Friday, October 30, 2020
Con Melody is a drunk saddled with a run-down tavern outside Boston, who fancies himself a European war hero born in an Irish castle. He’s a vain, moody character living an illusion in “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:09PMThursday, October 29, 2020
Eighty-four years after theaters in 17 states across America simultaneously opened “It Can’t Happen Here,” a dramatization of Sinclair Lewis’ cautionary tale imagining the rise of fa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:44PMReading these monologues from the early days of COVID-19, many of which I had watched online, made me think of the way Trump impersonator Adam Baldwin on Saturday Night Live recently spoofed…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:36PMWednesday, October 28, 2020
Below is the video and transcript of the speech by former President Barack Obama in Orlando, Florida on October 27, 2020, in which he lets loose on President Donald Trump. “…you’ve got…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21AMTuesday, October 27, 2020
In the week until Election Day, there are overtly political plays, musicals, and operas opening every day, listed below. Also check out political shows that have already opened and are avail…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:38PMMonday, October 26, 2020
The owners of six Off-Broadway theaters and two comedy clubs filed suit against New York on Friday demanding to be allowed to reopen. “Casinos, malls, movie theaters, restaurants, gyms,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PMWeek in Theater Videos: Trailers for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The Prom. To Be Human from Hercules. I’m Losing You from Ain’t Too Proud. There will be no Village Halloween Parade ne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26AMSunday, October 25, 2020
“Dear Evan Hansen,” “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Death of a Salesman” were among the plays and musical familiar to American audiences whose recent British productions won 2020 Ol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PMSaturday, October 24, 2020
The staged reading of an 18-year-old episode of the TV series “The West Wing” might seem like a peculiar exercise in nostalgia, and maybe vanity, by its creator Aaron Sorkin, who’s gon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57PMFriday, October 23, 2020
These five highly recommended plays opened earlier this week, most of them ending this weekend, all of them worth seeing. There are other, terrifically-sounding shows that are actually openi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:13PMThursday, October 22, 2020
On a day when non-theater people are revving up talk about “political theater,” theater bloggers Janice Simpson and Samuel Leiter offer a different take on the term — theater about pol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:47PMWednesday, October 21, 2020
“I think what we do is evil but I still want to do a good job at it,” says Nikolai, one of the Russian trolls trying to sway the American Presidential election in Sarah Gancher’s funny…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06PMWatch this starry line-up in support of Biden/Harris, by Broadway for Biden. Featured some 200 artists, including: Billy Porter, Judith Light, Derrick Baskin, Laura Benanti, Victoria Clark, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PM“I think what we do is evil but I still want to do a good job at it,” says Nikolai, one of the Russian trolls trying to sway the American Presidential election in Sarah Gancher’s funny…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00PMTuesday, October 20, 2020
Shortly after the Tony Awards announced its much delayed 2020 nominations in the middle of a pandemic-induced shutdown, I brought actor and writer Kevin James Doyle back to Times Square for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:08PMMonday, October 19, 2020
With 15 days left to Election Day, the theater community’s focus on voting – such as the Hamilton Town Hall for Biden/Harris this weekend featuring the original cast of the musical,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35AMSunday, October 18, 2020
Even nurses dedicated to kindness have their breaking point. Connie Britton portrays a nurse forced to care for a COVID patient who had worked at a risky job never wearing a mask, and then p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PMSaturday, October 17, 2020
Viewers might be astonished that Heidi Schreck’s funny, poignant and pointed play feels like a direct response to the Senate hearings on Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Cou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:59PMWe got many questions that we’ll be answering tonight, “most of them about Jonathan Groff’s spit,” Tommy Kail, the director of “Hamilton,” announced at the outset of a 90-minut…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AMFriday, October 16, 2020
Below are six must-see* theater “opening” this weekend, plus five more still available, two Meet The Tony Nominees events, and another two pro-democracy soirees. The theater — two re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PMAngela Lansbury, born 95 years ago today the daughter of an Irish actress and a British politician, came relatively late to Broadway, appearing in her first role on the Rialto at the age of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37AMThursday, October 15, 2020
Spike Lee filmed David Byrne’s American Utopia on the stage of Broadway’s Hudson Theater earlier this year; it is arriving on HBO on Saturday, October 17, in a completely different era…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:32PM Jagged Little Pill and Moulin Rouge lead in the much-delayed 74th annual Tony Award nominations for the much-truncated 2019-2020 Broadway season, selected from 18 eligible shows, which…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AMSpike Lee filmed David Byrne’s American Utopia on the stage of Broadway’s Hudson Theater earlier this year; it is arriving on HBO on October 17, in a completely different era. Taking e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AMWednesday, October 14, 2020
Political theater is different this year, and not just because it’s on screens rather than stages. There is a palpable sense of urgency. The weeks counting down to Election Day may hav…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMBooks about dancer Ted Shawn and New Orleans theater before the Civil War have been named the best theater books of the year by The Theatre Library Association, which is presenting its TLA B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:00PMTuesday, October 13, 2020
With exactly three weeks to go until Election Day and, as we learned officially last Friday, at least another eight more months until Broadway reopens, it’s hard not to feel anxious. But t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02AM“It has been said that the wheels of justice turn slowly. Injustice, on the other hand, can move at lightning speed, as we are seeing here today.” – Senator Amy Klobuchar. Full video a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:50AMMonday, October 12, 2020
“When is the last time you went to live theater like this”? I asked one of the seven other audience members waiting for Voyeur to begin, an hour-long play that takes place in the stree…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36PMLarissa FastHorse, who last week was announced as one of the winners of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Awards, riffed on Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day in her satirical play “T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PMSunday, October 11, 2020
When “Static Apnea” began its theatrical run, live and indoors, a big selling point for me was that it would be safe: One theatergoer at a time (mask required) would watch a single per…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33PM 
