This ninth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation) is unlike any that have gone before it for New York area theaters, theater com…
Below is a selection of New York theater openings* in December, organized chronologically by opening date. Starry casts feature in several revivals, such as Phylicia Rashad in  "Night of …
"I'm a theater animal. I'm not really a cinema animal, " Andrew Lloyd Webber said in an interview with CNBC on Friday, "and I don't believe you can really, really ever, at the moment, have a…
How well were you following theater news and reviews in the month of November? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
My ninth annual holiday gift guide is, like theater itself, greatly altered from the previous years. Below are recommendations for albums , play scripts, librettos and new and cherished b…
In a year when theater has been shut down, and opened up; when it's been re-defined , and in effect defunded; when it's been a force for unity, and a cause for division " in such a year as 2…
The Christmas Carols have begun " new innovative versions " and there's plenty of other theater on which to spend your time this weekend. Some of it even has nothing to do with the holiday s…
Watch the 94th annual Macys Thanksgiving Day Parada, which is different from the 93 preceding it: It's an event produced exclusively for at home viewing, without the millions of spectators t…
Below are the transcript and video of President-elect Joe Biden's Thanksgiving address, in which he says COVID-19 "has brought us pain and loss and frustration, and it has cost so many li…
Thoughts of Thanksgiving loom large among theater bloggers this month at a time when both Thanksgiving and theater have… changed. On Stage lists the scientific benefits of gratitude; a pla…
The cast recordings for Amelie " A New Musical , American Utopia on Broadway, Jagged Little Pill, Little Shop of Horrors , The Prince of Egypt  and Soft Power were nominated for best musi…
"Writing for musical theater was not something I ever wanted to do; it was the family business," Adam Guettel, son of Mary Rodgers and grandson of Richard Rodgers, is quoted as saying in "Ro…
Theaters have been bursting with announcements of future shows during a week that would normally be one of the busiest of the theater season. Â Thanksgiving on Thursday may be reduced this…
About 15 minutes into the HBO film adaptation of "Between The World and Me," Ta-Nehisi Coates best-selling 2015 book framed as a letter to his son about what it means to be Black in America,…
About 15 minutes into the HBO film adaptation of "Between the World and Me", Ta-Nehisi Coates best-selling 2015 book framed as a letter to his son about what it means to be Black in America,…
"The Burdens" is a dark comedy starring William Jackson Harper and Ali Ahn as a brother and a sister who plot to kill their grandfather. But it's also a play on words, and that makes i…
Neil LaBute's surprisingly faithful adaptation of Chekhov's 1899 play nevertheless feels forged in the present day " even in this very moment: The proceedings remind me of a Thanksgiving din…
"Existentialism; that word puts us to sleep," master clown Bill Irwin was saying on my computer screen, "even though true questions of existence…keep us awake at night." The word "Existent…
There are many terrific-sounding shows opening this weekend, listed in my day-by-day monthly calendar but the seven plays below are treats for serious theater lovers " which is not to sa…
Actors' Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA have resolved their differences over streaming theater during the pandemic, a conflict that arose when theater buildings are shut down, and theater c…
Below are half a dozen shows launching on Netflix (and one on HBO) in the weeks before the end of 2020 that theater lovers are likely to love " and not just "The Prom" and "Ma Rainey's Black…
In the nine-minute video below, Billy Porter imagines how he would adapt and direct the 1997 Broadway musical "The Life," which told the story of Black sex workers in Times Square in the 198…
William Berloni sat in front of a mural of some of the dogs he's turned into stars " from Annie, Legally Blonde, Oliver " and explained his method to the members of the American Theatre Crit…
When theater returns, said Hamilton's Christopher Jackson, there will be a party, there will be a collective exhale. "Out of all this madness, and out of all this pain, will grow some opport…
The Broadway League will today be sending out to its producers and theater owners news of a contact tracing system that it hopes will be put in place to make theatergoers feel safe when Broa…