Below is the hour-long celebration tonight of Joel Grey's 88th year (the number of keys on a piano) and his EIGHTY-YEAR career, via Stars in the House, with Joel Grey himself, his daughter J…
Darren Criss has performed in only two Broadway musicals, one as a replacement for three weeks; he was about to co-star in the revival of a David Mamet play opening this month on Broadway……
Chita Rivera, born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, has a Broadway career going back 70 years, to the original "Guys and Dolls," where she was a dancer. Luckily, she has re-created the …
"Prime" and "Play in Your Bathtub" both reflect an exciting and unconventional new use of audio for theater in the absence of physical theaters. They are different in many ways, and also …
Bernadette Peters, born Bernadette Lazarro in Ozone Park, has a Broadway career that goes back more than 60 years; it's hard to find performances from many of her 16 shows on YouTube, althou…
The schedule for most theater awards is still uncertain, as it is for theater as a whole, given that the fight against the coronavirus has resulted in the closing of New York theaters in …
Audra McDonald has won six Tony Awards performing in a dozen plays and musicals on Broadway. Below are videos organized roughly in chronological order that " not always perfectly, but someti…
There are at least three ways in which anyone must view the remarkable livestreamed reading of Terrence McNally's 30-year-old play on YouTube on April 6th (the video of which you can view be…
In the first week of April, as the news remained scary and theaters remained closed, theater " and especially theater music " became a balm. Mrs. Doubtfire didn't open on Sunday, the first o…
Terrence McNally considered Shakespeare and Chekhov his gods, and Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera his goddesses; he learned a lot from all four. That's what he tells us within the first few p…
At least 10 healthcare workers from New York City have died of COVID-19. Here is  who they are. More than 100 healthcare workers have died worldwide from the coronavirus. Years ago, my au…
You can currently buy tickets for dates in April to shows that were on Broadway when Governor Andrew Cuomo shut down all the theaters on March 12th for at least a month. On Telecharge and Ti…
With this performance of Musicians of the New York Philharmonic , which has canceled all in-person performances through June 13th, continues online with this remote performance of Ravel's…
The U.S. Labor Department reported the loss of 10 million jobs nationally in the last two weeks. No region and no industry are immune. So it's no surprise, but still a shock, at the unemploy…
How much were you paying attention to theater news and views, on stage and online, in the month of March? Answer these 14 questions and find out.
There are no "openings" on stage likely this month, but there is much to see online for theater lovers and screen enthusiasts alike. Â Below is more than just the usual streaming services …
"Plague shaped Shakespeare's life," Kathryn Harkup writes in her new book. Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts (Bloomsbury Sigma, 368 pages, May 2020 publication da…
Congress passed, and the president signed, a $2 trillion stimulus deal that includes specific relief for arts organizations and artists, although advocates say not enough. Officially titled …
More than 70 students at the Berklee College of Music created this video of Burt Bacharach/Hal David's classic What The World Needs Now. And they're not alone. All the music videos below wer…
This month's roundup of some of the latest posts from the few still active theater bloggers offers varying reactions and responses to COVID-19, from practical (Broadway & Me, JK Theater …
 Today is the 59th annual World Theatre Day. Created in 1961, it  is celebrated annually on March 27. With much of the world in lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, we may …
Step-by-step advice for surviving isolation from an astronaut, a journalist, and a political prisoner, who each spent long stretches alone. Click on the links and look at the videos for elab…
In "The Siblings Play," a teenage girl and her two brothers are left to raise one another in a Harlem apartment where the rent is past due, after first their father and then their mother aba…
Theater Wit's production of Mike Lew's play, which is running online through April 19th, has changed the way we view this teenage comedy turned melodrama based on Shakespeare's "Richard III"…
Playwright Terrence McNally, 81, has died, Â reportedly from complications from the coronavirus. His prolific career included winning Tony Awards for the plays "Love! Valour! Compassion!" …