Monday, August 10, 2020
The 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:43AMSunday, August 9, 2020
“No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks,” was presented on a Chicago stage during the centennial of the birth of the noted poet, the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Priz…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24PMSaturday, August 8, 2020
“The last great place to do Broadway musicals is in animation,” says Howard Ashman, in “Howard,” a new documentary on Disney+ that offers a simultaneously sad and inspiring look at A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PMFriday, August 7, 2020
Below are my recommendations for three plays with starry casts “opening” and available only this weekend, two documentaries about theater, and a theater festival that New Yorkers can s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PMThursday, August 6, 2020
Laurie Metcalf seemed to be having trouble with the camera, and, frankly, with her life, in this fifth and final edition of Homebound Project, as she made a special appearance to read some l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:42PMWednesday, August 5, 2020
Below are some of the most popular numbers I videotaped from Broadway in Bryant Park, the weekly summer concerts, from 2012 until.2019, including Corey Cott in “Newsies”, Nick Cordero…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is going online. (Check out the thirty below.) Now, officially; the oldest and largest fringe festival has been canceled because of the pandemic. But the fest…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PMMonday, August 3, 2020
The Week in Reviews . The Week in News. The Week in Videos Broadway Bares;Tangled the Musical. #Stageworthy News of the Week. If Broadway won’t return until Summer 2021, as UK impresario…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PMSunday, August 2, 2020
Watch the hour-long video of 11 short new plays below. In “Holla,” a serial killer (Will Swenson) wearing the distorted white mask from the Scream series, makes an ominous phone call t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:10PMTheatergoers have complained about Zoom plays in the months since the pandemic shut down physical theaters, but it’s one of the only ways to “attend” live theater these days, and some …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29AMSaturday, August 1, 2020
Click here for August 1 openings Below is the day-by-day calendar of “theater openings”* in August, 2020, a month of abundance: Two theatrical celebrations of the 100th anniversary of wo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AMFriday, July 31, 2020
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53AMThursday, July 30, 2020
There are some 750 books on display in Bravo’s Book Nook, the only theater bookstore in New York, and possibly the only one open in the country. That’s not a lot of books for a bookstore…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20PMWednesday, July 29, 2020
Publishing a big colorful book as a companion to a Broadway musical is nothing new, but “American Utopia” the book is surely unique. In the last few years, there have been coffee table…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
Gen Parton-Shin sent me the two videos below of songs from “Hamilton” — “My Shot” and “Helpless” — that he translated into Japanese. I had questions. He answered them. Shin-P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AMMonday, July 27, 2020
The Week in Theater The Week in News The Week in Videos #Stageworthy News. “Dear Senators: Without your immediate action for financial relief by Aug. 1, we will collapse, and the result wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:15PMSunday, July 26, 2020
“Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” Will Arbury’s much-acclaimed play about a gathering of former classmates at a conservative Catholic college in Wyoming, not only worked amazingly well…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PMOlivia 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…
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