Ben Platt reprises his Tony-winning role as an anxious, isolated high school student in the film of the 2017 Tony winning best Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen," scheduled for release on S…
This half-hour piece, billed as "a video docudrama," manages to work in several of the infamous apologies from the #MeToo era. "The Sprezzaturameron," available for free on the Baryshnikov A…
In a series of video interviews with the leading candidates for mayor of New York City, the New York Times asked each for their favorite Broadway show. (Shaun Donovan said that his high scho…
Watch the video of Miscast below, available through May 20th. For the 21st year in a row (and the second year on YouTube), MCC Theater's fundraiser showcased Broadway stars performing songs …
Play-PerView has done a mitzvah for those of us who missed this savage comedy about bickering college-age cousins when it was first produced Off-Broadway; "Bad Jews" was the first New York p…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 15 and May 21, 2021, including three free (mostly outdoor) theater festivals, Miscast21, two virtual tours of Broad…
This is the third time I've seen Nia Vardalos' moving, funny stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's best-selling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns. If I can't embrace all the choices t…
Below are photographs from the exhibition "A Dozen Dreams,", at Brookfield Place's Winter Garden through May 30. "I used to have vivid dreams," the playwright Rehana Lew Mirza says into my h…
The Republicans in the House of Representatives by voice vote ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership position today because she insists on telling the truth about Donald Trump. "Today, w…
Below is my annual preview guide of Broadway openings chronological by opening date " a list with a twist this year: It's also Broadway reopenings…of shows that have been on the Great Brig…
Hamilton, The Lion King and Wicked have announced reopening dates of September 14, the earliest possible date, with Aladdin on September 28 and Tina the Musical on October 8. Tickets are ava…
Broadway musicals are making the reopening feel real, with tickets back on sale and specific opening dates announced: Chicago, Sept 14. Six, Sept 17. Come From Away, Sept 21. Aint Too …
The latest free reading from Roundabout's new Refocus Project, "I Gotta Home," is a 1940 play about a financially challenged preacher, his large rambunctious family, and his long-lost sister…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 8 and May 14, 2021, including TWO tributes to Kander and Ebb (at the exact same time!), TWO new works about the eff…
It must have seemed the exact right time to produce "Waiting for Godot," the bleak, sardonic, enigmatic play about a pair of scruffy pals trying to stay connected and hopeful during a time o…
Near the end of "The Woman's Party," Clubbed Thumb's clever, stylishly designed three-part dramatization of an odd, little-known moment in the history of the fight for women's rights, Alice …
It would be too glib to call Jeremy Jordan pop hot and Marilyn Maye jazz cool. Both these terrifically talented and engaging singers can either belt or croon at will. But there is an astonis…
Starting today, Broadway can start selling tickets for shows that can open or reopen at full capacity beginning September 14. That was what New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday…
A young widow is framed for a murder she didn't commit, and her ghost causes a three-year drought as revenge, forcing the community to acknowledge her innocence: That's the story told in "Th…
"Major Reopening" is what New York Governor Andrew Cuomo headlined the announcement from all three governors of the tri-state region that starting May 19th there will be "a significant ea…
Michael Gene Jacobs slept in the same bed as his mother throughout his childhood, but they never touched. Now, he tells us speaking as his mother, he realizes why: "'I can't afford to coddle…
It's challenging even just to describe "The Waves in Quarantine," a digital "Theatrical Experiment in 6 Movements" starring six beloved  Broadway veterans,  which is available fo…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* " both online and in person! " that is opening between May 1 and May 7: a starry Waiting for Godot, musical celebrations of the lives of actres…
After the fascinating first episode last week of Clubbed Thumb's "The Woman's Party," there was no way I was going to miss the second of this three-part play about the little-remembered Nati…
Watch the 40-minute play by Julia Izumi below Theater in Quarantine returns with another "Youtube theater thingy," as Joshua William Gelb refers to this latest original, off kilter play that…