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Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:12PMCon Melody is a drunk saddled with a run-down tavern outside Boston, who fancies himself a European war hero born in an Irish castle. He’s a vain, moody character living an illusion in “…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:09PMEighty-four years after theaters in 17 states across America simultaneously opened “It Can’t Happen Here,” a dramatization of Sinclair Lewis’ cautionary tale imagining the rise of fa…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:44PMReading these monologues from the early days of COVID-19, many of which I had watched online, made me think of the way Trump impersonator Adam Baldwin on Saturday Night Live recently spoofed…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:36PMBelow is the video and transcript of the speech by former President Barack Obama in Orlando, Florida on October 27, 2020, in which he lets loose on President Donald Trump. “…you’ve got…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:21AMIn the week until Election Day, there are overtly political plays, musicals, and operas opening every day, listed below. Also check out political shows that have already opened and are avail…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:38PMThe owners of six Off-Broadway theaters and two comedy clubs filed suit against New York on Friday demanding to be allowed to reopen. “Casinos, malls, movie theaters, restaurants, gyms,…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:20PMWeek in Theater Videos: Trailers for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The Prom. To Be Human from Hercules. I’m Losing You from Ain’t Too Proud. There will be no Village Halloween Parade ne…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:26AM“Dear Evan Hansen,” “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Death of a Salesman” were among the plays and musical familiar to American audiences whose recent British productions won 2020 Ol…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:27PMThe staged reading of an 18-year-old episode of the TV series “The West Wing” might seem like a peculiar exercise in nostalgia, and maybe vanity, by its creator Aaron Sorkin, who’s gon…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:57PMThese five highly recommended plays opened earlier this week, most of them ending this weekend, all of them worth seeing. There are other, terrifically-sounding shows that are actually openi…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:13PMOn a day when non-theater people are revving up talk about “political theater,” theater bloggers Janice Simpson and Samuel Leiter offer a different take on the term — theater about pol…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:47PMWatch this starry line-up in support of Biden/Harris, by Broadway for Biden. Featured some 200 artists, including: Billy Porter, Judith Light, Derrick Baskin, Laura Benanti, Victoria Clark, …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:02PM“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…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:00PMShortly after the Tony Awards announced its much delayed 2020 nominations in the middle of a pandemic-induced shutdown, I brought actor and writer Kevin James Doyle back to Times Square for …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:08PMWith 15 days left to Election Day, the theater community’s focus on voting – such as the Hamilton Town Hall for Biden/Harris this weekend featuring the original cast of the musical,…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:35AMEven nurses dedicated to kindness have their breaking point. Connie Britton portrays a nurse forced to care for a COVID patient who had worked at a risky job never wearing a mask, and then p…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:31PMViewers might be astonished that Heidi Schreck’s funny, poignant and pointed play feels like a direct response to the Senate hearings on Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Cou…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:59PMWe got many questions that we’ll be answering tonight, “most of them about Jonathan Groff’s spit,” Tommy Kail, the director of “Hamilton,” announced at the outset of a 90-minut…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:23AMBelow are six must-see* theater “opening” this weekend, plus five more still available, two Meet The Tony Nominees events, and another two pro-democracy soirees. The theater — two re…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:00PMAngela Lansbury, born 95 years ago today the daughter of an Irish actress and a British politician, came relatively late to Broadway, appearing in her first role on the Rialto at the age of …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:37AMJagged Little Pill and Moulin Rouge lead in the much-delayed 74th annual Tony Award nominations for the much-truncated 2019-2020 Broadway season, selected from 18 eligible shows, which…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:56AMSpike Lee filmed David Byrne’s American Utopia on the stage of Broadway’s Hudson Theater earlier this year; it is arriving on HBO on October 17, in a completely different era. Taking e…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:18AMBooks about dancer Ted Shawn and New Orleans theater before the Civil War have been named the best theater books of the year by The Theatre Library Association, which is presenting its TLA B…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:00PMWith exactly three weeks to go until Election Day and, as we learned officially last Friday, at least another eight more months until Broadway reopens, it’s hard not to feel anxious. But t…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:02AM“It has been said that the wheels of justice turn slowly. Injustice, on the other hand, can move at lightning speed, as we are seeing here today.” – Senator Amy Klobuchar. Full video a…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:50AMLarissa FastHorse, who last week was announced as one of the winners of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Awards, riffed on Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day in her satirical play “T…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:03PMWhen “Static Apnea” began its theatrical run, live and indoors, a big selling point for me was that it would be safe: One theatergoer at a time (mask required) would watch a single per…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:33PMBelow are seven must-see shows this weekend, two of them “reunion readings,” another two star-studded new versions, of acclaimed plays; a fifth a reunion concert of the original cast of …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:08PMBroadway will remain shut down at least through May 30, 2021, The Broadway League announced today., the fifth implicit target date for reopening since Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered the theat…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:36AMWatch “The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America” below, available through October 15, a 50-minute video written by Tony Kushner, and directed by Ellie Heyman, featuring Glenn…
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