Thursday, April 22, 2021
Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley star as the star-crossed lovers in a compelling stage-film hybrid adaptation.
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Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s play about Black women struggling to survive Hurricane Katrina gets an ear-tingling podcast production.
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The monologuist appeared onstage, indoors, in front of a real audience, on the first day possible. Maybe he shouldn’t have rushed.
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Fifty years ago, Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman exploded the Broadway “concept” musical by conjuring the bittersweet reunion of aging showgirls.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMIn the 50 years since the musical’s debut, revivals and concerts have served its great songs to great stars. Who’d be our Broadway babies 25 years from now?
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Liza Birkenmeier’s new play about a shape-shifting teenager makes a fitting contribution to Theater in Quarantine’s revamp of the avant-garde.
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Arts workers are protesting closings and occupying playhouses all over France. On Broadway, that drama has yet to open.
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Thursday, March 4, 2021
Because of pandemic restrictions, a performance piece about refugees requires you to draw on yourself, in both senses
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The tragedy of racism is only part of the story in two very different plays from London that carry a dimension of meaning not usually seen in this country.
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A sparkling new recording of the 1964 musical makes half the case for Stephen Sondheim’s endlessly inventive score.
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Four not-very-believable characters in a chain of monologues are rescued by a cast of exceptionally believable actors.
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Samuel Bailey’s knockout professional debut isn’t so much about the pipeline to incarceration than about the toxic masculinity that keeps it flowing.
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At home in the footlights, he knew the power of charm and every trick of the stage trade. But even after a celebrated “King Lear,” there was more to play.
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Sunday, January 31, 2021
All Ryan J. Haddad wants is a boyfriend. But his pride — or is it his prospects’ prejudice? — keeps getting in the way.
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Pandemics and ordinary tragedies clash in Lauren Gunderson’s overwrought portrait of her husband, the virologist Nathan A. Wolfe.
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With minimal rehearsal and production values, online events are becoming a distinct (and worthy) new genre of theater.
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Pundits have likened the president to Lear, to Hamlet, to Macbeth, to Coriolanus. That may have been four years of wishful thinking.
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Forget tragic lovers. At the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, fast cars and other luxuries fuel tragedies about the love of things.
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What started as a TikTok meme and became a crowdsourced musical could have online lessons to offer for Broadway.
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A big-box store, a hotel for transgender women and a dinner party gone awry are some of the places your ears will take you to.
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With their field rocked by unprecedented challenges in 2020, these people and groups — some notable, some new — stepped into the breach.
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Not for decades have so many plays and musicals been turned into movies. But even in the best of the new crop, a lot gets lost in translation.
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In Heather Christian’s “I Am Sending You the Sacred Face,” the saint of Calcutta vogues and lip-syncs and broods on the nature of selflessness.
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In his latest magic show, Helder Guimarães shuffles an old genre into a new technology with mixed results.
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Sunday, December 6, 2020
Serious new plays are always in danger of disappearing — never more so than now. But inventive virtual productions, such as “The Wolves” and “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” offer h…
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Audra McDonald stars as Blanche DuBois in a radio-like production of the Tennessee Williams classic that still has a way to go.
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It wasn’t the year for celebration. But watching innovation flourish inspired our chief critic, while other writers found the joys of the stage in other media.
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