Friday, November 6, 2020
Aunt Dan is hardly the typical Trump supporter. The character portrayed by Kristen Johnston in the New Group’s online reunion reading of Wallace Shawn’s play was the youngest American …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53PMThursday, November 5, 2020
Looking for a way to stop obsessing over the 2020 electoral count, I landed on watching this 1925 play about a fictional election. I previously had resisted this Mint Theater recording bec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:46PMWednesday, November 4, 2020
As Election Day ended without an official declared winner for President, or word of which party will control the Senate, Broadway Tweeters urged patience and calm. “It’s gonna take awhil…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:33AMTuesday, November 3, 2020
Phillipa Soo and Steven Pasquale sing a song of their own composition “The Vote Song,” Leslie Odom Jr. raps “Wait for It” – wait for the results, which will not be available on Ele…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:22AMMonday, November 2, 2020
The nine days of early voting ended Sunday, with more than 1.1 million New Yorkers casting ballots. That is 41 percent of New York City’s total voter turnout in the 2016 Presidential elect…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:35AMSunday, November 1, 2020
Below is the day-by-day calendar of “theater openings”* in November 2020. Despite the return of some familiar plays with the original casts, there is little that’s comforting about …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PMSaturday, October 31, 2020
Wallace Shawn wouldn’t get into the elevator with me a while back. The elevator was large and empty (except for me) — the one at Lincoln Center Theater that brings theatergoers up to the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15PMHow well were you following theater news and reviews in the month of October? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:12PMFriday, October 30, 2020
Con Melody is a drunk saddled with a run-down tavern outside Boston, who fancies himself a European war hero born in an Irish castle. He’s a vain, moody character living an illusion in “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:09PMThursday, October 29, 2020
Eighty-four years after theaters in 17 states across America simultaneously opened “It Can’t Happen Here,” a dramatization of Sinclair Lewis’ cautionary tale imagining the rise of fa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:44PMReading these monologues from the early days of COVID-19, many of which I had watched online, made me think of the way Trump impersonator Adam Baldwin on Saturday Night Live recently spoofed…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:36PMWednesday, October 28, 2020
Below is the video and transcript of the speech by former President Barack Obama in Orlando, Florida on October 27, 2020, in which he lets loose on President Donald Trump. “…you’ve got…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:21AMTuesday, October 27, 2020
In the week until Election Day, there are overtly political plays, musicals, and operas opening every day, listed below. Also check out political shows that have already opened and are avail…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:38PMMonday, October 26, 2020
The owners of six Off-Broadway theaters and two comedy clubs filed suit against New York on Friday demanding to be allowed to reopen. “Casinos, malls, movie theaters, restaurants, gyms,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:20PMWeek in Theater Videos: Trailers for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The Prom. To Be Human from Hercules. I’m Losing You from Ain’t Too Proud. There will be no Village Halloween Parade ne…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26AMSunday, October 25, 2020
“Dear Evan Hansen,” “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Death of a Salesman” were among the plays and musical familiar to American audiences whose recent British productions won 2020 Ol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27PMSaturday, October 24, 2020
The staged reading of an 18-year-old episode of the TV series “The West Wing” might seem like a peculiar exercise in nostalgia, and maybe vanity, by its creator Aaron Sorkin, who’s gon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:57PMFriday, October 23, 2020
These five highly recommended plays opened earlier this week, most of them ending this weekend, all of them worth seeing. There are other, terrifically-sounding shows that are actually openi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:13PMThursday, October 22, 2020
On a day when non-theater people are revving up talk about “political theater,” theater bloggers Janice Simpson and Samuel Leiter offer a different take on the term — theater about pol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:47PMWednesday, October 21, 2020
Watch this starry line-up in support of Biden/Harris, by Broadway for Biden. Featured some 200 artists, including: Billy Porter, Judith Light, Derrick Baskin, Laura Benanti, Victoria Clark, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:02PM“I think what we do is evil but I still want to do a good job at it,” says Nikolai, one of the Russian trolls trying to sway the American Presidential election in Sarah Gancher’s funny…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00PMTuesday, October 20, 2020
Shortly after the Tony Awards announced its much delayed 2020 nominations in the middle of a pandemic-induced shutdown, I brought actor and writer Kevin James Doyle back to Times Square for …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:08PMMonday, October 19, 2020
With 15 days left to Election Day, the theater community’s focus on voting – such as the Hamilton Town Hall for Biden/Harris this weekend featuring the original cast of the musical,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35AMSunday, October 18, 2020
Even nurses dedicated to kindness have their breaking point. Connie Britton portrays a nurse forced to care for a COVID patient who had worked at a risky job never wearing a mask, and then p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:31PMSaturday, October 17, 2020
Viewers might be astonished that Heidi Schreck’s funny, poignant and pointed play feels like a direct response to the Senate hearings on Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Cou…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:59PMWe got many questions that we’ll be answering tonight, “most of them about Jonathan Groff’s spit,” Tommy Kail, the director of “Hamilton,” announced at the outset of a 90-minut…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AMFriday, October 16, 2020
Below are six must-see* theater “opening” this weekend, plus five more still available, two Meet The Tony Nominees events, and another two pro-democracy soirees. The theater — two re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PMAngela Lansbury, born 95 years ago today the daughter of an Irish actress and a British politician, came relatively late to Broadway, appearing in her first role on the Rialto at the age of …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:37AMThursday, October 15, 2020
Jagged Little Pill and Moulin Rouge lead in the much-delayed 74th annual Tony Award nominations for the much-truncated 2019-2020 Broadway season, selected from 18 eligible shows, which…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:56AMSpike Lee filmed David Byrne’s American Utopia on the stage of Broadway’s Hudson Theater earlier this year; it is arriving on HBO on October 17, in a completely different era. Taking e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:18AMWednesday, October 14, 2020
Books about dancer Ted Shawn and New Orleans theater before the Civil War have been named the best theater books of the year by The Theatre Library Association, which is presenting its TLA B…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:00PM 
