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"We'll do everything in our power to bring Broadway and off-Broadway back strong," de Blasio said.
Even though Broadway went dark, Vivek J. Tiwary says that Jagged Little Pill never really did.Â
The initiative, entitled 'Restart Stages,' will feature unique new cultural offerings in a safe environment.
This mandate applies to events, arts and entertainment venues, but not to Broadway theaters, which will remain closed at least until June.
Unfolding in 90 minutes of hospital visits, "Men's Health" is sort of "Pygmalion" with its pants off.
'Hadestown' prize-winners are popping up on 'SVU' during a moment in time in which the lines between different art forms are blurring.
Domestic pain and culinary craft combine to quietly wrenching effect in 'This Is Who I Am,' a Zoom drama by Amir Nizar Zuabi streaming at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
Performing an abridged but faithful version of 'A Christmas Carol,' Jefferson Mays keeps this holiday tradition alive for streaming audiences.
Lincoln Center's Passport to the Arts program has been running since 1989, but this is the first year it's online, bringing accessible programming to disabled audiences now through Zoom.
Playwright Adrienne Kennedy gets a long overdue major retrospective, streaming online courtesy of the Round House Theatre and McCarter Theatre Center.
Surrounded by few set pieces and zany couture, Irwin draws on decades of performance genius to present his memoir-ish review 'On Beckett,' transformed for the streaming age.
One a three-hour epic play, Anne Washburn's 'Shipwreck' has been turned into three-part audio drama produced by the Public Theater.
Magic shows being streamed by the Geffen and The Broad Stage provide a taste of theatrical wonder and keep your mental faculties sharp.
The protagonist of Goethe's 1788 play, 'Egmont,' which Beethoven set to music, is a man who speaks out when his fellow citizens are too afraid. Liev Schreiber narrates this timely new produc…
Jeremy O. Harris' play has had people talking ever since its debut last fall, and now it's earned 12 Tony nominations.
If Shakespeare's plays hadn't been compiled in this folio following his death, 'Macbeth' might have been lost to the world.
Heidi Schreck's fiercely urgent and soul-restoring play 'What the Constitution Means to Me' retains all the impact it had on Broadway in its shift to streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Theaters on Broadway that had been planning to reopen in early 2021 will have to rearrange their schedules and figure out how to stay afloat without any performances until early summer.
Michael Sheen stars as a drunk, self-exiled Irishman who claims to have the gift of curing maladies in the Old Vic's excellent streamed production of 'Faith Healer.
Over the course of his tenure at the newspaper, Brantley's name has become a formidable be-all and end-all of the New York theater scene.
A new production of Madhuri Shekar's 'Love and Warcraft' exploits the limitations of Zoom to bring new meaning to this work about intimacy found through a computer screen.
The Tonys have a key platform in a moment of monumental shifts. Will the awards show rise to the occasion?
From Molière in the Park's 'The School for Wives' to the experimental work 'Cannabis! A Theatrical Concert,' there's plenty for theater lovers to steam this fall.
Small theater venues might be gone for good if the city doesn't provide some form of rent relief.
For 'The Parsnip Ship,' audio theater is not a stopgap for live drama; this is an accessible and pure artform unto itself.
