Tuesday, March 30, 2021
In “The Jackson C. Frank Listening Party w/ Special Guests,” the musician is simultaneously central and peripheral to the story.
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Presentations include a star-studded reading of “The Thanksgiving Play,” musicals crossing the Atlantic and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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The magician explains how he worked up to “In & Of Itself” in a new memoir, “Amoralman,” a prequel of sorts to the show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMThe past year has made us rethink the boundaries between theater and film. Many of these shows are a little bit of both.
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Audience members can shift from camera to camera in this streaming solo show, like security guards keeping watch.
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Anna Moench’s play, about a woman working in social media content moderation, begins with dark humor but slides into psychological horror.
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Presentations include the 30th anniversary of George C. Wolfe’s “The Colored Museum”; Andréa Burns in “Bad Dates”; and a solo show by Riz Ahmed.
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Patrick Page looks at bad guys, Steven Carl McCasland gives us literary women, and Jill Sobule mines her own history, including the dreaded seventh grade.
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Cleverly edited and darkly funny, the latest Theater in Quarantine show finds a nervous couple afraid to go out or let anyone in. Sound familiar?
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
The Pasadena Playhouse has a new tribute to Herman, the composer of “Hello, Dolly!,” and Tomei turns up in “Beirut” and “Three Hotels.”
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Travis Alabanza’s monologue starring Reece Lyons examines agency and safety, here inextricably intertwined with identity.
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The shows have not been staged, but three concept albums are at the center of a sprawling fictional world created largely by teenagers.
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Three theaters are exploring “Swingin’ the Dream,” which tanked on Broadway in 1939, but opens a window on the racial and artistic dynamics of its time.
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The Under the Radar, Prototype and Exponential festivals are ready to open our minds with experimental work, even if their doors are shut.
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Thanks to streaming, two American critics got to binge a bunch of the holiday extravaganzas. So how does this silly British tradition translate?
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With their field rocked by unprecedented challenges in 2020, these people and groups — some notable, some new — stepped into the breach.
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Plays by Mike Bartlett, Christina Anderson and Halley Feiffer are watchable at home, too. And for an alternative holiday hit, “Burning Bluebeard.”
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Open-air shows. Joint productions. Filmed dress rehearsals. Here’s a faraway close-up on how one theater community has stayed reasonably robust in adversity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMAlan Cumming and Patti LuPone add their voices to this season’s tidings, plus a gender-bending Scrooge and a live broadcast of “The Grinch Musical!”
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It wasn’t the year for celebration. But watching innovation flourish inspired our chief critic, while other writers found the joys of the stage in other media.
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As Split Britches, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver have made off-kilter theater for 40 years. Memory loss, and a pandemic, haven’t stopped their creating.
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Constance Wu and Samira Wiley star in a Zoom-ified Chekhov play, and Ars Nova punches above its weight with a 24-hour telethon.
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With nods to Duchamp and Dada, this interactive production raises questions about fate, narrative convention and the process of making art.
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Watch a theater maker’s story of becoming an elected official, Greek tragedies transposed to Chicano America and Daniel Kitson’s tour of the ghostly empty theaters of Britain.
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In Aaron Posner’s play, there is more than one John Quincy Adams, but only one way to ensure that American democracy endures.
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The timing could not be better for Heidi Schreck’s affecting play about the Constitution’s impact on our daily lives, now streaming on Amazon.
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New York cabaret houses beef up there digital offerings, and two theater adaptations of “Night of the Living Dead” arrive in time for Halloween.
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Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley’s virtual play includes a YouTuber, an influencer and a meme machine. Sometimes total chaos ensues.
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