Friday, March 27, 2020
Today is the 59th annual World Theatre Day. Created in 1961, it is celebrated annually on March 27. With much of the world in lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, we may not …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:30AMThursday, March 26, 2020
Step-by-step advice for surviving isolation from an astronaut, a journalist, and a political prisoner, who each spent long stretches alone. Click on the links and look at the videos for elab…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:57PMWednesday, March 25, 2020
In “The Siblings Play,” a teenage girl and her two brothers are left to raise one another in a Harlem apartment where the rent is past due, after first their father and then their mother…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:55PMTuesday, March 24, 2020
Theater Wit’s production of Mike Lew’s play, which is running online through April 19th, has changed the way we view this teenage comedy turned melodrama based on Shakespeare’s “Rich…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:33PMPlaywright Terrence McNally, 81, has died, reportedly from complications from the coronavirus. His prolific career included winning Tony Awards for the plays “Love! Valour! Compassion!…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:36PMMonday, March 23, 2020
On his 90th birthday, Stephen Sondheim sang Happy Birthday to Andrew Lloyd Webber…while washing his hands for 20 seconds in his bathroom sink — a playful gesture that is an instantly ic…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:34AMSunday, March 22, 2020
Check out on the YouTube channel below for the one-night only return of the Rosie O’Donnell Show with a cavalcade of Broadway stars — Rosie promises “3,000 guests.” Donation page for…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:55PMToday Stephen Sondheim turns 90 years old, a milestone birthday that theater lovers have been celebrating for weeks now. Here are 10 videos of terrific permeances of his songs, and some Twit…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:53AMSaturday, March 21, 2020
“It’s a challenging time, but it’s also an inspiring time,” said John King, one of the eight downtown artists who performed in La MaMa’s Downtown Variety #1 (full video below), the…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:17PMThe Broadway League and the 14 Broadway unions have reached an “emergency relief agreement,” which means that producers will pay cast and crew during the first few weeks of the shutdown …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:10AMFriday, March 20, 2020
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, Where to Get Your Theater Fix, here’s today’s schedule, which includes Taylor Mac’s launching of #stillHere; the debut of LaMaMa’s Downtown Vari…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:57PMThursday, March 19, 2020
The threat of COVID-19 is shutting down theaters across the world, but it’s not killing theater – which is increasingly going online. There are two types of online theater now – the on…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:03PMWednesday, March 18, 2020
Since the 1957 Broadway debut of “West Side Story,” the adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” with a score by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, there have been five Broa…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:23PMTuesday, March 17, 2020
As a follow-up to my post “What can I watch online that’s like Broadway?” below is a list with links to newly created/promised livestreamed theater, mostly free, from La MaMa to the …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:25PMMonday, March 16, 2020
Within just the last two weeks, after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in New York City on March 1, the number of cases in NYC alone grew to 329, all of Broadway has been shut down at l…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:56AMSunday, March 15, 2020
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the closing of the remaining small theaters, as well as schools, movie theaters, restaurants, bars and nightclubs “Our lives are all changing in ways t…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:44PMWith a virus threatening the city, it made sense to me to see Taylor Mac’s “The Fre,” at the Flea, although all Broadway and most Off-Broadway theaters had already shut down. The Flea …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:27PMSaturday, March 14, 2020
The theater kids are putting on a school show, and, like the TV series Glee, the lead actor is a recently recruited football player. But unlike Glee, or Smash, or Rise, the show they’re do…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:55PMFriday, March 13, 2020
Although Gov. Cuomo shut down for a month all venues with 500 or more seats, which includes all of Broadway, that left the option of smaller venues staying open, but at 50 percent capacity. …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 03:54PMWith Broadway shut down for at least a month, I asked on Twitter: Anything online that’s like a Broadway show? Here are some of the choicest responses. (And stay tuned, because there is se…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:33PMThursday, March 12, 2020
All Broadway theaters will close at 5 p.m. today, and all Broadway performances will be suspended at least until April 12th, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in a press conference today. Cuom…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:21PMWednesday, March 11, 2020
Biographic Audrey(Ammonie Press, 98 pages) by Sophie Collins is less a biography of the actress Audrey Hepburn than a PowerPoint presentation about her — a deeply weird book of infograp…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:15PMTuesday, March 10, 2020
To the main question on New Yorkers minds – how bad will the Coronavirus epidemic get in New York? — New York theatergoers are asking several more: Will Broadway theaters be shut down be…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:07PMIn this musical by Michael Friedman making its New York debut 30 months after his shocking death from AIDS at the age of 41, it would be impossible not to think of him from the very first s…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:20AMMonday, March 9, 2020
As local news of the spread of the coronavirus grows more alarming (with Governor Cuomo having declared a state of emergency in New York over the weekend), the theater community has been re…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 12:20PMSunday, March 8, 2020
Bob Avian’s memoir begins with a list of 32 “leading ladies,” including Barbra Streisand, Katharine Hepburn and Patti LuPone, which might be misleading in a couple of ways. Dancing Man…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:39PMSaturday, March 7, 2020
A man in a hazmat suit came on stage, to give us the usual spiel about the location of the exits and turning off our cell phones, and I thought: Ok, yes, the governor has declared a state of…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:54PMFriday, March 6, 2020
Below is the hour-long video and audio of the TCG Webinar, in which various experts, such as a professor of epidemiology based in Seattle and the director of theater at the National Endowme…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:07PMIt’s been a battering couple of weeks, what with abandonment, abduction, desperation, murder, genocide, and pandemic – all but the last one happening on New York stages. So although I sa…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:34PMThursday, March 5, 2020
“Girl from the North Country” is largely the same slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece I saw Off-Broadway. But my reaction to it has changed, for better and for…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:20PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
The first of the many surprises in “The Headlands,” the latest, cleverly crafted play in New York by trickster San Francisco playwright Christopher Chen, comes after Henry (Aaron Yoo) in…
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