By Jonathan Mandell. Theatremaker Jonathan Mandell discusses virtual playwriting series Bard at the Gate and looks at the impact and future of digital theatre.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:20PMBy Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell shares his experience at New York City’s first-ever official Puppet Week.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:59PMBy Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell reflects on a number of live, in-person productions that have taken place in New York City over the course of summer 2021.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:14AMHow some fancy footwork (and many stairs) made stars of the Newsies newsboys, including Ryan Steele and Ephraim Sykes.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWere there magical moments on New York stages in 2020? The question is debatable – just like the definition of “theater” is being debated – since nobody has been performing on any ac…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AM“Being Alive”and “Losing My Mind” – are there any better Sondheim songs to sing at the close of a year full of loss, unrequited yearning and obsession? That they are sung by perfor…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:32PMWhat kind of weird holiday show is this? That was my initial reaction – not my usual reaction to a show by Taylor Mac, which is more often: Wow ( to Hir, and A 24 Decade History of Po…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMJoel Grey sings “Give My Regards to Broadway” – in Yiddish. And he’s not alone among the 50 performers of the Folksbiene Chanukah Spectacular, a fast-moving, entertaining 80 minutes …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PMThe credits at the end of this A Christmas Carol list a cast of 51 characters – 50 of them portrayed by Jefferson Mays. He’s the narrator, as well as Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge’s clerk …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:12PMAbout 15 minutes into the HBO film adaptation of “Between The World and Me,” Ta-Nehisi Coates best-selling 2015 book framed as a letter to his son about what it means to be Black in Amer…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PM“I think what we do is evil but I still want to do a good job at it,” says Nikolai, one of the Russian trolls trying to sway the American Presidential election in Sarah Gancher’s funny…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06PMSpike Lee filmed David Byrne’s American Utopia on the stage of Broadway’s Hudson Theater earlier this year; it is arriving on HBO on Saturday, October 17, in a completely different era…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:32PMPolitical theater is different this year, and not just because it’s on screens rather than stages. There is a palpable sense of urgency. The weeks counting down to Election Day may hav…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PM“When is the last time you went to live theater like this”? I asked one of the seven other audience members waiting for Voyeur to begin, an hour-long play that takes place in the stree…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36PMJoshua Henry, who is the theater world’s most unlikely Annie, sang “Tomorrow” (“The sun will come out tomorrow…”) at Miscast, followed by Heather Headley singing “Endless Night…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:03PMI went to the theater in New York for the last time the day after they shut down Broadway on March 12th, six months ago today. My theatergoing on Friday the 13th Off-Off Broadway (which was …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:42PMThings are looking up for the Apple family, but not for me, as the characters talk to one another on a Zoom call yet again. Richard Nelson’s third play in four months about the same set of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PMHistorically, Amadeus is baloney. Theatrically, it’s a feast. Musically, the National Theatre’s 2016 production of Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play — a recording of which is being streamed…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54PMWatching Gideon Glick’s expressive face in The Few– elated one moment, defeated the next, then adoring, angry, hurt, resigned — is one key to unlocking the mystery of how this Play-Per…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24PMOn the surface, The Deep Blue Sea might seem a love triangle, but Helen McCrory’s performance makes it a prism — multifaceted, disorienting, and brilliant – in the National Theatre’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18PMLorraine Hansberry’s third and final Broadway play, which is being presented online through July 9 in a dark, expressionistic production directed in 2016 by Yael Farber for the National T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:42PMThe Apple family is back again, on another Zoom call. After the triumphant return in April of writer and director Richard Nelson’s Apple Family series with What Do We Need To Talk About, w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:03PMStrange 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“We have a humanitarian crisis in prison that will blow up in our faces,” says André De Shields, speaking sonorously and looking grave in a clerical collar and a salt-and-pepper beard, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMThis play about cookbook author Julia Child is a recipe for how not to do online theater. To Master the Art falls flat, despite some great ingredients. This is not how I expected to react. F…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMAs the shut-down of theaters enters its third month, theater artists vow “we’ll be back” – that this is just intermission. But will audiences be back? A new three-part survey by Sh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:32PMThe pandemic has produced two kinds of theatrical Netathons , which is my name for oversized online theatrical events by established artists in support of a charitable cause. The first are t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMJust announced: Michael R. Jackson’s A Strange Loop won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama. When I saw it last June at Playwrights Horizons Off-Broadway, I wrote: A Strange Loop is a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32PMAfter spending an hour on Zoom with the Apple family in Richard Nelson’s latest low-key play, I was surprised by my reaction, which I could sum up as: Hallelujah! What Do We Need to Talk…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMBy 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 02:00AMRachel 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 …
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