TheaterReviewsFromMySeat's Podcast

Another month of shuttered theaters during this pandemic means more live streaming and taped performances from the archives of theater companies around the world. This episode features performances and artists from all over the United States as well as London, Berlin, Belgrade, Buenos Aires and El Salvador. Works explored include long and short plays, dance, puppetry and variety shows. There are many celebrities as well lending a hand to raise funds for non-profit companies and important support charities during these times of severe economic distress.

From the epicenter of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic in my Manhattan apartment, theater is being streamed !!! These "theater reviews from my couch" cover a wide mix of live and taped performances. This episode covers the plays, musicals, readings, variety shows, puppetry, dance and kid's shows I've viewed this month. Some even take less than twenty minutes to enjoy. Others are full length entertainments. This podcast recommends a few must see pieces which are still available online. Enjoy and please stay healthy.

From www.TheaterReviewsFromMySeat.com, plays and musicals reviewed before the coronavirus isolation began. Plus two virtual pieces. One a podcast of a new musical with the timeliest of titles: "Monotony: The Musical." Also, the beginning of a new online series called CyberTank.

This month's theater recap has nineteen reviews including three Broadway shows, many off and off-off Broadway productions including dance, puppetry and children's theater. In addition, I interview Sara Juli prior to seeing her very personal comedic-dance performance piece titled Burnt-Out Wife.Shows from Broadway on this episode are David Byrne's American Utopia, A Soldier's Play and West Side Story. Theater companies and venues covered include Theater for the New City, The Tank, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Dixon Place, New York City Center, The Flea Theater, Roundabout Theatre, Mint Theater, Chelsea Music Hall, Vineyard Theatre and the Transport Group. Plus a visit to the Off-Broadway hit revival of Little Shop of Horrors.

This month's theater recap includes three Broadway shows, five productions from the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, many Off and Off-Off Broadway plays and a few dance performances.The Broadway shows discussed are Slava's Snowshow, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical and Jagged Little Pill based on Alannis Morrisette's music. Off-Off Broadway theaters companies visited this month include the Tank, The Barrow Group, Metropolitan Playhouse and LaMama. A review of a contemporary take on Medea starring Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale. Plus a few tips for upcoming sure-bets opening this spring.Finally, if you've ever wanted to know what's going on inside your phone, find out in my review of a fun new musical, Emojiland. A show to make you smize.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, a monthly recap of plays, musicals and performances from Broadway to Off-Off Broadway.This month's episode includes a number of holiday themed offerings including variations on A Christmas Carol - one in Harlem, Campbell Scott's Broadway turn as Scrooge, a presentation from the Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre and a two person version told in a Greenwich Village mansion. On the lighter side, I discuss the touring show created by RuPaul's Drag Race superstars BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon called All I Want For Christmas is Attention.Off-Broadway plays include a revival of Horton Foote's Pulitzer Prize winning play The Young Man From Atlanta and Luke Kirby (Lenny Bruce in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) in 1937's rarely revived Judgment Day.Plus, a conversation with the playwright and director for the upcoming production of Soul Survivor set to begin performances on January 16th at The Players Theater in Greenwich Village.

Monthly recap from www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com covering theater in New York City. Three Broadway plays are reviewed including The Great Society with Brian Cox as LBJ, The Sound Inside starring Mary Louise Parker and the two part epic The Inheritance. Off-Broadway coverage includes Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage as Cyrano in a new musical. Other recommended plays discussed are Heroes of the Fourth Turning, History of Violence from Schaubuhne Berlin and Will Eno's The Underlying Chris. Additionally, two immersive pieces are reviewed: The Black History Museum... According to the United States and Unmaking Toulouse Lautrec. Sixteen different productions in total PLUS a new sound effect !This month also features one out-of-town production at the University of Notre Dame entitled Staging the Daffy Dame.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, a recap of visits during the month of October in New York and Minneapolis.Broadway shows discussed include Freestyle Love Supreme, Slave Play and Linda Vista.From Minneapolis, Ride the Cyclone at the Jungle Theater and Snow White at the Children's Theater.Plus a bunch of off and off-off Broadway plays and musicals, including the overdue revival of the groundbreaking 1976 Broadway hit for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.

