2021

Monday night with ‘Jim Caruso’s Pajama Cast Party’ and into the future with Birdland

With the pandemic shutdown of live performance venues in NYC, performer and impresario Jim Caruso took his famed Monday-night Cast Party – “the mother of all open mic night/variety shows,” which he’s...

MetroStage to stream ‘Mothers and Sons’ in tribute to Terrence McNally

What does a gay man call another gay man to whom he is committed? The character Cal in Terrence McNally’s Mothers and Sons gropes for the right word: Andre and I were what people called “boyfriends”...

Before there was COVID, Lauren Gunderson married a virus hunter. ‘The Catastrophist’ is her play about him.

In The Catastrophist, Lauren Gunderson has written a story for this moment in time about Dr. Nathan Wolfe, the award-winning virologist who years before the COVID-19 outbreak proposed a plan to...

Red Bull Theater’s reading of ‘The African Company Presents Richard III’ reflects on a real moment in Black history

On Monday, January 11, Off-Broadway’s Red Bull Theater will premiere its live benefit reading of Twin-Cities playwright Carlyle Brown’s 1987 work The African Company Presents Richard III at 7:30 pm....

Front Row Productions Fellowship established at Columbia University to support emerging producers and increasing diversity

Multiple Tony Award nominees and Olivier Award winners Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey’s announced today that Front Row Productions – founded by Byrd to bring major works with diverse casts,...

A gay man with a disability asks “Hi, Are You Single?” on the Woolly dating app

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in association with IAMA Theatre Company present Ryan J. Haddad’s celebrated autobiographical solo show Hi, Are You Single? directed by Laura Savia and Jess McLeod. “I...

A son summons his absent father in ‘Dear Mapel’ at Mosaic Theater

Urgent times call for urgent theater. And urgent theater has been Mosaic Theater Company’s calling card since its founding — rather unexpectedly — five years ago, by artistic director/playwright Ari...

4615 Theatre Company unveils a new season in a wild variety of forms

Hot off of winning the 2020 John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company, the 4615 Theatre has created a multifaceted solution to meet the challenge posed by the pandemic. For the first...

Mint Theater Company continues its free streaming series in 2021

Beginning now and continuing through June, Off-Broadway’s Obie Award-winning Mint Theater Company brings its popular Silver Lining Streaming Series into the New Year by sharing, free and on demand...

The Public Theater’s ‘Under the Radar Festival’ begins streaming this week

For the first time in its seventeen-year history, The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival will be going completely virtual in 2021, with twelve days of free performances beginning on Wednesday,...

Two theater students start a podcast that asks stars “Whatcha Doin’?”

Two enterprising Catholic University of America seniors are hosting a new podcast to connect current theater industry professionals with future theater industry professionals through interviews on...

Viral sensation ‘Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical’ raises over $1 million for The Actors Fund

If anyone ever believed that the theater is really dead, Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical has resoundingly proven otherwise, giving it new life through Gen-Z social media and post-modern tech. The...

The time Booker T. Washington dined at the White House and the nation went nuts

By Roslyn “Roz” Ward During quarantine, the biggest loss is the people. The feeling and energy that one gets from a live audience cannot be replicated virtually. Torn—a play written and directed by...