There are no "openings" on stage likely this month, but there is much to see online for theater lovers and screen enthusiasts alike. Â Below is more than just the usual streaming services …
"Plague shaped Shakespeare's life," Kathryn Harkup writes in her new book. Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts (Bloomsbury Sigma, 368 pages, May 2020 publication da…
Congress passed, and the president signed, a $2 trillion stimulus deal that includes specific relief for arts organizations and artists, although advocates say not enough. Officially titled …
More than 70 students at the Berklee College of Music created this video of Burt Bacharach/Hal David's classic What The World Needs Now. And they're not alone. All the music videos below wer…
This month's roundup of some of the latest posts from the few still active theater bloggers offers varying reactions and responses to COVID-19, from practical (Broadway & Me, JK Theater …
 Today is the 59th annual World Theatre Day. Created in 1961, it  is celebrated annually on March 27. With much of the world in lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, we may …
Step-by-step advice for surviving isolation from an astronaut, a journalist, and a political prisoner, who each spent long stretches alone. Click on the links and look at the videos for elab…
In "The Siblings Play," a teenage girl and her two brothers are left to raise one another in a Harlem apartment where the rent is past due, after first their father and then their mother aba…
Theater Wit's production of Mike Lew's play, which is running online through April 19th, has changed the way we view this teenage comedy turned melodrama based on Shakespeare's "Richard III"…
Playwright Terrence McNally, 81, has died, Â reportedly from complications from the coronavirus. His prolific career included winning Tony Awards for the plays "Love! Valour! Compassion!" …
On his 90th birthday, Stephen Sondheim sang Happy Birthday to Andrew Lloyd Webber…while washing his hands for 20 seconds in his bathroom sink "Â a playful gesture that is an instantly ic…
Check 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 The Act…
Today 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…
"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 first of …
The 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 and …
As 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 Variety show v…
The 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 ongoing …
The 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 ongoing …
Since 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 Broadway r…
As 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, Â from La MaMa to the Metr…
Within 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…
NYC 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 tha…
With 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 was th…
The 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 doin…
Although 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. …