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Virtual Theater: TINY HOUSE (Westport Country Playhouse)
IT’S A TINY WORLD, AFTER ALL How I love this company! But being an L.A.-based theater fan, it’s admittedly a tough drive. One of the very few bright sides to COVID is that great outfits can be sent right to your home. Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut will open its all-virtual 2021 production season with the…
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Broadway: LACKAWANNA BLUES, Off-Broadway: MORNING SUN (Manhattan Theatre Club)
TWO TO LOOK OUT FOR IN THE FALL Performance dates have been announced for Manhattan Theatre Club‘s two previously announced productions that will reopen MTC’s Broadway and off-Broadway stages this fall: Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s sweeping saga, Lackawanna Blues, which I saw at The Taper in Los Angeles, will debut on Broadway Tuesday, September 14, 2021 and…
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Virtual Theater: BKLYN THE MUSICAL (Broadway on Demand)
BKLYN The Musical tells a tapestry of stories as rich and inspiring as the borough that inspired it. There is a girl named Brooklyn, searching for the father she never knew. There is a troupe of street performers, struggling to be heard as artists… and seen as human beings. And there is an epic battle…
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Broadway: TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL (Lunt-Fontanne)
TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL will reopen at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street) on Friday, October 8, 2021. Nominated for 12 Tony Awards, tickets ($79.00 – $199.00) are now on sale at Ticketmaster. There is a digital lottery, The performance schedule is as follows: Tuesday and Thursday at 7pm and Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, with matinees on…
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Book Review: BROADWAY GOES TO WAR: AMERICAN THEATER DURING WORLD WAR II (Robert L. McLaughlin & Sally E. Perry)
THIS MEANS WAR, ER, ENTERTAINMENT “War, war, war! This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this Spring! I get so bored I could scream!” That of course is Scarlett O’Hara talking about the Civil War, but the sentiment resonated with a great many Americans in 1939. As Robert L. McLaughlin and Sally…
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NY Theater: SEVEN DEADLY SINS (Tectonic Theater Project & Madison Wells Live)
WELCOME ALL SINNERS! Following Miami New Drama’s acclaimed, sold-out run along Miami’s famed Lincoln Road, Seven Deadly Sins comes to New York City’s Meatpacking District for a strictly limited engagement produced by Tectonic Theater Project and Madison Wells Live. No subject is taboo as audiences rotate through seven uniquely designed storefronts, exploring the depths of desire, jealousy, rage,…
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Theater Review: WAITING FOR GODOT (The New Group Off Stage)
ZOOM AND DOOM AND GLOOM IN A ROOM Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is not an easy play to write about, let alone produce, act, or even watch. It’s challenging, opaque, and ambiguous. On the surface, it’s about nothing at all. Deep down, however, it’s about everything. It carries a multiplicity of meanings that accumulate like…
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Off-Off-Broadway: OCCASIONALLY NOTHING (Theater for the New City)
Life, the play says, is the time in between the sometimes which sometimes happen. Is that post-truth enough for you? Brad Fryman. It was inevitable, perhaps, that post-truth politics would seep into 21st century absurdist theater. One sunny example is Occasionally Nothing by Natalie Menna, which takes us to an upsetting time-to-come when something can…
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Theater: LIVE FROM GRAMERCY PARK AT THE PLAYERS
Theater streaming platform Broadway On Demand is presenting the world premiere of Live from Gramercy Park at The Players hosted by musical director Lance Horne. This nine-part documentary concert series features evenings of eclectic entertainment that celebrate the best of New York City’s cultural landscape and is dedicated to presenting celebrated music, theater, and cabaret stars, while…
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Theater: THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG (Spotlight on Plays)
The Spotlight on Plays series announces the full company for Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig. Three very different sisters reunite after a lengthy separation and discover humanity, respect, and love in this definitive serious comedy about sisterhood. Anna D. Shapiro (August: Osage County) directs Jason Alexander as “Mervyn,” John Behlmann as “Geoffrey,” Lisa Edelstein as “Sara,” Kathryn Hahn as “Gorgeous,” Kathryn Newton as “Tess,” Tracee Chimo Pallero as “Pfeni,” Chris Perfetti as “Tom,”…
