Sunday, July 26, 2020
Olivia de Havilland, the last surviving leading lady of Hollywood’s Golden Age, five-time Oscar nominated actress and Broadway veteran who helped take down Hollywood’s studio system wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:18PMSaturday, July 25, 2020
Was “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” a flop? Joe Allen didn’t think so, refusing to put its poster up on the famous flop wall of his restaurant, saying: “Any show that plays for thre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11PMFriday, July 24, 2020
Below are some of the rich theater offerings available on screens today: Julie Andrews, Laura Benanti and Marga Gomez all star in shows that maddeningly overlap tonight. And Marilyn Horne at…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:22PMThursday, July 23, 2020
Below are videos of the five plays of the Facing the Rising Tide theater festival, organized by the New Group Theater with the Natural Resources Defense Council. In each video, a discussion …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PMWednesday, July 22, 2020
The photographs of Edwin Booth as Iago in “Othello” in 1871, Paul Robeson in the title role of the same play 72 years later and Dianne Wiest as Desdemona in a production 40 years after t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PMTuesday, July 21, 2020
Two of the theater bloggers below wrote about Hamilton this month, but not in a way you might expect. There is a summer theater book reading list, a guide connected to Disability Rights Mont…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:59PMMonday, July 20, 2020
#Stageworthy News. Every year for the past decade, I’ve written a preview guide to the dozen or so annual summer theater festivals in New York. Most have been canceled this year, at least …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:55AMSunday, July 19, 2020
Historically, Amadeus is baloney. Theatrically, it’s a feast. Musically, the National Theatre’s 2016 production of Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play — a recording of which is being streamed…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54PMWatch Amadeus below or at National Theatre. Historically, “Amadeus” is baloney. Theatrically, it’s a feast. Musically, the National Theatre’s 2016 production of Peter Shaffer’s 197…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:56PMA friend passed along this video of 17,572 singers from 129 countries performing Eric Whitacre’s “Sing Gently,” and included a poem by Bertolt Brecht In the dark times Will there also …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:39PMSaturday, July 18, 2020
An 2020 Obie winning play about conservatives who hurt too; Julianne Moore as a mother whose daughter complains about her plastic surgery; a starry anthology on the theme of “promise.”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:46PMSo there is Lin-Manuel Miranda, ten years before “Hamilton,” three years before even “In The Heights,” galloping across the street to join his fellow members of Freestyle Love Suprem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:50PMFriday, July 17, 2020
In “Good As New,” a funny and pointed 25-minute play that MCC streamed live online, Julianne Moore as Jan is arguing with her daughter Maggie (Kaitlyn Dever) on Maggie’s 16th birthd…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:20PMThursday, July 16, 2020
Watch the 22nd annual Broadway Barks, renamed Broadway Barks across America because this year for the first time it’s online, with co-founder and host Bernadette Peters, an adorable lineup…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PMTommy Dorfman, in sexy black corset and purple wig, exclaims “I’m a Queen…I’m hot,” does an interpretive dance on the bed, puts on lipstick as if host of a makeup show, plays a tam…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PMWednesday, July 15, 2020
Before it even opened on Broadway in 1954, the producers of the musical “Peter Pan” had struck a deal with NBC to present it live on television, after its Broadway run, with its cast int…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:17PMTuesday, July 14, 2020
The list of winners of the 65th annual, and first virtual, Obie Awards, delayed twice, which celebrates Off and Off Off Broadway. Presenters, performers and winners of the 2020 Obie Awards D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PMMonday, July 13, 2020
#Stageworthy News. If “Hamilton” on Disney+ having become the most-viewed streaming video is not evidence enough of the expanding definition of “theater,” I saw nine plays last we…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PMSunday, July 12, 2020
Watching Gideon Glick’s expressive face in The Few– elated one moment, defeated the next, then adoring, angry, hurt, resigned — is one key to unlocking the mystery of how this Play-Per…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24PMWatching Gideon Glick’s expressive face in The Few– elated one moment, defeated the next, then adoring, angry, hurt, resigned — is one key to unlocking the mystery of how this Pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PMSaturday, July 11, 2020
The Summer Stock Streaming Festival is a free triple feature online through July 19th from The Mint Theater, which has been unearthing forgotten old plays and making them shine for a quarter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:49PMI’ve seen the five plays below — The Copper Children, The Mint’s Summerstock Streaming Festival, The Deep Blue Sea, Gloria: A Life, and The Line, in order of expiration date — and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:06PMFriday, July 10, 2020
On the surface, The Deep Blue Sea might seem a love triangle, but Helen McCrory’s performance makes it a prism — multifaceted, disorienting, and brilliant – in the National Theatre’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18PMOn the surface, The Deep Blue Sea might seem a love triangle, but Helen McCrory’s performance makes it a prism — multifaceted, disorienting, and brilliant – in the National Theatre’s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47PMThursday, July 9, 2020
Watch “The Line” below. Alison Pill as Jennifer, a first-year intern in emergency medicine at a hospital in Brooklyn, explains that she chose her profession after listening to the war st…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PMWednesday, July 8, 2020
Rohina Malik was inspired to write and perform “Unveiled,” her one-woman play about five different Muslim women — which is streaming online one more time this evening at 7 p.m. at P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:13PMA dozen New York City arts organizations each received $10,000 grants from the New York State Council on the Arts – including five theaters, such as the National Black Theatre and Ma-Yi �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PMTuesday, July 7, 2020
Katie is a puppet in more ways than one in “The Copper Children,” a play by Karen Zacarias that is based on a horrifying true story. Katie is one of the immigrant toddlers shipped from N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16PMMonday, July 6, 2020
Lorraine Hansberry’s third and final Broadway play, which is being presented online through July 9 in a dark, expressionistic production directed in 2016 by Yael Farber for the National T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:42PMNick Cordero, a Broadway musical theater actor, died yesterday at the age of 41, after a long and horrible struggle with COVID-19 that was chronicled in painful detail on social media by his…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:44AMSunday, July 5, 2020
Lorraine Hansberry’s third and final Broadway play, which is being presented online through July 9 in a dark, expressionistic production directed in 2016 by Yael Farber for the National…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03PM 
