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The Soap Myth – Tovah Feldshuh & Ed Asner

The Soap Myth – Tovah Feldshuh & Ed Asner

  With theaters around the world dark and the transition of live entertainment to online platforms, Temple Emanuel Streicker Center will commemorate Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with the PBS/WNET film of Jeff Cohen’s acclaimed drama The Soap Myth. The...

Rollins, Brourman, Maggart ‘While There Is Still Time’

Rollins, Brourman, Maggart ‘While There Is Still Time’

      Songwriters Hillary Rollins and Michele Brourman have just released a new song and video, WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME, to raise money for DirectRelief. (www.directrelief.org) Performed by gifted recording artist Maude Maggart, with a video created...

Live at the Lortel – Favorite Performers

Live at the Lortel – Favorite Performers

  The Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation has announced the final guests for the first season of their popular “Live at the Lortel” podcast. In accordance with social distancing guidelines, the podcast was recorded online rather than in-person with an audience at...

24 Hour Plays:Viral Monologues Going Strong on IGTV

24 Hour Plays:Viral Monologues Going Strong on IGTV

  If you haven't seen any of this series, it's time for you to take a look at The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues - a fifth series of memorable performances released last night on IGTV @24hourplays and at https://24hourplays.com/viral-monologues/. 24 actors were...

Theater Ticketing New Streaming Broadway Platform

Theater Ticketing New Streaming Broadway Platform

  TICKETING: "Why you can’t get a refund for a postponed show from Ticketmaster" by CNBC's Sarah Whitten - "There’s a reason you can’t get a refund from Ticketmaster for a postponed concert — the online ticket seller doesn’t have your money. The venue does. “I...

Lucille Lortel Award Nominees Announced

Lucille Lortel Award Nominees Announced

  Nominations for the 35th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced today April 14, by theatre veterans Jeremy Jordan and Ashley Spencer. The Awards will be presented during a special online event on Sunday, May 3,...

Performer Biopics (On Amazon Prime/Netflix)

Performer Biopics (On Amazon Prime/Netflix)

PART I     by Alix Cohen   Edith Piaf - La Vie en Rose 2007 Co-written and Directed by Olivier Dahan. Starring Marion Cotillard. Despite liberties, the film will give you a fairly good sense of “The Little Sparrow” from street urchin childhood, to booed...

Michael Urie Live From His Living Room!

Michael Urie Live From His Living Room!

  Broadway.com will livestream a benefit performance of Jonathan Tolins' hilarious play Buyer & Cellar, starring Michael Urie, who is set to reprise his acclaimed turn live from the living room of his apartment. The event, benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity...

Labor Dispute – One Man Can Right the Wrong AND DOES!

Labor Dispute – One Man Can Right the Wrong AND DOES!

UPDATE: RAY HAIR - PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL AFM REVERSES DECISION AND MUSICIANS' UNION IS NOW IN SOLIDARITY WITH ACTORS EQUITY AND SAG-AFTRA. THE STREAM WILL NOW BE RESCHEDULED!       "Labor Dispute Sinks Broadway Benefit for Pandemic Assistance" by...

JANET DACAL UNVEILS HER “STANDARDS” PROCEDURE

JANET DACAL UNVEILS HER “STANDARDS” PROCEDURE

  By Brian Scott Lipton   While Janet Dacal may not be a household name, theatergoers around the country certainly know her name – from starring in such Broadway shows as In The Heights, Wonderland and Prince of Broadway to the recently aborted national tour...

Seniorly Curtain Up Entertains Isolated Seniors

Seniorly Curtain Up Entertains Isolated Seniors

Ali Stroker (April 13),  Lilli Cooper, Teal Wicks, Ciara Renee, Eric William Michael, Danny Gardner join this week’s lineup for Seniorly Presents: Curtain Up! a live show entertaining isolated seniors , created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.    Seniorly...

Updates Broadway Lincoln Center COVID19

Updates Broadway Lincoln Center COVID19

   "How Can Broadway Recover From This Pandemic?" by Vulture's Mark Harris - "It’s an unequal love affair: We want theater, but theater needs us. And in this pandemic, it is simply gone. It’s a vastly expensive creative, financial, and marketing ecosystem at the...

Costume Designers and URI Making Masks

Costume Designers and URI Making Masks

  This is a story of how out of work Broadway Costume Designers are making a difference lending their skills to help during Covid-19. Meet Beverly Law, Karyn Tomczak,  Annick Vuissoz, as well as other crafty New Yorkers Veena Mosur and Ashley Cannon who responded...

