Among the many shows opening this weekend are five that especially intrigue. For more, check out my September calendar of openings And the weekend is a good time to catch up on theater that …
Mary Chase wrote fourteen published plays, six of which ran on Broadway, including "Harvey," about an amiable lush and his invisible rabbit pal, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, is…
A look at" Black and Desi encounters" in the wake of Kamala Harris; an investigation of  "Othello" through the issues of 2020, a "concert cabaret requiem" for those we have lost " these a…
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg two days after Arena Stage debuted its hour-long "docudrama" online (watch below) gave new urgency to the argument for D.C. statehood. Directed by Molly Smit…
Father-daughter Ron Cephas Jones and Jasmine Cephas Jones were among the several Broadway veterans to win trophies at the 72nd annual (and first socially distanced) Emmys, including Uzo Adub…
British bloggers this month swoon over the series of new live, in-person, "socially distanced" theater, "It was wonderful and strange and made me realise how the pandemic has changed the exp…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who died yesterday at age 87, was a life-long lover of the arts, including theater. Her mother introduced her to  the Brooklyn Academy of Music which was…
Watch Bulrusher below written and directed by Eisa Davis through September 20, starring Edmund Donovan, Sydney Elisabeth, André Holland, Tanis Parenteau, Corey Stoll. Kara Young It feel…
When André Gregory was young, he tells us, his mother had an affair with movie star Errol Flynn. When he was younger, his parents served him caviar so excessively that he was hospitalized f…
Today is a Wednesday so full of theater openings  that it signals a Fall season, albeit an unconventional one,  is in full swing. Theater of War for front-line medical providers Theate…
In 1920, Eugene O'Neill turned a Black actor into a star by casting him as the lead in his play "The Emperor Jones" " and then fired him for having changed the script during performances to …
Joshua Henry, who is the theater world's most unlikely Annie, sang "Tomorrow" ("The sun will come out tomorrow…") at Miscast, followed by Heather Headley singing "Endless Night" from the L…
Joshua Henry, who is the theater world's most unlikely Annie, sang "Tomorrow" ("The sun will come out tomorrow…") at Miscast, followed by Heather Headley singing "Endless Night" from the L…
To mark the six months of Broadway's shutdown this past weekend, we could look back, as I did " The Best Theater in Six Months of No Theater " or we could compile suggestions for a change…
Casting director Xavier Rubiano loves attending "Miscast," the annual concert produced by MCC Theater in which Broadway stars perform songs in roles for which they would never be cast. Eva N…
I went to the theater in New York for the last time the day after they shut down Broadway on March 12th, six months ago today. My theatergoing on Friday the 13th Off-Off Broadway (which was …
Exactly six months after Broadway was shut down, there is LIVE, in-person theater to go to today " although it's quite far from Broadway, or from conventional theater. And there's plenty …
Things are looking up for the Apple family, but not for me, as the characters talk to one another on a Zoom call yet again. Richard Nelson's third play in four months about the same set of c…
Things are looking up for the Apple family, but not for me, as the characters talk to one another on a Zoom call yet again. Richard Nelson's third play in four months about the same set of c…
You're getting attention for "Coastal Elites," which was supposed to be a play at the Public Theater, but launches as a film on HBO September 12th, starring Bette Midler, Kaitlyn Dever, Dan …
Lynn Nottage, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (Ruined, Sweat), was put on the waitlist to see Theatre for One's "Here We Are"; ;that should give you a sense of its popularity. Not…
Week in Reviews. Week in Theater News. Week in Theater Videos. #Stageworthy News of the Week. The Fall season has officially begun, but the theater season is shaping up as the most unusual, …
Samuel Mostel supposedly got his nickname from his mother; if he didn't do better in school, he would amount to a zero. He did do better " an A student, a linguist who spoke four languages, …
On past Labor Days, I've asked: Where are the American plays about unions, or workers, or even just workplaces? But now that "arts workers" have turned Labor Day into an #ArtsWorkersUnite…
Matthew-Lee Erlbach first realized he would become an actor and a playwright when he saw "True West" on Broadway at age 14 " "It was like gods performing rituals to mortals," he says. It too…