THEATRE BUZZ

+ Upon Learning of the launch of this blog one of my 1040 clients sent me an email about the Mint Theatre.  I had not been familiar with this NYC theatre company.

According to a recent review from the Wall Street Journal he sent me, the Mint Theatre “specializes in unjustly forgotten 20th-century plays. The works they choose, no matter how obscure, are always worthy of revival, and their finely wrought small-scale productions make the strongest possible case for the plays”.

My client told me “Mint Theater used to be in a sixth-floor loft in the West Forties. Now their shows are on Theatre Row”.    

The company is currently offering free on demand streaming of the play “Conflict” through November 1^st.  Click here to find out how to watch.

“Conflict” by Miles Malleson is a political comedy of English manners set against the backdrop of a hotly contested election in 1920’s London. According to the WSJ review, it “combines his two great passions: sex and politics. The result is a provocative romance that sizzles with both wit and ideas”.

You can go here to donate to the Mint Theatre.

+ I remember going to the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn NJ with my family to see professional productions of Broadway musicals and classic operettas as a child.  And for many years, as an adult, my parents, uncle and I had a subscription to the theatre - 4^th and 5^th row on the aisle on the first Thursday night after opening of each show.  I haven’t been back in years – the last thing I remember seeing there was a concert by Michael Feinstein 

PMP has been around for a long time – “In November of 1938, Paper Mill Playhouse opens its doors with The Kingdom of God, a play by Martinez Sierra”.

I recently came across a posting of the theatre’s “Reimagined 2020-21 Season” –

“Paper Mill Playhouse will move forward with a mostly digital season, including several original productions to be captured on the Paper Mill stage and optimistically anticipating bringing smaller audiences back to the theater if that becomes possible by late spring or early summer of 2021.”

+ The Theatre Development Fund (see the link in the left hand margin), which operates the TKTS booth at Times Square in NYC among other things, tells us – “With in-person theatre out of commission for the foreseeable future, many companies and performers from Broadway and beyond are showcasing their work online”.

You can keep up-to-date on what performances are available to watch online here.

Membership in TDF is only $30.00 – well worth the price.  Go here to learn more.

BFN