Sunday, 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 01:33PMSaturday, October 10, 2020
Below are seven must-see shows this weekend, two of them “reunion readings,” another two star-studded new versions, of acclaimed plays; a fifth a reunion concert of the original cast of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:08PMFriday, October 9, 2020
Broadway will remain shut down at least through May 30, 2021, The Broadway League announced today., the fifth implicit target date for reopening since Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered the theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:36AMWatch “The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America” below, available through October 15, a 50-minute video written by Tony Kushner, and directed by Ellie Heyman, featuring Glenn…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:33AMThursday, October 8, 2020
“The American people have witnessed what is the greatest failure of any Presidential administration in history, and here are the facts. 210,000 dead people in our country in just the past …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:15AMWednesday, October 7, 2020
Patti LuPone has made Twitter and YouTube her stage to perform some blunt take-downs of Donald Trump, in response to his debate performance and his post-hospital balcony scene, which she c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:24AMTuesday, October 6, 2020
When Renata Hinrichs was five years old, a black girl beat her up, and a black boy rescued her. She re-enacts this scene about halfway through “Random Acts,” her solo autobiographical pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:15PMMonday, October 5, 2020
Politically, the October surprises have been piling up in a way that seems to crowd out everything else. But at such a time, the arts are not irrelevant; they are a necessity. That helps e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:32PMSunday, October 4, 2020
.. As recent news should make abundantly clear, wearing masks is crucial for everybody — and that includes theatergoers — as part of a vigilant safety regimen that also includes social d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:55PMSaturday, October 3, 2020
I saw my first live, in-person, indoor theater in six months this week, at Theatre 80 in the East Village — a matinee entitled “Different Shades of Comedy,” comprised of two one-act pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31PMFriday, October 2, 2020
This weekend there are at least a dozen plays by playwrights ranging from Sophocles to Ionesco to Kevin R. Free; seven starry concerts from Josh Groban to a cavalcade of Broadway stars of La…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:30PMThursday, October 1, 2020
Below is the day-by-day calendar of “theater openings”* in October 2020. During this seventh full month when “theater” mostly means “online,” Audra McDonald and Hillary Clinton a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:35PMWednesday, September 30, 2020
I found Netflix’s new film version of this landmark 1968 gay play nearly unwatchable, even though it features the same starry nine-member cast (Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer et a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00PMTuesday, September 29, 2020
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:53AMMonday, September 28, 2020
Dancing for Democracy feels like a good catchphrase for the next five weeks in several ways. It is the name of the latest of many star-studded fundraiser by Broadway supporters of Joseph Bid…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:49PMSunday, September 27, 2020
Lin-Manuel Miranda and cast members of “Hamilton” are the latest Broadway stars to create a video urging Americans to vote, reworking the lyrics of “Alexander Hamilton” and even crea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:05AMSaturday, September 26, 2020
After reading about the New York arts’ shutdown, and how more than half the jobs in the fine and performing arts in the city disappeared between April and July (153,000 out of 280,000 gone…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PMFriday, September 25, 2020
Among the many shows opening this weekend are five that especially intrigue. For more, check out my September calendar of openings And the weekend is a good time to catch up on theater that …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:17PMThursday, September 24, 2020
Mary Chase wrote fourteen published plays, six of which ran on Broadway, including “Harvey,” about an amiable lush and his invisible rabbit pal, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:11PMWednesday, September 23, 2020
A look at” Black and Desi encounters” in the wake of Kamala Harris; an investigation of “Othello” through the issues of 2020, a “concert cabaret requiem” for those we have lost…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11AMTuesday, September 22, 2020
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg two days after Arena Stage debuted its hour-long “docudrama” online (watch below) gave new urgency to the argument for D.C. statehood. Directed by Molly …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:06PMMonday, September 21, 2020
Father-daughter Ron Cephas Jones and Jasmine Cephas Jones were among the several Broadway veterans to win trophies at the 72nd annual (and first socially distanced) Emmys, including Uzo Adub…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:58AMSunday, September 20, 2020
British bloggers this month swoon over the series of new live, in-person, “socially distanced” theater, “It was wonderful and strange and made me realise how the pandemic has changed t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:24PMSaturday, September 19, 2020
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who died yesterday at age 87, was a life-long lover of the arts, including theater. Her mother introduced her to the Brooklyn Academy of Music which was “m…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:39PMFriday, September 18, 2020
Watch Bulrusher below written and directed by Eisa Davis through September 20, starring Edmund Donovan, Sydney Elisabeth, André Holland, Tanis Parenteau, Corey Stoll. Kara Young It feels …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:02PMThursday, September 17, 2020
When André Gregory was young, he tells us, his mother had an affair with movie star Errol Flynn. When he was younger, his parents served him caviar so excessively that he was hospitalized f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:51PMWednesday, September 16, 2020
Today is a Wednesday so full of theater openings that it signals a Fall season, albeit an unconventional one, is in full swing. Theater of War for front-line medical providers Theater of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AMTuesday, September 15, 2020
In 1920, Eugene O’Neill turned a Black actor into a star by casting him as the lead in his play “The Emperor Jones” — and then fired him for having changed the script during performa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27AMMonday, September 14, 2020
Joshua Henry, who is the theater world’s most unlikely Annie, sang “Tomorrow” (“The sun will come out tomorrow…”) at Miscast, followed by Heather Headley singing “Endless Night…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:03PMJoshua Henry, who is the theater world’s most unlikely Annie, sang “Tomorrow” (“The sun will come out tomorrow…”) at Miscast, followed by Heather Headley singing “Endless Night…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:06PMTo mark the six months of Broadway’s shutdown this past weekend, we could look back, as I did — The Best Theater in Six Months of No Theater — or we could compile suggestions for a ch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AM 