Happy Easter Coronavirus Style

Happy Easter Coronavirus Style

  Easter in the time of coronavirus will not be the same without family and friends attending Church services together or gathering for Easter Sunday Brunch or Dinner. Even the Easter Bunny might have to wear a face mask these days. So it's up to the internet and...

What Closes on Saturday Night?

What Closes on Saturday Night?

  By Beatrice Williams-Rude   When playwright and director George S. Kaufman was asked to define satire he opined “what closes on Saturday night.” Frequently true, especially where there is an anti-intellectual bias. Although seen as an amusement of educated and...

Joe’s Pub Live! Arts and Levity

Joe’s Pub Live! Arts and Levity

  This week’s schedule of performances will feature AJOYO's sophomore album EP release party at Joe’s Pub on Thursday, April 9 at 8PM; immigrant storytelling series This Alien Nation on Friday, April 10 at 8PM;  and Ghanaian-American singer, songwriter, and...

BROADWAY LIVES ON YOUTUBE

BROADWAY LIVES ON YOUTUBE

  By Brian Scott Lipton   For most of us, it’s been nearly a month -- or more -- since we last saw a live musical on Broadway, and there’s no telling when the Great White Way will be ready to turn its lights back on. To satisfy our cravings, many of us have...

Metropolitan Zoom A Video Streaming Open Mic

Metropolitan Zoom A Video Streaming Open Mic

  Bernie Furshpan, the Booking Director at the Triad Theater, has come up with a great idea! Since it's music that gets people through hard times, it's now, more than ever, that we make the best of a bad situation and deal with the coronavirus by hitting the...

Reminder to Broadway Ticket Holders

Reminder to Broadway Ticket Holders

In accordance with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and under the continued direction of Governor Andrew Cuomo, Broadway shows in New York City will extend the current suspension of all performances through June 7, 2020. “Our top priority...

Drama Desk Awards Will Go Online

Drama Desk Awards Will Go Online

  The Drama Desk organization announced today that the 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards, which celebrate outstanding theater on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway, will adopt a revised season end date of March 11, and move forward with the release of...

A Coronavirus Passover

A Coronavirus Passover

  This year Jews will celebrate the Passover gathered around computers, laptops and other devices reading an e-version of the Haggadah finding ways to connect with family and friends via FaceTime or Zoom as they tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt eating...

Paley Center for Media – Lots to See Free

Paley Center for Media – Lots to See Free

  The Paley Center for Media announced a new schedule of weekly offerings for its Paley@Home on YouTube channel, a curated collection of programming of acclaimed Paley Center events. These new programs screen for free on the Paley Center’s YouTube channel, and...

OBIE AWARDS GOES VIRTUAL

OBIE AWARDS GOES VIRTUAL

  The American Theatre Wing has announced that the 65th Annual Obie Awards, originally scheduled to be held at Terminal 5 on Monday, May 18, will be postponed and reconceived as a virtual event, with awards being handed out for shows that opened between May 1,...

TheatreWorks Pride and Prejudice Premiers Online Free April 10

TheatreWorks Pride and Prejudice Premiers Online Free April 10

  Tony Award nominee Paul Gordon’s musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is taking its April 10th opening night online with a free “virtual opening night” co-hosted by two-time Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes, Tony Winner Beth Leavel, and SiriusXM host Julie...

Updates on Broadway, London, Canada Theater

Updates on Broadway, London, Canada Theater

  SHUTDOWN: "When Will Broadway Theatre Reopen, Based on COVID-19 Infection Data?" by NYTix's Karen Carter - "Based on all the available infection data, information on the virus, mortality charts and insider political chatter about the Governors appetite to get...

In Memory of Bucky Pizzarelli Who Died of Coronavirus

In Memory of Bucky Pizzarelli Who Died of Coronavirus

  In memory of Jazz legend Bucky Pizzarelli, Theater Pizzazz' Magda Katz is offering this video of Bucky with Marilyn Maye at the Iridium in 2014. Jazz guitarist John “Bucky” Pizzarelli, who was inducted to the New Jersey Hall of Fame, died on Wednesday April 1,...

‘We Can Be Kind’ – More Than Ever!

‘We Can Be Kind’ – More Than Ever!

  More than ever, we need what composer David Friedman offers us via Nancy LaMott and "We Can Be Kind" as inspiration. HEALING OUR WORLD ONE KINDNESS AT A TIME is being released online today. And since so many of us are sitting at home and our finances have taken...

Times Square Digital Billboards Will Remain On

Times Square Digital Billboards Will Remain On

  Although there are far fewer people to see them, the digital billboards in Times Square will stay on. Despite complaints that the displays were wasting electricity to show ads to nearly empty streets, the Times Square Advertising Coalition said in an email that...

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