Friday, November 22, 2019
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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Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci will be the draws at the Belasco Theatre in November. Unfortunately, they won’t be
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The wheels of cultural change grind slowly. While theatres are making headway in addressing historical inequities regarding gender, race, ethnicity, disability and
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Never afraid to provoke and challenge audiences, Robert O’Hara is making his Broadway directing debut with Slave Play. He tells Howard Sherman
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It is not uncommon, in these days of electronic patron databases and customer relations management software, to receive an email from a
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Ahead of last Monday’s community gathering presented by the Broadway Advocacy Coalition the event had looked interesting. In the room, it went
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Two weeks ago, when considering a spate of closings and announcements of new productions on Broadway for this column, I intentionally made
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Known for roles in TV hits The Good Wife and True Blood, theatre stalwart Carrie Preston is directing a show about RSC
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At first glance, the post from SHN: Broadway in San Francisco, a presenter of major theatre tours on the west coast, looks
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Much has been made of the closing of five Broadway shows in the past two weeks: Be More Chill, King Kong, Pretty
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Following the success of Sweat on Broadway and in London, Lynn Nottage’s latest play is a comedy that revisits the same de-industrialised
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One line started it. “You know that he loved you, don’t you?” That was the moment in Nick Payne’s A Life when
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Anton Chekhov has been cursing up a storm this summer in New York. Sort of. There are currently two – fairly swearey
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The award-winning playwright and director has scored a series of Broadway transfers from his Chicago theatre. He tells Howard Sherman why community-generated
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Perched somewhere between elaborate board game, immersive theatre and Halloween haunted house, the escape room phenomenon seems to fly under the radar
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A simple list of credits for Hal Prince says so much. Producer or co-producer of, among others, The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees,
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You could call it Broadway’s week of disruptions, although it wasn’t unique to Broadway or even necessarily theatre. It began on Saturday,
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As the daughter of famous performers, Kate Burton has forged her own distinguished stage career, known for playing Chekhov and Shakespeare as
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The deranged eccentricity of the premise demanded attention: a stage version of the 1997 action film Face/Off, starring Nic Cage and John
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The arts community prides itself on being progressive. The time has come for it to move forward yet again; the specific topic
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These movies are too long. These movies are too short. These movies are just right. This theme, echoing the assessments of fussy
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Imagine if the long-running NT Connections programme was generating new plays for the secondary school market all about comic book heroes. While
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As head of New York Theatre Workshop, James Nicola has originated hits from Rent to Hadestown. He tells Howard Sherman about working
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