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"Heroes of the Fourth Turning," Will Arbury's much-acclaimed play about a gathering of former classmates at a conservative Catholic college in Wyoming, not only worked amazingly well as …
Olivia de Havilland, the last surviving leading lady of Hollywood's Golden Age, five-time Oscar nominated actress and Broadway veteran who helped  take down Hollywood's studio system with…
Was "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" a flop? Joe Allen didn't think so, refusing to put its poster up on the famous flop wall of his restaurant, saying:Â "Any show that plays for three year…
Below are some of the rich theater offerings available on screens today: Julie Andrews, Laura Benanti and Marga Gomez all star in shows that maddeningly overlap tonight. And Marilyn Horne at…
Below are videos of the five plays of the Facing the Rising Tide theater festival, organized by the New Group Theater with the Natural Resources Defense Council. In each video, a discussion …
The photographs of Edwin Booth as Iago in "Othello" in 1871, Paul Robeson in the title role of the same play 72 years later and Dianne Wiest as Desdemona in a production 40 years after that,…
Two of the theater bloggers below wrote about Hamilton this month, but not in a way you might expect. There is a summer theater book reading list, a guide connected to Disability Rights Mont…
#Stageworthy News. Every year for the past decade, I've written a preview guide to the dozen or so annual summer theater festivals in New York. Most have been canceled this year, at least on…
Historically, Amadeus is baloney. Theatrically, it's a feast. Musically, the National Theatre's 2016 production of Peter Shaffer's 1979 play " a recording of which is being streamed onlin…
Watch Amadeus below or at National Theatre. Historically, "Amadeus" is baloney. Theatrically, it's a feast. Musically, the National Theatre's 2016 production of Peter Shaffer's 1979 play " a…
A friend passed along this video of 17,572 singers from 129 countries performing Eric Whitacre's "Sing Gently," and included a poem by Bertolt Brecht In the dark times Will there also be sin…
An 2020 Obie winning play about conservatives who hurt too; Â Julianne Moore as a mother whose daughter complains about her plastic surgery; a starry anthology on the theme of "promise." �…
So there is Lin-Manuel Miranda, ten years before "Hamilton," three years before even "In The Heights," galloping across the street to join his fellow members of Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip…
 In "Good As New," a funny and pointed 25-minute play that MCC streamed live online, Julianne Moore as Jan is arguing with her daughter Maggie (Kaitlyn Dever) on Maggie's 16th birthday, …
Watch the 22nd annual Broadway Barks, renamed Broadway Barks across America because this year for the first time it's online, with co-founder and host Bernadette Peters, an adorable lineup o…
Tommy Dorfman, in sexy black corset and purple wig, exclaims "I'm a Queen…I'm hot," does an interpretive dance on the bed, puts on lipstick as if host of a makeup show, plays a tambourine,…
Before it even opened on Broadway in 1954, the producers of the musical "Peter Pan" had struck a deal with NBC to present it live on television, after its Broadway run, with its cast intact,…
The list of winners of the 65th annual, and first virtual, Obie Awards, delayed twice, which celebrates Off and Off Off Broadway. Presenters, performers and winners of the 2020 Obie Awards D…
#Stageworthy News. If "Hamilton" on Disney+  having become the most-viewed streaming video is not evidence enough of the expanding definition of "theater," I saw nine plays last week (…
Watching Gideon Glick's expressive face in The Few" elated one moment, defeated the next, then adoring, angry, hurt, resigned " is one key to unlocking the mystery of how this Play-PerView's…
Watching Gideon Glick's expressive face in The Few"Â elated one moment, defeated the next, Â then adoring, angry, hurt, resigned " Â is one key to unlocking the mystery of how this Pl…
The Summer Stock Streaming Festival is a free triple feature online through July 19th from The Mint Theater, which has been unearthing forgotten old plays and making them shine for a quarter…
I've seen the five plays below " The Copper Children, Â The Mint's Summerstock Streaming Festival, The Deep Blue Sea, Gloria: A Life, and The Line, in order of expiration date " and recomm…
On the surface, The Deep Blue Sea might seem a love triangle, but Helen McCrory's performance makes it a prism " multifaceted, disorienting, and brilliant " in the National Theatre's 2016 pr…
On the surface, The Deep Blue Sea might seem a love triangle, but Helen McCrory's performance makes it a prism " multifaceted, disorienting, and brilliant " in the National Theatre's 2016 pr…