Online This Week: Naughty and Nice
New plays by Amir Nizar Zuabi and J. Nicole Brooks and a capture of Jefferson Mays’s ‘Christmas Carol’ are among the highlights of a busy week.
Stories by Rob Weinert-Kendt
Rob Weinert-Kendt is editor-in-chief of American Theatre. He was the founding editor-in-chief of Back Stage West and writes about theatre for the New York Times, Time Out NY, and the Los Angeles Times. He studied film at USC and is a composer member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop.
Online This Week: From Hong Kong to Paris to East L.A.
This week’s virtual offerings will take you places, from the worlds of hip-hop and RPG games to the circus.
Quarantine, Ventilate, Be Ready to Quit: In-Person Theatre in the Time of COVID
Recent stagings of ‘Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak On It!’ showed the possibility—and stringent protocols—of pandemic-era live theatre.
Online This Week: Our Cup Overfloweth
A festival of Spanish classics, solo plays by Bill Irwin and Dael Orlandersmith and Sara Porkalob, and much, much, much more in our longest listing yet.
Sarah Rasmussen at the McCarter: ‘It’s Really a New Day’
The theatre’s new artistic director talks about the forward-looking legacy she inherits, and about how post-pandemic theatres may resemble startups.
Online This Week: Elect to Watch a Play
From interactive children’s adventures to several new-play fests and podcasts, there’s plenty to look at onscreen besides vote counts.
Online This Week: A Scary Time
Halloween and the election inspire many of this week’s virtual offerings, but there’s also Brecht and Weill, Paula Vogel, and a space opera.
Online This Week: Morisseau, Molière, More
Reunion readings, Russian troll farms, a married couple in a play about infidelity—there’s plenty to fill your screen time this week.
Online This Week: Free Willy, a 12-Hour Cabaret, American Fascism
This is an especially rich week, whether you’re craving meaty drama, durational performance, or livestream experimentation.
In Chuck Mee’s ‘Utopia,’ Heaven Is a Place on Earth
His new play, debuting virtually via Cutting Ball Theater, envisions a world beyond conflict and judgment, which for him is a kind of realism.