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…
At least 10 healthcare workers from New York City have died of COVID-19. Here is  who they are. More than 100 healthcare workers have died worldwide from the coronavirus. Years ago, my au…
You can currently buy tickets for dates in April to shows that were on Broadway when Governor Andrew Cuomo shut down all the theaters on March 12th for at least a month. On Telecharge and Ti…
With this performance of Musicians of the New York Philharmonic , which has canceled all in-person performances through June 13th, continues online with this remote performance of Ravel's…
Rachel Dratch portrays FrannyCakes, a makeup vlogger who fights with an old lady over a bottle of Purell in a Costco. Â Marylouise Burke is Penny, a lovely suburban matron who wonders wher…
The U.S. Labor Department reported the loss of 10 million jobs nationally in the last two weeks. No region and no industry are immune. So it's no surprise, but still a shock, at the unemploy…
How much were you paying attention to theater news and views, on stage and online, in the month of March? Answer these 14 questions and find out.