Saturday, 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PMTommy Dorfman, in sexy black corset and purple wig, exclaims “I’m a Queen…I’m hot,” does an interpretive dance on the bed, puts on lipstick as if host of a makeup show, plays a tam…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:49PMWednesday, July 15, 2020
Before it even opened on Broadway in 1954, the producers of the musical “Peter Pan” had struck a deal with NBC to present it live on television, after its Broadway run, with its cast int…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:17PMTuesday, July 14, 2020
The list of winners of the 65th annual, and first virtual, Obie Awards, delayed twice, which celebrates Off and Off Off Broadway. Presenters, performers and winners of the 2020 Obie Awards D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01PMMonday, July 13, 2020
#Stageworthy News. If “Hamilton” on Disney+ having become the most-viewed streaming video is not evidence enough of the expanding definition of “theater,” I saw nine plays last we…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:05PMSunday, July 12, 2020
Watching Gideon Glick’s expressive face in The Few– elated one moment, defeated the next, then adoring, angry, hurt, resigned — is one key to unlocking the mystery of how this Play-Per…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24PMWatching Gideon Glick’s expressive face in The Few– elated one moment, defeated the next, then adoring, angry, hurt, resigned — is one key to unlocking the mystery of how this Pl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PMSaturday, July 11, 2020
The Summer Stock Streaming Festival is a free triple feature online through July 19th from The Mint Theater, which has been unearthing forgotten old plays and making them shine for a quarter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:49PMI’ve seen the five plays below — The Copper Children, The Mint’s Summerstock Streaming Festival, The Deep Blue Sea, Gloria: A Life, and The Line, in order of expiration date — and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:06PMFriday, July 10, 2020
On the surface, The Deep Blue Sea might seem a love triangle, but Helen McCrory’s performance makes it a prism — multifaceted, disorienting, and brilliant – in the National Theatre’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18PMOn the surface, The Deep Blue Sea might seem a love triangle, but Helen McCrory’s performance makes it a prism — multifaceted, disorienting, and brilliant – in the National Theatre’s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:47PMThursday, July 9, 2020
Watch “The Line” below. Alison Pill as Jennifer, a first-year intern in emergency medicine at a hospital in Brooklyn, explains that she chose her profession after listening to the war st…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:26PMWednesday, July 8, 2020
Rohina Malik was inspired to write and perform “Unveiled,” her one-woman play about five different Muslim women — which is streaming online one more time this evening at 7 p.m. at P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:13PMA dozen New York City arts organizations each received $10,000 grants from the New York State Council on the Arts – including five theaters, such as the National Black Theatre and Ma-Yi �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PMTuesday, July 7, 2020
Katie is a puppet in more ways than one in “The Copper Children,” a play by Karen Zacarias that is based on a horrifying true story. Katie is one of the immigrant toddlers shipped from N…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16PMMonday, July 6, 2020
Lorraine Hansberry’s third and final Broadway play, which is being presented online through July 9 in a dark, expressionistic production directed in 2016 by Yael Farber for the National T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:42PMNick Cordero, a Broadway musical theater actor, died yesterday at the age of 41, after a long and horrible struggle with COVID-19 that was chronicled in painful detail on social media by his…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:44AMSunday, July 5, 2020
Lorraine Hansberry’s third and final Broadway play, which is being presented online through July 9 in a dark, expressionistic production directed in 2016 by Yael Farber for the National…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03PMSaturday, July 4, 2020
My biannual Fourth of July poll: What is your favorite Broadway musical that takes actual American history as its subject? I’ve made a couple of changes this year. Since every poll since 2…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:18AMFriday, July 3, 2020
“We have to make this moment last,” Lin-Manuel Miranda sings near the beginning of “Hamilton,” referring to revolutionary fervor but also apparently youthful vigor; then he immedi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:44PMThursday, July 2, 2020
“There now is such a great sense of urgency, but for what? Where will it end?” Richard Apple (Jay O. Sanders) says in this sixth play written and directed by Richard Nelson in the decade…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:11PMThe Apple family is back again, on another Zoom call. After the triumphant return in April of writer and director Richard Nelson’s Apple Family series with What Do We Need To Talk About, w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:03PMAs you might have heard, a filmed version of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” — live-captured from the stage of the Richard Rodgers Theater in 2016, and featuring the original Broadway …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:17AMWednesday, July 1, 2020
Click here for July 1 openings Below is the day-by-day calendar of “theater openings”* in July, 2020. The big news is the release of “Hamilton” online at Disney Plus — and (less h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:01AMTuesday, June 30, 2020
How well were you paying attention to the news and reviews of theater in June? Answer these ten questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:31AMMonday, June 29, 2020
#Stageworthy News of the Week With several Broadway producers last week announcing specific rescheduled opening dates in Spring 2021 for their shows — American Buffalo, The Minutes, Music …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:24AMSunday, June 28, 2020
Playwright David Adjmi’s delightful new book Lot Six: A Memoir (Harper Collins, 388 pages) is the most entertaining theater memoir I’ve read since Act One, the gold standard of theatri…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10PMSaturday, June 27, 2020
I’ve offered a preview guide to the new shows of the coming Broadway season every year since this blog began in 2012, and I’m continuing the tradition below. It’s different this tim…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41AM 
