Below are seven brief videos (and one longer one) that serve as highlights from the eight-hour One World: Together At Home concert on April 18, 2020. The full concert is below the select vid…
Kelli O'Hara seems as busy now as when theaters were open: She's singing this morning at 10 a.m. on "Morning Song," with her husband Greg Naughton, on the Instagram of Say.org (the Stutterin…
"I began my career when I came to New York in a show called 'The Boyfriend,'" Julie Andrews says. "'My Fair Lady" and 'Camelot' followed. But then came films and a family, and Broadway reced…
Below are just the shows I'm hoping to see myself this weekend. It's too overwhelming to try to list everything that's suddenly available from day to day online (See my Where to Get Your The…
Before she originated the Broadway roles of Maureen the performance artist in "Rent," Elphaba the green witch of "Wicked" and the two-sided Liz/Beth in "If/Then," Idina Menzel had dreams of …
When Hugh Jackman won a Tony for his Broadway debut in The Boy From Oz, he was already a movie star (a Superhero even.) In the 16 years since then, he's been back on Broadway three more time…
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Will Arbery's "Heroes of the Fourth Turning" best play of the 2019-20 season. The award for best musical went to Michael R. Jackson's A Strange L…
Gwen Verdon, who was dancing in movies from the age of 11, became the brightest of Broadway stars in the 1950s, winning four Tony Awards in five years for her performances " especially her d…
You know COVID-19 song parodies are taking off when the original singer/songwriters start parodying their own songs: Neil Diamond creates new pandemic-appropriate lyrics for "Sweet Caroline"…
Below are the nominations for the 35th annual Lucille Lortel Awards, presented online by Jeremy Jordan and Ashley Spencer (a married couple so they could actually present without a split scr…
Although Fred Ebb is best known for partnering with composer John Kander on "Cabaret" and "Chicago," Kander and Ebb together created some two dozen Broadway musicals and musical revues, from…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded 150 years ago today, April 13, 1870, by an act of the New York State Legislature, which makes it a good day to sift through its vast online collect…
It's been a month since Broadway shut down. Today, April 13th, was the day Broadway was supposed to return, remember? Even the Broadway League realized that was unrealistic, on April 8th ext…
Elaine Stritch died in 2014 at the age of 89, having performed in 19 Broadway productions, over more than 60 years. There are more still photographs of her early performances in plays and mu…
Below is the hour-long celebration tonight of Joel Grey's 88th year (the number of keys on a piano) and his EIGHTY-YEAR career, via Stars in the House, with Joel Grey himself, his daughter J…
Darren Criss has performed in only two Broadway musicals, one as a replacement for three weeks; he was about to co-star in the revival of a David Mamet play opening this month on Broadway……
Chita Rivera, born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, has a Broadway career going back 70 years, to the original "Guys and Dolls," where she was a dancer. Luckily, she has re-created the …
"Prime" and "Play in Your Bathtub" both reflect an exciting and unconventional new use of audio for theater in the absence of physical theaters. They are different in many ways, and also …
Bernadette Peters, born Bernadette Lazarro in Ozone Park, has a Broadway career that goes back more than 60 years; it's hard to find performances from many of her 16 shows on YouTube, althou…
The schedule for most theater awards is still uncertain, as it is for theater as a whole, given that the fight against the coronavirus has resulted in the closing of New York theaters in …
Audra McDonald has won six Tony Awards performing in a dozen plays and musicals on Broadway. Below are videos organized roughly in chronological order that " not always perfectly, but someti…
There are at least three ways in which anyone must view the remarkable livestreamed reading of Terrence McNally's 30-year-old play on YouTube on April 6th (the video of which you can view be…
By Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell examines the new theatrical landscape brought on by COVID-19 and discusses the emerging aesthetic"one that is low-tech, low-key, one-on-one, close-up.
In the first week of April, as the news remained scary and theaters remained closed, theater " and especially theater music " became a balm. Mrs. Doubtfire didn't open on Sunday, the first o…
Terrence McNally considered Shakespeare and Chekhov his gods, and Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera his goddesses; he learned a lot from all four. That's what he tells us within the first few p…