Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Today is a Wednesday so full of theater openings that it signals a Fall season, albeit an unconventional one, is in full swing. Theater of War for front-line medical providers Theater of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:09AMTuesday, September 15, 2020
In 1920, Eugene O’Neill turned a Black actor into a star by casting him as the lead in his play “The Emperor Jones” — and then fired him for having changed the script during performa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:27AMMonday, September 14, 2020
Joshua Henry, who is the theater world’s most unlikely Annie, sang “Tomorrow” (“The sun will come out tomorrow…”) at Miscast, followed by Heather Headley singing “Endless Night…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:06PMTo mark the six months of Broadway’s shutdown this past weekend, we could look back, as I did — The Best Theater in Six Months of No Theater — or we could compile suggestions for a ch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:02AMSunday, September 13, 2020
Casting director Xavier Rubiano loves attending “Miscast,” the annual concert produced by MCC Theater in which Broadway stars perform songs in roles for which they would never be cast. E…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:22AMSaturday, September 12, 2020
Exactly six months after Broadway was shut down, there is LIVE, in-person theater to go to today — although it’s quite far from Broadway, or from conventional theater. And there’s ple…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54AMFriday, September 11, 2020
Things are looking up for the Apple family, but not for me, as the characters talk to one another on a Zoom call yet again. Richard Nelson’s third play in four months about the same set of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:41PMYou’re getting attention for “Coastal Elites,” which was supposed to be a play at the Public Theater, but launches as a film on HBO September 12th, starring Bette Midler, Kaitlyn Dever…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:25AMWednesday, September 9, 2020
Lynn Nottage, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (Ruined, Sweat), was put on the waitlist to see Theatre for One’s “Here We Are”; ;that should give you a sense of its popularit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:29PMTuesday, September 8, 2020
Week in Reviews. Week in Theater News. Week in Theater Videos. #Stageworthy News of the Week. The Fall season has officially begun, but the theater season is shaping up as the most unusual, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41AMMonday, September 7, 2020
Samuel Mostel supposedly got his nickname from his mother; if he didn’t do better in school, he would amount to a zero. He did do better — an A student, a linguist who spoke four languag…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PMOn past Labor Days, I’ve asked: Where are the American plays about unions, or workers, or even just workplaces? But now that “arts workers” have turned Labor Day into an #ArtsWorkersU…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49AMSunday, September 6, 2020
Matthew-Lee Erlbach first realized he would become an actor and a playwright when he saw “True West” on Broadway at age 14 – “It was like gods performing rituals to mortals,” he sa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PMSaturday, September 5, 2020
Yul Brynner starred on Broadway as Odysseus in “Home Sweet Homer,” a musical that opened and closed on the same night. He had better luck in his 1941 Broadway debut at the age of 21, a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:45PMFriday, September 4, 2020
The long weekend offers concerts by theater stars (including several in-person), a festival, and online theater that’s both opening and soon to end, as well as more long-lasting videos t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:58PMThursday, September 3, 2020
Composers: Their Lives and Works (DK, 320 pages) is a richly illustrated coffee table book in which eight authors profile some 160 composers over a thousand years of Western music, starting…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:23AMWednesday, September 2, 2020
There is one moment in particular that struck me in “Love in the Time of Corona,” the first TV series made about, and during, the pandemic, co-produced and co-starring “Hamilton” Ton…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:05PMArts and cultural organizations across New York State are reopening, including 50 in New York City, according to an announcement today by the New York State Council of the Arts. In keeping w…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:22PMTuesday, September 1, 2020
Below is the day-by-day calendar of “theater openings”* in September, 2020, as we enter the sixth month of winging it online — and experimenting back offline. This month will see Brian…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMMonday, August 31, 2020
Week in Reviews. Week in Theater News. Week in Theater Videos. #Stageworthy News: “Every corner was like a theater production happening right in front of me…” James Altucher recalls ab…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:12AMSunday, August 30, 2020
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMSaturday, August 29, 2020
There have been 66 known productions of Hamlet on Broadway since 1761, the last one in 2009 starring Jude Law; 48 Macbeths (Ethan Hawke in 2013), 36 Romeo and Juliets (Orlando Bloom and Cond…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:31PMFriday, August 28, 2020
In the history of Broadway, twenty-six plays have had runs of more than 1,000 consecutive performances, none before 1918, and none after 1986. Jordan Schildcrout looks at 15 of them in “In…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:52PMWednesday, August 26, 2020
The Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument was unveiled this morning in Central Park, accompanied by a new audio play “Talking Statue” by Joanne Parrent, in which Viola Davis, Jane Alexan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PMTuesday, August 25, 2020
Two members of a book club for Black women have invited M’Balia, an author who advocates violent revolution, to speak to their group and perhaps help turn it into a revolutionary cadre, in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:25AMMonday, August 24, 2020
#Stageworthy News of the Week. The Broadway community made its political preference clear last week – with performances by Billy Porter and Jennifer Hudson; heck, the producers of the Tony…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23AMSunday, August 23, 2020
Vanessa Redgrave, the “Greatest Actress of Our Time,” according to playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller — also the daughter, the sister, the mother and the romantic partner…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:53PMSaturday, August 22, 2020
COVID, loneliness and lack of inclusion are certainly present in some of the theater blogging this month, summarized below, but there seems space these days for a look back. On About Last …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:02PMFriday, August 21, 2020
During her hosting duties for the fourth and final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Julia Louis-Dreyfus shot out some zingers. The actress, who became friends with Joe Biden…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:50AMNear the end of Joe Biden’s acceptance speech on the final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention (transcript below), he quoted from a poem by Seamus Heaney, the great Irish writ…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:09AMThursday, August 20, 2020
Jennifer Hudson sings Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come,” at the end of Day 3 of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, from the elegant Harold Washington Cultural Center in Hudson…
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