Sunday, March 28, 2021
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 T…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:29PMSaturday, March 27, 2021
“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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13AMToday 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 Theatre…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:39AMFriday, March 26, 2021
“[hieroglyph],” a play by Erika Dickerson-Despenza, begins with a mystery: Why is a teenager named Davis placing strange symbols on her drawings for art class? They are disturbing eno…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PMThursday, March 25, 2021
“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 mobi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:52AMWednesday, March 24, 2021
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 theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:35PMTuesday, March 23, 2021
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…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:33PMIn response to the killing last week of six Asian-American women in Atlanta and a rise in anti-Asian violence, AAPAC, the advocacy group for Asian-American performers, released a statement t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AMMonday, March 22, 2021
“Afterwardsness” by Bill T. Jones was slated to begin at the Park Avenue Armory this week, the first of the productions in some half dozen New York theaters permitted to reopen at reduce…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMSunday, March 21, 2021
Below is a day-to-day list of theater that is opening between March 22 to March 31, a starry ten days that includes World Theatre Day! Monday, March 22 BKLYNStream Theatre3:30 p.m. ET availa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:57PMSaturday, March 20, 2021
The Irish Rep’s award-winning season continues with its tenth online production since the shutdown, “The Aran Islands,” which demonstrates the glory and the beauty of Irish storytel…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:25PMFriday, March 19, 2021
“We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we’ve ever seen since the Jim Crow era. This is Jim Crow in new clothes. Since the January e…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:12PMThere is no “return to normal,” says Alex Poohs, artistic director of The Shed in the interview below. But there is a return.Of all the theaters that the pandemic forced to shut down in …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:20AMThursday, March 18, 2021
I had a mixed reaction to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Dream,” a 30-minute online experiment inspired by the play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which is being p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:00PMWednesday, March 17, 2021
In both the film “Nomadland,” nominated for six Academy Awards, and the play “Passing Through,” the first musical that Goodspeed is presenting virtually, a lone character trave…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AMTuesday, March 16, 2021
These arts-related cartoons are part of the Cartoon Campaign created by a partnership between the artist activist group Be An #ArtsHero and Counterpoint, a group of editorial cartoonists wh…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:30AMMonday, March 15, 2021
Beware the Ides of March, indeed. A year ago today, the mayor shut down all remaining New York City theaters (the governor had shut Broadway three days earlier). “I think we all rem…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:43PMBelow are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 15 and March 21. This includes the return of Viral Monologues on its first anniversary, a celebration of th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:13AMThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations in 23 categories for the 93rd annual Oscars,which will air on ABC on April 25 (delayed because of the pandemic.) “…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:55AMSunday, March 14, 2021
“I was in denial, I knew it was all a mistake, Kathleen would be calling any minute,” Sandy Duncan as Peg says about her daughter, killed during 9/11 in “Middletown,” a play by Dan…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:28PMJagged Little Pill wins best musical album at the 63rn annual Grammy Awards. Alanis Morissette’s original album was the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1996. The new musical (my review) cr…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:25PMSaturday, March 13, 2021
“I see unbelievable passion, dedication and drive from artists,” Chita Rivera, masked, says in the video below, one of the Broadway stars who that joined dancers and a small crowd in fac…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:54PMFriday, March 12, 2021
It was a fitting way to spend the afternoon of a grim anniversary, Women’s Day on Broadway, a two-hour virtual conference that felt at times more like a support group, full of candor about…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:00PMThursday, March 11, 2021
No the virtual reunion reading of Three Days of Rain doesn’t star Julia Roberts or Bradley Cooper — but that is a good thing. The two made their Broadway debuts in a 2006 production …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:02PMWednesday, March 10, 2021
Below are the winners of the ACTAs — American Connected Theater Awards* — for theatrical storytelling created and presented online during the year between March 2020 and March 2021. Thes…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26PMTuesday, March 9, 2021
“Lifeboat Drill,” an obscure 1979 play by Tennessee Williams, and “For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls,” Christopher Durang’s better-known 1994 parody of Williams’ “The Glass Men…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:30PMFrom Stars in the House to Jake Gyllenhaal singing an original mini-musical, from Ratatouille the TikTok Musical to Sondheim’s 90th birthday concert, as well as countless Zoom readings and…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:45AMMonday, March 8, 2021
In the year since the threat from COVID-19 shuttered first Broadway (on March 12, 2020) and then the remaining physical stages in New York (on March 15), there has been much suffering – l…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:52AMSunday, March 7, 2021
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 8 and March 14, which coincides with the anniversary of the shutdown of physical stages in New York. It’s …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:27PMSaturday, March 6, 2021
“To The Moon” begins with scenes of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in “The Honeymooners” showing his fist to Audrey Meadows as his wife Alice (“To the moon, Alice”), and ends…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:23PMFriday, March 5, 2021
“Jericho,” Jack Canfora’s 2011 play about two characters directly affected by 9/11, should have repelled me. It uses sitcom rhythms, Jewish stereotypes, the hoary devices of a sympathe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:55PM 
