Thursday, May 7, 2020
The 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 02:02PMTuesday, May 5, 2020
“Put on your leggings,” Rosie O’Donnell tells Carol Kane, as mother to daughter, near the beginning of the play “Love, Loss and What I Wore.”; The daughter has a tantrum. “If you…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17PM“The city that never sleeps is at least napping,” says Sarah Henry on the Museum of the City of New York in “New York, Paused,” a stunning and thought-provoking four-minute video, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:39AMIn the short videos below of highlights from the appearance at Stars in the House of cast members of the current Netflix series “Hollywood,” Darren Criss sings “Singing’ in the Rain�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26AMMonday, May 4, 2020
Just announced: Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama. When I saw it last June at Playwrights Horizons Off-Broadway, I wrote: A Strange Loop is a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32PMMichael R. Jackson’s musical A Strange Loop won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The two finalists were Will Arbery’s play Heroes of the Fourth Turning and Soft Power, the musica…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:31PM“So, are you drunk yet? Are you high?” host Mario Cantone asked near the end of the 35th annual Lucille Lortel Award, which for the first time was presented online. “When this is over,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:03AMBelow are the nominations for the 86th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced during the once-only Gratitude Awards on April 30th*. Below the list of nominations is the complete vi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17AMSunday, May 3, 2020
Winners of the 2020 Lucille Lortel Awards (chosen from this year’s nominees is being streamed online for the first time. Outstanding Play BLKS Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven” – …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:08PM“Felt Sad, Posted Frog,” the title of this collection of six new works of online theater by playwrights from six different countries (on three continents), is what one of the characters …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:12PMSaturday, May 2, 2020
How well were you paying attention to the news and views — and awards — of theater in the month of April, when it all went online? Answer these dozen questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:20PMFriday, May 1, 2020
The New York public library has put together an album of city noise we no longer hear — cabs honking during rush hour, dogs barking in a city park, fans roaring in a stadium, a barfly brea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16AMBelow is the calendar of “theater openings” for May, 2020, which offers a promising mix of filmed stage productions, starry readings, live original dramas, and what I’m calling Net…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:06AMThursday, April 30, 2020
After spending an hour on Zoom with the Apple family in Richard Nelson’s latest low-key play, I was surprised by my reaction, which I could sum up as: Hallelujah! What Do We Need to Talk…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMAfter spending an hour on Zoom with the Apple family in Richard Nelson’s latest low-key play, I was surprised by my reaction, which I could sum up as: Hallelujah! “What Do We Need to Tal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50AMFor the first time in its 85 years, the annual awards ceremony of the New York Drama Critics Circle was open to the public, as part of Wednesday evening’s Stars in the House YouTube livest…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39AMWednesday, April 29, 2020
In the middle of the new livestreamed version of the satirical solo show “Trump Lear,” David Carl as Donald Trump sips on a long straw that is fitted into a bottle of Lysol. It is a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:54PMTuesday, April 28, 2020
The theater awards will go on, with some…adjustments. Here is the new calendar (updating my guide to New York Theater Awards 2020): April 29: New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, which an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:17PMBelow are the separate lists of nominees for both the 10th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, whose winners will be announced May 19, 2020, and then, the nominations for the Drama League�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38AMMonday, April 27, 2020
To celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday (which actually took place on March 22, 2020), Raúl Esparza organized a concert extravaganza on the 50th anniversary of the opening of Sondhe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:43AMSunday, April 26, 2020
Raul Esparza was born the year Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” debuted on Broadway. Exactly 50 years after the musical opened, Esparza is the host and organizer for the starry online c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:02PMBy the time she won an Obie last year for “Sustained Excellence of Performance,” Quincy Tyler Bernstine had spent more than a decade as one of the go-to actresses for playwrights (espec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:02AMSaturday, April 25, 2020
When Patti LuPone recently sang for the Rosie O’Donnell Show in quarantine, many viewers were intrigued by the glimpse of her basement, and especially the jukebox in it—which prompted…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:10PMFriday, April 24, 2020
Before he started collaborating with Richard Rodgers on some of the most beloved musicals in Broadway history, Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) had helped create some three dozen Broadway pr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PMThis is a busy weekend for exciting or at least intriguing live-streamed shows. Some of them are of mammoth proportions, albeit one isolated performer at a time, such as the impossibly starr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMThursday, April 23, 2020
In the nearly four decades since he made his Broadway debut, Nathan Lane has starred in some two dozen shows on the Great White Way, and over a dozen more Off-Broadway. He is widely regarded…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19AMWednesday, April 22, 2020
When I first saw “Buyer & Cellar” on stage in 2013, I wrote that Jonathan Tolins’ solo comedy starring Michael Urie seemed singlehandedl to reflect the entire season in several way…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:34PMThough many people may now most associate her with Peter Pan, Mary Martin (1913-1990) originated the roles of Nellie Forbush in “South Pacific” and Maria von Trapp in “The Sound of Mus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26AMTuesday, April 21, 2020
Below are three new shows you can see tonight New York City Ballet tonight launches a twice-weekly online series on its YouTube channel offering treasures from its archives. On what would ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:19PM Off-Broadway dominates the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement in the truncated 2019-2020 season by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:23PM 
