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Friday, August 27, 2021

Best Stage Performances to Watch Online August 27-September 6 - See 'Wicked' in concert, Old Vic's 'Bagdad Cafe,' Alvin Ailey, Jay Armstrong Johnson t by Raven Snook

Come September, in-person theatre will be back in full force. But during these dog days of summer as venues prepare to reopen, you can still stream lots of fabulous shows at home. Below are …

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Thursday, August 26, 2021

What's (Re)opening on Broadway in September - A guide to 15 upcoming (and one recently opened) shows you can see on Broadway next month by Raven Snook

A guide to 15 upcoming (and one recently opened) shows you can see on Broadway next month --- After 18 months of darkness, Broadway's lights are finally turning back on. More than three doz…

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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

15+ Stage Performances to Watch Online August 25-26 - See the Old Vic's 'Bagdad Cafe,' dance at Jacob's Pillow, New York Theatre Workshop's 'Semblance by Raven Snook

With in-person theatre still a rarity, many companies and performers from Broadway and beyond are showcasing their work online. Below are performances you can watch this Wednesday, August 25…

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Monday, August 23, 2021

10+ Stage Performances to Watch August 23-24 - See the ladies of Freestyle Love Supreme Academy, George M. Cohan Tonight! and more by Raven Snook

With in-person theatre still a rarity, many companies and performers from Broadway and beyond are showcasing their work online. Below are performances you can watch Monday, August 23 and Tue…

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Friday, August 20, 2021

15+ Stage Performances to Watch Online This Weekend August 20-22 - See Norbert Leo Butz in concert, George M. Cohan Tonight!, South Pacific and more by Raven Snook

With in-person theatre still a rarity, many companies and performers from Broadway and beyond are showcasing their work online. Below are performances you can watch online this weekend, Frid…

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Wednesday, August 18, 2021

20+ Stage Performances to Watch August 18-19 - See 'South Pacific,' Battery Dance Festival, 'George M. Cohan Tonight!' and more by Raven Snook

With in-person theatre still a rarity, many companies and performers from Broadway and beyond are showcasing their work online. Below are performances you can watch this Wednesday, August 18…

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Monday, August 16, 2021

15+ Stage Performances to Watch August 16-17 - See Adam Pascal in concert, Battery Dance Festival, 'George M. Cohan Tonight!' and more by Raven Snook

With in-person theatre still a rarity, many companies and performers from Broadway and beyond are showcasing their work online. Below are performances you can watch Monday, August 16 and Tue…

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Thursday, August 12, 2021

15+ Stage Performances to Watch Online This Weekend August 13-15 - See 'Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age,' 'South Pacific,' Battery Dance Festival and by Raven Snook

With in-person theatre still a rarity, many companies and performers from Broadway and beyond are showcasing their work online. Below are performances you can watch online this weekend, Frid…

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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

15+ Stage Performances to Watch August 11-12 - See Battery Dance Festival, Adam Pascal, 'Liza with a Z' and more by Raven Snook

With in-person theatre still a rarity, many companies and performers from Broadway and beyond are showcasing their work online. Below are performances you can watch this Wednesday, August 11…

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Friday, February 26, 2021

25+ Stage Performances to Watch by Raven Snook

New Jersey's George Street Playhouse presents a new digital production of Theresa Rebeck's one-woman comedy BAD DATES, about a single mom recounting all the duds she's endured on her quest f…

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Saturday, February 20, 2021

35+ Stage Performances to Watch This Weekend February 19-21 by Raven Snook

On Sunday at 2:30 p.m. ET, the Congress for Jewish Culture celebrates Purim with a dramatization of Itzik Manger's MEGILLAH CYCLE, a collection of Yiddish poems updating the Biblical story o…

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Monday, December 14, 2020

30+ Stage Performances to Watch December 14-15 by Raven Snook

On Monday at 7 p.m. ET, the Congress for Jewish Culture celebrates the centennial of S. Ansky's famous Yiddish play THE DYBBUK with a virtual reading. Allen Lewis Rickman directs Mike Bursty…

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Saturday, November 14, 2020

30+ Stage Performances to Watch This Weekend November 13-15 by Raven Snook

CONSCIENCE: Written by MEMPHIS Tony winner Joe DiPietro, this play was running at George Street Playhouse when the shutdown hit. Director David Saint reunites castmates Mark Junek, Lee Sella…

