Wednesday, April 15, 2020
You know COVID-19 song parodies are taking off when the original singer/songwriters start parodying their own songs: Neil Diamond creates new pandemic-appropriate lyrics for “Sweet Carolin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AMTuesday, April 14, 2020
Below are the nominations for the 35th annual Lucille Lortel Awards, presented online by Jeremy Jordan and Ashley Spencer (a married couple so they could actually present without a split scr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PMAlthough Fred Ebb is best known for partnering with composer John Kander on “Cabaret” and “Chicago,” Kander and Ebb together created some two dozen Broadway musicals and musical revu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AMMonday, April 13, 2020
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded 150 years ago today, April 13, 1870, by an act of the New York State Legislature, which makes it a good day to sift through its vast online collect…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:39PMIt’s been a month since Broadway shut down. Today, April 13th, was the day Broadway was supposed to return, remember? Even the Broadway League realized that was unrealistic, on April 8th e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:39AMSunday, April 12, 2020
Elaine Stritch died in 2014 at the age of 89, having performed in 19 Broadway productions, over more than 60 years. There are more still photographs of her early performances in plays and mu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36AMSaturday, April 11, 2020
Below is the hour-long celebration tonight of Joel Grey’s 88th year (the number of keys on a piano) and his EIGHTY-YEAR career, via Stars in the House, with Joel Grey himself, his daughter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39PMDarren Criss has performed in only two Broadway musicals, one as a replacement for three weeks; he was about to co-star in the revival of a David Mamet play opening this month on Broadway……
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:06AMFriday, April 10, 2020
Chita Rivera, born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, has a Broadway career going back 70 years, to the original “Guys and Dolls,” where she was a dancer. Luckily, she has re-created …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AM“Prime” and “Play in Your Bathtub” both reflect an exciting and unconventional new use of audio for theater in the absence of physical theaters. They are different in many ways, and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33AMThursday, April 9, 2020
Bernadette Peters, born Bernadette Lazarro in Ozone Park, has a Broadway career that goes back more than 60 years; it’s hard to find performances from many of her 16 shows on YouTube, alth…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AMWednesday, April 8, 2020
The schedule for most theater awards is still uncertain, as it is for theater as a whole, given that the fight against the coronavirus has resulted in the closing of New York theaters in Ma…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:03PMAudra McDonald has won six Tony Awards performing in a dozen plays and musicals on Broadway. Below are videos organized roughly in chronological order that — not always perfectly, but some…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:51AMTuesday, April 7, 2020
There are at least three ways in which anyone must view the remarkable livestreamed reading of Terrence McNally’s 30-year-old play on YouTube on April 6th (the video of which you can view …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AMBy Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell examines the new theatrical landscape brought on by COVID-19 and discusses the emerging aesthetic—one that is low-tech, low-key, one-on-one, close-up.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:00AMMonday, April 6, 2020
In the first week of April, as the news remained scary and theaters remained closed, theater – and especially theater music – became a balm. Mrs. Doubtfire didn’t open on Sunday, the f…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47AMSunday, April 5, 2020
Terrence McNally considered Shakespeare and Chekhov his gods, and Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera his goddesses; he learned a lot from all four. That’s what he tells us within the first few…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:18PMAt least 10 healthcare workers from New York City have died of COVID-19. Here is who they are. More than 100 healthcare workers have died worldwide from the coronavirus. Years ago, my aunt…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AMSaturday, April 4, 2020
You can currently buy tickets for dates in April to shows that were on Broadway when Governor Andrew Cuomo shut down all the theaters on March 12th for at least a month. On Telecharge and Ti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PMFriday, April 3, 2020
With this performance of Musicians of the New York Philharmonic , which has canceled all in-person performances through June 13th, continues online with this remote performance of Ravel’s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMThursday, April 2, 2020
Rachel Dratch portrays FrannyCakes, a makeup vlogger who fights with an old lady over a bottle of Purell in a Costco. Marylouise Burke is Penny, a lovely suburban matron who wonders where …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42PMThe U.S. Labor Department reported the loss of 10 million jobs nationally in the last two weeks. No region and no industry are immune. So it’s no surprise, but still a shock, at the unempl…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:34PMHow much were you paying attention to theater news and views, on stage and online, in the month of March? Answer these 14 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20AMWednesday, April 1, 2020
There are no “openings” on stage likely this month, but there is much to see online for theater lovers and screen enthusiasts alike. Below is more than just the usual streaming service…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:04AMTuesday, March 31, 2020
“Plague shaped Shakespeare’s life,” Kathryn Harkup writes in her new book. Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts (Bloomsbury Sigma, 368 pages, May 2020 publicat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:51PMMonday, March 30, 2020
Congress passed, and the president signed, a $2 trillion stimulus deal that includes specific relief for arts organizations and artists, although advocates say not enough. Officially titled …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:01AMSunday, March 29, 2020
More than 70 students at the Berklee College of Music created this video of Burt Bacharach/Hal David’s classic What The World Needs Now. And they’re not alone. All the music videos below…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:22PMSaturday, March 28, 2020
This month’s roundup of some of the latest posts from the few still active theater bloggers offers varying reactions and responses to COVID-19, from practical (Broadway & Me, JK Theate…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22PMFriday, March 27, 2020
Today is the 59th annual World Theatre Day. Created in 1961, it is celebrated annually on March 27. With much of the world in lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, we may not …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30AMThursday, March 26, 2020
Step-by-step advice for surviving isolation from an astronaut, a journalist, and a political prisoner, who each spent long stretches alone. Click on the links and look at the videos for elab…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:57PMWednesday, March 25, 2020
In “The Siblings Play,” a teenage girl and her two brothers are left to raise one another in a Harlem apartment where the rent is past due, after first their father and then their mother…
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