Saturday, September 5, 2020
Yul Brynner starred on Broadway as Odysseus in “Home Sweet Homer,” a musical that opened and closed on the same night. He had better luck in his 1941 Broadway debut at the age of 21, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45PMFriday, September 4, 2020
The long weekend offers concerts by theater stars (including several in-person), a festival, and online theater that’s both opening and soon to end, as well as more long-lasting videos t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:58PMThursday, September 3, 2020
Composers: Their Lives and Works (DK, 320 pages) is a richly illustrated coffee table book in which eight authors profile some 160 composers over a thousand years of Western music, starting…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AMWednesday, September 2, 2020
There is one moment in particular that struck me in “Love in the Time of Corona,” the first TV series made about, and during, the pandemic, co-produced and co-starring “Hamilton” Ton…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PMArts and cultural organizations across New York State are reopening, including 50 in New York City, according to an announcement today by the New York State Council of the Arts. In keeping w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:22PMTuesday, September 1, 2020
Below is the day-by-day calendar of “theater openings”* in September, 2020, as we enter the sixth month of winging it online — and experimenting back offline. This month will see Brian…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMMonday, August 31, 2020
Week in Reviews. Week in Theater News. Week in Theater Videos. #Stageworthy News: “Every corner was like a theater production happening right in front of me…” James Altucher recalls ab…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMSunday, August 30, 2020
How well were you following theater news and reviews in the month of August? Take this quiz to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMSaturday, August 29, 2020
There have been 66 known productions of Hamlet on Broadway since 1761, the last one in 2009 starring Jude Law; 48 Macbeths (Ethan Hawke in 2013), 36 Romeo and Juliets (Orlando Bloom and Cond…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:31PMFriday, August 28, 2020
In the history of Broadway, twenty-six plays have had runs of more than 1,000 consecutive performances, none before 1918, and none after 1986. Jordan Schildcrout looks at 15 of them in “In…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:52PMWednesday, August 26, 2020
The Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument was unveiled this morning in Central Park, accompanied by a new audio play “Talking Statue” by Joanne Parrent, in which Viola Davis, Jane Alexan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PMTuesday, August 25, 2020
Two members of a book club for Black women have invited M’Balia, an author who advocates violent revolution, to speak to their group and perhaps help turn it into a revolutionary cadre, in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:25AMMonday, August 24, 2020
#Stageworthy News of the Week. The Broadway community made its political preference clear last week – with performances by Billy Porter and Jennifer Hudson; heck, the producers of the Tony…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23AMSunday, August 23, 2020
Vanessa Redgrave, the “Greatest Actress of Our Time,” according to playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller — also the daughter, the sister, the mother and the romantic partner…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PMSaturday, August 22, 2020
COVID, loneliness and lack of inclusion are certainly present in some of the theater blogging this month, summarized below, but there seems space these days for a look back. On About Last …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PMFriday, August 21, 2020
During her hosting duties for the fourth and final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Julia Louis-Dreyfus shot out some zingers. The actress, who became friends with Joe Biden…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:50AMNear the end of Joe Biden’s acceptance speech on the final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention (transcript below), he quoted from a poem by Seamus Heaney, the great Irish writ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:09AMThursday, August 20, 2020
Jennifer Hudson sings Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come,” at the end of Day 3 of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, from the elegant Harold Washington Cultural Center in Hudson…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:17AMWednesday, August 19, 2020
Instead of the traditional roll call nominating their candidate, the delegates at the 2020 Democratic National Convention announced their votes in their home state or territory, standing in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:19AMTuesday, August 18, 2020
Tony-winning performer Billy Porter belted out Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” accompanied by its songwriter Stephen Sills, at the end of Day 1 of history’s first Virtu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13AMMonday, August 17, 2020
“Going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free: the cold hard truth…Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25PM#Stageworthy News of the Week. There’s a surprisingly robust schedule of theater coming up for what’s usually the dog days of August, including three separate live, in-person plays hap…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:31AMSunday, August 16, 2020
Two years ago, Bobby Steggert, a Tony-nominated actor with extensive credits on and Off Broadway (Ragtime, Big Fish, Yank! etc) , surprised the theater community by announcing that he had sw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMSaturday, August 15, 2020
“Keep Broadway Alive!’ the sign in the first photograph says. It’s a picket sign during the demolition of the Morosco Theater in 1982, which, along with the first Helen Hayes, the Bijo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:19PMFriday, August 14, 2020
There is SO much to see this weekend: six starry concerts. five plays (some opening, some closing), four festivals and two Netathons. Below is a brief rundown with links to tickets and more …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:45PMThursday, August 13, 2020
The Harlem-born daughter of a chorus dancer at the Cotton Club and a singer in the Hall Johnson choir, Leslie Uggams began performing on television at the age of six; at seven, she was openi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PMWednesday, August 12, 2020
“Is anyone surprised Donald Trump has a problem with a strong woman” Joe Biden said in his speech today introducing his running mate, Kamala Harris. Both speeches are below, in video a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52PMThe Rodgers and Hart musical “Pal Joey” is surely best-known these days for its most recorded song “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” and for the stars who played Joey — Gene Kel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41PMTuesday, August 11, 2020
Joe Biden has picked Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. Biden’s reasoning, and below that, some immediate reactions: Biden on Harris: “I’ve decided that Kamala Harris is the be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:33PMMonday, August 10, 2020
Watch the 45-minute video below, available through August 14 B.D. Wong has made brilliant use of his months in quarantine, creating a witty and inventive entertainment from a 15-year-old sol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52PMThe Week in Theater Reviews. The Week in Theater News. The Week in Theater Videos. #Stageworthy News of the Week. In the first Equity-approved professional musical production to open in Amer…
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