Weekly Margin 2021, W20: An Evening with Sheldon Harnick and Friends, Bring Me to Light, The Royale, Trifles, I and You, The Last Match, Story of My Life, Miscast Gala

Streaming Theater-Related Content I Watched

• The York Theater's archive production of An Evening with Sheldon Harnick and Friends, featuring Rebecca Luker's last stage performance.
• Sutton Foster's concert at City Center, Bring Me to Light.
• Lincoln Center's archive production of The Royale.
• The Shakespeare Project of Chicago's presentation of Trifles: A Feminist Drama.
• Syracuse Stage's I and You.
• Writers Theatre's The Last Match.
• Chance Theater's production of Story of My Life.
• MCC's Miscast Gala.

Weekly Margin 2021, W19: Becca, The Secret Garden, Mary Stuart, Preludes, The Normal Heart

Streaming Theater-Related Content I Watched

• Target ALS's Becca: A Night of Stories and Song in Memory of Rebecca Luker.
• The 2018 workshop presentation of The Secret Garden.
• Bedlam's virtual production of Mary Stuart.
• Southwark Playhouse's presentation of Preludes in Concert.
• ONE Archives Foundation's reading of The Normal Heart.

Theater Developments

Broadway's coming back September 14th. Individual shows are announcing individual first performances and (in the case of shows like Six) opening nights, all on this date or after.

Weekly Margin 2021, W18: Romeo & Juliet, Little Gem, Baltimore Waltz, Being Mr. Wickham, The Lucille Lortel Awards

Streaming Theater-Related Content I Watched

• National Theatre's film adaptation of Romeo & Juliet.
• Irish Rep's reunion performance of Little Gem.
• The "Spotlight on Plays" series' Actors Fund benefit reading of Baltimore Waltz.
• Theatre Royale's Being Mr. Wickham.
• The Lucille Lortel Awards.

Theater Developments

• De Blasio is aiming for a full* NYC reopening July 1st.

*except Broadway, which probably won't come back until September.

Weekly Margin 2021, W16: Tell the Story: Celebrating Assassins, The Last Five Years, The Musical of Musicals: The Musical

Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

• Classic Stage Company's "Tell the Story: Celebrating Assassins," which united casts from the 1991 original Off-Broadway run, the 2004 Broadway run, and the upcoming CSC's run, when performances return.
• Out of the Box Theatrics's presentation of The Last Five Years.
• York Theatre's benefit performance of The Musical of Musicals: The Musical.

Theater Developments

• Karen Olivo has elected to not return to Broadway when the theaters fully reopen, citing the industry's silence of THR's April 7 article covering producer Scott Rudin's history of violently abusive and vindictive behavior. As of April 17 Rudin has issued an apology and announcement he is stepping back from active participation in theatrical endeavors ... for now. The sincerity of this statement is, at my most generous, fucking dubious. Plus he hasn't stepped back from any of his Hollywood projects, and no one here actually thinks that he limited his abuse of staff to one coast.
• The long-running Perfect Crime resumed performances on April 18.

Weekly Margin 2021, W15: Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea, John Collum: An Accidental Star, Decision Height

Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

• APT's Winter Words reading of Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea.
• Vineyard Theatre's presentation of John Collum: An Accidental Star.
• Hollins University's production of Decision Height.

Theater Developments

Following the Broadway PopsUp invite-only performance by Nathan Lane and Savion Glover on April 3rd at the St. James Theatre, New York's Off-Broadway had its first reopening with The Office: A Musical Parody at The Jerry Orbach Theater on April 9th.

Weekly Margin 2021, W14: Amplify 2021, Broadway Backwards, Ragtime Reunion, Fully Committed, Amour, War Horse

Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

• Maestra Music's inaugural spring concert, Amplify 2021.
• BC/EFA's annual benefit concert, Broadway Backwards.
• Stars in the House's Ragtime Reunion.
• George Street Playhouse's production of Fully Committed.
• Art Lab and Showtown Productions' virtual revival of Amour.
• National Theatre Live's rebroadcast of War Horse.

