Our theater experts provide a guide to some of the successful (and failed) cinematic adaptations of plays and musicals — all for your streaming pleasure.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMIn Aaron Posner’s play, there is more than one John Quincy Adams, but only one way to ensure that American democracy endures.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMThe timing could not be better for Heidi Schreck’s affecting play about the Constitution’s impact on our daily lives, now streaming on Amazon.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMNew York cabaret houses beef up there digital offerings, and two theater adaptations of “Night of the Living Dead” arrive in time for Halloween.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMMichael Breslin and Patrick Foley’s virtual play includes a YouTuber, an influencer and a meme machine. Sometimes total chaos ensues.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.”
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMA roundup of streaming theater: almost naked, kind of sacred, sort of mysterious and more.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.”
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
Linked From 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.
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