Sunday, August 8, 2021
While watching “Together Apart,” the latest online anthology about life during the pandemic, I wondered: Will COVID-19 inspire great theater? Has a pandemic ever done so? Yes, Shakespea…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PMSaturday, August 7, 2021
Some of the legendary stories that make up Broadway lore are told by the theater stars who lived them in this PBS documentary that looks at Broadway from 1959 to the early 1980s, a sequel to…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46PMFriday, August 6, 2021
The first thing anybody does in Dominique Morisseau’s drama “Detroit ’67,” which Signature Theatre of Arlington is streaming online on Marquee TV through September 16, is put the Tem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:33PMThursday, August 5, 2021
“Marie Antoinette,” David Adjmi’s contemporary take on the “Let them eat cake” beheaded French queen, seems a baffling choice for the latest Zoom reading on Play-PerView. When M…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35PMWednesday, August 4, 2021
The pandemic has given theater artists an opportunity to innovate like never before, their innovations (like digital theater) are here to stay — and these are good things, because the enti…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:22PMTuesday, August 3, 2021
In the middle of “Critical Care,” Theater for a New City’s original hour-long musical touring New York City streets and parks through September 12, a dancing chorus of nursing home …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PMMonday, August 2, 2021
August, usually a downtime in the theater, is this year a month of excitement, anticipation…and uncertainty. Excitement: August theater events include not just play openings Off-Broadway, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35AMSunday, August 1, 2021
Below is a selective list of theater that is opening in August*, usually one of the relatively fallow months for theater, but now full of excitement…and anticipation. Although no shows are…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PMSaturday, July 31, 2021
Humanitarians, honorees, money and masks made the theater news in July. How well were you paying attention? Take these 10 questions (plus a bonus question) to find out. Loading…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:50PMFriday, July 30, 2021
At a time when playwrights and actors are demanding to be treated as “arts workers” crucial to the economy, along comes this new book by Christin Essin, a former professional stagehand t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PMThursday, July 29, 2021
By Jonathan Mandell. Jonathan Mandell reflects on a number of live, in-person productions that have taken place in New York City over the course of summer 2021.
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:14AMWednesday, July 28, 2021
I did not react well to the news that the musical “Come from Away” would commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11 by giving a free concert of the musical at the Lincoln Memorial in Wash…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:28AMTuesday, July 27, 2021
Last week, the Public Theater canceled three performances of its production of “Merry Wives” in Central Park after learning a production member had tested positive for the coronavirus. T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04AMSaturday, July 24, 2021
It’s just 35 minutes long, and available only until Sunday, but the free online excerpt from Signature’s forthcoming new production of “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” is startling, in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20PMFriday, July 23, 2021
The following five works — three festivals, one play, and one virtual preview of a future in-person production — are all ending Sunday, July 25, 2021. Those I’ve seen and especially re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:46AMThursday, July 22, 2021
Marylouise Burke is one of the secret weapons of this collection of five original short plays. The familiar 80-year-old character actress appears in four of them, albeit just a brief cameo i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:28PMWednesday, July 21, 2021
How can you go wrong with Jason Alexander as a sleazy lawyer, Patti LuPone as an avenging angel, and Santino Fontana as a conscience-stricken priest? The stellar cast of “Judgment Day�…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:58AMTuesday, July 20, 2021
The art of theater poster design is inextricably linked to its commercial appeal:“I must distill a two-and-a-half hour stage production into an image that is memorable and eye-catching, bu…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:59PMMonday, July 19, 2021
Off Broadway, like Broadway, is in transition. It’s also returning with a flourish. It also (unlike Broadway) has already opened! The Lucille Lortel Foundation announced today it has purch…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:11PMSunday, July 18, 2021
The photographs of Edwin Booth as Iago in “Othello” in 1871 and Meryl Streep with John Lithgow in “Secret Service” 105 years later are among some 30,000 photographs that chronicle so…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:12PMSaturday, July 17, 2021
Each of these three plays from 59E59 Theater’s “East to Edinburgh Goes Virtual 2021,” a festival running through July 25, takes its inspiration from a familiar source — “Testame…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:49PMFriday, July 16, 2021
Being stuck is not necessarily a bad thing inside the world of “Schmigadoon!”, the star-studded musical series parodying Golden Age musicals, the first two episodes of which launched on …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:49PMThursday, July 15, 2021
In “Endure,” a performer named Casey Howes ran through Central Park for more than an hour while we small band of theatergoers listened over earphones to an audio recording of her inner t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:53PMWednesday, July 14, 2021
Priyanka Shetty, the writer and performer of this one-hour solo play about the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, tells us early on that she decided to intervie…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:58PMTuesday, July 13, 2021
The seven new plays presented this year in Red Bull’s annual festival are odd hybrids that mimic the past, reflect our strange present, and suggest the future, perhaps inadvertently posing…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:25PMMonday, July 12, 2021
Heat waves? Downpours? This week demonstrated that New York theatergoers are as tenacious as postal couriers are supposed to be, stayed by neither rain nor heat nor gloom of night — not ev…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:32AMSunday, July 11, 2021
The evil, power-hungry Richard appeared on stage for the first time just a few minutes into “Seize the King,” which the Classical Theater of Harlem bills as playwright Will Power’s mod…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:00PMSaturday, July 10, 2021
“Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created ‘Sunday in the Park with George’” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages) is an eccentric, valuable and entertaining book, whi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:24PMFriday, July 9, 2021
“Lines in the Dust,” which New Normal Rep is streaming online through August 8th, is Nikkole Salter’s three-character play about a vexing side effect of modern-day segregation. It was …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:35PMThursday, July 8, 2021
“Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings),” at the Cell Theater through July 25, begins as an affectionate poke at theater folk, offering nearly everything theatergoers returning to live, in-p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:03PMWednesday, July 7, 2021
Six years ago this month, theater etiquette made headlines. Patti LuPone confiscated a cell phone from an audience member who was texting during her performance of “Show for Days,” then …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44PM 
