COVID, loneliness and lack of inclusion are certainly present in some of the theater blogging this month, summarized below, but there seems space these days for a look back. On About Las…
During her hosting duties for the fourth and final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Julia Louis-Dreyfus shot out some zingers. The actress, who became friends with Joe Biden…
Near the end of Joe Biden's acceptance speech on the final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention (transcript below), he quoted from a poem by Seamus Heaney, the great Irish writer…
Jennifer Hudson sings Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come," at the end of Day 3 of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, from the elegant Harold Washington Cultural Center in Hudson's hom…
Instead of the traditional roll call nominating their candidate, the delegates at the 2020 Democratic National Convention announced their votes in their home state or territory, standing in …
Tony-winning performer Billy Porter belted out Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" accompanied by its songwriter Stephen Sills, at the end of Day 1 of history's first Virtual Democra…
"Going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free: the cold hard truth…Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He ha…
#Stageworthy News of the Week. There's a surprisingly robust schedule of theater coming up for what's usually the dog days of August, including three separate live, in-person plays happe…
Two years ago, Bobby Steggert, a Tony-nominated actor with extensive credits on and Off Broadway (Ragtime, Big Fish, Yank! etc) , surprised the theater community by announcing that he had sw…
"Keep Broadway Alive!' the sign in the first photograph says. It's a picket sign during the demolition of the Morosco Theater in 1982, which, along with the first Helen Hayes, the Bijou, and…
There is SO much to see this weekend: six starry concerts. five plays (some opening, some closing), four festivals and two Netathons. Below is a brief rundown with links to tickets and more …
The Harlem-born daughter of a chorus dancer at the Cotton Club and a singer in the Hall Johnson choir, Leslie Uggams began performing on television at the age of six; at seven, she was openi…
"Is anyone surprised Donald Trump has a problem with a strong woman" Joe Biden said in his speech today introducing his running mate, Kamala Harris. Both speeches are  below, in video and…
The Rodgers and Hart musical "Pal Joey" is surely best-known these days for its most recorded song "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" and for the stars who played Joey " Gene Kelly in the …
Joe Biden has picked Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. Biden's reasoning, and below that, some immediate reactions: Biden on Harris: "I've decided that Kamala Harris is the best per…
Watch the 45-minute video below, available through August 14 B.D. Wong has made brilliant use of his months in quarantine, creating a witty and inventive entertainment from a 15-year-old sol…
The Week in Theater Reviews. The Week in Theater News. The Week in Theater Videos. #Stageworthy News of the Week. In the first Equity-approved professional musical production to open in Amer…
"No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks," was presented on a Chicago stage during the centennial of the birth of the noted poet, the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize in…
"The last great place to do Broadway musicals is in animation," says Howard Ashman, in "Howard," a new documentary on Disney+ that offers a simultaneously sad and inspiring look at Ashman's …
Below are my recommendations for three plays with starry casts "opening" and available only this weekend, two documentaries about theater, and a theater festival that  New Yorkers can see…
Laurie Metcalf seemed to be having trouble with the camera, and, frankly, with her life, in this fifth and final edition of Homebound Project, as she made a special appearance to read some l…
 Below are some of the most popular numbers I videotaped from Broadway in Bryant Park, the weekly summer concerts, from 2012 until.2019, including Corey Cott in "Newsies", Nick Cordero i…
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is going online. (Check out the thirty below.) Â Now, officially; the oldest and largest fringe festival has been canceled because of the pandemic. But the fe…
The Week in Reviews . The Week in News. The Week in Videos Broadway Bares;Tangled the Musical. #Stageworthy News of the Week. If Broadway won't return until Summer 2021, as UK impresario…
Watch the hour-long video of 11 short new plays below. In "Holla," a serial killer (Will Swenson) wearing the distorted white mask from the Scream series, makes an ominous phone call to …