Sunday, January 17, 2021
James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi on January 17, 1931….90 years ago today. He is a 20-time Broadway veteran (most recently in “The Gin Game” in 2015) three-time Tony …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:14AMSaturday, January 16, 2021
Below are the listings of theater to see this Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, January 16-18, 2021, including several new works about African-Americans in addition to the annual rousing MLK…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:27AMFriday, January 15, 2021
“Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side,” a world premiere play about the deadly rivalry of two sisters, written by the 89-year-old playwright Adrienne Kennedy, begins the same way as the …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:47PMThursday, January 14, 2021
These six theater artists read from the following non-theater writing tonight, part of the new Lincoln Center Theater Spotlight series.: Playwright David Adjmi’s delightful new book Lot Si…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:26PMWednesday, January 13, 2021
“Muriel Mandell, 99, leaves a New York State COVID-19 vaccination site at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center after receiving her first dose, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in New York. New Y…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:28PMTuesday, January 12, 2021
“We must bring culture and the arts back to life,” Governor Andrew Cuomo said in the State of the State address this afternoon in announcing a “New York Arts Revival” initiative that…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:58PMPhotos of Josephine Baker in 1936, Carmen Miranda in 1941, and a bevy of beauties portraying dabs of paint arranged around a huge painter’s palette in 1924; a costume design for CATS i…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:21AMMonday, January 11, 2021
Below are the listings this week of the 13th annual Origin 1st Irish Theater Festival, and an original play for Red Hook on the first African-American theater company in NYC; a reunion rea…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:49PMWords matter. Trump’s words clearly incited the storming of the Capitol last week, which reportedly may result in his second impeachment this week. (Some of the hate spouted by the insurre…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:57AMSunday, January 10, 2021
Be open-minded, be open-minded: That was my mantra while watching the “split bill” of three experimental videos from this year’s Exponential theater festival. Also: Don’t use dismiss…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:06PMTheater and democracy were born in the same place at the same time – in Athens 2,500 years ago — and that is no coincidence: One led to the other. The creation of theater festivals in th…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:19AMSaturday, January 9, 2021
This sonic tour of Times Square begins with what sounds like a wave of sonic booms – the clacking machinery of an ancient factory maybe, or an old diesel locomotive…until you realize: Oh…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:39PMFriday, January 8, 2021
Isolation, dread, disconnection and video: That’s what the first night of the Public Theater’s 17th annual Under the Radar festival offers – and that (surely not coincidentally) is wha…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:17PMThursday, January 7, 2021
Below is the statement today that the former First Lady Michelle Obama posted on Twitter after yesterday’s mob takeover of the U.S.Capitol. “I hurt for our country. And I wish I had all …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 11:38PMWednesday, January 6, 2021
“This is not dissent. It’s disorder. It’s chaos. It borders on sedition, and it must end now. I call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward.” — Pres…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:34PM“In this moment in American history, Washington has a choice to make, we all have a choice to make….Will we seek to destroy one another as enemies or heed the call towards the common goo…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 05:27AMTuesday, January 5, 2021
What are the New York City, state and federal governments doing to address the challenges facing theaters in the city? I contacted Guy Yedwab, president of the League of Independent Theater,…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 06:12AMMonday, January 4, 2021
Below is a selection of theater openings this week, the beginning of a month that is usually jam packed with theater festivals. Two of them are active this time around, both pared down, bo…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:39PMRatatouille the Tick Tock Musical (my review) has raised more than a million dollars in ticket sales for The Actors Fund, the enthusiasm of the audience seeming to match that of its creators…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:48AMSunday, January 3, 2021
Stars in the House, Sondheim and his 90th birthday concert, Be An #ArtsHero (photo by Howard Sherman), nude body painting in Times Square (ditto), the chance to reinvent the American theater…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:07AMSaturday, January 2, 2021
From the first song (“Anyone Can Cook”) to the final line of dialogue (Anton Ego the critic: “I didn’t like this musical…I loved it”), “Ratatouille” traces the journey not ju…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:14AMFriday, January 1, 2021
Irving Berlin wrote “All By Myself” in 1921, for “The Music Box Revue” in his then brand new Broadway theater, popularized in the decades to come by Al and Bing and Ethel and Ella. A…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 10:50PMMiss New Year’s Eve 2021? Watch it below — the festivities at Times Square, the annual Concert for Peace at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the annual Natalie Douglas New Year’…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:41AMThursday, December 31, 2020
At a time when matters of mortality are taking center stage, let’s ring in the new (and hopefully far better) year by saluting Broadway veterans who are aged 89 to 106, many of them stil…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:57PMBelow are ten stunning music videos put together by Broadway stars, often for a political cause, some just for kicks (literally.) Then below those: ten of the most popular videos I poste…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 01:28AMWednesday, December 30, 2020
How much do you remember of this unprecedented year in theater? (How much would anybody want to remember of 2020?) Answer these 20 questions to find out. Loading…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 07:58AMTuesday, December 29, 2020
Below is a list of theater books to read in 2021, most of which were published in 2020.‡ Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under five categ…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 09:10AMMonday, December 28, 2020
The year that’s ending was one of shock and sorrow, but more uplifting to think of it as a year full of Sondheim — starting from the New York Philharmonic’s “Celebrating Sondheim…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 08:52AMSunday, December 27, 2020
Below are some of the most popular posts and the best reads in 2020, starting with 11 interviews with theater makers and news makers about the theater-related issues and events in this most …
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 02:14PMSaturday, December 26, 2020
This is my annual New Year’s Eve last-minute guide to events that are still available on New Year’s Eve 2021 (when 2020 turns into 2021) in New York City. Times Square. theater. concerts…
Linked From newyorktheater.me at 04:11PMFriday, December 25, 2020
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2020, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph to read the caption. Also: In Memoriam to New York City’s frontline…
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