At 91, John Cullum has had a long and remarkably varied Broadway career,  spanning six decades and some 30 shows " musicals ranging from "Camelot" to "Urinetown," straight plays from "…
This thrillingly-sung new version of Jason Robert Brown's beloved (and problematic) musical about love lost (and gained) almost feels like a laboratory experiment in pandemic theater. Will t…
Erika Dickerson-Despenza and her play "cullud wattah" have won the the 43rd Annual Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and $25,000 The play is about a family of Black women struggling to survi…
So there is poet and refugee Evgeny Shtorn in front of me reciting his poem "From the Confinement," a title I find ironic, given that he's speaking on the beautiful green shore of a ca…
"You're a lame duck, you're a stream,"  a character was screaming oddly, just as my screen froze while watching  the streaming of the play "Cock."  Was this a problem with…
Broadway reopened over the weekend …for 36 minutes (as a New York Times headline put it) with a double bill: Savion Glover in a one-man musical, and Nathan Lane in "Playbills!" a monologue…
Below is the full text of Paul Rudnick's "Playbills," the first play presented on a Broadway stage in more than a year " in a one-time-only socially-distanced matinee on Saturday at the St. …
Mike Daisey performed his latest monologue to 22 masked and vaccinated theatergoers in person Friday night at the 99-seat Kraine Theater in the East Village, and simultaneously to another 50…
"…you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on," Samuel Beckett wrote in 1953; Terry Teachout quotes that line in his blog About Last Night, right before his entry on the same day that he …
Below is the day-to-day listing of theater that is opening in the month of April* " which includes digital theater, and in-person shows (three on April 2! Another on April 9) in addition to …
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in March? Answer these dozen questions " about the anniversary of the lockdown and awards and vaccines and in-person and…
Below are the nominations for the 87th Annual Drama League Awards, the first major theater award to honor the theater that has been created this year " which is to say digital theater.…
As the first New York theaters reopen at reduced capacity this coming Friday, the hope for a wider reopening rests on a stepping up of vaccinations. To that end, there was good news on the f…
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 To Do…
"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 Art…
Today 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 Theat…
"[hieroglyph]," a play by Erika Dickerson-Despenza, begins with a mystery:Â Â Why is a teenager named Davis placing strange symbols on her drawings for art class? They are disturbing eno…
"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 mobile v…
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 theater…
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 lea…
In 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…
"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 reduced ca…
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…
The Irish Rep's award-winning season continues with its tenth online production since the shutdown, "The Aran Islands,"Â Â which demonstrates the glory and the beauty of Irish storytelli…
"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 elect…