"There now is such a great sense of urgency, but for what? Where will it end?" Richard Apple (Jay O. Sanders) says in this sixth play written and directed by Richard Nelson in the decade-old…
As you might have heard, a filmed version of the Broadway musical "Hamilton" " live-captured from the stage of the Richard Rodgers Theater in 2016, and featuring the original Broadway cast "…
Click here for July 1 openings Below is the day-by-day calendar of "theater openings"* in July, 2020. The big news is the release of "Hamilton"Â online at Disney Plus " and (less hyped) th…
How well were you paying attention to the news and reviews of theater in June? Answer these ten questions to find out.
#Stageworthy News of the Week With several Broadway producers last week announcing specific rescheduled opening dates in Spring 2021 for their shows " American Buffalo, The Minutes, Music Ma…
Playwright David Adjmi's delightful new book Lot Six: A Memoir (Harper Collins, 388 pages) is the most entertaining theater memoir I've read since  Act One, the gold standard of theatrica…
I've offered a preview guide to the new shows of the coming Broadway season every year since this blog began in 2012, and I'm continuing the tradition below. Â It's different this time ar…
Below are a selection of "theater openings" today, including the much anticipated "Lungs" starring the royal leads from The Crown, the Off-Broadway production of Gloria (about Gloria Steinem…
"How are you getting through these days?" Thomas Sadoski asks. "At first I felt like Anne Frank but with Amazon Prime," Jennifer Carpenter answers…"Now I've decided my apartment is a state…
Maribel and her daughter Jessie (Kecia Lewis and Antoinette Crowe-Legacy), in quarantine thousands of miles apart, first gossip about "Downton Abbey" " Â how Lady Mary had sex with a diplo…
In a world full of pandemic and podcasts, there is surely still room for theater…and theater blogs. The theater bloggers this month seem focused on one of two themes " either the current u…
#Stageworthy News of the Week. Hamilton is in the news five years after it opened on stage:Â Disney released the first trailer of the Hamilton film, which will begin July 3 online at Disne…
Loud, Proud and Virtual: If the 50th anniversary NYC Pride March has been canceled due to COVID-19, this year's LGBT+ Pride Week events are as varied as the community, from rallies to partie…
 In honor of Father's Day, here are songs by fathers, or about fathers, in a range of Broadway musicals " Be More Chill, Kinky Boots, Hamilton…. He Lives in You from The Lion King Soli…
Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun, (Rutgers University Press, 246 pages) is an exercise in frustration, for two reasons. Charles Mason's sur…
Here are the winners of the inaugural Antonyo Awards, honoring African-American theater artists on and Off Broadway. The winners were chosen by public vote from nominees announced June 3. Be…
Juneteenth, an annual holiday celebrating the end of slavery, will be marked differently this, its 155th year, with Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the nation, including at least th…
In what may well be the last New York theater award of 2020, the 86th annual Drama League Awards have been announced, chosen by the organization's nationwide membership, from the usual long …
Theater itself makes an appearance almost halfway through Diana Oh's "h8 letter" to it, in the person of a middle aged white man (Joshua Young.) "You're doing so good," Theater tells Oh. Oh …
 MCC presents its latest live reading of a play in the LiveLabs One Acts series, written by Aziza Barnes, and directed by Whitney White. "Two black femmes tend bar in East L.A. until the…
Thirty New York theaters, from Abrons Art Center to WP Theater, are calling on their patrons to lobby New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and the New York City Council to reset their prioriti…
Every year for decades, New York theaters, bookstores and Irish pubs celebrate June 16 as Bloomsday, the day in the life of Leopold Bloom that is chronicled exhaustively in James Joyce's nov…
#Stageworthy News of the Week. In the mere three weeks since George Floyd was killed, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has received intense attention and growing support. Calls for racial just…
Below are 20 recently published or forthcoming books about theater, listed under four categories: Scripts and Play Anthologies; Biographies and Memoirs Theater History, Criticism and Referen…
  "A Strange Loop" and "The Inheritance" were the  big winners in the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement in the truncated 2019-2020 season  by professional…