Sunday, March 15, 2020
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the closing of the remaining small theaters, as well as schools, movie theaters, restaurants, bars and nightclubs “Our lives are all changing in ways t…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:44PMWith a virus threatening the city, it made sense to me to see Taylor Mac’s “The Fre,” at the Flea, although all Broadway and most Off-Broadway theaters had already shut down. The Flea …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:27PMSaturday, March 14, 2020
The theater kids are putting on a school show, and, like the TV series Glee, the lead actor is a recently recruited football player. But unlike Glee, or Smash, or Rise, the show they’re do…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:55PMFriday, March 13, 2020
Although Gov. Cuomo shut down for a month all venues with 500 or more seats, which includes all of Broadway, that left the option of smaller venues staying open, but at 50 percent capacity. …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:54PMWith Broadway shut down for at least a month, I asked on Twitter: Anything online that’s like a Broadway show? Here are some of the choicest responses. (And stay tuned, because there is se…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:33PMThursday, March 12, 2020
All Broadway theaters will close at 5 p.m. today, and all Broadway performances will be suspended at least until April 12th, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in a press conference today. Cuom…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:21PMWednesday, March 11, 2020
Biographic Audrey(Ammonie Press, 98 pages) by Sophie Collins is less a biography of the actress Audrey Hepburn than a PowerPoint presentation about her — a deeply weird book of infograp…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:15PMTuesday, March 10, 2020
To the main question on New Yorkers minds – how bad will the Coronavirus epidemic get in New York? — New York theatergoers are asking several more: Will Broadway theaters be shut down be…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:07PMIn this musical by Michael Friedman making its New York debut 30 months after his shocking death from AIDS at the age of 41, it would be impossible not to think of him from the very first s…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:20AMMonday, March 9, 2020
As local news of the spread of the coronavirus grows more alarming (with Governor Cuomo having declared a state of emergency in New York over the weekend), the theater community has been re…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:20PMSunday, March 8, 2020
Bob Avian’s memoir begins with a list of 32 “leading ladies,” including Barbra Streisand, Katharine Hepburn and Patti LuPone, which might be misleading in a couple of ways. Dancing Man…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:39PMSaturday, March 7, 2020
A man in a hazmat suit came on stage, to give us the usual spiel about the location of the exits and turning off our cell phones, and I thought: Ok, yes, the governor has declared a state of…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:54PMFriday, March 6, 2020
Below is the hour-long video and audio of the TCG Webinar, in which various experts, such as a professor of epidemiology based in Seattle and the director of theater at the National Endowme…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:07PMIt’s been a battering couple of weeks, what with abandonment, abduction, desperation, murder, genocide, and pandemic – all but the last one happening on New York stages. So although I sa…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:34PMThursday, March 5, 2020
The odd pairing of old Bob Dylan songs with Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s new script about desperate lives during the Great Depression worked well enough when I saw it Off-Broadway in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42PM“Girl from the North Country” is largely the same slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece I saw Off-Broadway. But my reaction to it has changed, for better and for…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:20PMWednesday, March 4, 2020
The first of the many surprises in “The Headlands,” the latest, cleverly crafted play in New York by trickster San Francisco playwright Christopher Chen, comes after Henry (Aaron Yoo) in…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:20PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
With the first reported case of COVID-19 in Manhattan, there is increased concern about the virus among New Yorkers, and that includes theatergoers. New York Governor Cuomo said yesterday th…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:40AMMonday, March 2, 2020
How do you put genocide on stage? Lauren Yee starts with a rock band, which is playing so loudly when we enter that the theater management offers ear plugs for any who request it. A rock con…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33PMA rock concert may seem an odd, even inappropriate, way for a play about genocide to begin, but what comes next is even more jarring in this disorienting, genre-bending show that shifts tone…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:34PMSunday, March 1, 2020
Below is a selection of the abundant New York theater openings in March, organized chronologically by opening date*. Seven shows are opening on Broadway, a jarring mix of royalty and penury,…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:09PMSaturday, February 29, 2020
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in February 2020? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:03PMFriday, February 28, 2020
Molly Brown, a socialite, social activist and survivor of the Titanic disaster in real life — turned into a Tony-winning Tammy Grimes on stage and Debbie Reynolds at her pluckiest on scree…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:32PMMolly Brown, a socialite, social activist and survivor of the Titanic disaster in real life — turned into a Tony-winning Tammy Grimes on stage and Debbie Reynolds at her pluckiest on scree…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:38PMThursday, February 27, 2020
What’s most remarkable about Ivo van Hove’s shake-up of West Side Story is, for all the Belgian director’s ruinous choices – chief among them, an overabundance of distracting video p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54PMWhat’s most remarkable about Ivo van Hove’s shake-up of West Side Story is, for all the Belgian director’s ruinous choices – chief among them, an overabundance of distracting video p…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:30PMWednesday, February 26, 2020
Eighteen thousand New York City public school students went to Madison Square Garden this afternoon to watch a performance of “To Kill A Mockingbird,” becoming reportedly the largest aud…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:08PMWe’re all in pain – because of loneliness or loss, betrayal or illness – and playwright Young Jean Lee wants to offer us some comfort. This might not be immediately apparent, given t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:12AMTuesday, February 25, 2020
We’re all in pain – because of loneliness or loss, betrayal or illness – and playwright Young Jean Lee wants to offer us some comfort. This might not be immediately apparent, given the…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30PMMonday, February 24, 2020
Natalie Portman is Keyonna’s imaginary friend, and also her crush. The 16-year-old has other crushes – all white actresses, pictures of whom she has cut out of magazines and pasted into …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:33PMAs Black History Month comes to an end, a new edition of a book about the white supremacy of Broadway musicals (with the too obviously ironic title of The Great White Way) has been published…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:30PM 
