Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:17AMWednesday, August 19, 2020
Instead of the traditional roll call nominating their candidate, the delegates at the 2020 Democratic National Convention announced their votes in their home state or territory, standing in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:19AMTuesday, August 18, 2020
Tony-winning performer Billy Porter belted out Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” accompanied by its songwriter Stephen Sills, at the end of Day 1 of history’s first Virtu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13AMMonday, August 17, 2020
“Going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free: the cold hard truth…Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25PM#Stageworthy News of the Week. There’s a surprisingly robust schedule of theater coming up for what’s usually the dog days of August, including three separate live, in-person plays hap…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:31AMSunday, August 16, 2020
Two years ago, Bobby Steggert, a Tony-nominated actor with extensive credits on and Off Broadway (Ragtime, Big Fish, Yank! etc) , surprised the theater community by announcing that he had sw…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:23AMSaturday, August 15, 2020
“Keep Broadway Alive!’ the sign in the first photograph says. It’s a picket sign during the demolition of the Morosco Theater in 1982, which, along with the first Helen Hayes, the Bijo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:19PMFriday, August 14, 2020
There is SO much to see this weekend: six starry concerts. five plays (some opening, some closing), four festivals and two Netathons. Below is a brief rundown with links to tickets and more …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:45PMThursday, August 13, 2020
The Harlem-born daughter of a chorus dancer at the Cotton Club and a singer in the Hall Johnson choir, Leslie Uggams began performing on television at the age of six; at seven, she was openi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:26PMWednesday, August 12, 2020
“Is anyone surprised Donald Trump has a problem with a strong woman” Joe Biden said in his speech today introducing his running mate, Kamala Harris. Both speeches are below, in video a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52PMThe Rodgers and Hart musical “Pal Joey” is surely best-known these days for its most recorded song “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” and for the stars who played Joey — Gene Kel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41PMTuesday, August 11, 2020
Joe Biden has picked Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. Biden’s reasoning, and below that, some immediate reactions: Biden on Harris: “I’ve decided that Kamala Harris is the be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:33PMMonday, August 10, 2020
Watch the 45-minute video below, available through August 14 B.D. Wong has made brilliant use of his months in quarantine, creating a witty and inventive entertainment from a 15-year-old sol…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52PMThe Week in Theater Reviews. The Week in Theater News. The Week in Theater Videos. #Stageworthy News of the Week. In the first Equity-approved professional musical production to open in Amer…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:43AMSunday, August 9, 2020
“No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks,” was presented on a Chicago stage during the centennial of the birth of the noted poet, the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Priz…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:24PMSaturday, August 8, 2020
“The last great place to do Broadway musicals is in animation,” says Howard Ashman, in “Howard,” a new documentary on Disney+ that offers a simultaneously sad and inspiring look at A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:09PMFriday, August 7, 2020
Below are my recommendations for three plays with starry casts “opening” and available only this weekend, two documentaries about theater, and a theater festival that New Yorkers can s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:00PMThursday, August 6, 2020
Laurie Metcalf seemed to be having trouble with the camera, and, frankly, with her life, in this fifth and final edition of Homebound Project, as she made a special appearance to read some l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:42PMWednesday, August 5, 2020
Below are some of the most popular numbers I videotaped from Broadway in Bryant Park, the weekly summer concerts, from 2012 until.2019, including Corey Cott in “Newsies”, Nick Cordero…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17PMTuesday, August 4, 2020
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is going online. (Check out the thirty below.) Now, officially; the oldest and largest fringe festival has been canceled because of the pandemic. But the fest…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:36PMMonday, August 3, 2020
The Week in Reviews . The Week in News. The Week in Videos Broadway Bares;Tangled the Musical. #Stageworthy News of the Week. If Broadway won’t return until Summer 2021, as UK impresario…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:14PMSunday, August 2, 2020
Watch the hour-long video of 11 short new plays below. In “Holla,” a serial killer (Will Swenson) wearing the distorted white mask from the Scream series, makes an ominous phone call t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:10PMTheatergoers have complained about Zoom plays in the months since the pandemic shut down physical theaters, but it’s one of the only ways to “attend” live theater these days, and some …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29AMSaturday, August 1, 2020
Click here for August 1 openings Below is the day-by-day calendar of “theater openings”* in August, 2020, a month of abundance: Two theatrical celebrations of the 100th anniversary of wo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:45AMFriday, July 31, 2020
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SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53AMThursday, July 30, 2020
There are some 750 books on display in Bravo’s Book Nook, the only theater bookstore in New York, and possibly the only one open in the country. That’s not a lot of books for a bookstore…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20PMWednesday, July 29, 2020
Publishing a big colorful book as a companion to a Broadway musical is nothing new, but “American Utopia” the book is surely unique. In the last few years, there have been coffee table…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:17PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
Gen Parton-Shin sent me the two videos below of songs from “Hamilton” — “My Shot” and “Helpless” — that he translated into Japanese. I had questions. He answered them. Shin-P…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43AMMonday, July 27, 2020
The Week in Theater The Week in News The Week in Videos #Stageworthy News. “Dear Senators: Without your immediate action for financial relief by Aug. 1, we will collapse, and the result wi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:15PMSunday, July 26, 2020
“Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” Will Arbury’s much-acclaimed play about a gathering of former classmates at a conservative Catholic college in Wyoming, not only worked amazingly well…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PMOlivia de Havilland, the last surviving leading lady of Hollywood’s Golden Age, five-time Oscar nominated actress and Broadway veteran who helped take down Hollywood’s studio system wi…
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