Monday, August 3, 2020
The Week in Reviews . The Week in News. The Week in Videos Broadway Bares;Tangled the Musical. #Stageworthy News of the Week. If Broadway won’t return until Summer 2021, as UK impresario…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:14PMSunday, August 2, 2020
Watch the hour-long video of 11 short new plays below. In “Holla,” a serial killer (Will Swenson) wearing the distorted white mask from the Scream series, makes an ominous phone call t…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:10PMTheatergoers have complained about Zoom plays in the months since the pandemic shut down physical theaters, but it’s one of the only ways to “attend” live theater these days, and some …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:29AMSaturday, August 1, 2020
Click here for August 1 openings Below is the day-by-day calendar of “theater openings”* in August, 2020, a month of abundance: Two theatrical celebrations of the 100th anniversary of wo…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:45AMFriday, July 31, 2020
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Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:53AMThursday, July 30, 2020
There are some 750 books on display in Bravo’s Book Nook, the only theater bookstore in New York, and possibly the only one open in the country. That’s not a lot of books for a bookstore…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:20PMWednesday, July 29, 2020
Publishing a big colorful book as a companion to a Broadway musical is nothing new, but “American Utopia” the book is surely unique. In the last few years, there have been coffee table…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:17PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
Gen Parton-Shin sent me the two videos below of songs from “Hamilton” — “My Shot” and “Helpless” — that he translated into Japanese. I had questions. He answered them. Shin-P…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:43AMMonday, July 27, 2020
The Week in Theater The Week in News The Week in Videos #Stageworthy News. “Dear Senators: Without your immediate action for financial relief by Aug. 1, we will collapse, and the result wi…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:15PMSunday, July 26, 2020
“Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” Will Arbury’s much-acclaimed play about a gathering of former classmates at a conservative Catholic college in Wyoming, not only worked amazingly well…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:08PMOlivia de Havilland, the last surviving leading lady of Hollywood’s Golden Age, five-time Oscar nominated actress and Broadway veteran who helped take down Hollywood’s studio system wi…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:18PMSaturday, July 25, 2020
Was “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” a flop? Joe Allen didn’t think so, refusing to put its poster up on the famous flop wall of his restaurant, saying: “Any show that plays for thre…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:11PMFriday, July 24, 2020
Below are some of the rich theater offerings available on screens today: Julie Andrews, Laura Benanti and Marga Gomez all star in shows that maddeningly overlap tonight. And Marilyn Horne at…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:22PMThursday, July 23, 2020
Below are videos of the five plays of the Facing the Rising Tide theater festival, organized by the New Group Theater with the Natural Resources Defense Council. In each video, a discussion …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:09PMWednesday, July 22, 2020
The photographs of Edwin Booth as Iago in “Othello” in 1871, Paul Robeson in the title role of the same play 72 years later and Dianne Wiest as Desdemona in a production 40 years after t…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:52PMTuesday, July 21, 2020
Two of the theater bloggers below wrote about Hamilton this month, but not in a way you might expect. There is a summer theater book reading list, a guide connected to Disability Rights Mont…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:59PMMonday, July 20, 2020
#Stageworthy News. Every year for the past decade, I’ve written a preview guide to the dozen or so annual summer theater festivals in New York. Most have been canceled this year, at least …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:55AMSunday, July 19, 2020
Watch Amadeus below or at National Theatre. Historically, “Amadeus” is baloney. Theatrically, it’s a feast. Musically, the National Theatre’s 2016 production of Peter Shaffer’s 197…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:56PMA friend passed along this video of 17,572 singers from 129 countries performing Eric Whitacre’s “Sing Gently,” and included a poem by Bertolt Brecht In the dark times Will there also …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:39PMSaturday, July 18, 2020
An 2020 Obie winning play about conservatives who hurt too; Julianne Moore as a mother whose daughter complains about her plastic surgery; a starry anthology on the theme of “promise.”…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:46PMSo there is Lin-Manuel Miranda, ten years before “Hamilton,” three years before even “In The Heights,” galloping across the street to join his fellow members of Freestyle Love Suprem…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:50PMFriday, July 17, 2020
In “Good As New,” a funny and pointed 25-minute play that MCC streamed live online, Julianne Moore as Jan is arguing with her daughter Maggie (Kaitlyn Dever) on Maggie’s 16th birthd…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:20PMThursday, July 16, 2020
Watch the 22nd annual Broadway Barks, renamed Broadway Barks across America because this year for the first time it’s online, with co-founder and host Bernadette Peters, an adorable lineup…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:38PMTommy Dorfman, in sexy black corset and purple wig, exclaims “I’m a Queen…I’m hot,” does an interpretive dance on the bed, puts on lipstick as if host of a makeup show, plays a tam…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:49PMWednesday, July 15, 2020
Before it even opened on Broadway in 1954, the producers of the musical “Peter Pan” had struck a deal with NBC to present it live on television, after its Broadway run, with its cast int…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:17PMTuesday, July 14, 2020
The list of winners of the 65th annual, and first virtual, Obie Awards, delayed twice, which celebrates Off and Off Off Broadway. Presenters, performers and winners of the 2020 Obie Awards D…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:01PMMonday, July 13, 2020
#Stageworthy News. If “Hamilton” on Disney+ having become the most-viewed streaming video is not evidence enough of the expanding definition of “theater,” I saw nine plays last we…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:05PMSunday, July 12, 2020
Watching 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 Pl…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:06PMSaturday, July 11, 2020
The Summer Stock Streaming Festival is a free triple feature online through July 19th from The Mint Theater, which has been unearthing forgotten old plays and making them shine for a quarter…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:49PMI’ve seen the five plays below — The Copper Children, The Mint’s Summerstock Streaming Festival, The Deep Blue Sea, Gloria: A Life, and The Line, in order of expiration date — and …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:06PMFriday, July 10, 2020
On 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…
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