I have spent the past week watching one online theater piece after another that, for remarkably varied reasons, left me debating whether I should commit to saying anything publicly about the…
At the start of MTC's new virtual reading of Richard Wesley's short play "The Past is the Past," available for free through February 28th, a middle aged man named Earl (Ron Cephas Jones, Emm…
Benjamin Scheuer ("The Lion") and the Birmingham Royal Ballet collaborate on this five minute video, "dedicated to the ambition to keep ballet and performance alive." It illustrates Scheuer'…
Jose Zambrano courted Julie Piñero so playfully that he Photoshopped silly made-up pictures of them together as a couple " outside Times Square without pants, for example. This caused…
A 19th century Shakespearean actor, 20th century opera stars, a 21st century choreographer " these are among the artists that the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln C…
In this third and final episode of Rattlestick Theater's Village Song, the young songwriting students from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts illustrate once again the paradox of Greenwich Vi…
Indoor dining reopened in New York City last week, area arenas are scheduled to reopen next week, New York State is launching  New York Pops Up initiative (in-person performan…
Whatever the future holds for a certain criminally inclined former President of the United States, one thing seems assured: Somebody will eventually portray him on Broadway. (He's already…
Below are the day-by-day theater openings from February 15 to 21st. In this third week of what's normally a fallow theater month, we get a return to in-person performances, with the launch o…
Smooching is not exactly a lost art this Valentine's Day; it's more like in storage, along with many other practices, onstage and off. But it's a good day to remember how much theater has re…
These nine members of Congress served as the impeachment "managers," prosecuting the cast against former President Donald Trump, in a trial that resulted in an acquittal, although the vote w…
On Abraham Lincoln's 212th birthday, which happens to be the day that lawyers mount a defense of the impeached 45th president, a member of a Republican party that the 16th president of the U…
Of the 94 books on the Black Liberation Reading List from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center, only three are plays: "Fences" by August Wilson, "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine H…
Below are photographs from productions of the "Negro Unit" of the Federal Theatre Project, some 30 of which were staged at Lafayette Theater in Harlem, between 1935 and 1939. They range from…
I was so enthusiastic about the first episode last week in this Rattlestick Theater series about Greenwich Village written by musical theater graduate students at NYU " that my disappointmen…
Below are photographs of 50 of the stars, listed alphabetically by first name from Alec Baldwin to Tina Landau, who have signed up so far for NY Pops-Up, the series of free performances thro…
Four legendary actors died within little more than a week of one another, all in their nineties, long lifetimes devoted to their art. The latest Christopher Plummer and Hal Holbrook. It w…
Below watch Super Bowl commercials featuring Daveed Diggs, Big Bird, Nick Jonas, Timothée Chalamet, Winona Ryder, Michael B. Jordan and Nick Jonas, both young and old, Matthew McConaughey i…
Inauguration poet Amanda Gorman recites her new poem "Chorus of the Captains" in the pre-show of Super Bowl LV. The poem below recognizes "three honorary game captains the NFL has chosen for…
Valentine's Day and Black History Month each influence several works of theater opening this week, February 8-14, 2021, listed day by day below. Â The Valentine-oriented shows this week r…
"Shakespeare, for all intents and purposes, invented the character we now call The Villain," Patrick Page claims near the beginning of his solo show, presented online by the Shakespeare Thea…
While watching "Simply Sondheim," the third virtual concert of Sondheim songs that I've viewed during the pandemic, I suddenly recalled an argument I had with a fellow usher at the New York …
Theater bloggers this past month are taking in the changes in the art form in order to riff on what the future might be " or should be. At the same time, many are recalling what once was on …
I grew up in Greenwich Village, and live there still, which is one reason why I was thrilled by the five musical numbers of Village Song, all set in the Village, all about either historic…
Watch "Blood Meal" below Billed as a "satirical thriller" about a young couple whose home is overtaken by blood-sucking insects, "Blood Meal" didn't seem for me; I'm not a horror buff. …