For One Theater, a 'Marvelous' Way to Perform in Lockdown
With actors on payroll, Seacoast Rep has removed seats, added tech equipment and is selling tickets for a musical livestreamed every weekend.
With actors on payroll, Seacoast Rep has removed seats, added tech equipment and is selling tickets for a musical livestreamed every weekend.
Versions of the "Carousel" song by Aretha Franklin, Gerry and the Pacemakers and Liverpool F.C. fans have turned it into something universal.
Dolly Parton, Meryl Streep and Jon Bon Jovi in a star-studded benefit concert; a play written specially for Zoom; Shakespeare on YouTube; and more.
Watch as the virtual curtains rise, from "Acquanetta" to the Wooster Group, with stops at Shakespeare and "Fun Home."
Remote learning may not be ideal, but Zoom encourages acting students to be more nuanced, more private and more intimate.
We continue our cast album series with more recommendations for wonderful musicals to listen to at home.
A roundup of streaming theater that covers classics and new shows, endearingly D.I.Y. webcasts and slick Broadway extravaganzas.
Audra McDonald, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Joe Mantello on a versatile collaborator who came to know "he didn't have to repeat himself.'
For over three hours online Sunday night, Rosie O'Donnell praised, kibitzed and made room for Broadway stars to check in with their fans and share music.
As bans on public gatherings have proliferated nationwide in response to coronavirus, shows and special programs are announcing streaming plans daily.
Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's show at the Public Theater, with live music by Steve Earle, is based on a real-life West Virginia mining tragedy.
Ethan Lipton's delirious Western comedy features a pigtailed gunslinger, a soul-sucking demon and singing puppet cactuses, among other inspired flights of fancy.
A "revisal" of a Meredith Willson musical has a strong female lead who doesn't quit, and her unrelenting energy makes for a static production.
"Girl From the North Country" cast members talk about the first time they heard Dylan's music.
Cary Gitter's throwback romantic comedy, about an Orthodox Jew and his Italian-American neighbor, is kind of sweet and kind of clunky.
Drew Droege's solo show is a laugh-out-loud funny social sendup, but it doesn't add up to more than a series of vignettes.
Hollywood has long cast her as a bombshell ("Sin City," "Karen Sisco"), but the actress has found an entirely different track onstage. Next up: "Anatomy of a Suicide."
In Zora Howard's new drama, the kitchen is where the characters reveal their bickering-but-loving true selves.
A tale about the 18th-century African-American mathematician includes actors, a vibrant marching band and wackadoo puppetry.
In a Spanish-language stage adaptation of the Junot DÃaz novel, the friendship between two Dominican men is a testing ground for competing visions of masculinity.
Barra Grant's autobiographical solo play plumbs her fraught relationship with her mother, the famous politician and beauty queen Bess Myerson.
This documentary show, created to teach young audiences about the experiences of refugees, focuses on optimism and hope, perhaps to a fault.
With a gown and love for old Hollywood, Busch stars in his latest zany romp, "The Confession of Lily Dare."
"Anything Can Happen in the Theater: The Musical World of Maury Yeston" is an old-fashioned revue that ably showcases the Tony-winning songwriter.
This cryptic play at the Brick Theater examining a certain kind of mythological American noir is wonderfully flabbergasting, and often genuinely creepy.