Thursday, February 4, 2021
Theater bloggers this past month are taking in the changes in the art form in order to riff on what the future might be – or should be. At the same time, many are recalling what once was o…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:39PMWednesday, February 3, 2021
I grew up in Greenwich Village, and live there still, which is one reason why I was thrilled by the five musical numbers of Village Song, all set in the Village, all about either historical…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AMTuesday, February 2, 2021
Watch “Blood Meal” below Billed as a “satirical thriller” about a young couple whose home is overtaken by blood-sucking insects, “Blood Meal” didn’t seem for me; I’m not a ho…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:03PMMonday, February 1, 2021
Black History Month begins bittersweet, with the death last week of Cicely Tyson, an actress whose electrifying portrayals of resilient Black women served as inspiration for many; the new Au…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:28PMSunday, January 31, 2021
Below is a selection of streaming plays that are opening day by day in the first week of February — a reunion reading of a play by Billy Porter, a Sondheim concert, and a slew of shows hon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:47PMSaturday, January 30, 2021
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in January? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:08PMFriday, January 29, 2021
Given how many theater advocates are calling these days for “a new Federal Theatre Project,” this newly-published book about the first one is, if nothing else, well timed. In The Federal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:36PMThursday, January 28, 2021
After 29 years of marriage – and, more to the point, ten months of Covid lockdown together – Gale (Becky Ann Baker) tells her husband Perry (Dylan Baker) she needs a breather, in “T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:39PMCicely Tyson, nine-time Broadway veteran, a Tony winner at age 88 for The Rip to Bountiful, was best known as “an actress whose electrifying portrayals of resilient Black women…brought s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:43PMWednesday, January 27, 2021
Watch “Three Hotels” below through Saturday January 30, 2021 Bobby Cannavale and Marisa Tomei portray a couple who began in the Peace Corps aiming to change the world and found that the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:22PMTuesday, January 26, 2021
“Rent” opened Off-Broadway 25 years ago today at the New York Theatre Workshop, which will mark the anniversary in March with a starry streaming fundraising gala. The opening came a da…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:20PM“The Catastrophist,” streaming today through February 28th, is a timely, informative and often eye-opening portrait of a widely respected virologist – a man whose job it is to study vi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33PMWatch Asè below. York Walker’s 18-minute play, a broad and brutal satire of workplace insensitivity, is the first piece in a series called Consequences, a joint project of Harlem9, Harlem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:17AMMonday, January 25, 2021
What it took to put on the Inaugural festivities in “ a twitchy, locked-down Washington, less than two weeks after a deadly insurrection, during a pandemic” In a word: resilience Resilie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:48AMSunday, January 24, 2021
It’s a thrilling last week of January for theater lovers: Bobby Cannivale and Marisa Tomei in a play by Jon Robin Baitz; Tomei again and Oscar Isaac in a play about an unnamed illness; a w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PMSaturday, January 23, 2021
You can see Chita Rivera in three different shows during this jam-packed weekend, which also features theater festival offerings, a starry reading of a Pulitzer-winning play; a reunion readi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:33AMFriday, January 22, 2021
Bernadette Peters and Anais Mitchell were among the Broadway enthusiasts who joined the nation riffing on the photograph of Bernie Sanders comfortably sitting with mask and colorful mittens …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:31AMThursday, January 21, 2021
Below: Watch Lady Gaga singing The National Anthem and JLo This Land Is Your Land in the morning; and in the evening, dozens of Broadway stars performing “Seasons of Love” from Rent and …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:16AMWednesday, January 20, 2021
Below, watch 22-year-old National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman read aloud her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the Inauguration of President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kamala…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:05PM“We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts,” Joseph R.…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:13PMRandy Rainbow, to the tune of “Seasons of Love” from Rent, and Bette Midler, to the title song of “Hello, Dolly” sing their gleeful goodbyes to the worst president in American histor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:24AMTuesday, January 19, 2021
Below are the listings of theater to see January 19 to 22, which includes a sneak peek at a new musical by Joe Iconis (Be More Chill), two plays by Brian Friel thousands of miles apart, a be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:01PMLin-Manuel Miranda, Lady Gaga, Tom Hanks, Bruce Springsteen and Christopher Jackson will be among the performers providing entertainment before and after the noon-time 59th Presidential Inau…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:05AMMonday, January 18, 2021
Barbra Streisand, Will.i.am, Cher, Carole King, James Taylor, and Fall Out Boy are among the performers in this hour-long concert streamed Sunday to celebrate Joe Biden’s forthcoming inaug…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:36AMSunday, 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:21AM 
