Lightning cut short the We Love NYC Homecoming concert in Central Park over the weekend,  which one hopes is not a harbinger of the desperately anticipated Fall season. Some culture ha…
"The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano"Â Â revolves around a true incident that occurred around Christmas time 1969: The Young Lords, a group of young activist Puerto Ricans in New York, took…
By Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell shares his experience at New York City's first-ever official Puppet Week.
"I'm so sick of playing the part of Elizabeth Taylor,"Â Â Kayla Boye says in "Call Me Elizabeth." Of course, Elizabeth Taylor is supposed to be saying this, not Boye, who is portraying t…
"Actor. Humanitarian. Snack." " Those are the first words we see on the screen, and they're obviously meant to describe Jake Gyllenhaal. But filmmaker, writer and actress Melissa Center's ho…
What would be the most effective play about climate change?  That's the question that Australian playwright Melissa-Kelly Franklin seems to have asked herself while writing this short …
Alma and Baya are living in the only home they've ever known, a two-person pod far from Earth, with malfunctioning machines and a dwindling food supply, when an unexpected stranger comes kno…
Amy Winehouse meets Karen Carpenter on a bench outside a cosmic nightclub, both reluctant to "face the music," in "Close to Black,"  the second play in  "Triple Bypass," which is…
During last week's heat wave, theater continued to heat up, with the official opening night of Pass Over pushed up to this Sunday, August 22nd (which may confuse people who thought that t…
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which last year went entirely digital, is back in person in Scotland this year through August 30th, though smaller than usual " only about a thousand shows at …
"Here is Future" presents terrific actors in a half dozen thought-provoking new plays by acclaimed American playwrights, most of them women, all of them BIPOC.*Â Â There are also practic…
Baba Israel asked us to light up an imaginary joint, before he and his band rapped about the history and heroes of marijuana.  Ali Stroker marveled at how we were all creating communit…
New York City's first-ever official Puppet Week features, besides a fringe festival, exhibitions both downtown and (way) uptown, honoring the art of celebrated theater artists who work with …
What's an opening night without a red carpet? The second biannual International Puppet Fringe Festival of New York began with a parade of inanimate objects brought to life " a giant skeleton…
"Merry Wives," Jocelyn Bioh's adaptation of one of Shakespeare's least performed comedies, which officially opened Monday night, is supposedly set among African immigrants during present-day…
Live, in-person theater this summer in New York has been vigorous, innovative and outdoors, as I recount first-hand in an article for HowlRound. But theatergoers seem to be focusing their en…
While watching "Together Apart," the latest online anthology about life during the pandemic, I wondered: Will COVID-19 inspire great theater? Has a pandemic ever done so? Yes, Shakespeare…
Some of the legendary stories that make up Broadway lore are told by the theater stars who lived them in this PBS documentary that looks at Broadway from 1959 to the early 1980s, a sequel to…
The first thing anybody does in Dominique Morisseau's drama "Detroit '67," which Signature Theatre of Arlington is streaming online on Marquee TV through September 16, is put the Temptation'…
"Marie Antoinette,"Â Â David Adjmi's contemporary take on the "Let them eat cake" beheaded French queen, seems a baffling choice for the latest Zoom reading on Play-PerView. When Marin I…
The pandemic has given theater artists an opportunity to innovate like never before, their innovations (like digital theater) are here to stay " and these are good things, because the entire…
In the middle of "Critical Care,"Â Â Theater for a New City's original hour-long musical touring New York City streets and parks through September 12, a dancing chorus of nursing home re…
August, usually a downtime in the theater, is this year a month of excitement, anticipation…and uncertainty. Excitement: August theater events include not just play openings Off-Broadway, …
Below is a selective list of theater that is opening in August*, usually one of the relatively fallow months for theater, but now full of excitement…and anticipation. Although no shows are…
Humanitarians, honorees, money and masks made the theater news in July. How well were you paying attention? Take these 10 questions (plus a bonus question) to find out. Â Â Loading…