Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Photos 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 08:21AMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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,…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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’…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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 …
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:05AMThursday, December 24, 2020
The artist who calls himself Mur has written a musical about trees. On the surface, artist and subject differ greatly. Trees can live for thousands of years; a spruce in Sweden is said to be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:47PMWednesday, December 23, 2020
Yes, there was good theater this year, enough to fill the Top 10 lists below. “Take Me To The World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration” followed by “Russian Troll Farm,” “Th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:33PMTuesday, December 22, 2020
“Being Alive”and “Losing My Mind” – are there any better Sondheim to sing at the close of a year full of loss, unrequited yearning and obsession? That they are sung by performers w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:34PMMonday, December 21, 2020
Congressional leaders announced an agreement on a nearly $900 billion stimulus package on Sunday that includes some $15 billion for theaters and other cultural venues in the Save Our Stages…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:45AMSunday, December 20, 2020
On January 1, 2020, I explored seven possible major theater trends of the new decade, asking: What will the future of theater turn out to be? The future arrived abruptly without warning wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:07PMSaturday, December 19, 2020
My ten favorite individual New York stage performances from 2020 are listed alphabetically, with explanations for my choices largely excerpted from my reviews. I say “New York stage perfor…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:10PM 
