Thursday, December 9, 2021
The Jim Henson TV special was a hit in 1978. Now its furry creatures return in a new theatrical production in Manhattan, just in time for the holiday season.
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Digital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child’s first fireworks.
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The country singer and musical-theater fan was grateful to play the intense title role in “Waitress” not long after her Broadway-themed album came out.
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Lines of Stephen Sondheim fans formed outside Marie’s Crisis Cafe in Greenwich Village as news of his death spread. Inside, it was all-Sondheim on the piano.
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Red Bull Theater brings on the cons and their marks in this adaptation of the 17th-century Ben Jonson work.
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In this workplace comedy, beleaguered colleagues struggle to come together for an active-shooter training exercise.
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This maddening, brain-scrambling show, which just opened at the esteemed Soho Rep, is nothing if not slippery, our critic writes.
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The Wooster Group’s production will prompt discussions about the company’s vision for Brecht’s “learning play.”
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Linda Bloodworth-Thomason’s popular TV series comes to the stage with its sisterhood intact. But at times this revival feels a lot like a pretext to vent.
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She has portrayed three characters over the course of the 12 plays in Richard Nelson’s “Rhinebeck Panorama.” A decade later, it’s time to move on.
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The characters he plays are “a departure from how people perceive” them. He’s testing perceptions again as one of the famous banking brothers in “The Lehman Trilogy.”
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Monday, September 27, 2021
In this new musical, a singer’s future hangs on one song, but entrusting it to an inexperienced songwriting team is not, perhaps, the shrewdest choice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42PMThe streaming part of the ceremony actually did a better job conveying the electricity of being in a theater than the CBS special billed as “Broadway’s Back!”
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The punchline is “Only an Octave Apart,” featuring the unlikely collaborators Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
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Friday, August 20, 2021
“Islander,” a skewed look at a New York Islanders season, examines extreme fandom, violence and the thrill of sports.
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An all-star lineup sings Stephen Schwartz’s indelible score, and Doc from “Back to the Future” is intriguing casting for a Berkshires production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AMThe shutdown allowed increased access and artistic experimentation. But how much sticks is an open, and contested, question.
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Hundreds of painted sets were discovered after a century in the attic of the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, Colo.
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Other highlights include a project by Lisa Loeb, Dominique Morisseau’s “Detroit ’67” and a new production of “South Pacific.”
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“I have the energy, I have the interest,” says Blanka Zizka of the Wilma Theater. “But I need to go a different way.”
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The Drilling Company returns to live theater with this slapdash tragicomedy about two cousins who fall for the same woman.
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Productions from the National Theater in Britain, a project from Billy Porter and a Yiddish musical celebration are among the highlights.
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An adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Notes on Grief,” Russell Brand’s take on Shakespeare and a two-day event anchored by a Milo Rau film are among the highlights.
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Frank Winters’s play, about two astronauts in lockdown after a mission, uneasily grafts tropes borrowed from hard sci-fi and odd-couple comedy.
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Nida Manzoor, the creator, writer and director of the series, shares what things inspired her to make a show about Muslim women in a punk band.
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The long-running variety show went off the air a half-century ago this month. But much of it is officially available on YouTube. Here’s a look at some of the best moments.
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Robert O’Hara and Torrey Townsend discuss their collaboration on “Off Broadway,” a biting satire about a company whose leaders are willfully oblivious of their racial and gender biases.
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