Monday, June 15, 2020
#Stageworthy News of the Week. In the mere three weeks since George Floyd was killed, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has received intense attention and growing support. Calls for racial just…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:24PMSunday, June 14, 2020
Below are 20 recently published or forthcoming books about theater, listed under four categories: Scripts and Play Anthologies; Biographies and Memoirs Theater History, Criticism and Referen…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:27PMSaturday, June 13, 2020
“A Strange Loop” and “The Inheritance” were the big winners in the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement in the truncated 2019-2020 season by professional…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:35PMAmerica’s obsession with Shakespeare has taken some odd, odd turns over the past two centuries – pre-General Ulysses S. Grant was cast as Desdemona in an Army production of “Othello”…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:05PMFriday, June 12, 2020
The cast of the fourth Broadway revival sings the opening number of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical “Company,” which was supposed to open March 22, 2020 — and must some…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:11PMThursday, June 11, 2020
Here are excerpts from Broadway Advocacy Coalition’s second day of its three-day forum Broadway for Black Lives Matter Again, a 90-minute live YouTube video attended by nearly 5,000 peop…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36PMBelow, 100 minutes of theater talk and theater performance including the opening number of Company, with the New York Times following other publications in becoming online theater producers …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:06PMWednesday, June 10, 2020
“I couldn’t take care of George the day he was killed, but maybe by speaking with you today, I can help make sure that his death isn’t in vain. To make sure that he is more than anothe…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:10PMTuesday, June 9, 2020
Below an alphabetical list of theater by and about African Americans that is available online now (and coming soon), much of it directly relevant to the Black Lives Matter movement, all of i…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:29PMMonday, June 8, 2020
Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, is, itself, stuck in a strange loop. The smash Off-Broadway hit was scheduled to come to Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Septem…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:32PM#Stageworthy News of the Week New York City is set to reopen today — partially — 100 days after the first New Yorker was discovered infected by the coronavirus. But most believe at least…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:36AMSunday, June 7, 2020
On what would have been the 74th annual Tony Awards, let’s celebrate the 41 shows of the Broadway 2019-2020 season, 25 of which actually opened. The shows below are organized chronological…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:13PMTonight was the night that CBS was going to broadcast the 74th Tony Awards from Radio City Music Hall. But Covid-19 changed all that; now Tony winners Andre De Shields and Bernadette Peters …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44AMSaturday, June 6, 2020
An Otello portrayed by a white performer who is not in blackface — a first for the Metropolitan Opera. A dance, set to music composed by inmates at San Quentin, at the Metropolitan Museum …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:30PMFriday, June 5, 2020
“Michael Jackson” is not just “the King of Pop” anymore, but also “the Pulitzer winning playwright.” After decades working in obscurity, Michael R. Jackson – or as he puts it, …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:54PMBelow are four “theater openings” today, including Lincoln Center’s first Broadway Fridays presentation, Astoria Performing Arts Center’s new entry in its original Musicals from …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:01PMThursday, June 4, 2020
The first memorial service for George Floyd, who died Memorial Day at the hands of Minneapolis police, is happening now in the sanctuary on the downtown Minneapolis campus of North Central U…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PMBlack Broadway veterans and other performers dance in various (emptied-out) New York City landmarks, in a video that director Tavia Riveè (Motown the Musical) has entitled “Dream Like New…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:17PMWednesday, June 3, 2020
Below is a major portion of Barack Obama’s comments during the Town Hall on Racial Justice and Police Reform held by My Brother’s Keeper Alliance; the transcript is underneath a 90-secon…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:28PMTuesday, June 2, 2020
Below is the video and a transcript of the speech by Joe Biden today at Philadelphia’s City Hall. “We’re a nation in pain,” he said in concluding his 20-minute speech. ” We must no…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:53PMMonday, June 1, 2020
#Stageworthy News of the Week. Several days after George Floyd was killed on Memorial Day at the hands of Minnesota police, playwright Jeremy O. Harris called on six theaters that produce hi…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:14AMSunday, May 31, 2020
Click here for June 1 openings Below is the calendar of “theater openings”* for June, 2020, with many online shows, series and festivals showcasing LGBTQ Pride Month, and the entire list…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:17PMSaturday, May 30, 2020
How well were you paying attention to the news and reviews of theater in May? Answer these ten questions to find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:51PMFriday, May 29, 2020
In this last weekend of a busy May, there are five online shows “opening” that remind us what’s big about Broadway, all but one of them free (though welcoming your charitable contribut…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:53PMThursday, May 28, 2020
Hundreds of people attended a virtual town hall Thursday afternoon with city and state public officials to talk about how to save Off-Off Broadway. That was not the explicit topic. Hosts…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:08PM“If you look at history of American theater, it has always—more perhaps than any other form in America—been activist at times of national trauma,” That’s a quote by former New York…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:53PMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Larry Kramer, who wrote “The Normal Heart” and founded GMHC (the Gay Mens Health Crisis) and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) has died at age 84. Kramer’s obituary In 2011, The…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40PMTuesday, May 26, 2020
#Stageworthy News of the Week. Ten weeks after the governor shut down all theaters in New York City, signs point to widespread expectation that they won’t reopen until Spring 2021. Some …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:46PMMonday, May 25, 2020
Memorial Day, which became an official national holiday in 1971, was created to honor Americans who died in military service. But it feels appropriate to use the day this year also to honor …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:42AMSunday, May 24, 2020
Cynthia Erivo, Kelli O’Hara, Christopher Jackson, Renee Fleming are among the many performers who will be part of the 90-minute National Memorial Day Concert on PBS, which you can watch li…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:03PMMary-Louise Parker introduces us to the second edition of The Homebound Project, an hour-long online collection of 11 new short plays, by explaining that the theme this time is “sustenance…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:50PM 
