Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley’s virtual play includes a YouTuber, an influencer and a meme machine. Sometimes total chaos ensues.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMStars including Marisa Tomei, Billy Porter and Rosie O’Donnell dramatize the words of real-life nurses pushed to the brink by the pandemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMPlus: A marquee cast tackles a Kenneth Lonergan play, and Glenn Close, Beanie Feldstein, Audra McDonald and Melissa Errico go digital.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMWho gets to stay? The digital adaptation of a 2018 satire asks the playgoing audience to weigh in from home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMThe interstellar adventure deftly mixes the lo-fi aesthetics of budget science fiction with dopey humor and experimental theater’s sensibility.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMIn a fall season without many live shows, everything is up for grabs. That includes the canon of classics — and where Bill Irwin might be performing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMBefore lockdown, she won praise for three fierce Off Broadway performances. Next: starring in an online reading of a rarely seen Pulitzer Prize finalist.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMSix months dark. Thousands of artists out of work. Could this disaster have a surprise ending? Five critics on what must change, onstage and off.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMThe Billie Holiday Theater offers a live performance of “12 Angry Men…and Women: The Weight of the Wait” in front of a Black Lives Matter mural.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMFestivals from Sydney and Edinburgh move online, and Richard Nelson mixes in another of his theatrical franchises to conclude a Zoom trilogy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:42PMAmong the performances you can catch online are a one-woman show about sexual assault and riffs on “Heart of Darkness” and “Rocky.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMTwo critics square off to determine how well this body slam of a comedy, about stereotypes and storytelling, made it to the very small screen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMThis month, watch Ming Peiffer’s play about the women’s suffrage movement and a virtual reading that reunites Ed Harris and Bill Pullman.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMWhat happens when the edgy Ice Factory festival goes online? A sense of discovery tempered by frustrating technological glitches.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMA roundup of streaming theater: almost naked, kind of sacred, sort of mysterious and more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMThis staging by the National Theater of Greece was broadcast live on Saturday from the amphitheater of Epidaurus.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMMost of them are available on short notice, after all. Live readings with some of the New Group’s original casts and an Ian Dury jukebox musical are among this week’s highlights.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMThe Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s streaming series begins with a “historical fable” about Catholic orphans and their new families in 1904 Arizona.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMEven in lockdown, it’s still hard to cut a streaming deal for a professional show. Here’s what viewers can expect, for now.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PM“She Kills Monsters” is hugely popular in high schools and colleges. Even in lockdown, performers have found novel ways to make the battles come alive.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMThe online bounty also includes a rare Lorraine Hansberry play, two Lincoln Center stagings and black British responses to the killing of George Floyd.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMHis new memoir “Lot Six” traces the Syrian-Jewish enclave that spawned him, the instructor who unnerved him, and the biting comedy that made his name.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMMiranda’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.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMIf BAM is your jam (or places like it), here are digital offerings that offer weird Americana and bold visions from Europe. Plus: a 24-hour variety show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMWith actors on payroll, Seacoast Rep has removed seats, added tech equipment and is selling tickets for a musical livestreamed every weekend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMVersions of the “Carousel” song by Aretha Franklin, Gerry and the Pacemakers and Liverpool F.C. fans have turned it into something universal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06AMDolly Parton, Meryl Streep and Jon Bon Jovi in a star-studded benefit concert; a play written specially for Zoom; Shakespeare on YouTube; and more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMWatch as the virtual curtains rise, from “Acquanetta” to the Wooster Group, with stops at Shakespeare and “Fun Home.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMRemote learning may not be ideal, but Zoom encourages acting students to be more nuanced, more private and more intimate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMWe continue our cast album series with more recommendations for wonderful musicals to listen to at home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMA roundup of streaming theater that covers classics and new shows, endearingly D.I.Y. webcasts and slick Broadway extravaganzas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AM