Theaters have been bursting with announcements of future shows during a week that would normally be one of the busiest of the theater season. Â Thanksgiving on Thursday may be reduced this…
About 15 minutes into the HBO film adaptation of "Between the World and Me", Ta-Nehisi Coates best-selling 2015 book framed as a letter to his son about what it means to be Black in America,…
"The Burdens" is a dark comedy starring William Jackson Harper and Ali Ahn as a brother and a sister who plot to kill their grandfather. But it's also a play on words, and that makes i…
Neil LaBute's surprisingly faithful adaptation of Chekhov's 1899 play nevertheless feels forged in the present day " even in this very moment: The proceedings remind me of a Thanksgiving din…
"Existentialism; that word puts us to sleep," master clown Bill Irwin was saying on my computer screen, "even though true questions of existence…keep us awake at night." The word "Existent…
There are many terrific-sounding shows opening this weekend, listed in my day-by-day monthly calendar but the seven plays below are treats for serious theater lovers " which is not to sa…
Actors' Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA have resolved their differences over streaming theater during the pandemic, a conflict that arose when theater buildings are shut down, and theater c…
Below are half a dozen shows launching on Netflix (and one on HBO) in the weeks before the end of 2020 that theater lovers are likely to love " and not just "The Prom" and "Ma Rainey's Black…
In the nine-minute video below, Billy Porter imagines how he would adapt and direct the 1997 Broadway musical "The Life," which told the story of Black sex workers in Times Square in the 198…
William Berloni sat in front of a mural of some of the dogs he's turned into stars " from Annie, Legally Blonde, Oliver " and explained his method to the members of the American Theatre Crit…
When theater returns, said Hamilton's Christopher Jackson, there will be a party, there will be a collective exhale. "Out of all this madness, and out of all this pain, will grow some opport…
The Broadway League will today be sending out to its producers and theater owners news of a contact tracing system that it hopes will be put in place to make theatergoers feel safe when Broa…
"Until The Flood" is the third play I've seen inspired by the killing by police officer Darren Wilson of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014, each of them atten…
"Out of all this madness, and out of all this pain, will grow some opportunity for new voices, new creators." So says Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical Productions and curren…
Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater since 2005, spoke about the ways theater (and the Public itself) has been shaken up during this time of crisis, in a conversation wit…
Watch Bedlam's The Machine Stops below for a limited time. Directed and adapted by David Keohane from a story by E.M. Forster, it stars Zuzanna Szadkowski, Awesta Zarif, and Miguel Long. …
The Theatre on Film and Tape Archive " TOFT to those in the know " has turned 50. The archive, launched in November 1970 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Cen…
The most timely play you can watch right now is the replay of "Conscience," the story of how Margaret Chase Smith became the lone Republican to speak out against Senator Joseph McCarthy. In …
Watch "Long" below through November 14, written by Charlie Oh, directed by Dustin Wills, starring Daniel Liu, Christian DeMarais, Tara Summers, Raymond Lee. Stage Directions " Alexander Shaw…
Armie Hammer turns his fingers into an imaginary gun, puts it in his mouth, and pulls the trigger (his thumb.) He is portraying US Army Sergeant Joe Garnier, who is on leave with his wife…
What will the election of Joseph R. Biden Jr as President of the United States do for the theater, and the other arts? "The future of who we are lies in the arts," Biden told Lin-Manuel Mira…
What is the soul of America? It's a question that engaged the composer George Gershwin nearly a century before it became a part of the 2020 American election, as we learn in this fascinating…
"It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric. To lower the temperature. To see each other again.To listen to each other again. To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy…
"And when our very democracy was on the ballot in this election, with the very soul of America at stake, and the world watching, you ushered in a new day for America." "…while I may be the…
"Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been elected president of the United States, defeating President Trump by promising to restore civility and stability to American politics and vowing more aggressive…