#Stageworthy News of the Week New York City is set to reopen today " partially " 100 days after the first New Yorker was discovered infected by the coronavirus. But most believe at least ano…
On what would have been the 74th annual Tony Awards, let's celebrate the 41 shows of the Broadway 2019-2020 season, 25 of which actually opened. The shows below are organized chronologically…
Tonight was the night that CBS was going to broadcast the 74th Tony Awards from Radio City Music Hall. But Covid-19 changed all that; now Tony winners Andre De Shields and Bernadette Peters …
An Otello portrayed by a white performer who is not in blackface " a first for the Metropolitan Opera. A dance, set to music composed by inmates at San Quentin, at the Metropolitan Museum of…
"Michael Jackson" is not just "the King of Pop" anymore, but also "the Pulitzer winning playwright." After decades working in obscurity, Michael R. Jackson " or as he puts it, the living Mic…
Below are four "theater openings" today, Â including Lincoln Center's first Broadway Fridays presentation, Â Astoria Performing Arts Center's new entry in its original Musicals from the …
The first memorial service for George Floyd, who died Memorial Day at the hands of Minneapolis police, is happening now in the sanctuary on the downtown Minneapolis campus of North Central U…
Black Broadway veterans and other performers dance in various (emptied-out) New York City landmarks, in a video that director Tavia Riveè (Motown the Musical) has entitled "Dream Like New Y…
Below is a major portion of Barack Obama's comments during the Town Hall on Racial Justice and Police Reform held by My Brother's Keeper Alliance; the transcript is underneath a 90-second ex…
Below is the video and a transcript of the speech by Joe Biden today at Philadelphia's City Hall. "We're a nation in pain," he said in concluding his 20-minute speech. " We must not let our …
#Stageworthy News of the Week. Several days after George Floyd was killed on Memorial Day at the hands of Minnesota police, playwright Jeremy O. Harris called on six theaters that produce hi…
Click here for June 1 openings Below is the calendar of "theater openings"* for June, 2020, with many online shows, series and festivals showcasing LGBTQ Pride Month, and the entire list dem…
How well were you paying attention to the news and reviews of theater in May? Answer these ten questions to find out.
In this last weekend of a busy May, there are five online shows "opening" that remind us what's big about Broadway, all but one of them free (though welcoming your charitable contribution.) …
Hundreds of people attended a virtual town hall Thursday afternoon with city and state public officials to talk about how to save Off-Off Broadway. That was not the explicit topic. H…
"If you look at history of American theater, it has always"more perhaps than any other form in America"been activist at times of national trauma," That's a quote by former New York Times cri…
Larry Kramer, who wrote "The Normal Heart" and founded GMHC (the Gay Mens Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) has died at age 84. Kramer's obituary In 2011, The Norma…
#Stageworthy News of the Week. Ten weeks after the governor shut down all theaters in New York City, signs point to widespread expectation that they won't reopen until Spring 2021. Some …
Memorial Day, which became an official national holiday in 1971, was created to honor Americans who died in military service. But it feels appropriate to use the day this year also to honor …
Cynthia Erivo, Kelli O'Hara, Christopher Jackson, Renee Fleming are among the many performers who will be part of the 90-minute National Memorial Day Concert on PBS, which you can watch live…
Mary-Louise Parker introduces us to the second edition of The Homebound Project, an hour-long online collection of 11 new short plays, by explaining that the theme this time is "sustenance,"…
Some shows are "opening" over the next few days but this Memorial Day weekend is a good time to catch up on theater that's still "running" (though not for long) and worth your time. These re…
Bard's splendidly glitchy production of "Mad Forest," Caryl Churchill's fascinating avant-garde drama about the 1989 Romanian Revolution, is the first live play I've seen since the shutdown …
When David Henry Hwang was first starting out as a dramatist, there was an "indivisible wall" between theater and television. Forty years later, "playwrights have become very popular in tele…
Below are five "theater openings"* today, a  diverse selection, including  a new romantic musical comedy to an inventive take on an old Caryl Churchill play, as well as an entire annua…