered first Broadway (on March 12, 2020) and then the remaining physical stages in New York (on March 15), there has been much suffering – l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52AMSunday, March 7, 2021
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 8 and March 14, which coincides with the anniversary of the shutdown of physical stages in New York. It’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PMSaturday, March 6, 2021
“To The Moon” begins with scenes of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in “The Honeymooners” showing his fist to Audrey Meadows as his wife Alice (“To the moon, Alice”), and ends…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23PMFriday, March 5, 2021
“Jericho,” Jack Canfora’s 2011 play about two characters directly affected by 9/11, should have repelled me. It uses sitcom rhythms, Jewish stereotypes, the hoary devices of a sympathe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:55PMThursday, March 4, 2021
“We are in an irregular time,” one college administrator says to another, an excuse for why the school bureaucracy has so failed to meet the challenge of the pandemic period that its los…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27PMWednesday, March 3, 2021
An actor on the autism spectrum writes about how theater is “a surprisingly welcoming place,” and you can see how some theater bloggers over the past month have been reacting to a year o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:06PMThe Music Box Theater on Broadway is among the theaters scheduled to reopen on April 2nd for a series of NY PopsUp events, that will serve as a “pilot program” for safety protocols “th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:44PMTuesday, March 2, 2021
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in February? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading… Never miss another answer: Enter your email address to subs…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:05PMMonday, March 1, 2021
Voting for the Tony Awards starts today, and in less than four months New Yorkers will start voting for mayor. The candidates have been offering their plans on how to bring back Broadway, wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PMBelow are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 1 and March 7, including the launching of galas and festivals celebrating Women’s History Month, science, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:35PMSunday, February 28, 2021
Among his many talents, Mike Nichols had a talent for celebrity, which meant in part a talent for friendship, as we learn early and often in Mike Nichols: A Life (Penguin Press. 688 pages.).…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PMSaturday, February 27, 2021
“Theatre: A Love Story” by Caridad Svich, which opened tonight and runs through March 27, begins with a vertiginous video tour through the streets of the theater district in Cincinnati, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38PMFriday, February 26, 2021
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” André De Shields thunders as Frederick Douglass, the great 19th century Black orator, writer, social reformer and statesman, in the 45 m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17PMThursday, February 25, 2021
After watching last night’s streaming of six short plays by the students of Labyrinth’s summer workshop as part of the theater company’s Barn Series 2021, I was struck by what these sh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PMWednesday, February 24, 2021
The first reaction to “Love Life” (before even watching the Encores! 15-minute video about it with Kate Baldwin and Brian Stokes Mitchell below) has to be: Where have you been all my lif…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:10PMTuesday, February 23, 2021
In this virtual production of Theresa Rebeck’s 2003 one-woman comedy, Andréa Burns portrays Haley Walker, a Texas divorcee who moved with her daughter and her 600 pairs of shoes to Manhat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:53PMMonday, February 22, 2021
There was a powerful if unintended lesson over the weekend with the start of the state-sponsored NY Pops Up performances at the cavernous and near-empty Jacob Javits Convention-turned-vaccin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:50PMSunday, February 21, 2021
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between February 22 and February 28. In this final week of the month, Labyrinth Theater is offering an original new play e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:20PMSaturday, February 20, 2021
I have spent the past week watching one online theater piece after another that, for remarkably varied reasons, left me debating whether I should commit to saying anything publicly about the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:00PMAt the start of MTC’s new virtual reading of Richard Wesley’s short play “The Past is the Past,” available for free through February 28th, a middle aged man named Earl (Ron Cephas Jo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PMFriday, February 19, 2021
Benjamin Scheuer (“The Lion”) and the Birmingham Royal Ballet collaborate on this five minute video, “dedicated to the ambition to keep ballet and performance alive.” It illustrates …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:54PMThursday, February 18, 2021
Jose Zambrano courted Julie Piñero so playfully that he Photoshopped silly made-up pictures of them together as a couple – outside Times Square without pants, for example. This caused s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:58PMWednesday, February 17, 2021
A 19th century Shakespearean actor, 20th century opera stars, a 21st century choreographer — these are among the artists that the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:44PMTuesday, February 16, 2021
In this third and final episode of Rattlestick Theater’s Village Song, the young songwriting students from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts illustrate once again the paradox of Greenwich …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:41AMMonday, February 15, 2021
Indoor dining reopened in New York City last week, area arenas are scheduled to reopen next week, New York State is launching New York Pops Up initiative (in-person performances in unc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:50PMWhatever the future holds for a certain criminally inclined former President of the United States, one thing seems assured: Somebody will eventually portray him on Broadway. (He’s already…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:51AM 
