Below watch Super Bowl commercials featuring Daveed Diggs, Big Bird, Nick Jonas, Timothée Chalamet, Winona Ryder, Michael B. Jordan and Nick Jonas, both young and old, Matthew McConaughey i…
Inauguration poet Amanda Gorman recites her new poem "Chorus of the Captains" in the pre-show of Super Bowl LV. The poem below recognizes "three honorary game captains the NFL has chosen for…
Valentine's Day and Black History Month each influence several works of theater opening this week, February 8-14, 2021, listed day by day below. Â The Valentine-oriented shows this week r…
"Shakespeare, for all intents and purposes, invented the character we now call The Villain," Patrick Page claims near the beginning of his solo show, presented online by the Shakespeare Thea…
While watching "Simply Sondheim," the third virtual concert of Sondheim songs that I've viewed during the pandemic, I suddenly recalled an argument I had with a fellow usher at the New York …
Theater bloggers this past month are taking in the changes in the art form in order to riff on what the future might be " or should be. At the same time, many are recalling what once was on …
I grew up in Greenwich Village, and live there still, which is one reason why I was thrilled by the five musical numbers of Village Song, all set in the Village, all about either historic…
Watch "Blood Meal" below Billed as a "satirical thriller" about a young couple whose home is overtaken by blood-sucking insects, "Blood Meal" didn't seem for me; I'm not a horror buff. …
Black History Month begins bittersweet, with the death last week of Cicely Tyson, an actress whose electrifying portrayals of resilient Black women served as inspiration for many; the new Au…
Below is a selection of streaming plays that are opening day by day in the first week of February " a reunion reading of a play by Billy Porter, a Sondheim concert, and a slew of shows honor…
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in January? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
Given how many theater advocates are calling these days for "a new Federal Theatre Project," this newly-published book about the first one is, if nothing else, well timed. In The Federal The…
After 29 years of marriage " and, more to the point, ten months of Covid lockdown together " Gale (Becky Ann Baker)Â Â tells her husband Perry (Dylan Baker) she needs a breather, in "The…
Cicely Tyson, nine-time Broadway veteran, a Tony winner at age 88 for The Rip to Bountiful, was best known as "an actress whose electrifying portrayals of resilient Black women…brought som…
Watch "Three Hotels" below through Saturday January 30, 2021 Bobby Cannavale and Marisa Tomei portray a couple who began in the Peace Corps aiming to change the world and found that the worl…
"Rent" opened Off-Broadway 25 years ago today at the New York Theatre Workshop, which will mark the anniversary in March with a starry streaming fundraising gala. Â The opening came a day …
"The Catastrophist," streaming today through February 28th, is a timely, informative and often eye-opening portrait of a widely respected virologist " a man whose job it is to study viruses …
Watch Asè below. York Walker's 18-minute play, a broad and brutal satire of workplace insensitivity, is the first piece in a series called Consequences, a joint project of Harlem9, Harlem S…
What it took to put on the Inaugural festivities in " a twitchy, locked-down Washington, less than two weeks after a deadly insurrection, during a pandemic" In a word: resilience Resilience …
It's a thrilling last week of January for theater lovers: Bobby Cannivale and Marisa Tomei in a play by Jon Robin Baitz; Tomei again and Oscar Isaac in a play about an unnamed illness; a wor…
You can see Chita Rivera in three different shows during this jam-packed weekend, which also features theater festival offerings, a starry reading of a Pulitzer-winning play; a reunion readi…
Bernadette Peters and Anais Mitchell were among the Broadway enthusiasts who joined the nation riffing on the photograph of Bernie Sanders comfortably sitting with mask and colorful mittens …
Below: Watch Lady Gaga singing The National Anthem and JLo This Land Is Your Land in the morning; and in the evening, dozens of Broadway stars performing "Seasons of Love" from Rent and "Let…
 Below, watch 22-year-old National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman read aloud her poem  "The Hill We Climb" at the Inauguration of  President Joseph Biden and Vice President Kama…
"We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts," Joseph R. Bid…