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How well were you paying attention to the news and reviews of theater in May? Answer these ten questions to find out.
In this last weekend of a busy May, there are five online shows "opening" that remind us what's big about Broadway, all but one of them free (though welcoming your charitable contribution.) …
Hundreds of people attended a virtual town hall Thursday afternoon with city and state public officials to talk about how to save Off-Off Broadway. That was not the explicit topic. H…
"If you look at history of American theater, it has always"more perhaps than any other form in America"been activist at times of national trauma," That's a quote by former New York Times cri…
Larry Kramer, who wrote "The Normal Heart" and founded GMHC (the Gay Mens Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) has died at age 84. Kramer's obituary In 2011, The Norma…
#Stageworthy News of the Week. Ten weeks after the governor shut down all theaters in New York City, signs point to widespread expectation that they won't reopen until Spring 2021. Some …
Memorial Day, which became an official national holiday in 1971, was created to honor Americans who died in military service. But it feels appropriate to use the day this year also to honor …
Cynthia Erivo, Kelli O'Hara, Christopher Jackson, Renee Fleming are among the many performers who will be part of the 90-minute National Memorial Day Concert on PBS, which you can watch live…
Mary-Louise Parker introduces us to the second edition of The Homebound Project, an hour-long online collection of 11 new short plays, by explaining that the theme this time is "sustenance,"…
Some shows are "opening" over the next few days but this Memorial Day weekend is a good time to catch up on theater that's still "running" (though not for long) and worth your time. These re…
Bard's splendidly glitchy production of "Mad Forest," Caryl Churchill's fascinating avant-garde drama about the 1989 Romanian Revolution, is the first live play I've seen since the shutdown …
When David Henry Hwang was first starting out as a dramatist, there was an "indivisible wall" between theater and television. Forty years later, "playwrights have become very popular in tele…
Below are five "theater openings"* today, a  diverse selection, including  a new romantic musical comedy to an inventive take on an old Caryl Churchill play, as well as an entire annua…
Watch Bryan Cranston and Sally Field live in A.R. Gurney's two-character play about a man and woman writing to one another over half a century. This is the third in a series of new live-stre…
 Katrina Lenk, Jane Alexander and Denée Benton portray 9/11 widows in this half hour play by Matthew Lopez, a radical departure in running time from his Broadway debut play The Inherita…
Watch the streaming of the 2015 concert of "Bombshell," the fictional  musical about Marilyn Monroe that the characters were putting together in the first season of the TV series "Smash" …
One of the exasperating aspects of this new era of online theater is how poor the audio is (either in the platform itself, or in the devices you use…or both), and how few of the most commo…
The 2019-20 Off Broadway Alliance Award winners are: Best New Play Life Sucks By Aaron Posner Produced by Wheelhouse Theater Best Play Revival The Woman in Black Adapted by Stephen Mallatrat…
Below are some of the highlights from The Night of Covenant House Stars (and below that, the full two hour video, featuring some 50 performers.) Â I recommend the highlights. Unlike, say, …
Stageworthy News of the Week: Quickly following last Tuesday's announcement that Broadway will remain shut down until at least Labor Day, Â Disney announced that "Frozen" would not return …
Two brief walks in my neighborhood produced these photographs of signs posted on walls and poles, some there forever and unintentionally relevant, others meant to buck up what few pedestrian…
In the first of his two online Commencement  addresses today, this one to more than 27,000 students at 78 participating historically black colleges and universities, former President Bara…
Among the avalanche of streaming options this weekend are a timely Beckett play and the rich theater offerings of an arts "marathon" " Â both "opening" today " that count as must-see theat…
Below are eight "theater openings"* today, including acclaimed plays from Broadway (Simon McBurney's The Encounter), Off-Broadway (Dominique Morisseau's Pipeline), Â Off-Off Broadway (Mabo…
Watch Joshua Harmon's "Significant Other" live online with the original cast, the second in a series of new live-streamed productions of old plays produced by Broadway's Best Shows When the …