Theater Developments

• The 2021 Drama League nominations are out, with categories specific the socially distanced theatrical work created this past year. Winners will be announced May 21st.
• Meanwhile, still no word on when the 2020 Tony Awards plan to actually ... be awarded.
• The Drama Book Shop is getting ready to reopen in its new location.
• Cabaret venues in New York are beginning to reopen.

Weekly Margin 2021, W13: Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, Looking Back at Contact

Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

• APT's Winter Words reading of Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue.
• Lincoln Center's Looking Back at Contact.

Theater Developments

Mayor de Blasio has announced his intention of reopening Broadway by September. Theater workers in New York are expected to be vaccine-eligible in April.

Weekly Margin 2021, W12: The Aran Islands, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Glass Town, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

• Irish Rep's The Aran Islands.
• Associated Theatres Limited's film adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
• The Tank's concert presentation of Glass Town.
• Lincoln Center's archive film of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.

Weekly Margin 2021, W11: Dear Brutus, Assassins Reunion Show, Stevie Smith: Black March, Daddy Long Legs, Three Days of Rain

Streaming Theater-Related Content I Watched

• APT's Zoom reading of Dear Brutus.
• Studio Tenn Talks's Assassins Reunion Show.
• Dead Poets Live's presentation of Stevie Smith: Black March.
• Stream Theatre's presentation of Daddy Long Legs.
• MTC's Zoom reading of Three Days of Rain.

Blow Out the Candles, Zelda, and Make a Wish (One Year In)

Today is my birthday. One year ago today I had my last social gathering without masks: two friends came over to my apartment for Chinese food and board games. 

Four days before my birthday I had seen my last live theater, the inadvertent closing performance of The Inheritance (Broadway was to shut down completely the next day, March 12th, which marked for me the moment New York began taking this seriously).

Four days after my birthday my office shifted from skeleton crew to full remote and I had my first COVID symptoms (neither of my friends got sick). I recovered. Many did not. New York became a haunted city and I was shut up in my apartment for the transition.

Weekly Margin 2021, W9: Agamemnon, 21 Chump Street

Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

• American Players Theatre's Winter Words reading of Agamemnon.
• This American Life's "21 Chump Street."

Weekly Margin 2021, W8: Clay, Today is My Birthday, The Madness of Hercules, Simply Sondheim

Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

• Wilma Theater's audio production Clay.
• Theater Mu's Today Is My Birthday.
• Theater of War Productions's The Madness of Hercules.
• (Virginia) Signature Theater's Simply Sondheim.

Weekly Margin 2021, W7: All the Devils are Here, Doubt, Molly Sweeney

Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

• Shakespeare Theatre Company's presentation of Patrick Page's  All the Devils are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain.
• Jobsite Theater's production of Doubt.
• Irish Rep's encore stream of Molly Sweeney.

Theater Developments

Restauranteur Joe Allen, whose eponymous restaurant is popular among NY theater folk, has passed away.

Weekly Margin 2021, W6: Code Black Planet, Looking Back at The Light in the Piazza, The Room of Silence, Katie Roche, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

 Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

• Wilma Theater's short montage film Code Black Planet.
• LCT's Spotlight Series: Looking Back at The Light in the Piazza.
• The short documentary The Room of Silence.
• Mint Theater's archive production of Katie Roche.
• Syracuse Stage's production of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.

Theater Developments

Another acting icon, Christopher Plummer, has passed away.

Weekly Margin 2021, W5: In & Of Itself

Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

On Hulu, Derek Delgaudio's In & Of Itself.

Theater Developments

Two longstanding icons of stage and screen, Cloris Leachman and Cicely Tyson, passed away.

Weekly Margin 2021, W4: Patterpalooza Project, Days to Come

Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

• NYGASP's Patterpalooza Project
• Mint Theater's archive production of Days to Come

Theater Developments

(I took a couple weeks off, so this is delayed, but) 

• Broadway's Mean Girls has announced they will not be reopening.

Weekly Margin 2021, W1: Smart People, Sondheim Unplugged

Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

• American Players Theatre's Smart People.
• 54 Below's Sondheim Unplugged concert.