Watching Gideon Glick's expressive face in The Few"Â elated one moment, defeated the next, Â then adoring, angry, hurt, resigned " Â is one key to unlocking the mystery of how this Pl…
The Summer Stock Streaming Festival is a free triple feature online through July 19th from The Mint Theater, which has been unearthing forgotten old plays and making them shine for a quarter…
I've seen the five plays below " The Copper Children, Â The Mint's Summerstock Streaming Festival, The Deep Blue Sea, Gloria: A Life, and The Line, in order of expiration date " and recomm…
On the surface, The Deep Blue Sea might seem a love triangle, but Helen McCrory's performance makes it a prism " multifaceted, disorienting, and brilliant " in the National Theatre's 2016 pr…
Watch "The Line" below. Alison Pill as Jennifer, a first-year intern in emergency medicine at a hospital in Brooklyn, explains that she chose her profession after listening to the war storie…
Rohina Malik was inspired to write and perform "Unveiled," her one-woman play about five different Muslim women " which is streaming online one more time this evening at 7 p.m. at Pre…
A dozen New York City arts organizations each received $10,000 grants from the New York State Council on the Arts " including five theaters, such as the National Black Theatre and Ma-Yi " as…
Katie is a puppet in more ways than one in "The Copper Children," a play by Karen Zacarias that is based on a horrifying true story. Katie is one of the immigrant toddlers shipped from New Y…
Nick Cordero, a Broadway musical theater actor, died yesterday at the age of 41, after a long and horrible struggle with COVID-19 that was chronicled in painful detail on social media by his…
Lorraine Hansberry's third and final Broadway play, which is being presented online  through July 9 in a dark, expressionistic production directed in 2016 by Yael Farber for the Nation…
My biannual Fourth of July poll: What is your favorite Broadway musical that takes actual American history as its subject? I've made a couple of changes this year. Since every poll since 201…
 "We have to make this moment last," Lin-Manuel Miranda sings near the beginning of "Hamilton," referring to revolutionary fervor but also apparently youthful vigor; then he immediately …
"There now is such a great sense of urgency, but for what? Where will it end?" Richard Apple (Jay O. Sanders) says in this sixth play written and directed by Richard Nelson in the decade-old…
As you might have heard, a filmed version of the Broadway musical "Hamilton" " live-captured from the stage of the Richard Rodgers Theater in 2016, and featuring the original Broadway cast "…
Click here for July 1 openings Below is the day-by-day calendar of "theater openings"* in July, 2020. The big news is the release of "Hamilton"Â online at Disney Plus " and (less hyped) th…
How well were you paying attention to the news and reviews of theater in June? Answer these ten questions to find out.
#Stageworthy News of the Week With several Broadway producers last week announcing specific rescheduled opening dates in Spring 2021 for their shows " American Buffalo, The Minutes, Music Ma…
Playwright David Adjmi's delightful new book Lot Six: A Memoir (Harper Collins, 388 pages) is the most entertaining theater memoir I've read since  Act One, the gold standard of theatrica…
I've offered a preview guide to the new shows of the coming Broadway season every year since this blog began in 2012, and I'm continuing the tradition below. Â It's different this time ar…
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…