There is no "return to normal," says Alex Poohs, artistic director of The Shed in the interview below. But there is a return.Of all the theaters that the pandemic forced to shut down in New …
I had a mixed reaction to the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Dream," a 30-minute online experiment inspired by the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which is being presented l…
In both the film "Nomadland," nominated for six Academy Awards, and the play "Passing Through," the first musical that Goodspeed is presenting virtually,  a  lone character trave…
These arts-related cartoons are part of the Cartoon Campaign created by a partnership between the artist activist group Be An #ArtsHero and Counterpoint, a group of editorial cartoonists …
Beware the Ides of March, indeed. A year ago today, the mayor shut down all remaining New York City theaters (the governor had shut Broadway three days earlier).   "I think we a…
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 15 and March 21. This includes the return of Viral Monologues on its first anniversary, a celebration of …
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations in 23 categories for the 93rd annual Oscars,which will air on ABC on April 25 (delayed because of the pandemic.) "Ma…
"I was in denial, I knew it was all a mistake, Kathleen would be calling any minute," Sandy Duncan as Peg says about her daughter, killed during 9/11 in "Middletown," a play by Dan Cla…
Jagged Little Pill wins best musical album at the 63rn annual Grammy Awards. Alanis Morissette's original album was the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1996. The new musical (my review) crea…
"I see unbelievable passion, dedication and drive from artists," Chita Rivera, masked, says in the video below, one of the Broadway stars who that joined dancers and a small crowd in face ma…
It was a fitting way to spend the afternoon of a grim anniversary, Women's Day on Broadway, a two-hour virtual conference that felt at times more like a support group, full of candor about i…
No the virtual reunion reading of Three Days of Rain doesn't star Julia Roberts or Bradley Cooper " but that is a good thing. The two made their Broadway debuts in a 2006 productio…
Below are the winners of the ACTAs " American Connected Theater Awards* " for theatrical storytelling created and presented online during the year between March 2020 and March 2021. These ar…
"Lifeboat Drill," an obscure 1979 play by Tennessee Williams, and "For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls," Christopher Durang's better-known 1994 parody of Williams' "The Glass Menagerie," were …
From Stars in the House to Jake Gyllenhaal singing an original mini-musical, from Ratatouille the TikTok Musical to Sondheim's 90th birthday concert, as well as countless Zoom readings and r…
In the year since the threat from COVID-19 shuttered first Broadway (on March 12, 2020) and then the remaining physical stages in New York (on March 15), there has been much suffering " l…
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 8 and March 14, which coincides with the anniversary of the shutdown of physical stages in New York. It's am…
"To The Moon" begins with scenes of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden  in "The Honeymooners" showing his fist to Audrey Meadows as his wife Alice ("To the moon, Alice"), and ends some tw…
"Jericho," Jack Canfora's 2011 play about two characters directly affected by 9/11, should have repelled me. It uses sitcom rhythms, Jewish stereotypes, the hoary devices of a sympathetic gh…
"We are in an irregular time," one college administrator says to another, an excuse for why the school bureaucracy has so failed to meet the challenge of the pandemic period that its losses …
An actor on the autism spectrum writes about how theater is "a surprisingly welcoming place," and you can see how some theater bloggers over the past month have been reacting to a year of is…
The Music Box Theater on Broadway is among the theaters scheduled to reopen on April 2nd for a series of NY PopsUp events, that will serve as a "pilot program" for safety protocols "that wil…
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Voting for the Tony Awards starts today, and in less than four months New Yorkers will start voting for mayor. The candidates have been offering their plans on how to bring back Broadway, wh…
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 1 and March 7, including the launching of galas and festivals celebrating Women's History Month, science, da…