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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

21 Stage Performances to Watch November 11-12 by Raven Snook

New Jersey's George Street Playhouse presents an encore streaming of CONSCIENCE about US Senator Margaret Chase, who heroically denounced McCarthyism in her 1950 "Declaration of Conscience" …

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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

17 Stage Performances to Watch Today by Raven Snook

New Jersey's George Street Playhouse presents CONSCIENCE about US Senator Margaret Chase, who heroically denounced McCarthyism in her 1950 "Declaration of Conscience" speech. Written by MEMP…

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Sunday, April 7, 2019

Do You Feel Anger? | Vineyard Theatre | Theater in New York by Raven Snook

Do You Feel Anger? provokes many emotions: amusement, sadness, terror, frustration. An absurdist comedy that cracks open to reveal oozing wounds, Mara Nelson-Greenberg's audacious Off Broadw…

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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Review: O'Casey's "Juno & the Paycock" A Gem of Irish Realism joins the Irish Rep Season through May 25th! by Raven Snook

MARYANN PLUNKETT as "Juno" is marvelous as is the entire production under the meticulously calibrated direction of NEIL PEPE (Atlantic Theatre Company's artistic director moonlighting here a…

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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

The Mother | Atlantic Theater Company | Theater in New York by Raven Snook

Anyone who saw Florian Zeller's The Father on Broadway three years ago will recognize these theatrical tricks. A companion piece to that play, The Mother offers another disorienting dissecti…

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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Returning 'Awake and Sing!' to Its Yiddish Roots by Raven Snook

When New Yiddish Rep artistic director David Mandelbaum decided to produce Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT and Eugène Ionesco's RHINOCEROS, he had to commission special Yiddish versions.…

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Monday, May 25, 2015

David Hirson - Interview by Raven Snook

The author of La Bête shares his thoughts on highbrow, lowbrow and his tiny writing output.

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

When She Lectures, You Laugh by Raven Snook

Broadway veteran Mary Louise Wilson breaks the fourth wall and brings down the house in On the Twentieth Century — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how…

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Looking for the Light in Our Country’s Darkness by Raven Snook

In The Insurgents, Lucy Thurber fuses personal and political history for an examination of what ails us — On the surface, Lucy Thurber’s new drama The Insurgents, now at the La…

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Saturday, January 31, 2015

John Cameron Mitchell on bringing Hedwig back to Broadway by Raven Snook

Here's Johnny! John Cameron Mitchell returns to the stage to star in his rockin', madcap musical opus, Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Are You Sure You Want to Do That? by Raven Snook

All the creative elements in Constellations, even the set, suggest infinite possibilities Director Michael Longhurst isn’t big on naturalism—at least not for the shows he helms. …

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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

When Horsing Around Turns Deadly Serious by Raven Snook

Playwright Jenny Rachel Weiner uses broad comedy to explore the drama of preprepubescent girls — While most dark comedies about adolescent angst take place in high school (see Heathers…

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Making a Joyful Political Noise by Raven Snook

Whether protesting climate change, racial injustice. or overconsumption, Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping do it in glorious song — It’s going to be a very busy Than…

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Why Alessandro Nivola Loves “The Elephant Man” by Raven Snook

Bradley Cooper wasn’t the only actor obsessed with bringing the Williamstown Theatre Festival revival to Broadway — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers …

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Monday, November 10, 2014

90 One-Person Shows, Three Days, Countless Laughs by Raven Snook

How writer/performer Peter Michael Marino’s biggest professional failure led to the founding of SOLOCOM. — When Peter Michael Marino‘s splashy West End musicalization of De…

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

The Rhythm of Grief by Raven Snook

Playwright Kimber Lee asks audiences to mourn for a murdered up-and-comer in brownsville song — Though not a tuner, brownsville song (b-side for tray) has a musical sensibility. Hip-ho…

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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Debt-setting Around the Country by Raven Snook

Solo artist Ben Rimalower uses his lifelong financial problems for laughs and insight in Bad with Money — In the age of oversharing in life and online, it’s not surprising that m…

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Friday, October 10, 2014

How Theatre for Young Audiences Is Maturing by Raven Snook

Two new immersive shows at the Park Avenue Armory appeal to grown-ups as much as children — I’ve been taking my nine-year-old to stage shows since before she could talk. (Access …

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