"It's a song that I wrote about coming out of lockdown, with some much needed optimism,"Â Mick Jagger announced today in a statement about his new pandemic anthem, Easy Sleazy. "Thanks to …
Ten days into the much ballyhooed reopening, April has been as busy a month for theater as it usually is " I've seen a play every day this week (see my reviews)" but the April overload is du…
Babette, like Garbo, just wants to be alone. The legendary French courtesan has retired to her country estate,  designed for "trading the sins of lust for a more relaxed sin of sloth,"…
When Amber Iman was asked to perform on Broadway as part of NYPopsUp, "I began to freak out." The pressure was on: "I should at least get either a Tony nomination or a husband or both if I d…
Below is the video of the Reverb Theater Arts Festival, viewable until Thursday, May 20. It is close-captioned. For separate videos that provide ASL interpretation and audio description o…
At 91, John Cullum has had a long and remarkably varied Broadway career,  spanning six decades and some 30 shows " musicals ranging from "Camelot" to "Urinetown," straight plays from "…
This thrillingly-sung new version of Jason Robert Brown's beloved (and problematic) musical about love lost (and gained) almost feels like a laboratory experiment in pandemic theater. Will t…
Erika Dickerson-Despenza and her play "cullud wattah" have won the the 43rd Annual Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and $25,000 The play is about a family of Black women struggling to survi…
So there is poet and refugee Evgeny Shtorn in front of me reciting his poem "From the Confinement," a title I find ironic, given that he's speaking on the beautiful green shore of a ca…
"You're a lame duck, you're a stream,"  a character was screaming oddly, just as my screen froze while watching  the streaming of the play "Cock."  Was this a problem with…
Broadway reopened over the weekend …for 36 minutes (as a New York Times headline put it) with a double bill: Savion Glover in a one-man musical, and Nathan Lane in "Playbills!" a monologue…
Below is the full text of Paul Rudnick's "Playbills," the first play presented on a Broadway stage in more than a year " in a one-time-only socially-distanced matinee on Saturday at the St. …
Mike Daisey performed his latest monologue to 22 masked and vaccinated theatergoers in person Friday night at the 99-seat Kraine Theater in the East Village, and simultaneously to another 50…
"…you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on," Samuel Beckett wrote in 1953; Terry Teachout quotes that line in his blog About Last Night, right before his entry on the same day that he …
Below is the day-to-day listing of theater that is opening in the month of April* " which includes digital theater, and in-person shows (three on April 2! Another on April 9) in addition to …
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in March? Answer these dozen questions " about the anniversary of the lockdown and awards and vaccines and in-person and…
Below are the nominations for the 87th Annual Drama League Awards, the first major theater award to honor the theater that has been created this year " which is to say digital theater.…
As the first New York theaters reopen at reduced capacity this coming Friday, the hope for a wider reopening rests on a stepping up of vaccinations. To that end, there was good news on the f…
The new documentary about the performer Tina Turner includes scene about both the Broadway musical "Tina, the Tina Turner Musical" and the 1993 Hollywood movie,  "What's Love Got To Do…
"Art in all its forms is vital to the health and well-being of us as individuals and as communities," Dr. Anthony Fauci concludes his remarks in the March 23rd National Endowment for the Art…
Today is the 60th annual World Theatre Day. As we await the reopening of physical theaters throughout the world, British actress Helen Mirren delivers the annual International World Theat…
"[hieroglyph]," a play by Erika Dickerson-Despenza, begins with a mystery:Â Â Why is a teenager named Davis placing strange symbols on her drawings for art class? They are disturbing eno…
"We will move heaven and earth to bring Broadway back," Mayor Bill de Blasio declared in announcing dedicated Covid-19 vaccination sites on Broadway for the theater industry, with a mobile v…
David Rockwell " who has designed the sets for more than 60 theatrical productions, including 27 on Broadway, and has helped create offices, restaurants, nightclubs, playgrounds, and theater…
This new production of "Fully Committed," starring Maulik Pancholy as a beleaguered restaurant reservations clerk and some 40 comically difficult characters with whom he interacts, is at lea…