Saturday, 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 10:41AMFriday, June 26, 2020
Below are a selection of “theater openings” today, including the much anticipated “Lungs” starring the royal leads from The Crown, the Off-Broadway production of Gloria (about Gloria…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:25AMThursday, June 25, 2020
“How are you getting through these days?” Thomas Sadoski asks. “At first I felt like Anne Frank but with Amazon Prime,” Jennifer Carpenter answers…”Now I’ve decided my apartmen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:50PMWednesday, June 24, 2020
Maribel and her daughter Jessie (Kecia Lewis and Antoinette Crowe-Legacy), in quarantine thousands of miles apart, first gossip about “Downton Abbey” — how Lady Mary had sex with a d…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:52PMTuesday, June 23, 2020
In a world full of pandemic and podcasts, there is surely still room for theater…and theater blogs. The theater bloggers this month seem focused on one of two themes — either the current…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:02PMMonday, June 22, 2020
#Stageworthy News of the Week. Hamilton is in the news five years after it opened on stage: Disney released the first trailer of the Hamilton film, which will begin July 3 online at Disney+…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PMLoud, Proud and Virtual: If the 50th anniversary NYC Pride March has been canceled due to COVID-19, this year’s LGBT+ Pride Week events are as varied as the community, from rallies to part…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00AMSunday, June 21, 2020
In honor of Father’s Day, here are songs by fathers, or about fathers, in a range of Broadway musicals – Be More Chill, Kinky Boots, Hamilton…. He Lives in You from The Lion King So…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AMSaturday, June 20, 2020
Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun, (Rutgers University Press, 246 pages) is an exercise in frustration, for two reasons. Charles Mason’s s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52PMFriday, June 19, 2020
Here are the winners of the inaugural Antonyo Awards, honoring African-American theater artists on and Off Broadway. The winners were chosen by public vote from nominees announced June 3. Be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:11PMJuneteenth, an annual holiday celebrating the end of slavery, will be marked differently this, its 155th year, with Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the nation, including at least th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:18AMThursday, June 18, 2020
In what may well be the last New York theater award of 2020, the 86th annual Drama League Awards have been announced, chosen by the organization’s nationwide membership, from the usual lon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:16PMWednesday, June 17, 2020
Theater itself makes an appearance almost halfway through Diana Oh’s “h8 letter” to it, in the person of a middle aged white man (Joshua Young.) “You’re doing so good,” Theater t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50PM MCC presents its latest live reading of a play in the LiveLabs One Acts series, written by Aziza Barnes, and directed by Whitney White. “Two black femmes tend bar in East L.A. until the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PMTuesday, June 16, 2020
Thirty New York theaters, from Abrons Art Center to WP Theater, are calling on their patrons to lobby New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and the New York City Council to reset their prioriti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21PMEvery year for decades, New York theaters, bookstores and Irish pubs celebrate June 16 as Bloomsday, the day in the life of Leopold Bloom that is chronicled exhaustively in James Joyce’s n…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:46AMMonday, June 15, 2020
#Stageworthy News of the Week. In the mere three weeks since George Floyd was killed, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has received intense attention and growing support. Calls for racial just…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:24PMSunday, June 14, 2020
Below are 20 recently published or forthcoming books about theater, listed under four categories: Scripts and Play Anthologies; Biographies and Memoirs Theater History, Criticism and Referen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:27PMSaturday, June 13, 2020
“A Strange Loop” and “The Inheritance” were the big winners in the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement in the truncated 2019-2020 season by professional…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:35PMAmerica’s obsession with Shakespeare has taken some odd, odd turns over the past two centuries – pre-General Ulysses S. Grant was cast as Desdemona in an Army production of “Othello”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:05PMFriday, June 12, 2020
The cast of the fourth Broadway revival sings the opening number of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical “Company,” which was supposed to open March 22, 2020 — and must some…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:11PMThursday, June 11, 2020
Here are excerpts from Broadway Advocacy Coalition’s second day of its three-day forum Broadway for Black Lives Matter Again, a 90-minute live YouTube video attended by nearly 5,000 peop…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36PMBelow, 100 minutes of theater talk and theater performance including the opening number of Company, with the New York Times following other publications in becoming online theater producers …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:06PMWednesday, June 10, 2020
“I couldn’t take care of George the day he was killed, but maybe by speaking with you today, I can help make sure that his death isn’t in vain. To make sure that he is more than anothe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:10PMTuesday, June 9, 2020
Below an alphabetical list of theater by and about African Americans that is available online now (and coming soon), much of it directly relevant to the Black Lives Matter movement, all of i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:29PMMonday, June 8, 2020
Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, is, itself, stuck in a strange loop. The smash Off-Broadway hit was scheduled to come to Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Septem…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:32PM#Stageworthy News of the Week New York City is set to reopen today — partially — 100 days after the first New Yorker was discovered infected by the coronavirus. But most believe at least…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMSunday, June 7, 2020
On what would have been the 74th annual Tony Awards, let’s celebrate the 41 shows of the Broadway 2019-2020 season, 25 of which actually opened. The shows below are organized chronological…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:13PMTonight was the night that CBS was going to broadcast the 74th Tony Awards from Radio City Music Hall. But Covid-19 changed all that; now Tony winners Andre De Shields and Bernadette Peters …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44AMSaturday, June 6, 2020
An Otello portrayed by a white performer who is not in blackface — a first for the Metropolitan Opera. A dance, set to music composed by inmates at San Quentin, at the Metropolitan Museum …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PMFriday, June 5, 2020
“Michael Jackson” is not just “the King of Pop” anymore, but also “the Pulitzer winning playwright.” After decades working in obscurity, Michael R. Jackson – or as he puts it, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:54PM 
