Broadway musicals are making the reopening feel real, with tickets back on sale and specific opening dates announced: Chicago, Sept 14. Six, Sept 17. Come From Away, Sept 21. Aint Too …
The latest free reading from Roundabout's new Refocus Project, "I Gotta Home," is a 1940 play about a financially challenged preacher, his large rambunctious family, and his long-lost sister…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 8 and May 14, 2021, including TWO tributes to Kander and Ebb (at the exact same time!), TWO new works about the eff…
It must have seemed the exact right time to produce "Waiting for Godot," the bleak, sardonic, enigmatic play about a pair of scruffy pals trying to stay connected and hopeful during a time o…
Near the end of "The Woman's Party," Clubbed Thumb's clever, stylishly designed three-part dramatization of an odd, little-known moment in the history of the fight for women's rights, Alice …
It would be too glib to call Jeremy Jordan pop hot and Marilyn Maye jazz cool. Both these terrifically talented and engaging singers can either belt or croon at will. But there is an astonis…
Starting today, Broadway can start selling tickets for shows that can open or reopen at full capacity beginning September 14. That was what New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday…
A young widow is framed for a murder she didn't commit, and her ghost causes a three-year drought as revenge, forcing the community to acknowledge her innocence: That's the story told in "Th…
"Major Reopening" is what New York Governor Andrew Cuomo headlined the announcement from all three governors of the tri-state region that starting May 19th there will be "a significant ea…
Michael Gene Jacobs slept in the same bed as his mother throughout his childhood, but they never touched. Now, he tells us speaking as his mother, he realizes why: "'I can't afford to coddle…
It's challenging even just to describe "The Waves in Quarantine," a digital "Theatrical Experiment in 6 Movements" starring six beloved  Broadway veterans,  which is available fo…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* " both online and in person! " that is opening between May 1 and May 7: a starry Waiting for Godot, musical celebrations of the lives of actres…
After the fascinating first episode last week of Clubbed Thumb's "The Woman's Party," there was no way I was going to miss the second of this three-part play about the little-remembered Nati…
Watch the 40-minute play by Julia Izumi below Theater in Quarantine returns with another "Youtube theater thingy," as Joshua William Gelb refers to this latest original, off kilter play that…
Mayor Bill de Blasio said this morning that the city plans to "fully reopen New York City on July 1… We are ready for stores to open, for businesses to open, offices, theaters " full stren…
Watch "A Mother's Rite," a 40-minute film of an original dance by Jeremy McQueen's Black Iris Project starring Courtney Celeste Spears of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which is availab…
Yes it's true that Frances McDormand howled like a wolf during one of her acceptance speeches for "Nomadland," which won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress (her), and Glenn Close d…
Best Picture "Nomadland" Best Director Chloé Zhao, "Nomadland" Best Actress Frances McDormand, Nomadland Best Actor Anthony Hopkins, The Father Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya, "Judas …
Watch 90 seconds from "West Side Story," Steven Spielberg's first movie musical, scheduled for released in movie theaters in December, starring g Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler as Tony…
The 93rd annual Academy Awards take place tonight, so it seems a good time to test your knowledge of Broadway at the Oscars, both this year's and throughout its history. Loading…
I've viewed and recommend the following five plays and a musical that are still available, though two of them only through this weekend. (For theater that is opening this weekend, check o…
Viewers may first be drawn to Clubbed Thumb's "The Woman's Party" because of the fascinating, little-known history it dramatizes, but another reason becomes immediately clear: It's terrific …
Is this the right time for a work of theater that explores the aftereffect of gun violence and bigotry and a flawed criminal justice system? Sure.  How about one that compares Jewish h…
Like many a performer, Jan Damm has been climbing the walls during the pandemic, but he did it literally. After live performances dried up, he started creating at-home skits for the Bindlest…
In "Two Sisters and a Piano," Jimmy Smits plays a lieutenant in the Cuban army in 1991 who is supposed to keep tabs on the two women (Daphne Rubin-Vega and Florencia Lozano) who are under ho…