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#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…
Watch "The Line" below. Alison Pill as Jennifer, a first-year intern in emergency medicine at a hospital in Brooklyn, explains that she chose her profession after listening to the war storie…
Rohina Malik was inspired to write and perform "Unveiled," her one-woman play about five different Muslim women " which is streaming online one more time this evening at 7 p.m. at Pre…
A dozen New York City arts organizations each received $10,000 grants from the New York State Council on the Arts " including five theaters, such as the National Black Theatre and Ma-Yi " as…
Katie is a puppet in more ways than one in "The Copper Children," a play by Karen Zacarias that is based on a horrifying true story. Katie is one of the immigrant toddlers shipped from New Y…
Lorraine Hansberry's third and final Broadway play, which is being presented online through July 9 in a dark, expressionistic production directed in 2016 by Yael Farber for the National T…
Nick Cordero, a Broadway musical theater actor, died yesterday at the age of 41, after a long and horrible struggle with COVID-19 that was chronicled in painful detail on social media by his…
Lorraine Hansberry's third and final Broadway play, which is being presented online  through July 9 in a dark, expressionistic production directed in 2016 by Yael Farber for the Nation…
My biannual Fourth of July poll: What is your favorite Broadway musical that takes actual American history as its subject? I've made a couple of changes this year. Since every poll since 201…
 "We have to make this moment last," Lin-Manuel Miranda sings near the beginning of "Hamilton," referring to revolutionary fervor but also apparently youthful vigor; then he immediately …
"There now is such a great sense of urgency, but for what? Where will it end?" Richard Apple (Jay O. Sanders) says in this sixth play written and directed by Richard Nelson in the decade-old…
The Apple family is back again, on another Zoom call. After the triumphant return in April of writer and director Richard Nelson's Apple Family series with What Do We Need To Talk About, whi…
As you might have heard, a filmed version of the Broadway musical "Hamilton" " live-captured from the stage of the Richard Rodgers Theater in 2016, and featuring the original Broadway cast "…
Click here for July 1 openings Below is the day-by-day calendar of "theater openings"* in July, 2020. The big news is the release of "Hamilton"Â online at Disney Plus " and (less hyped) th…
How well were you paying attention to the news and reviews of theater in June? Answer these ten questions to find out.
#Stageworthy News of the Week With several Broadway producers last week announcing specific rescheduled opening dates in Spring 2021 for their shows " American Buffalo, The Minutes, Music Ma…
Playwright David Adjmi's delightful new book Lot Six: A Memoir (Harper Collins, 388 pages) is the most entertaining theater memoir I've read since  Act One, the gold standard of theatrica…
I've offered a preview guide to the new shows of the coming Broadway season every year since this blog began in 2012, and I'm continuing the tradition below. Â It's different this time ar…
Below are a selection of "theater openings" today, including the much anticipated "Lungs" starring the royal leads from The Crown, the Off-Broadway production of Gloria (about Gloria Steinem…
