Friday, May 1, 2020
The New York public library has put together an album of city noise we no longer hear — cabs honking during rush hour, dogs barking in a city park, fans roaring in a stadium, a barfly brea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:16AMBelow is the calendar of “theater openings” for May, 2020, which offers a promising mix of filmed stage productions, starry readings, live original dramas, and what I’m calling Net…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:06AMThursday, April 30, 2020
After spending an hour on Zoom with the Apple family in Richard Nelson’s latest low-key play, I was surprised by my reaction, which I could sum up as: Hallelujah! “What Do We Need to Tal…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:50AMFor the first time in its 85 years, the annual awards ceremony of the New York Drama Critics Circle was open to the public, as part of Wednesday evening’s Stars in the House YouTube livest…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:39AMWednesday, April 29, 2020
In the middle of the new livestreamed version of the satirical solo show “Trump Lear,” David Carl as Donald Trump sips on a long straw that is fitted into a bottle of Lysol. It is a …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:54PMTuesday, April 28, 2020
The theater awards will go on, with some…adjustments. Here is the new calendar (updating my guide to New York Theater Awards 2020): April 29: New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, which an…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:17PMBelow are the separate lists of nominees for both the 10th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, whose winners will be announced May 19, 2020, and then, the nominations for the Drama League�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:38AMMonday, April 27, 2020
To celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday (which actually took place on March 22, 2020), Raúl Esparza organized a concert extravaganza on the 50th anniversary of the opening of Sondhe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:43AMSunday, April 26, 2020
Raul Esparza was born the year Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” debuted on Broadway. Exactly 50 years after the musical opened, Esparza is the host and organizer for the starry online c…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:02PMBy the time she won an Obie last year for “Sustained Excellence of Performance,” Quincy Tyler Bernstine had spent more than a decade as one of the go-to actresses for playwrights (espec…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:02AMSaturday, April 25, 2020
When Patti LuPone recently sang for the Rosie O’Donnell Show in quarantine, many viewers were intrigued by the glimpse of her basement, and especially the jukebox in it—which prompted…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:10PMFriday, April 24, 2020
Before he started collaborating with Richard Rodgers on some of the most beloved musicals in Broadway history, Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) had helped create some three dozen Broadway pr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PMThis is a busy weekend for exciting or at least intriguing live-streamed shows. Some of them are of mammoth proportions, albeit one isolated performer at a time, such as the impossibly starr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMThursday, April 23, 2020
In the nearly four decades since he made his Broadway debut, Nathan Lane has starred in some two dozen shows on the Great White Way, and over a dozen more Off-Broadway. He is widely regarded…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:19AMWednesday, April 22, 2020
When I first saw “Buyer & Cellar” on stage in 2013, I wrote that Jonathan Tolins’ solo comedy starring Michael Urie seemed singlehandedl to reflect the entire season in several way…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:34PMThough many people may now most associate her with Peter Pan, Mary Martin (1913-1990) originated the roles of Nellie Forbush in “South Pacific” and Maria von Trapp in “The Sound of Mus…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:26AMTuesday, April 21, 2020
Below are three new shows you can see tonight New York City Ballet tonight launches a twice-weekly online series on its YouTube channel offering treasures from its archives. On what would ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:19PM Off-Broadway dominates the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement in the truncated 2019-2020 season by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:23PMBorn Maria Ligaya Carmen Imutan Salonga in the Philippines, Lea Salonga made her professional stage debut at the age of seven (in “The King and I”) and three years later recorded her fir…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:22AMMonday, April 20, 2020
Free Shakespeare in the Park has been canceled, for the first time in its 58 years – news that hits hard, and the sharpest sign that New York theater is unlikely to reopen until the Fall a…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AMSunday, April 19, 2020
Below are seven brief videos (and one longer one) that serve as highlights from the eight-hour One World: Together At Home concert on April 18, 2020. The full concert is below the select vid…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AMKelli O’Hara seems as busy now as when theaters were open: She’s singing this morning at 10 a.m. on “Morning Song,” with her husband Greg Naughton, on the Instagram of Say.org (the S…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:47AMSaturday, April 18, 2020
“I began my career when I came to New York in a show called ‘The Boyfriend,’” Julie Andrews says. “‘My Fair Lady” and ‘Camelot’ followed. But then came films and a family, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:11AMFriday, April 17, 2020
Below are just the shows I’m hoping to see myself this weekend. It’s too overwhelming to try to list everything that’s suddenly available from day to day online (See my Where to Get Yo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:38PMBefore she originated the Broadway roles of Maureen the performance artist in “Rent,” Elphaba the green witch of “Wicked” and the two-sided Liz/Beth in “If/Then,” Idina Menzel ha…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:37AMThursday, April 16, 2020
When Hugh Jackman won a Tony for his Broadway debut in The Boy From Oz, he was already a movie star (a Superhero even.) In the 16 years since then, he’s been back on Broadway three more ti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:30AMThe New York Drama Critics’ Circle has named Will Arbery’s “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” best play of the 2019-20 season. The award for best musical went to Michael R. Jackson’s A…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:12AMWednesday, April 15, 2020
Gwen Verdon, who was dancing in movies from the age of 11, became the brightest of Broadway stars in the 1950s, winning four Tony Awards in five years for her performances — especially her…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37PMYou know COVID-19 song parodies are taking off when the original singer/songwriters start parodying their own songs: Neil Diamond creates new pandemic-appropriate lyrics for “Sweet Carolin…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:07AMTuesday, April 14, 2020
Below are the nominations for the 35th annual Lucille Lortel Awards, presented online by Jeremy Jordan and Ashley Spencer (a married couple so they could actually present without a split scr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:11PMAlthough Fred Ebb is best known for partnering with composer John Kander on “Cabaret” and “Chicago,” Kander and Ebb together created some two dozen Broadway musicals and musical revu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:15AM 
