Monday, 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 08:51AMSunday, February 14, 2021
Below are the day-by-day theater openings from February 15 to 21st. In this third week of what’s normally a fallow theater month, we get a return to in-person performances, with the launch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42PMSmooching is not exactly a lost art this Valentine’s Day; it’s more like in storage, along with many other practices, onstage and off. But it’s a good day to remember how much theater …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27AMSaturday, February 13, 2021
These nine members of Congress served as the impeachment “managers,” prosecuting the cast against former President Donald Trump, in a trial that resulted in an acquittal, although the vo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:19PMFriday, February 12, 2021
On Abraham Lincoln’s 212th birthday, which happens to be the day that lawyers mount a defense of the impeached 45th president, a member of a Republican party that the 16th president of the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:55AMThursday, February 11, 2021
Of the 94 books on the Black Liberation Reading List from the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center, only three are plays: “Fences” by August Wilson, “A Raisin in the Sun” by …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PMWednesday, February 10, 2021
Below are photographs from productions of the “Negro Unit” of the Federal Theatre Project, some 30 of which were staged at Lafayette Theater in Harlem, between 1935 and 1939. They range …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AMTuesday, February 9, 2021
I was so enthusiastic about the first episode last week in this Rattlestick Theater series about Greenwich Village written by musical theater graduate students at NYU – that my disappointm…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:40PMBelow are photographs of 50 of the stars, listed alphabetically by first name from Alec Baldwin to Tina Landau, who have signed up so far for NY Pops-Up, the series of free performances thro…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10AMMonday, February 8, 2021
Four legendary actors died within little more than a week of one another, all in their nineties, long lifetimes devoted to their art. The latest Christopher Plummer and Hal Holbrook. It was…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:13AMBelow watch Super Bowl commercials featuring Daveed Diggs, Big Bird, Nick Jonas, Timothée Chalamet, Winona Ryder, Michael B. Jordan and Nick Jonas, both young and old, Matthew McConaughey i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:32AMSunday, February 7, 2021
Inauguration poet Amanda Gorman recites her new poem “Chorus of the Captains” in the pre-show of Super Bowl LV. The poem below recognizes “three honorary game captains the NFL has chos…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:54PMValentine’s Day and Black History Month each influence several works of theater opening this week, February 8-14, 2021, listed day by day below. The Valentine-oriented shows this week r…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:34PMSaturday, February 6, 2021
“Shakespeare, for all intents and purposes, invented the character we now call The Villain,” Patrick Page claims near the beginning of his solo show, presented online by the Shakespeare …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17PMFriday, February 5, 2021
While watching “Simply Sondheim,” the third virtual concert of Sondheim songs that I’ve viewed during the pandemic, I suddenly recalled an argument I had with a fellow usher at the New…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:31PMThursday, February 4, 2021
Theater bloggers this past month are taking in the changes in the art form in order to riff on what the future might be – or should be. At the same time, many are recalling what once was o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:39PMWednesday, February 3, 2021
I grew up in Greenwich Village, and live there still, which is one reason why I was thrilled by the five musical numbers of Village Song, all set in the Village, all about either historical…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AMTuesday, February 2, 2021
Watch “Blood Meal” below Billed as a “satirical thriller” about a young couple whose home is overtaken by blood-sucking insects, “Blood Meal” didn’t seem for me; I’m not a ho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03PMMonday, February 1, 2021
Black History Month begins bittersweet, with the death last week of Cicely Tyson, an actress whose electrifying portrayals of resilient Black women served as inspiration for many; the new Au…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PMSunday, January 31, 2021
Below is a selection of streaming plays that are opening day by day in the first week of February — a reunion reading of a play by Billy Porter, a Sondheim concert, and a slew of shows hon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:47PMSaturday, January 30, 2021
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in January? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:08PMFriday, January 29, 2021
Given how many theater advocates are calling these days for “a new Federal Theatre Project,” this newly-published book about the first one is, if nothing else, well timed. In The Federal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36PMThursday, January 28, 2021
After 29 years of marriage – and, more to the point, ten months of Covid lockdown together – Gale (Becky Ann Baker) tells her husband Perry (Dylan Baker) she needs a breather, in “T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39PMCicely Tyson, nine-time Broadway veteran, a Tony winner at age 88 for The Rip to Bountiful, was best known as “an actress whose electrifying portrayals of resilient Black women…brought s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PMWednesday, January 27, 2021
Watch “Three Hotels” below through Saturday January 30, 2021 Bobby Cannavale and Marisa Tomei portray a couple who began in the Peace Corps aiming to change the world and found that the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PMTuesday, January 26, 2021
“Rent” opened Off-Broadway 25 years ago today at the New York Theatre Workshop, which will mark the anniversary in March with a starry streaming fundraising gala. The opening came a da…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:20PM“The Catastrophist,” streaming today through February 28th, is a timely, informative and often eye-opening portrait of a widely respected virologist – a man whose job it is to study vi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33PMWatch Asè below. York Walker’s 18-minute play, a broad and brutal satire of workplace insensitivity, is the first piece in a series called Consequences, a joint project of Harlem9, Harlem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:17AMMonday, January 25, 2021
What it took to put on the Inaugural festivities in “ a twitchy, locked-down Washington, less than two weeks after a deadly insurrection, during a pandemic” In a word: resilience Resilie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48AMSunday, January 24, 2021
It’s a thrilling last week of January for theater lovers: Bobby Cannivale and Marisa Tomei in a play by Jon Robin Baitz; Tomei again and Oscar Isaac in a play about an unnamed illness; a w…
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