Given how many theater advocates are calling these days for "a new Federal Theatre Project," this newly-published book about the first one is, if nothing else, well timed. In The Federal The…
After 29 years of marriage " and, more to the point, ten months of Covid lockdown together " Gale (Becky Ann Baker)Â Â tells her husband Perry (Dylan Baker) she needs a breather, in "The…
Cicely Tyson, nine-time Broadway veteran, a Tony winner at age 88 for The Rip to Bountiful, was best known as "an actress whose electrifying portrayals of resilient Black women…brought som…
Watch "Three Hotels" below through Saturday January 30, 2021 Bobby Cannavale and Marisa Tomei portray a couple who began in the Peace Corps aiming to change the world and found that the worl…
"Rent" opened Off-Broadway 25 years ago today at the New York Theatre Workshop, which will mark the anniversary in March with a starry streaming fundraising gala. Â The opening came a day …
"The Catastrophist," streaming today through February 28th, is a timely, informative and often eye-opening portrait of a widely respected virologist " a man whose job it is to study viruses …
Watch Asè below. York Walker's 18-minute play, a broad and brutal satire of workplace insensitivity, is the first piece in a series called Consequences, a joint project of Harlem9, Harlem S…
What it took to put on the Inaugural festivities in " a twitchy, locked-down Washington, less than two weeks after a deadly insurrection, during a pandemic" In a word: resilience Resilience …
It's a thrilling last week of January for theater lovers: Bobby Cannivale and Marisa Tomei in a play by Jon Robin Baitz; Tomei again and Oscar Isaac in a play about an unnamed illness; a wor…
You can see Chita Rivera in three different shows during this jam-packed weekend, which also features theater festival offerings, a starry reading of a Pulitzer-winning play; a reunion readi…
Bernadette Peters and Anais Mitchell were among the Broadway enthusiasts who joined the nation riffing on the photograph of Bernie Sanders comfortably sitting with mask and colorful mittens …
Below: Watch Lady Gaga singing The National Anthem and JLo This Land Is Your Land in the morning; and in the evening, dozens of Broadway stars performing "Seasons of Love" from Rent and "Let…
 Below, watch 22-year-old National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman read aloud her poem  "The Hill We Climb" at the Inauguration of  President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kama…
"We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts," Joseph R. Bid…
Randy Rainbow, to the tune of "Seasons of Love" from Rent, and Bette Midler, to the title song of "Hello, Dolly" sing their gleeful goodbyes to the worst president in American history. James…
Below are the listings of theater to see January 19 to 22, which includes a sneak peek at a new musical by Joe Iconis (Be More Chill), two plays by Brian Friel thousands of miles apart, a be…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lady Gaga, Tom Hanks, Bruce Springsteen and Christopher Jackson will be among the performers providing entertainment before and after the noon-time 59th Presidential Inau…
Barbra Streisand, Will.i.am, Cher, Carole King, James Taylor, and Fall Out Boy are among the performers in this hour-long concert streamed Sunday to celebrate Joe Biden's forthcoming inaugur…
James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi on January 17, 1931….90 years ago today. He is a 20-time Broadway veteran (most recently in "The Gin Game" in 2015) three-time Tony winn…
Below are the listings of theater to see this Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, January 16-18, 2021, Â including several new works about African-Americans in addition to the annual rousing M…
"Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side," a world premiere play about the deadly rivalry of two sisters, written by the 89-year-old playwright Adrienne Kennedy, begins the same way as the thre…
These six theater artists read from the following non-theater writing tonight, part of the new Lincoln Center Theater Spotlight series.: Playwright David Adjmi's delightful new book Lot Six:…
"Muriel Mandell, 99, leaves a New York State COVID-19 vaccination site at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center after receiving her first dose, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in New York. New Yor…
"We must bring culture and the arts back to life," Governor Andrew Cuomo said in the State of the State address this afternoon in announcing a "New York Arts Revival" initiative that will fe…
Photos of Josephine Baker in 1936, Carmen Miranda in 1941, Â and a bevy of beauties portraying dabs of paint arranged around a huge painter's palette in 1924; Â a costume design for CATS…