Thursday, July 16, 2020
Shakespeare in the Park and other outdoor venues are shut. But for performers and directors, open-air memories are as sharp as the bite of a mosquito.
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The Public’s emotive and effective hour-long play uses actors, including Lorraine Toussaint and Alison Pill, to share powerful testimonials
In mid-March, when New York Cit…
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Immersive theater, timed and ticketed, has arrived in virtual reality. Is this a brave new pixelated world for live performance? Or just another app?
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This new Starz drama is set in a strip club but “pulses with the female gaze,” said the creator, Katori Hall. Its premise is that sex work is as worthy of exploration as any other kind o…
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This Lorraine Hansberry play, set in the 1960s in a fictional African country, speaks incisively to the American present.
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Five were slated to make their Broadway debuts. Now? They’re bunking with family, grappling with unemployment and fighting injustice.
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Moni Yakim has taught movement at Juilliard since 1968. A new film captures his impact on scores of actors. “He’s not a coddler,” says Jessica Chastain.
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Miranda’s rap. Rylance’s poems. Jackman’s pelvis. And a brassy reunion for Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury. Now set your clock for “Turkey Lurkey Time.”
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With theaters and nightclubs closed, magicians have pivoted to remote performance. Can your screen be a place of enchantment?
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All the world with an internet connection has suddenly become a stage. A lot of those stages have programmed Shakespeare.
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With theaters shuttered, a host of audio dramas and musicals have popped up, and actors are honing a skill: creating characters with just their voices.
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How does a two-and-a-half-hour show become a half-hour online event? Deliberately, haltingly, and with a few technical glitches.
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Richard Nelson’s new play, “What Do We Need to Talk About?” will be performed online, but live, restoring some of theater’s ephemerality.
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Hillary Bettis’s immigration drama 72 Miles to Go … was one of many off-Broadway shows that didn’t make it to the stage after the Covid-19 outbreak, leaving the playwright ‘heartbrok…
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With real theaters closed, our critic unlocked handcuffs, tried to land a plane and accidentally scalded herself, all while attempting immersive performances from her Brooklyn apartment.
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An accomplished group of creatives have turned a musical into a new podcast at a time when theater fans need it the most
“Nothing can replace the thrill of a great musical live on stage,�…
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s solo stage show comes to Amazon to raise money for the arts and health care charities.
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Two theater critics suggest some of their favorite books about the theater, giving us portals to a world that is now forbidden.
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These nine playwrights spent years dreaming up cataclysms and plagues. Did that prepare them for the current crisis? Sometimes.
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A critic disguised as an actress who is also a suspect in the death of the Great Merlini. Her team didn’t use “Cats” to break the case, though.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMA host of big names, including Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sarah Jessica Parker, took part in a self-congratulatory yet oddly charming YouTube-based revue
On Sunday night, Rosie O’Donnell hoste…
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From West Side Story to Company, he revolutionised the musical. As the supreme lyricist and composer turns 90, Jake Gyllenhaal, Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Nathan Lane and more pay tribute C…
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From the bubonic plague to the AIDS crisis, theater and public health have a long history of shaping each other, our critic writes.
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Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York
A flashy, concert-style musical offers some virtuosic performances but also a rather shallow take on female empowerment
The ladies are making it reign. In h…
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Belasco Theater, New York
The acclaimed playwright has used the songbook of Bob Dylan to create an overstuffed yet often transcendent 30s-set Broadway show
Overstuffed, often hollow, and for…
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The stage adaptation of Rex Pickett’s novel about two friends on a last-hurrah wine tour preserves the white male wish fulfillment of the original.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Alice Birch’s cleareyed and comfortless play follows three generations of women tethered to life by the thinnest possible filament.
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Classic Stage Company is running adaptations of two 19th-century horror classics in repertory. Don’t let that frighten you.
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Ivo van Hove likes i…
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