Friday, 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 03:54PMBelow are four “theater openings” today, including Lincoln Center’s first Broadway Fridays presentation, Astoria Performing Arts Center’s new entry in its original Musicals from …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PMThursday, June 4, 2020
The first memorial service for George Floyd, who died Memorial Day at the hands of Minneapolis police, is happening now in the sanctuary on the downtown Minneapolis campus of North Central U…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PMBlack Broadway veterans and other performers dance in various (emptied-out) New York City landmarks, in a video that director Tavia Riveè (Motown the Musical) has entitled “Dream Like New…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:17PMWednesday, June 3, 2020
Below is a major portion of Barack Obama’s comments during the Town Hall on Racial Justice and Police Reform held by My Brother’s Keeper Alliance; the transcript is underneath a 90-secon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:28PMTuesday, June 2, 2020
Below is the video and a transcript of the speech by Joe Biden today at Philadelphia’s City Hall. “We’re a nation in pain,” he said in concluding his 20-minute speech. ” We must no…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:53PMMonday, June 1, 2020
#Stageworthy News of the Week. Several days after George Floyd was killed on Memorial Day at the hands of Minnesota police, playwright Jeremy O. Harris called on six theaters that produce hi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:14AMSunday, May 31, 2020
Click here for June 1 openings Below is the calendar of “theater openings”* for June, 2020, with many online shows, series and festivals showcasing LGBTQ Pride Month, and the entire list…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17PMSaturday, May 30, 2020
How well were you paying attention to the news and reviews of theater in May? Answer these ten questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:51PMFriday, May 29, 2020
In this last weekend of a busy May, there are five online shows “opening” that remind us what’s big about Broadway, all but one of them free (though welcoming your charitable contribut…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMThursday, May 28, 2020
Hundreds of people attended a virtual town hall Thursday afternoon with city and state public officials to talk about how to save Off-Off Broadway. That was not the explicit topic. Hosts…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PM“If you look at history of American theater, it has always—more perhaps than any other form in America—been activist at times of national trauma,” That’s a quote by former New York…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Larry Kramer, who wrote “The Normal Heart” and founded GMHC (the Gay Mens Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) has died at age 84. Kramer’s obituary In 2011, The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PMTuesday, May 26, 2020
#Stageworthy News of the Week. Ten weeks after the governor shut down all theaters in New York City, signs point to widespread expectation that they won’t reopen until Spring 2021. Some …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:46PMMonday, May 25, 2020
Memorial Day, which became an official national holiday in 1971, was created to honor Americans who died in military service. But it feels appropriate to use the day this year also to honor …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42AMSunday, May 24, 2020
Cynthia Erivo, Kelli O’Hara, Christopher Jackson, Renee Fleming are among the many performers who will be part of the 90-minute National Memorial Day Concert on PBS, which you can watch li…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03PMMary-Louise Parker introduces us to the second edition of The Homebound Project, an hour-long online collection of 11 new short plays, by explaining that the theme this time is “sustenance…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:50PMSaturday, May 23, 2020
Some shows are “opening” over the next few days but this Memorial Day weekend is a good time to catch up on theater that’s still “running” (though not for long) and worth your time…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:37PMBard’s splendidly glitchy production of “Mad Forest,” Caryl Churchill’s fascinating avant-garde drama about the 1989 Romanian Revolution, is the first live play I’ve seen since the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PMFriday, May 22, 2020
When David Henry Hwang was first starting out as a dramatist, there was an “indivisible wall” between theater and television. Forty years later, “playwrights have become very popular i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:49PMBelow are five “theater openings”* today, a diverse selection, including a new romantic musical comedy to an inventive take on an old Caryl Churchill play, as well as an entire annua…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:38AMThursday, May 21, 2020
Watch Bryan Cranston and Sally Field live in A.R. Gurney’s two-character play about a man and woman writing to one another over half a century. This is the third in a series of new live-st…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:04PM Katrina Lenk, Jane Alexander and Denée Benton portray 9/11 widows in this half hour play by Matthew Lopez, a radical departure in running time from his Broadway debut play The Inheritanc…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:47PMWednesday, May 20, 2020
Watch the streaming of the 2015 concert of “Bombshell,” the fictional musical about Marilyn Monroe that the characters were putting together in the first season of the TV series “Sma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:04PMOne of the exasperating aspects of this new era of online theater is how poor the audio is (either in the platform itself, or in the devices you use…or both), and how few of the most commo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:09PMTuesday, May 19, 2020
The 2019-20 Off Broadway Alliance Award winners are: Best New Play Life Sucks By Aaron Posner Produced by Wheelhouse Theater Best Play Revival The Woman in Black Adapted by Stephen Mallatrat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:06PMBelow are some of the highlights from The Night of Covenant House Stars (and below that, the full two hour video, featuring some 50 performers.) I recommend the highlights. Unlike, say, �…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25AMMonday, May 18, 2020
Stageworthy News of the Week: Quickly following last Tuesday’s announcement that Broadway will remain shut down until at least Labor Day, Disney announced that “Frozen” would not ret…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:46AMSunday, May 17, 2020
Two brief walks in my neighborhood produced these photographs of signs posted on walls and poles, some there forever and unintentionally relevant, others meant to buck up what few pedestrian…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:06PMSaturday, May 16, 2020
In the first of his two online Commencement addresses today, this one to more than 27,000 students at 78 participating historically black colleges and universities, former President Barack…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:59PMAmong the avalanche of streaming options this weekend are a timely Beckett play and the rich theater offerings of an arts “marathon” — both “opening” today — that count as must…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57PM 