The mission for TheaterReviewsFromMySeat is to share my passion for live theater, review a production without plot spoilers and inspire you to try a new play, musical or theater company.This month's episode covers a slew of productions Off and Off-Off Broadway including those at Theater For the New City, The Flea Theater, Rattlestick Theater, Playwrights Horizon and The Tank. Plus a preview of the extensive Broadway openings happening in October.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, a discussion of my theater visits for the past month covering plays, musicals and performances from Broadway to off-off Broadway. Beetlejuice and Be More Chill are featured along with the rock musical Bat Out of Hell. A handful of plays are also reviewed including a community theater production of The African Queen.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, coverage of plays and musicals from Broadway to Off-Off Broadway seen during the month of July 2019 with very diverse themes and subject matter. This episode covers the first three weeks of the New York Musical Festival and Broadway's Pretty Woman.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, Broadway and off-Broadway reviews of plays and musicals in New York City. This month also includes performances in San Francisco and Chicago.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, a monthly recap of theater reviews from productions in New York City, including Broadway and off-Broadway. This month's discussion includes the revival of All My Sons with Annette Bening and Tracy Letts plus the new Broadway musicals Tootsie and Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations. I also saw and reviewed the fascinating Doktor Alici presented by Munchner Kammerspiele while visiting Munich.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, Broadway and off-Broadway reviews of musicals, plays and other shows. This month's discussion features four new Broadway offerings including the musical Hadestown and three plays - Hillary and Clinton, King Lear starring Glenda Jackson and Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus. A slew of off-Broadway productions include two puppet shows in this month's episode. In addition, a trip to Richmond's Virginia Rep and the premiere of a new musical about the island of Atlantis.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, a recap of 21 theatrical plays and musicals from New York (Broadway and Off-Broadway) as well as productions in Denver and Chicago. Bryan Cranston in Network. The Cher Show. The Roundabout revival of Kiss Me, Kate. Isabelle Huppert at the Atlantic Theater Company. A play from 1621 called The White Devil. And The Lightning Thief from its North American tour.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, Broadway and Off-Broadway reviews. This month's episode includes To Kill A Mockingbird, Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge in Sea Wall/A Life and the revival of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. Companies visited this month include The Tank, New York Theater Workshop, Metropolitan Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Club, Theater for the New City, Mint Theater and the Yellow Tree Theater in Osseo, Minnesota.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, Broadway and Off-Broadway reviews from my January blog entries. This month's episode features Kerry Washington in American Son, Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano in True West and the reliably hilarious Beth Leavel and Brooks Ashmanskas in a new musical, The Prom. Lots of off and off-off Broadway discussions as well including another gem from the Transport Group called The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, Broadway and Off-Broadway reviews of plays and musicals (including The Steadfast Tin Soldier at Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago) from productions seen during the month of December 2018. This podcast includes five holiday themed shows and two outstanding and timely pieces, The Jungle and What the Constitution Means To Me.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, this month's reviews of six Broadway shows and a bunch of plays and musicals off-Broadway. Everything from King Kong to the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay and the songs of Bob Dylan. My second longest episode yet with a lot of theater experiences to share.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, a discussion of my theatergoing experiences during the month of October in New York City, Warsaw, Prague and Red Bank, New Jersey as well as another entry in the Retrospective Series, one of the all-time greats, On the Twentieth Century.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, Broadway and Off-Broadway reviews of plays and musicals. This month's podcast includes the phenomenon Be More Chill and the comedy The Nap.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, Broadway and Off-Broadway reviews including Hello Dolly! and Fairview at Soho Rep. Plus the pre-Broadway tryout of Moulin Rouge in Boston and two productions in Chicago.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, Broadway and Off-Broadway reviews including the new Go-Go's musical Head Over Heels, the 50th Anniversary revival of The Boys in the Band and full coverage of the New York Musical Festival (NYMF).

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, Broadway and Off Broadway reviews from shows I saw this month including Springsteen on Broadway. Also, three outside NYC shows in Chicago, Philadelphia and Millburn, New Jersey.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, Broadway and Off-Broadway reviews including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Carousel, Three Tall Women and Frozen. Plus a couple of surprises.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, Broadway and Off-Broadway reviews including the big revival of Angels in America and two new musicals: Mean Girls and Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. Plus, the first installment of the Retrospective series, "The Wiz."

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, Broadway and Off-Broadway reviews plus two Chicago plays and a musical staged in Long Beach, California. This episode includes the Broadway openings of Lobby Hero and Escape From Margaritaville.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, a recap of my 2017 Broadway best and worst theatergoing experiences and a few other favorite reviews.

Theater reviews from Mark Rylance in Farinelli and the King to the Broadway revivals of Miss Saigon and Once on This Island, from www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, Broadway and Off-Broadway reviews including the first New York production of Jerry Springer - The Opera.

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, a personal best and worst of the 2017 year. Part 1 focuses on off, off-off and out of town (not NYC) theater experiences, both plays and musicals.