“Afterwardsness” by Bill T. Jones was slated to begin at the Park Avenue Armory this week, the first of the productions in some half dozen New York theaters permitted to reopen at reduce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMBelow is a day-to-day list of theater that is opening between March 22 to March 31, a starry ten days that includes World Theatre Day! Monday, March 22 BKLYNStream Theatre3:30 p.m. ET availa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57PMThe Irish Rep’s award-winning season continues with its tenth online production since the shutdown, “The Aran Islands,” which demonstrates the glory and the beauty of Irish storytel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25PM“We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we’ve ever seen since the Jim Crow era. This is Jim Crow in new clothes. Since the January e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PMThere is no “return to normal,” says Alex Poohs, artistic director of The Shed in the interview below. But there is a return.Of all the theaters that the pandemic forced to shut down in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:20AMI had a mixed reaction to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Dream,” a 30-minute online experiment inspired by the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which is being p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00PMIn both the film “Nomadland,” nominated for six Academy Awards, and the play “Passing Through,” the first musical that Goodspeed is presenting virtually, a lone character trave…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AMThese arts-related cartoons are part of the Cartoon Campaign created by a partnership between the artist activist group Be An #ArtsHero and Counterpoint, a group of editorial cartoonists wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AMBeware the Ides of March, indeed. A year ago today, the mayor shut down all remaining New York City theaters (the governor had shut Broadway three days earlier). “I think we all rem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:43PMBelow are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 15 and March 21. This includes the return of Viral Monologues on its first anniversary, a celebration of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13AMThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations in 23 categories for the 93rd annual Oscars,which will air on ABC on April 25 (delayed because of the pandemic.) “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55AM“I was in denial, I knew it was all a mistake, Kathleen would be calling any minute,” Sandy Duncan as Peg says about her daughter, killed during 9/11 in “Middletown,” a play by Dan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28PMJagged Little Pill wins best musical album at the 63rn annual Grammy Awards. Alanis Morissette’s original album was the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1996. The new musical (my review) cr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PM“I see unbelievable passion, dedication and drive from artists,” Chita Rivera, masked, says in the video below, one of the Broadway stars who that joined dancers and a small crowd in fac…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:54PMIt was a fitting way to spend the afternoon of a grim anniversary, Women’s Day on Broadway, a two-hour virtual conference that felt at times more like a support group, full of candor about…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PMNo the virtual reunion reading of Three Days of Rain doesn’t star Julia Roberts or Bradley Cooper — but that is a good thing. The two made their Broadway debuts in a 2006 production …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02PMBelow are the winners of the ACTAs — American Connected Theater Awards* — for theatrical storytelling created and presented online during the year between March 2020 and March 2021. Thes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26PM“Lifeboat Drill,” an obscure 1979 play by Tennessee Williams, and “For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls,” Christopher Durang’s better-known 1994 parody of Williams’ “The Glass Men…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMFrom Stars in the House to Jake Gyllenhaal singing an original mini-musical, from Ratatouille the TikTok Musical to Sondheim’s 90th birthday concert, as well as countless Zoom readings and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45AMIn the year since the threat from COVID-19 shuttered first Broadway (on March 12, 2020) and then the remaining physical stages in New York (on March 15), there has been much suffering – l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52AMBelow are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 8 and March 14, which coincides with the anniversary of the shutdown of physical stages in New York. It’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PM“To The Moon” begins with scenes of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in “The Honeymooners” showing his fist to Audrey Meadows as his wife Alice (“To the moon, Alice”), and ends…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23PM“Jericho,” Jack Canfora’s 2011 play about two characters directly affected by 9/11, should have repelled me. It uses sitcom rhythms, Jewish stereotypes, the hoary devices of a sympathe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:55PM“We are in an irregular time,” one college administrator says to another, an excuse for why the school bureaucracy has so failed to meet the challenge of the pandemic period that its los…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:27PMAn actor on the autism spectrum writes about how theater is “a surprisingly welcoming place,” and you can see how some theater bloggers over the past month have been reacting to a year o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:06PMThe Music Box Theater on Broadway is among the theaters scheduled to reopen on April 2nd for a series of NY PopsUp events, that will serve as a “pilot program” for safety protocols “th…
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:05PMVoting for the Tony Awards starts today, and in less than four months New Yorkers will start voting for mayor. The candidates have been offering their plans on how to bring back Broadway, wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:40PMBelow are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 1 and March 7, including the launching of galas and festivals celebrating Women’s History Month, science, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:35PMAmong his many talents, Mike Nichols had a talent for celebrity, which meant in part a talent for friendship, as we learn early and often in Mike Nichols: A Life (Penguin Press. 688 pages.).…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:42PM“Theatre: A Love Story” by Caridad Svich, which opened tonight and runs through March 27, begins with a vertiginous video tour through the streets of the theater district in Cincinnati, …
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