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.