A HOMER RUN The 90-minute one-act play An Iliad is a stunning marvel. This retelling of the famous epic The Iliad, attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer, is not a straight reading of…
DON'T MYTH THIS Myths and Hymns is a kaleidoscopic song cycle that explores the nature of faith and longing in a secular world. With it, MasterVoices is exploring the nature of choral …
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER LANGUAGE… Since COVID-19's halting live theater, there have been two different entertainments emerging. One is plays, concerts and music performed either through ZOOM o…
A DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THEATRE STARRING PETER COYOTE PREMIERES VIRTUALLY MARCH 25 " APRIL 11, 2021 Quantum Leap Productions will present Riders of the Purple Sage: The Making of a Western …
Hey, folks, last night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Audra McDonald discussed a year without Broadway, raved about the star-studded cast of The Good Fight and shared her experience meeting…
THEATER BY MAIL..? HEAVEN SENT! A collective of 13 theater companies and individual artists from 8 cities across the globe have joined forces for Post Theatrical, a festival of works that us…
AN INSIDE TWO-PART LOOK AT THE LIFE AND WORK OF BROADWAY LEGEND JERRY HERMAN Broadway's podcast, The Fabulous Invalid, has today released an epic two-part episode, Jerry Herman: Poet of t…
Art, music and science intersect in UnRavelled, a new drama by award-winning, Los Angeles-based playwright Jake Broder (Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara) and directed by Nike…
THE FORD CONTINUES FREE ONLINE SERIES FROM THE FORD IN L.A. WITH INVERTIGO DANCE THEATRE Thursday, March 11, 2021, 6:30pm PT Set in the aftermath of a natural disaster, Invertigo Dance Theat…
Reuniting The Stars of the Original Cast: Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery, and Bradley Whitford Streaming on demand from Thursday March 11 through Sunday March 21, Manhattan Theatre C…
FREE ONLINE ANNIVERSARY EVENT ON MARCH 8 INCLUDES SONDHEIM Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on December 18, 1990, and closed on Fe…
The world premiere of The Joffrey Ballet's Boléro, filmed at the Gerald Arpino Black Box Theatre, has been playing since last Friday. Now it has been extended, and I highly recommend a v…
CAESAR THE MOMENT Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare's best known and most oft-quoted plays, chronicling the political and moral crisis of Brutus and his fellow conspirators as they plot to…
SANTINO AND SETH Get ready, kids. This Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 8 (LIVE!) and Monday at 3 (EST), the gregarious, gadfly Seth Rudetsky will have as his guest Santino Fontana. Seth " accom…
NOT SO LITTLE ANYMORE On February 2, 2021, A Little New Music continues its "Spotlight Series" with the music of multi-talented composer/lyricist Rob Rokicki of The Lightning Thief: The Perc…
NEED A REASON TO WATCH GREAT ONLINE CONCERTS? HERE'S Y. Beginning Monday February 1, 2021, NYC's 92Y is presenting quite the cavalcade of concerts. From Emanuel Ax to Richard Goode and Danii…
CONNECTING ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD Here comes Films.Dance, an extremely ambitious and most promising global project from one of the hottest leaders in dance. This stunningly shot series exi…
RAILING AGAINST DEPRESSION Being a lover of railroads, especially railroad travel, I still remember this absorbing documentary from PBS's American Experience. Back in 1998, I learned of the …
NEW SEASON TAKES CENTER COURT Chicago's great Court Theatre has sadly had to postpone its production of August Wilson's Two Trains Running, but Owen McCafferty's Titanic (Scenes from the Bri…
PERSONALIZING DIASPORA Perhaps one of the reasons more people aren't wearing masks in the U.S. to protect themselves and others during the COVID pandemic is that, even with 369,000 deaths to…
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND LAYS AHEAD If you think Carl Sagan's Cosmos is mind-blowing, or the way Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. could put history into context is dumbfounding, or Thomas Friedman's Th…
THIS TIME, IT'S A PLAGUE THAT CAUSED THE RAT Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical. Notice in the title that there is no mention of Disney. You know, the folks behind the terrific Pixar 2007 film …
A WORLD APART FROM TYPICAL VIRTUAL FARE Like a breath of fresh air, Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World far exceeded my expectations of both virtual theater and Brown's uneven s…
I HOPE THE FUTURE IS MORE EXCITING THAN THIS The Geffen Playhouse is forging ahead as Geffen Stayhouse, offering another magic show disguised as theater. Following the phenomenal success of …
HOLY CLOSET! Whereas many theater companies are becoming experimenters with video during the COVID-19 shutdown, Theater in Quarantine has been actually transforming theater into a small s…