Thursday, April 22, 2021
Like many a performer, Jan Damm has been climbing the walls during the pandemic, but he did it literally. After live performances dried up, he started creating at-home skits for the Bindlest…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:14AMWednesday, April 21, 2021
In “Two Sisters and a Piano,” Jimmy Smits plays a lieutenant in the Cuban army in 1991 who is supposed to keep tabs on the two women (Daphne Rubin-Vega and Florencia Lozano) who are unde…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:56PM“Into The Woods” was “a huge smash hi,” when it opened on Broadway in 1987, we’re told in the ten-minute video below, the latest from the “Encores! Inside the Revival.” Given t…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:03PMTuesday, April 20, 2021
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke after the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd convicted him on all three counts, including two for murd…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:24PMMonday, April 19, 2021
There are so many productions opening/being announced now that it feels as overwhelming as any April (even moreso, since BroadwayCon 2021 went virtual over the weekend, which you can still w…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:59AMSunday, April 18, 2021
It was sunny on the roof of the Empire Hotel overlooking Lincoln Center when more than a dozen dancers today from Broadway and ballet and modern dance companies took a break from a dark year…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:30PMFriday, April 16, 2021
As the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota is nearing its end, Studio Theatre of D.C. today debuts a new streaming production …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:23PMThursday, April 15, 2021
“The Wandering,” which its creators bill as an immersive theatrical experience inspired by the music of the 19th century classical composer Franz Schubert – “part visual album, par…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:00PMWednesday, April 14, 2021
Before she wrote the libretto and then the screenplay for “In The Heights,” before she became the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of “Water By The Spoonful,” Quiara Alegría Hudes …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:59PMTuesday, April 13, 2021
In “Shadow/Land,” the opening play of Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s projected ten-play-cycle about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Ruth has come by on August 29, 2005 to pick up h…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:28PM“It’s a song that I wrote about coming out of lockdown, with some much needed optimism,” Mick Jagger announced today in a statement about his new pandemic anthem, Easy Sleazy. “Than…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:44PMMonday, April 12, 2021
Ten days into the much ballyhooed reopening, April has been as busy a month for theater as it usually is — I’ve seen a play every day this week (see my reviews)– but the April overload…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:25PMSunday, April 11, 2021
Babette, like Garbo, just wants to be alone. The legendary French courtesan has retired to her country estate, designed for “trading the sins of lust for a more relaxed sin of sloth,”…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:36PMSaturday, April 10, 2021
When Amber Iman was asked to perform on Broadway as part of NYPopsUp, “I began to freak out.” The pressure was on: “I should at least get either a Tony nomination or a husband or both …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:32PMFriday, April 9, 2021
Below is the video of the Reverb Theater Arts Festival, viewable until Thursday, May 20. It is close-captioned. For separate videos that provide ASL interpretation and audio description of …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:41PMThursday, April 8, 2021
At 91, John Cullum has had a long and remarkably varied Broadway career, spanning six decades and some 30 shows — musicals ranging from “Camelot” to “Urinetown,” straight plays …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:41PMThis thrillingly-sung new version of Jason Robert Brown’s beloved (and problematic) musical about love lost (and gained) almost feels like a laboratory experiment in pandemic theater. Will…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:03AMWednesday, April 7, 2021
Erika Dickerson-Despenza and her play “cullud wattah” have won the the 43rd Annual Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and $25,000 The play is about a family of Black women struggling to survi…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:14PMTuesday, April 6, 2021
So there is poet and refugee Evgeny Shtorn in front of me reciting his poem “From the Confinement,” a title I find ironic, given that he’s speaking on the beautiful green shore of a …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:01PMMonday, April 5, 2021
“You’re a lame duck, you’re a stream,” a character was screaming oddly, just as my screen froze while watching the streaming of the play “Cock.” Was this a problem with…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:53PMBroadway reopened over the weekend …for 36 minutes (as a New York Times headline put it) with a double bill: Savion Glover in a one-man musical, and Nathan Lane in “Playbills!” a monol…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:28PMSunday, April 4, 2021
Below is the full text of Paul Rudnick’s “Playbills,” the first play presented on a Broadway stage in more than a year – in a one-time-only socially-distanced matinee on Saturday at …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:45PMSaturday, April 3, 2021
Mike Daisey performed his latest monologue to 22 masked and vaccinated theatergoers in person Friday night at the 99-seat Kraine Theater in the East Village, and simultaneously to another 50…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:30PMFriday, April 2, 2021
“…you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on,” Samuel Beckett wrote in 1953; Terry Teachout quotes that line in his blog About Last Night, right before his entry on the same day th…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:38PMThursday, April 1, 2021
Below is the day-to-day listing of theater that is opening in the month of April* – which includes digital theater, and in-person shows (three on April 2! Another on April 9) in addition t…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:42PMWednesday, March 31, 2021
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in March? Answer these dozen questions — about the anniversary of the lockdown and awards and vaccines and in-person and…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:22PMTuesday, March 30, 2021
Below are the nominations for the 87th Annual Drama League Awards, the first major theater award to honor the theater that has been created this year — which is to say digital theater. T…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:38PMMonday, March 29, 2021
As the first New York theaters reopen at reduced capacity this coming Friday, the hope for a wider reopening rests on a stepping up of vaccinations. To that end, there was good news on the f…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:49PMSunday, March 28, 2021
The new documentary about the performer Tina Turner includes scene about both the Broadway musical “Tina, the Tina Turner Musical” and the 1993 Hollywood movie, “What’s Love Got T…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:29PMSaturday, March 27, 2021
“Art in all its forms is vital to the health and well-being of us as individuals and as communities,” Dr. Anthony Fauci concludes his remarks in the March 23rd National Endowment for the…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:13AMToday is the 60th annual World Theatre Day. As we await the reopening of physical theaters throughout the world, British actress Helen Mirren delivers the annual International World Theatre…
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