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Theater: WATCH ON THE RHINE (Spotlight on Plays)
The “Spotlight on Plays” series announces the full company for Lillian Hellman’s Watch on the Rhine starring Academy award winner Ellen Burstyn. It will premiere on Thursday, May 13 at 8PM EST/5PM PST and will be available for a limited time only. Purchase tickets by 7:59PM ET on 5/11: $12. Tickets Purchased after 8:00PM ET 5/11: $18 On demand playback is available with all tickets through 6:00pm…
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Broadway: SECOND STAGE THEATER (New Season, Fall 2021)
Second Stage Theater has confirmed three Broadway productions at the Hayes Theater (240 West 44th Street) and two Off-Broadway productions at the Kiser Theater (305 West 43rd Street) for the return season, beginning performances in fall of 2021. As the only theater on Broadway dedicated exclusively to living American playwrights, Second Stage is thrilled to bring…
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Theater / Dance: SHARE THE FLOOR (Broadway on Demand)
Broadway On Demand, the industry-leading theater streaming platform, is proud to present a new, completely free, dance and social movement series, Share the Floor, created by Christopher Gattelli with Phil LaDuca and hosted by Vasthy Mompoint, launching this International Dance Day, tomorrow, Thursday, April 29, 2021. Share the Floor, conceived and created by Gattelli to showcase BIPOC choreographers and those from underrepresented populations in the…
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Broadway Preview: THE GREAT GATSBY (A New Musical)
A pre-Broadway engagement will be announced shortly for a musical stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary novel The Great Gatsby, A New Musical. With lyrics by Grammy Award-nominated international rock star of Florence + the Machine Florence Welch and music by Florence Welch & Oscar and Grammy Award nominee Thomas Bartlett, THE GREAT GATSBY, A New Musical will feature a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna…
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New York Theater: SHOWING UP (The Civilians)
Coming up on April 16, the New York Theater Company The Civilians is presenting Showing Up, a free live streamed evening of music and performance inspired by photographer Accra Shepp’s portraits of Black Lives Matter activists. Showing Up will be hosted by Nidra Sous la Terre with Actors: Becca Blackwell Cecil Blutcher Sheldon Best Marsha Stephanie Blake…
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New York Theater: HOUSEWIVES OF SECAUCUS: WHAT A DRAG! (Actors Temple Theatre)
An open-ended run of The Housewives of Secaucus: What a Drag! is beginning LIVE performances on Saturday, May 1 at 8pm ET. This new interactive musical comedy at Actors Temple, (339 West 47th Street) will be the first show to perform at the theatre since March 13, 2020 – when Black Angels Over Tuskegee was forced…
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Theater Concert: SUTTON FOSTER: BRING ME TO LIGHT (New York City Center)
FOSTERING IN THE LIGHT New York City Center is offering a new digital program which was filmed live: Sutton Foster|Bring Me to Light. Foster does one mean concert, and now she’s taking over City Center for an event with friends celebrating their connections to the historic theater and reflecting on the challenges facing all of…
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Virtual Theater: THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS (THE MUSICAL!) (York Theater Company Fundraiser)
The York Theatre Company has announced an all-star cast for its upcoming virtual benefit presentation of The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!). The event will raise funds to help the York recover and rebuild after devastating damage from a water main break on January 4. The performance will premiere on Sunday, April 18, at 7pm and will…
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Off-Broadway: A LETTER TO HARVEY MILK (Virtual Benefit)
The Off-Broadway musical, A Letter to Harvey Milk, presented at Theatre Row in 2018, will be presented as a benefit online beginning April 22-25, 2021, featuring members of the original cast’s 6-month run. San Francisco. 1986. What could Harry, an amiable but lonely retired kosher butcher, have in common with Barbara, his young lesbian writing…
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Auction: STAGE AND SCREEN (Benefitting the Actors’ Fund)
The Actors Fund, Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers and Christine Baranski are teaming up on an auction event without precedent: “Stage & Screen.” Featuring a diverse array of memorabilia from the performing arts including Theater, Hollywood, Opera, and Dance, lots include original drawings, scenic and costume designs, photographs, meaningful wardrobe and one-of-a-kind memorabilia. Collectors and fans around the…
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