After spending an hour on Zoom with the Apple family in Richard Nelson's latest low-key play, I was surprised by my reaction, which I could sum up as: Hallelujah! "What Do We Need to Talk Ab…
For the first time in its 85 years, the annual awards ceremony of the New York Drama Critics Circle was open to the public, as part of Wednesday evening's Stars in the House YouTube livestre…
In the middle of the new livestreamed version of  the satirical solo show "Trump Lear,"  David Carl as Donald Trump sips on a long straw that is fitted into a bottle of Lysol. It is a …
The theater awards will go on, with some…adjustments. Here is the new calendar (updating my guide to New York Theater Awards 2020): April 29: New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, which an…
Below are the separate lists of nominees for both the 10th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, whose winners will be announced May 19, 2020, and then, the nominations for the Drama League's…
To celebrate Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday (which actually took place on March 22, 2020), Raúl Esparza organized a concert extravaganza on the 50th anniversary of the opening of Sondhe…
 Raul Esparza was born the year Stephen Sondheim's "Company" debuted on Broadway. Exactly 50 years after the musical opened, Esparza is the host and organizer for the starry online conce…
By the time she won an Obie last year for "Sustained Excellence of Performance," Quincy Tyler Bernstine had spent more than a decade as one of the go-to actresses for playwrights (especia…
 When Patti LuPone recently sang for the Rosie O'Donnell Show in quarantine, many viewers were intrigued by the glimpse of her basement, and especially the jukebox in it"which prompted h…
Before he started collaborating with Richard Rodgers on some of the most beloved musicals in Broadway history, Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) had helped create some three dozen Broadway pr…
This is a busy weekend for exciting or at least intriguing live-streamed shows. Some of them are of mammoth proportions, albeit one isolated performer at a time, such as the impossibly starr…
In the nearly four decades since he made his Broadway debut, Nathan Lane has starred in some two dozen shows on the Great White Way, and over a dozen more Off-Broadway. He is widely regarded…
When I first saw "Buyer & Cellar" on stage in 2013, I wrote that Jonathan Tolins' solo comedy starring Michael Urie seemed singlehandedl to reflect the entire season in several ways. Â�…
Though many people may now most associate her with Peter Pan, Mary Martin (1913-1990) originated the roles of Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific" and Maria von Trapp in "The Sound of Music." Y…
Below are three new shows you can see tonight New York City Ballet tonight launches a twice-weekly online series on its YouTube channel offering treasures from its archives. On what would ha…
 Off-Broadway dominates the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement in the truncated 2019-2020 season  by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Of…
Born Maria Ligaya Carmen Imutan Salonga in the Philippines, Lea Salonga made her professional stage debut at the age of seven (in "The King and I") and three years later recorded her first a…
Free Shakespeare in the Park has been canceled, for the first time in its 58 years " news that hits hard, and the sharpest sign that New York theater is unlikely to reopen until the Fall at …
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…