Tuesday, April 21, 2020
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 02:23PMBorn Maria Ligaya Carmen Imutan Salonga in the Philippines, Lea Salonga made her professional stage debut at the age of seven (in “The King and I”) and three years later recorded her fir…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22AMMonday, April 20, 2020
Free Shakespeare in the Park has been canceled, for the first time in its 58 years – news that hits hard, and the sharpest sign that New York theater is unlikely to reopen until the Fall a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AMSunday, April 19, 2020
Below are seven brief videos (and one longer one) that serve as highlights from the eight-hour One World: Together At Home concert on April 18, 2020. The full concert is below the select vid…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AMKelli O’Hara seems as busy now as when theaters were open: She’s singing this morning at 10 a.m. on “Morning Song,” with her husband Greg Naughton, on the Instagram of Say.org (the S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47AMSaturday, April 18, 2020
“I began my career when I came to New York in a show called ‘The Boyfriend,’” Julie Andrews says. “‘My Fair Lady” and ‘Camelot’ followed. But then came films and a family, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11AMFriday, April 17, 2020
Below are just the shows I’m hoping to see myself this weekend. It’s too overwhelming to try to list everything that’s suddenly available from day to day online (See my Where to Get Yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:38PMBefore she originated the Broadway roles of Maureen the performance artist in “Rent,” Elphaba the green witch of “Wicked” and the two-sided Liz/Beth in “If/Then,” Idina Menzel ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AMThursday, April 16, 2020
When Hugh Jackman won a Tony for his Broadway debut in The Boy From Oz, he was already a movie star (a Superhero even.) In the 16 years since then, he’s been back on Broadway three more ti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AMThe New York Drama Critics’ Circle has named Will Arbery’s “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” best play of the 2019-20 season. The award for best musical went to Michael R. Jackson’s A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:12AMWednesday, April 15, 2020
Gwen Verdon, who was dancing in movies from the age of 11, became the brightest of Broadway stars in the 1950s, winning four Tony Awards in five years for her performances — especially her…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37PMYou know COVID-19 song parodies are taking off when the original singer/songwriters start parodying their own songs: Neil Diamond creates new pandemic-appropriate lyrics for “Sweet Carolin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AMTuesday, April 14, 2020
Below are the nominations for the 35th annual Lucille Lortel Awards, presented online by Jeremy Jordan and Ashley Spencer (a married couple so they could actually present without a split scr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PMAlthough Fred Ebb is best known for partnering with composer John Kander on “Cabaret” and “Chicago,” Kander and Ebb together created some two dozen Broadway musicals and musical revu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AMMonday, April 13, 2020
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded 150 years ago today, April 13, 1870, by an act of the New York State Legislature, which makes it a good day to sift through its vast online collect…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PMIt’s been a month since Broadway shut down. Today, April 13th, was the day Broadway was supposed to return, remember? Even the Broadway League realized that was unrealistic, on April 8th e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AMSunday, April 12, 2020
Elaine Stritch died in 2014 at the age of 89, having performed in 19 Broadway productions, over more than 60 years. There are more still photographs of her early performances in plays and mu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36AMSaturday, April 11, 2020
Below is the hour-long celebration tonight of Joel Grey’s 88th year (the number of keys on a piano) and his EIGHTY-YEAR career, via Stars in the House, with Joel Grey himself, his daughter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39PMDarren Criss has performed in only two Broadway musicals, one as a replacement for three weeks; he was about to co-star in the revival of a David Mamet play opening this month on Broadway……
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:06AMFriday, April 10, 2020
Chita Rivera, born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, has a Broadway career going back 70 years, to the original “Guys and Dolls,” where she was a dancer. Luckily, she has re-created …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM“Prime” and “Play in Your Bathtub” both reflect an exciting and unconventional new use of audio for theater in the absence of physical theaters. They are different in many ways, and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AMThursday, April 9, 2020
Bernadette Peters, born Bernadette Lazarro in Ozone Park, has a Broadway career that goes back more than 60 years; it’s hard to find performances from many of her 16 shows on YouTube, alth…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AMWednesday, April 8, 2020
The schedule for most theater awards is still uncertain, as it is for theater as a whole, given that the fight against the coronavirus has resulted in the closing of New York theaters in Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:03PMAudra McDonald has won six Tony Awards performing in a dozen plays and musicals on Broadway. Below are videos organized roughly in chronological order that — not always perfectly, but some…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51AMTuesday, April 7, 2020
There are at least three ways in which anyone must view the remarkable livestreamed reading of Terrence McNally’s 30-year-old play on YouTube on April 6th (the video of which you can view …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AMBy Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell examines the new theatrical landscape brought on by COVID-19 and discusses the emerging aesthetic—one that is low-tech, low-key, one-on-one, close-up.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00AMMonday, April 6, 2020
In the first week of April, as the news remained scary and theaters remained closed, theater – and especially theater music – became a balm. Mrs. Doubtfire didn’t open on Sunday, the f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47AMSunday, April 5, 2020
Terrence McNally considered Shakespeare and Chekhov his gods, and Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera his goddesses; he learned a lot from all four. That’s what he tells us within the first few…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18PMAt least 10 healthcare workers from New York City have died of COVID-19. Here is who they are. More than 100 healthcare workers have died worldwide from the coronavirus. Years ago, my aunt…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AMSaturday, April 4, 2020
You can currently buy tickets for dates in April to shows that were on Broadway when Governor Andrew Cuomo shut down all the theaters on March 12th for at least a month. On Telecharge and Ti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PMFriday, April 3, 2020
With this performance of Musicians of the New York Philharmonic , which has canceled all in-person performances through June 13th, continues online with this remote performance of Ravel’s…
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