Only 650 people got to experience one of the 21st century’s artistic feats, until this documentary. Unfortunately, it misses some of the performance’s key aspects.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:19AMA lonely high school student discovers she may be a divine messenger in Paul Gordon’s half-baked new Off Broadway musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PMThe Britney Spears jukebox musical, about fairy tale princesses fighting for their emancipation, comes up short as a narrative of feminist awakening.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:19PMA bio-show about the radio D.J. Alan Freed, one of rock music’s early popularizers, dutifully plays the hits.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:19PM‘Good Vibrations’ at the Irish Arts Center takes a snapshot of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles through its music scene.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:37PMIn her autobiographical new show with songs, Catherine Cohen delivers a heightened version of millennial oversharing and confidence run amok.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:55PMWith a clever opening number and repeated support for striking writers, the Tonys celebrated Broadway’s shows, performers and creative teams.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMIn Abe Koogler’s latest play, melancholy islanders try to band together to investigate where their beloved orcas have gone.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:37PMFrom LaGuardia High School to Broadway, this Tony Award-nominated star has traveled many miles on her journey to theater stardom.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMLevi Holloway on his psychological thriller starring Laurie Metcalf: “It wears the jacket of horror. But I think it’s more heart than horror.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMArtists and dreamers sing of revolution in a musical set on the cusp of the birth of the Soviet Union.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMIs theatrical choreography at a turning point? Or just leaping, lurching and shimmying as usual? Our critics weigh in.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMBased loosely on the 1977 film, a show about performers making it in the big city comes to St. James Theater with the sharper edges of its source material sanded off.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMAs the longest-running musical in Broadway history closes, Times critics with a lasting affection for the show take stock of its legacy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMThe veteran performance artist Karen Finley leads the audience through the troubles that plagued New York City at the peak of the pandemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMIn Arlene Hutton’s play at 59E59 Theaters, the members of a Broadway cast reveal their hopes and fears tucked away in a quick-change room.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PMDavid Anzuelo’s generous, unwieldy play about an oil-and-water friendship between two high school boys opens at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMDeveloped by a team of Broadway and Hollywood all-stars, the new Hulu series sets a chorus of inner critics to song.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMIn Agnes Borinsky’s latest play, a brother and sister returning from a party suddenly find their feet stuck in the earth. But to what end?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMA young woman works to free herself from the expectations of men in Betty Smith’s 1931 play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:49PMThe British writer and director Alexander Zeldin is bringing “Love,” a European hit set at a temporary-housing facility, to the Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMIn a pairing that seems almost predestined, the actresses are sharing a stage in “The Seagull/Woodstock, NY,” a contemporary riff on Chekhov.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMThe actor, who starred in the original Broadway run of ‘Rent,’ reflects on the show’s early days and dealing with the grief of his mother’s death.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01PMThe film star embodies one of opera’s greatest divas in the solo show “Maria Callas: Letters & Memoirs,” coming to the Beacon Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMFeaturing a lobster telephone and a robot boy with batlike wings, this puppet romance set in a future post-ecological collapse succeeds on its own weird terms.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:26PMEduardo Machado’s autofictional play follows the playwright’s alter ego as he navigates gay life in the 1980s and ’90s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMThe Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a second selection of the works on display.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:20PMTwo passengers share more than just an eerie commute aboard a train headed upstate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMThis wacky family show respects the codes of the British holiday tradition known as panto, which means playfully not holding anything back.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMIn the new Broadway show, Will Swenson plays the superstar, who seems perpetually dissatisfied, as if on a quest — but for what?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:54PMIn Jordan E. Cooper’s biting satire, Black Americans descended from slaves are offered one-way airfare to Africa.
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