New York

IRISH REP ANNOUNCES NEW FALL SEASON When it comes to online theater, which basically began with the COVID-19 shutdown, no other company in the States has offered more compelling evidence for the new medium than Irish Rep. Their production of The Weir was more effective for me than the Original Broadway outing, and spending an…

OPEN WIDE La MaMa’s  59th season “Breaking It Open” will explore how new work is created, performed and viewed in a global pandemic. Artist Residents will be given the time, space, and resources to make work using new creative tools and formats at the intersection of online and live theater performance. La MaMa’s creative community is…

“STARS IN THE HOUSE” CELEBRATES 200th EPISODE WITH A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM WITH BEN STILLER, OWEN WILSON, CARLA GUGINO, AND MORE Seth Rudetsky  and  James Wesley  announced today that the landmark 200th  episode of “Stars in the House” will reunite the cast of “Night at the Museum” in support of The Actors Fund!    LIVE on  Thursday, September 10th  at 8 PM…

MISCAST TO PERFECTION OK, for all of you theater fans who have been grumbling you can’t get into MCC Theatre’s Miscast, this year it’s coming to you — digitally, naturally. This annual New York gala — where the biggest stars of stage and screen take the stage to sing songs from roles in which they…

BLOCK IS CHOCKABLOCK WITH FUN AND TALENT Seth Rudetsky’s fun and insightful Broadway concert series that first began in Provincetown at The Art House in 2011 is now a weekly virtual series titled The Seth Concert Series. I caught his live conversation-and-song episode with Stephanie J. Block, (The Cher Show, Falsettos) and it was positively…

SIERRA BOGGESS AND KAREN OLIVO JOIN THE SETH CONCERT SERIES VIRTUAL LINE-UP: JEREMY JORDAN TO RETURN FOR ALL NEW SHOW   

A HAM-CHANGE IS COMING Award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton will come together for the final HAM4CHANGE virtual event on August 15, 2020, to support organizations focused on ending systematic racism. For tickets, visit HAM4CHANGE. Organized by cast members Okieriete Onaodowan and Morgan Marcell, and hosted by Andrew Chappelle, the two-hour exclusive livestream will be hosted on…

LOVE, NOí‹L: THE SONGS AND LETTERS OF NOí‹L COWARD A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN Written and Devised by  Barry Day Directed by  Charlotte Moore Filmed at  The Players Starring  Steve Ross  and  KT Sullivan August 11 – 15, 2020 Noël Coward would have loved that his name appears twice in  Love, Noël: The Letters and Songs of Noël Coward, which will be shown…

LAWFUL ENTRY Tonight, the cast of LA Law will join hosts Seth Rudetsky  and  James Wesley  on Stars in the House LIVE at 8pm ET on the Stars in the House YouTube channel. Former staffers of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, including  Corbin Bernsen  (Arnie Becker),  Susan Dey  (Grace van Owen),  Jill Eikenberry  (Ann Kelsey),  Michele Greene  (Abby Perkins),  Harry Hamlin  (Michael Kuzak),  Alan Rachins  (Douglas Brackman, Jr.),  Jimmy Smits  (Victor Sifuentes),  Michael…

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES Tonight through August 8, the extraordinary 2020 company members of The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals  will begin their weeklong intensive with their very own edition of the Viral Monologues, available at 24 Hour Plays. Together, the young artists chosen for this rigorous professional experience will write, rehearse, perform and produce…

ORIGINAL CAST MEMBERS OF THE JACKSONIAN UNITE FOR WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING The New Group will present as part of its Reunion Reading Series Beth Henley’s The Jacksonian. featuring original cast members Juliet Brett, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, and Bill Pullman, with Jane Krakowski in the role originally played by Glenne Headly. The event, which will…