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The Pulitzer-winning drama, set in the small town of Grover’s Corners, has a beating heart that will resonate through the years
It is frequently called the quintessential American play, bu…
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Taking extreme care during the pandemic, particularly when New York was the first and hardest hit in the earliest days, my journeys beyond my apartment and the immediate surroundings put sig…
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“So friends, this is the way we were in our growing up and in our marrying and in our doctoring and in our living and in our dying.” Pull out a copy of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and…
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If there’s one positive to find among the destruction of the coronavirus outbreak, it is the way in which previously private or
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The ongoing litany of delays, postponements and cancellations in the US’ not-for-profit theatres is not unique, as venues and countless performing companies
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Broadway shows rarely close in previews nowadays. Aficionados speak of Bobbi Boland, starring Farrah Fawcett, which ran for seven performances in 2003
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The old showbusiness adage, ‘The show must go on’, has gone right out the window. Indeed, the show ‘going on’ would be seen
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There’s still a long way to go, but the former US presidential candidate sees plenty to cheer in the theatre world, writes
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Over the past year or two, an exciting number of new works from black writers have appeared on New York’s stages. These
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School matinees get a bad rap. After all, if distracted audiences are frustrating, imagine a theatre filled with teens gossiping, quarrelling, texting,
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The Vertical 2.25 Hours. 1/12th of a Day in the Death of Joe Egg. Only A Little Night Music. These are not,
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In the wake of the botched Iowa caucuses, and in advance of the Super Tuesday primaries on March 3, there’s something emotionally
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In her seven-decade career, the veteran actor has worked with everyone from James Dean to Steppenwolf Theatre Company. She tells Howard Sherman
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While the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater in New York is billed as “a premier launching pad for new
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The New York Musical Festival, which launched in 2004, announced last week that it was bankrupt and has closed its doors. As
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The end of 2019 brought a double whammy of cultural ‘best of’ lists: not just best-of-the-year rundowns, but also assessments of the
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The Broadway musical Beetlejuice’s press release issued last week with the headline ‘a strange and unusual announcement’ – echoing a line of
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Earlier this week, Vulture – part of New York Magazine – ran a feature headlined: ‘Why is Stephen Sondheim Karaoke in All
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As his latest play opens Off-Broadway, straight-talking playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis speaks to Howard Sherman about life on the Upper West Side
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It was, quite possibly, the most widely heard post-performance discussion in theatre history. Well, the last few minutes were anyway. Last week
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When pundits want to ridicule what they see as shallow displays of governance, or stunts on the campaign trail, they tend to
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As the producer behind Hadestown’s success, on Broadway and internationally, Mara Isaacs could be forgiven for resting on her laurels. But, as
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When does a concert become theatre? When does movement become choreography? Why the big suit? Okay, that last one is an old
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Stage versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol are to American theatres what The Nutcracker is to ballet companies – or what
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Lauren Gunderson is America’s most produced playwright but she has never staged a play on Broadway. She tells Howard Sherman why Shakespeare’s
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Theatre is often accused of confirming people’s biases and US theatre’s bias is viewed – not necessarily inaccurately – as being left-leaning
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Seeing a theatrical production in a prison, performed by incarcerated men, places a unique context on the work presented. The experience of
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David Henry Hwang got his first break in 1980, when a New York theatre sought to redress accusations of ‘yellowface’. In the
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I’ve always meant to see the 2001 indie movie Scotland, PA – an adaptation of Macbeth set in a fast-food restaurant –
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Four matinees a week is not typical on Broadway. But that’s exactly what the new musical The Lightning Thief is offering. The
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The Pulitzer prize-winner wrote his first play about the 36th US president in 2012. He tells Howard Sherman how he went All
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