Saturday, February 27, 2021
“Theatre: A Love Story” by Caridad Svich, which opened tonight and runs through March 27, begins with a vertiginous video tour through the streets of the theater district in Cincinnati, …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:38PMFriday, February 26, 2021
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress,” André De Shields thunders as Frederick Douglass, the great 19th century Black orator, writer, social reformer and statesman, in the 45 m…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:17PMThursday, February 25, 2021
After watching last night’s streaming of six short plays by the students of Labyrinth’s summer workshop as part of the theater company’s Barn Series 2021, I was struck by what these sh…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:30PMWednesday, February 24, 2021
The first reaction to “Love Life” (before even watching the Encores! 15-minute video about it with Kate Baldwin and Brian Stokes Mitchell below) has to be: Where have you been all my lif…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:10PMTuesday, February 23, 2021
In this virtual production of Theresa Rebeck’s 2003 one-woman comedy, Andréa Burns portrays Haley Walker, a Texas divorcee who moved with her daughter and her 600 pairs of shoes to Manhat…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:53PMMonday, February 22, 2021
There was a powerful if unintended lesson over the weekend with the start of the state-sponsored NY Pops Up performances at the cavernous and near-empty Jacob Javits Convention-turned-vaccin…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:50PMSunday, February 21, 2021
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between February 22 and February 28. In this final week of the month, Labyrinth Theater is offering an original new play e…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:20PMSaturday, February 20, 2021
I have spent the past week watching one online theater piece after another that, for remarkably varied reasons, left me debating whether I should commit to saying anything publicly about the…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:00PMAt the start of MTC’s new virtual reading of Richard Wesley’s short play “The Past is the Past,” available for free through February 28th, a middle aged man named Earl (Ron Cephas Jo…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:01PMFriday, February 19, 2021
Benjamin Scheuer (“The Lion”) and the Birmingham Royal Ballet collaborate on this five minute video, “dedicated to the ambition to keep ballet and performance alive.” It illustrates …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:54PMThursday, February 18, 2021
Jose Zambrano courted Julie Piñero so playfully that he Photoshopped silly made-up pictures of them together as a couple – outside Times Square without pants, for example. This caused s…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:58PMWednesday, February 17, 2021
A 19th century Shakespearean actor, 20th century opera stars, a 21st century choreographer — these are among the artists that the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:44PMTuesday, February 16, 2021
In this third and final episode of Rattlestick Theater’s Village Song, the young songwriting students from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts illustrate once again the paradox of Greenwich …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:41AMMonday, February 15, 2021
Indoor dining reopened in New York City last week, area arenas are scheduled to reopen next week, New York State is launching New York Pops Up initiative (in-person performances in unc…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:50PMWhatever the future holds for a certain criminally inclined former President of the United States, one thing seems assured: Somebody will eventually portray him on Broadway. (He’s already…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:51AMSunday, February 14, 2021
Below are the day-by-day theater openings from February 15 to 21st. In this third week of what’s normally a fallow theater month, we get a return to in-person performances, with the launch…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:42PMSmooching is not exactly a lost art this Valentine’s Day; it’s more like in storage, along with many other practices, onstage and off. But it’s a good day to remember how much theater …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:27AMSaturday, February 13, 2021
These nine members of Congress served as the impeachment “managers,” prosecuting the cast against former President Donald Trump, in a trial that resulted in an acquittal, although the vo…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:19PMFriday, February 12, 2021
On Abraham Lincoln’s 212th birthday, which happens to be the day that lawyers mount a defense of the impeached 45th president, a member of a Republican party that the 16th president of the…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:55AMThursday, February 11, 2021
Of the 94 books on the Black Liberation Reading List from the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center, only three are plays: “Fences” by August Wilson, “A Raisin in the Sun” by …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:03PMWednesday, February 10, 2021
Below are photographs from productions of the “Negro Unit” of the Federal Theatre Project, some 30 of which were staged at Lafayette Theater in Harlem, between 1935 and 1939. They range …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:15AMTuesday, February 9, 2021
I was so enthusiastic about the first episode last week in this Rattlestick Theater series about Greenwich Village written by musical theater graduate students at NYU – that my disappointm…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:40PMBelow are photographs of 50 of the stars, listed alphabetically by first name from Alec Baldwin to Tina Landau, who have signed up so far for NY Pops-Up, the series of free performances thro…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:10AMMonday, February 8, 2021
Four legendary actors died within little more than a week of one another, all in their nineties, long lifetimes devoted to their art. The latest Christopher Plummer and Hal Holbrook. It was…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:13AMBelow watch Super Bowl commercials featuring Daveed Diggs, Big Bird, Nick Jonas, Timothée Chalamet, Winona Ryder, Michael B. Jordan and Nick Jonas, both young and old, Matthew McConaughey i…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:32AMSunday, February 7, 2021
Inauguration poet Amanda Gorman recites her new poem “Chorus of the Captains” in the pre-show of Super Bowl LV. The poem below recognizes “three honorary game captains the NFL has chos…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:54PMValentine’s Day and Black History Month each influence several works of theater opening this week, February 8-14, 2021, listed day by day below. The Valentine-oriented shows this week r…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:34PMSaturday, February 6, 2021
“Shakespeare, for all intents and purposes, invented the character we now call The Villain,” Patrick Page claims near the beginning of his solo show, presented online by the Shakespeare …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:17PMFriday, February 5, 2021
While watching “Simply Sondheim,” the third virtual concert of Sondheim songs that I’ve viewed during the pandemic, I suddenly recalled an argument I had with a fellow usher at the New…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:31PMThursday, February 4, 2021
Theater bloggers this past month are taking in the changes in the art form in order to riff on what the future might be – or should be. At the same time, many are recalling what once was o…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:39PMWednesday, February 3, 2021
I grew up in Greenwich Village, and live there still, which is one reason why I was thrilled by the five musical numbers of Village Song, all set in the Village, all about either historical…
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