Friday, May 22, 2020
Below are five “theater openings”* today, a diverse selection, including a new romantic musical comedy to an inventive take on an old Caryl Churchill play, as well as an entire annua…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38AMThursday, May 21, 2020
Watch Bryan Cranston and Sally Field live in A.R. Gurney’s two-character play about a man and woman writing to one another over half a century. This is the third in a series of new live-st…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:04PM Katrina Lenk, Jane Alexander and Denée Benton portray 9/11 widows in this half hour play by Matthew Lopez, a radical departure in running time from his Broadway debut play The Inheritanc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:47PMWednesday, May 20, 2020
Watch the streaming of the 2015 concert of “Bombshell,” the fictional musical about Marilyn Monroe that the characters were putting together in the first season of the TV series “Sma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:04PMOne of the exasperating aspects of this new era of online theater is how poor the audio is (either in the platform itself, or in the devices you use…or both), and how few of the most commo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PMTuesday, May 19, 2020
The 2019-20 Off Broadway Alliance Award winners are: Best New Play Life Sucks By Aaron Posner Produced by Wheelhouse Theater Best Play Revival The Woman in Black Adapted by Stephen Mallatrat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:06PMBelow are some of the highlights from The Night of Covenant House Stars (and below that, the full two hour video, featuring some 50 performers.) I recommend the highlights. Unlike, say, �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AMMonday, May 18, 2020
Stageworthy News of the Week: Quickly following last Tuesday’s announcement that Broadway will remain shut down until at least Labor Day, Disney announced that “Frozen” would not ret…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:46AMSunday, May 17, 2020
Two brief walks in my neighborhood produced these photographs of signs posted on walls and poles, some there forever and unintentionally relevant, others meant to buck up what few pedestrian…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:06PMSaturday, May 16, 2020
In the first of his two online Commencement addresses today, this one to more than 27,000 students at 78 participating historically black colleges and universities, former President Barack…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59PMAmong the avalanche of streaming options this weekend are a timely Beckett play and the rich theater offerings of an arts “marathon” — both “opening” today — that count as must…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57PMFriday, May 15, 2020
Below are eight “theater openings”* today, including acclaimed plays from Broadway (Simon McBurney’s The Encounter), Off-Broadway (Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline), Off-Off Broadway…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:06PMThursday, May 14, 2020
Watch Joshua Harmon’s “Significant Other” live online with the original cast, the second in a series of new live-streamed productions of old plays produced by Broadway’s Best Shows W…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PM“We have a humanitarian crisis in prison that will blow up in our faces,” says André De Shields, speaking sonorously and looking grave in a clerical collar and a salt-and-pepper beard, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AM‘We have a humanitarian crisis in prison that will blow up in our faces,” says André De Shields, speaking sonorously and looking grave in a clerical collar and a salt-and-pepper beard, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:28AMWednesday, May 13, 2020
In the first ever virtual edition of Symphony Space’s long-running Selected Stories, four familiar actors are reading the following stories: Riding Solo by Simon Rich Performed by Maulik P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:40PMWatch “Frankie and Will,” a new one-act play by Talene Monahan, launching MCC’s new LiveLab series. It stars Michael Urie as William Shakespeare and Ryan Spahn as his unpaid apprentice…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:34PMThis play about cookbook author Julia Child is a recipe for how not to do online theater. To Master the Art falls flat, despite some great ingredients. This is not how I expected to react. F…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMThis play about cookbook author Julia Child is a recipe for how not to do online theater. “To Master the Art” falls flat, despite some great ingredients. This is not how I expected to re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PMTuesday, May 12, 2020
Look at Tommy Tune mid-flight with top hat and cane, and he’s the quintessential song-and-dance man of his generation; he’s billed himself as Broadway’s tallest tapper. But among what�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PMThe Broadway League has announced that all of Broadway’s 41 theaters would remain shut down at least through Labor Day. This simply recognizes the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59AMMonday, May 11, 2020
As the shut-down of theaters enters its third month, theater artists vow “we’ll be back” – that this is just intermission. But will audiences be back? A new three-part survey by Sh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:32PMBelow is the complete list of the 70th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Honorees. This year all the shows and artists listed in each of the 27 categories are winners. Multiple honorees…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:23PMStageworthy News of the Week. At the finale for the Broadway Does Mother’s Day virtual concert yesterday, the cast of Hamilton sang different lyrics to a King George number: We’ll be bac…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:07PMSunday, May 10, 2020
In the hour-long video below, the casts of more than a dozen Broadway shows, and their mothers…and their kids… along with their pets….made jokes, performed shtick, sang songs, and tol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:08PMSaturday, May 9, 2020
Watch the live Saturday matinee below of “Blithe Spirit,” a comedy by Noel Coward about a clash of ghosts, starring Angel Desai, Montego Glover, Renee Elise Goldsberry, William Jacks…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PMFriday, May 8, 2020
Below are a selection of the exciting starry theater that’s launching today through Sunday, as well as a big Broadway bash to celebrate Mothers Day. Shows I recommend that opened earlier t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMThursday, May 7, 2020
Below watch “November” a political comedy by David Mamet, live from 8 to 9:45 p.m. tonight May 7th, 2020 — one-time only. It will not stay online. The virtual production stars John …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PMThe pandemic has produced two kinds of theatrical Netathons , which is my name for oversized online theatrical events by established artists in support of a charitable cause. The first are t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMThe pandemic has produced two kinds of theatrical Netathons , which is my name for oversized online theatrical events by established artists in support of a charitable cause. The first are t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:12AMWednesday, May 6, 2020
Watch the live-streaming below of Nia Vardalo’s adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s best-selling book of advice, with Teddy Canez, Hubert Point-Du-Jour, Nia Vardalos, and Natalie Woolam…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PM 
