5,296 stories from New York Theater
Among his many talents, Mike Nichols had a talent for celebrity, which meant in part a talent for friendship, as we learn early and often in Mike Nichols: A Life (Penguin Press. 688 pages.).…
"Theatre: A Love Story" by Caridad Svich, which opened tonight and runs through March 27, begins with a vertiginous video tour through the streets of the theater district in Cincinnati, unti…
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress," André De Shields thunders as Frederick Douglass, the great 19th century Black orator, writer, social reformer and statesman, in the 45 minut…
After watching last night's streaming of six short plays by the students of Labyrinth's summer workshop as part of the theater company's Barn Series 2021, I was struck by what these shows sa…
The first reaction to "Love Life" (before even watching the Encores! 15-minute video about it with Kate Baldwin and Brian Stokes Mitchell below) has to be: Where have you been all my life? A…
In this virtual production of Theresa Rebeck's 2003 one-woman comedy, Andréa Burns portrays Haley Walker, a Texas divorcee who moved with her daughter and her 600 pairs of shoes to Manhatta…
There was a powerful if unintended lesson over the weekend with the start of the state-sponsored NY Pops Up performances at the cavernous and near-empty Jacob Javits Convention-turned-vaccin…
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between February 22 and February 28. In this final week of the month, Labyrinth Theater is offering an original new play e…
I have spent the past week watching one online theater piece after another that, for remarkably varied reasons, left me debating whether I should commit to saying anything publicly about the…
At the start of MTC's new virtual reading of Richard Wesley's short play "The Past is the Past," available for free through February 28th, a middle aged man named Earl (Ron Cephas Jones, Emm…
Benjamin Scheuer ("The Lion") and the Birmingham Royal Ballet collaborate on this five minute video, "dedicated to the ambition to keep ballet and performance alive." It illustrates Scheuer'…
Jose Zambrano courted Julie Piñero so playfully that he Photoshopped silly made-up pictures of them together as a couple " outside Times Square without pants, for example. This caused…
A 19th century Shakespearean actor, 20th century opera stars, a 21st century choreographer " these are among the artists that the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln C…
In this third and final episode of Rattlestick Theater's Village Song, the young songwriting students from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts illustrate once again the paradox of Greenwich Vi…
Indoor dining reopened in New York City last week, area arenas are scheduled to reopen next week, New York State is launching  New York Pops Up initiative (in-person performan…
Whatever the future holds for a certain criminally inclined former President of the United States, one thing seems assured: Somebody will eventually portray him on Broadway. (He's already…
Below are the day-by-day theater openings from February 15 to 21st. In this third week of what's normally a fallow theater month, we get a return to in-person performances, with the launch o…
Smooching is not exactly a lost art this Valentine's Day; it's more like in storage, along with many other practices, onstage and off. But it's a good day to remember how much theater has re…
These nine members of Congress served as the impeachment "managers," prosecuting the cast against former President Donald Trump, in a trial that resulted in an acquittal, although the vote w…
On Abraham Lincoln's 212th birthday, which happens to be the day that lawyers mount a defense of the impeached 45th president, a member of a Republican party that the 16th president of the U…
Of the 94 books on the Black Liberation Reading List from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center, only three are plays: "Fences" by August Wilson, "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine H…
Below are photographs from productions of the "Negro Unit" of the Federal Theatre Project, some 30 of which were staged at Lafayette Theater in Harlem, between 1935 and 1939. They range from…
I was so enthusiastic about the first episode last week in this Rattlestick Theater series about Greenwich Village written by musical theater graduate students at NYU " that my disappointmen…
Below are photographs of 50 of the stars, listed alphabetically by first name from Alec Baldwin to Tina Landau, who have signed up so far for NY Pops-Up, the series of free performances thro…
Four legendary actors died within little more than a week of one another, all in their nineties, long lifetimes devoted to their art. The latest Christopher Plummer and Hal Holbrook. It w…
