On his 90th birthday, Stephen Sondheim sang Happy Birthday to Andrew Lloyd Webber…while washing his hands for 20 seconds in his bathroom sink — a playful gesture that is an instantly ic…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:34AMCheck out on the YouTube channel below for the one-night only return of the Rosie O’Donnell Show with a cavalcade of Broadway stars — Rosie promises “3,000 guests.” Donation page for…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:55PMToday Stephen Sondheim turns 90 years old, a milestone birthday that theater lovers have been celebrating for weeks now. Here are 10 videos of terrific permeances of his songs, and some Twit…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:53AM“It’s a challenging time, but it’s also an inspiring time,” said John King, one of the eight downtown artists who performed in La MaMa’s Downtown Variety #1 (full video below), the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:17PMThe Broadway League and the 14 Broadway unions have reached an “emergency relief agreement,” which means that producers will pay cast and crew during the first few weeks of the shutdown …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:10AMAs a follow-up to yesterday’s post, Where to Get Your Theater Fix, here’s today’s schedule, which includes Taylor Mac’s launching of #stillHere; the debut of LaMaMa’s Downtown Vari…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:57PMThe threat of COVID-19 is shutting down theaters across the world, but it’s not killing theater – which is increasingly going online. There are two types of online theater now – the on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:03PMSince the 1957 Broadway debut of “West Side Story,” the adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” with a score by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, there have been five Broa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:23PMAs a follow-up to my post “What can I watch online that’s like Broadway?” below is a list with links to newly created/promised livestreamed theater, mostly free, from La MaMa to the …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:25PMWithin just the last two weeks, after the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in New York City on March 1, the number of cases in NYC alone grew to 329, all of Broadway has been shut down at l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:56AMNYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the closing of the remaining small theaters, as well as schools, movie theaters, restaurants, bars and nightclubs “Our lives are all changing in ways t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44PMWith a virus threatening the city, it made sense to me to see Taylor Mac’s “The Fre,” at the Flea, although all Broadway and most Off-Broadway theaters had already shut down. The Flea …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:27PMThe theater kids are putting on a school show, and, like the TV series Glee, the lead actor is a recently recruited football player. But unlike Glee, or Smash, or Rise, the show they’re do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55PMAlthough Gov. Cuomo shut down for a month all venues with 500 or more seats, which includes all of Broadway, that left the option of smaller venues staying open, but at 50 percent capacity. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:54PMWith Broadway shut down for at least a month, I asked on Twitter: Anything online that’s like a Broadway show? Here are some of the choicest responses. (And stay tuned, because there is se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PMAll Broadway theaters will close at 5 p.m. today, and all Broadway performances will be suspended at least until April 12th, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in a press conference today. Cuom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:21PMBiographic Audrey(Ammonie Press, 98 pages) by Sophie Collins is less a biography of the actress Audrey Hepburn than a PowerPoint presentation about her — a deeply weird book of infograp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PMTo the main question on New Yorkers minds – how bad will the Coronavirus epidemic get in New York? — New York theatergoers are asking several more: Will Broadway theaters be shut down be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:07PMIn this musical by Michael Friedman making its New York debut 30 months after his shocking death from AIDS at the age of 41, it would be impossible not to think of him from the very first s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:20AMAs local news of the spread of the coronavirus grows more alarming (with Governor Cuomo having declared a state of emergency in New York over the weekend), the theater community has been re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:20PMBob Avian’s memoir begins with a list of 32 “leading ladies,” including Barbra Streisand, Katharine Hepburn and Patti LuPone, which might be misleading in a couple of ways. Dancing Man…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PMA man in a hazmat suit came on stage, to give us the usual spiel about the location of the exits and turning off our cell phones, and I thought: Ok, yes, the governor has declared a state of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMBelow is the hour-long video and audio of the TCG Webinar, in which various experts, such as a professor of epidemiology based in Seattle and the director of theater at the National Endowme…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07PMIt’s been a battering couple of weeks, what with abandonment, abduction, desperation, murder, genocide, and pandemic – all but the last one happening on New York stages. So although I sa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:34PM“Girl from the North Country” is largely the same slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece I saw Off-Broadway. But my reaction to it has changed, for better and for…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PMThe first of the many surprises in “The Headlands,” the latest, cleverly crafted play in New York by trickster San Francisco playwright Christopher Chen, comes after Henry (Aaron Yoo) in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PMWith the first reported case of COVID-19 in Manhattan, there is increased concern about the virus among New Yorkers, and that includes theatergoers. New York Governor Cuomo said yesterday th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40AMA rock concert may seem an odd, even inappropriate, way for a play about genocide to begin, but what comes next is even more jarring in this disorienting, genre-bending show that shifts tone…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34PMBelow is a selection of the abundant New York theater openings in March, organized chronologically by opening date*. Seven shows are opening on Broadway, a jarring mix of royalty and penury,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09PMHow well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in February 2020? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PMMolly Brown, a socialite, social activist and survivor of the Titanic disaster in real life — turned into a Tony-winning Tammy Grimes on stage and Debbie Reynolds at her pluckiest on scree…
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