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…
"How are you getting through these days?" Thomas Sadoski asks. "At first I felt like Anne Frank but with Amazon Prime," Jennifer Carpenter answers…"Now I've decided my apartment is a state…
Maribel and her daughter Jessie (Kecia Lewis and Antoinette Crowe-Legacy), in quarantine thousands of miles apart, first gossip about "Downton Abbey" " Â how Lady Mary had sex with a diplo…
In a world full of pandemic and podcasts, there is surely still room for theater…and theater blogs. The theater bloggers this month seem focused on one of two themes " either the current u…
#Stageworthy News of the Week. Hamilton is in the news five years after it opened on stage:Â Disney released the first trailer of the Hamilton film, which will begin July 3 online at Disne…
Loud, Proud and Virtual: If the 50th anniversary NYC Pride March has been canceled due to COVID-19, this year's LGBT+ Pride Week events are as varied as the community, from rallies to partie…
 In honor of Father's Day, here are songs by fathers, or about fathers, in a range of Broadway musicals " Be More Chill, Kinky Boots, Hamilton…. He Lives in You from The Lion King Soli…
Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun, (Rutgers University Press, 246 pages) is an exercise in frustration, for two reasons. Charles Mason's sur…
Here are the winners of the inaugural Antonyo Awards, honoring African-American theater artists on and Off Broadway. The winners were chosen by public vote from nominees announced June 3. Be…
Juneteenth, an annual holiday celebrating the end of slavery, will be marked differently this, its 155th year, with Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the nation, including at least th…
In what may well be the last New York theater award of 2020, the 86th annual Drama League Awards have been announced, chosen by the organization's nationwide membership, from the usual long …
Theater itself makes an appearance almost halfway through Diana Oh's "h8 letter" to it, in the person of a middle aged white man (Joshua Young.) "You're doing so good," Theater tells Oh. Oh …
 MCC presents its latest live reading of a play in the LiveLabs One Acts series, written by Aziza Barnes, and directed by Whitney White. "Two black femmes tend bar in East L.A. until the…
Thirty New York theaters, from Abrons Art Center to WP Theater, are calling on their patrons to lobby New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and the New York City Council to reset their prioriti…
Every year for decades, New York theaters, bookstores and Irish pubs celebrate June 16 as Bloomsday, the day in the life of Leopold Bloom that is chronicled exhaustively in James Joyce's nov…
#Stageworthy News of the Week. In the mere three weeks since George Floyd was killed, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has received intense attention and growing support. Calls for racial just…
Below are 20 recently published or forthcoming books about theater, listed under four categories: Scripts and Play Anthologies; Biographies and Memoirs Theater History, Criticism and Referen…
  "A Strange Loop" and "The Inheritance" were the  big winners in the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement in the truncated 2019-2020 season  by professional…
America's obsession with Shakespeare has taken some odd, odd turns over the past two centuries " pre-General Ulysses S. Grant was cast as Desdemona in an Army production of "Othello"; one of…
The cast of the fourth Broadway revival sings the opening number of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical "Company," Â which was supposed to open March 22, 2020 " and must someday, s…
Here are excerpts from Broadway Advocacy Coalition's second day of its three-day forum Broadway for Black Lives Matter Again, a 90-minute live YouTube video attended by nearly 5,000 peop…
Below, 100 minutes of theater talk and theater performance including the opening number of Company, with the New York Times following other publications in becoming online theater producers …
"I couldn't take care of George the day he was killed, but maybe by speaking with you today, I can help make sure that his death isn't in vain. To make sure that he is more than another face…
Below an alphabetical list of theater by and about African Americans that is available online now (and coming soon), much of it directly relevant to the Black Lives Matter movement, all of i…
Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, is, itself, stuck in a strange loop. The smash Off-Broadway hit was scheduled to come to Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Septembe…