Saturday, 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 05:10PMFriday, December 18, 2020
The beloved annual holiday shows return this year with two distinct differences: All are online, and many are free. That includes the two oldest and best-known: Radio City Christmas Spectacu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:28PMThursday, December 17, 2020
Many people in the theater community have stepped up to this moment of multiple crises, including those I detail below, listed roughly in alphabetical order. They stand in for all the others…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:16AMWednesday, December 16, 2020
What kind of weird holiday show is this? That was my initial reaction…”Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce Pandemic!” begins with the star looking like a tropical fruit monster, or as Mac h…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:17PMHow do you make your “A Christmas Carol” so different that it stands out in a season piled high with streaming versions of Dickens’ heartwarming tale? That seems to be the main aim of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16AMTuesday, December 15, 2020
A solo musical about Mother Teresa performed in drag inside a closet? This may sound like an irreverent campy nun musical boosted to greater sacrilege because she is now officially Saint Ter…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:04PMAnn Reinking, Tony-winning choreographer, dancer, actor, Broadway veteran (Cabaret, Coco, Chicago, A Chorus Line, etc) Bob Fosse’s muse and lover, has died at the age of 71. The cause wa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:13AMMonday, December 14, 2020
August Wilson will be a “forever” stamp starting in January, the U.S. Postal Service announced last week, but the playwright is already forever stamped on American culture, which is clea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:21AMSunday, December 13, 2020
The first reason I love the Irish Repertory Theater’s “performance on screen” of “Meet Me in St. Louis” will sound like a backhanded compliment: It got me to watch the original 194…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PMOn the occasion of 74-year-old André De Shields’ lifetime achievement Audelco award, I resurrect this speech by the long-time Broadway veteran from a decade ago, before his newfound accla…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:01AMSaturday, December 12, 2020
Even those who treat holiday cheer as a seasonal tyranny have to admire the pluck of the three Broadway princesses – Laura Osnes, Susan Egan and Courtney Reed (who portrayed Ella in Rodger…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:30PMFriday, December 11, 2020
See below a video of “Zazz,” the musical number starring Nicole Kidman and Jo Ellen Pellman, from The Prom, the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, released today on Netflix —…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:27PMFor those who missed the special last night, NBC is offering “One Night Only: The Best of Broadway” online. I’m not sorry I saw it; among the pile-up of familiar songs from famili…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19AMThursday, December 10, 2020
Joel Grey sings “Give My Regards to Broadway” – in Yiddish. And he’s not alone among the 50 performers of the Folksbiene Chanukah Spectacular, a fast-moving, entertaining 80 minutes …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:06PMWednesday, December 9, 2020
Some four decades before “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” was turned into a film on Netflix featuring spectacular performances by the late Chadwick Boseman in his final role and Viola D…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:22PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
The following 15 plays/play collections by Black playwrights make up the Golden Collection, curated by playwright Jeremy O. Harris, who has announced plans to donate the collection to libra…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:29PMMonday, December 7, 2020
A good news, bad news week. IF approved by federal regulators, a vaccine could start arriving in New York City next week, and, say both Dr. Anthony Fauci and impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:34AMSunday, December 6, 2020
Watch Oscar and Walt, a play by Donald Steven Olson about the real-life meeting between Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman, starring Judy Kuhn, John Rubinstein and Sam Underwood. “I come as a po…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:47PMSaturday, December 5, 2020
“Mank,” the new film on Netflix by David Fincher focuses on Herman J. Mankiewicz, drunk and laid up after a car accident, writing the screenplay for “Citizen Kane,” one of the most …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:38PMBelow is the schedule of the new plays being presented with impressively starry casts each evening at 8 pm through Christmas, as part of the first ever New Works Virtual Festival, which will…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:14AMFriday, December 4, 2020
Watch “Old Friends New Works” below until December 7 “You broke my heart. You let me down. You cut my teeth out…You pulverized my sense of self…And I recovered,” Edie Falco says …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:21PMThursday, December 3, 2020
The credits at the end of this “A Christmas Carol” list a cast of 51 characters – 50 of them portrayed by Jefferson Mays…even The Dying Fire and An Indignant Potato…..But the main …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:03PMWednesday, December 2, 2020
Meryl Streep made me laugh out loud, repeatedly, during “It’s Not About Me,” which she sings in her role as the self-absorbed Broadway diva Dee Dee Allen in “The Prom,” Ryan Murphy…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57AMTuesday, December 1, 2020
This ninth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation) is unlike any that have gone before it for New York area theaters, theater compani…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:51AMBelow is a selection of New York theater openings* in December, organized chronologically by opening date. Starry casts feature in several revivals, such as Phylicia Rashad in “Night of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:12AMMonday, November 30, 2020
“I’m a theater animal. I’m not really a cinema animal, ” Andrew Lloyd Webber said in an interview with CNBC on Friday, “and I don’t believe you can really, really ever, at the mo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:20AMSunday, November 29, 2020
How well were you following theater news and reviews in the month of November? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:43PMSaturday, November 28, 2020
My ninth annual holiday gift guide is, like theater itself, greatly altered from the previous years. Below are recommendations for albums , play scripts, librettos and new and cherished boo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:45PMFriday, November 27, 2020
In a year when theater has been shut down, and opened up; when it’s been re-defined , and in effect defunded; when it’s been a force for unity, and a cause for division – in such a yea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:38PMThe Christmas Carols have begun — new innovative versions — and there’s plenty of other theater on which to spend your time this weekend. Some of it even has nothing to do with the hol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:43AMThursday, November 26, 2020
Watch the 94th annual Macys Thanksgiving Day Parada, which is different from the 93 preceding it: It’s an event produced exclusively for at home viewing, without the millions of spectators…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00AM 
