5,359 stories from New York Theater
Joshua Henry, who is the theater world's most unlikely Annie, sang "Tomorrow" ("The sun will come out tomorrow…") at Miscast, followed by Heather Headley singing "Endless Night" from the L…
To mark the six months of Broadway's shutdown this past weekend, we could look back, as I did " The Best Theater in Six Months of No Theater " or we could compile suggestions for a change…
Casting director Xavier Rubiano loves attending "Miscast," the annual concert produced by MCC Theater in which Broadway stars perform songs in roles for which they would never be cast. Eva N…
Exactly six months after Broadway was shut down, there is LIVE, in-person theater to go to today " although it's quite far from Broadway, or from conventional theater. And there's plenty …
Things are looking up for the Apple family, but not for me, as the characters talk to one another on a Zoom call yet again. Richard Nelson's third play in four months about the same set of c…
You're getting attention for "Coastal Elites," which was supposed to be a play at the Public Theater, but launches as a film on HBO September 12th, starring Bette Midler, Kaitlyn Dever, Dan …
Lynn Nottage, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (Ruined, Sweat), was put on the waitlist to see Theatre for One's "Here We Are"; ;that should give you a sense of its popularity. Not…
Week in Reviews. Week in Theater News. Week in Theater Videos. #Stageworthy News of the Week. The Fall season has officially begun, but the theater season is shaping up as the most unusual, …
Samuel Mostel supposedly got his nickname from his mother; if he didn't do better in school, he would amount to a zero. He did do better " an A student, a linguist who spoke four languages, …
On past Labor Days, I've asked: Where are the American plays about unions, or workers, or even just workplaces? But now that "arts workers" have turned Labor Day into an #ArtsWorkersUnite…
Matthew-Lee Erlbach first realized he would become an actor and a playwright when he saw "True West" on Broadway at age 14 " "It was like gods performing rituals to mortals," he says. It too…
Yul Brynner starred on Broadway as Odysseus in "Home Sweet Homer," a musical that opened and closed on the same night. He had better luck in his 1941 Broadway debut at the age of 21, a r…
The long weekend offers concerts by theater stars (including several in-person), a festival, Â and online theater that's both opening and soon to end, as well as more long-lasting videos t…
Composers: Their Lives and Works (DK, 320 pages)Â is a richly illustrated coffee table book in which eight authors profile some 160 composers over a thousand years of Western music, starti…
There is one moment in particular that struck me in "Love in the Time of Corona," the first TV series made about, and during, the pandemic, co-produced and co-starring "Hamilton" Tony winner…
Arts and cultural organizations across New York State are reopening, including 50 in New York City, according to an announcement today by the New York State Council of the Arts. In keeping w…
Below is the day-by-day calendar of "theater openings"* in September, 2020, as we enter the sixth month of winging it online " and experimenting back offline. This month will see Brian Cox a…
Week in Reviews. Week in Theater News. Week in Theater Videos. #Stageworthy News: "Every corner was like a theater production happening right in front of me…" James Altucher recalls about …
How well were you following theater news and reviews in the month of August? Take this quiz to find out. Â Loading…
There have been 66 known productions of Hamlet on Broadway since 1761, the last one in 2009 starring Jude Law; 48 Macbeths (Ethan Hawke in 2013), 36 Romeo and Juliets (Orlando Bloom and Cond…
In the history of Broadway, twenty-six plays have had runs of more than 1,000 consecutive performances, none before 1918, and none after 1986. Jordan Schildcrout looks at 15 of them in "In t…
 The Women's Rights Pioneers Monument was unveiled this morning in Central Park, accompanied by a new audio play "Talking Statue" by Joanne Parrent, in which Viola Davis, Jane Alexander …
Two members of a book club for Black women have invited M'Balia, an author who advocates violent revolution, to speak to their group and perhaps help turn it into a revolutionary cadre, in "…
#Stageworthy News of the Week. The Broadway community made its political preference clear last week " with performances by Billy Porter and Jennifer Hudson; heck, the producers of the Tony A…
Vanessa Redgrave, the "Greatest Actress of Our Time," according to playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller " also the daughter, the sister, the mother and the romantic partner of gr…
