Sunday, September 6, 2020
The “Fleabag” star Andrew Scott is the entire brilliant cast of a penetrating play about toxic fathers and sons.
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The actors quarantined together all summer to produce Shakespeare’s tragedy safely. But they can’t overcome the remove of a camera.
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Theater for One was built on the idea of face-to-face encounters. Moving it online could have been a disaster, but instead it’s a heartbreaker.
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Among the performances you can catch online are a one-woman show about sexual assault and riffs on “Heart of Darkness” and “Rocky.”
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A collection of short solo works from the Weston Playhouse furthers the redefinition of theater online — and of life in isolation.
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With broad winks to Agatha Christie and the limitations of remote theater, a serialized song-and-dance mystery goes on. Well, not so much dance.
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Expanding content and experimenting with form, the avant-garde finds a congenial new home online, as two recent offerings demonstrate.
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In “The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy,” an experimental theater lab operating from a closet adapts a timely tale about the solitude of cramped quarters.
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Thursday, July 16, 2020
Thursday, July 9, 2020
A documentary play based on interviews with New York doctors, nurses and paramedics underlines the inequities of a medical system “flawed from its root.”
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Our critics discuss the last four months, which thanks to Zoom (and Meryl Streep) have been full of experimentation and playfulness.
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The British government has promised $2 billion to save its cultural institutions, while the American theater, lacking meaningful leadership, is left to fend for itself.
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Richard Nelson’s fictional family returns, but for the first time this drama of connection in the age of American bewilderment feels smaller than life.
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A streaming production of the Molière comedy, with allusions to the White House as well as Black Lives Matter, tears down walls to rebuild a classic.
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An Atlanta theater company addresses racial inequity in a series of virtual dinners that mix drama with discussion.
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From the documentary works of Anna Deavere Smith to brief monologues written in this moment of unrest, dramatists are sounding an alarm.
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Miranda’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.”
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020
A listening guide to the cast albums, playlists and video footprints left behind by 18 Broadway and Off Broadway musicals.
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Our co-chief theater critics discuss the plays and musicals that reflected and predicted an unstable world.
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Our chief theater critics have no nickel-plated medallions to hand out, but they find plenty to celebrate among shut-down Broadway offerings.
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Mr. McNally, who died of coronavirus complications, introduced audiences to characters and situations that most mainstream theater had previously shunted into comic asides.
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One of the country’s most racially diverse cities struggles, nicely, with representation and inclusion on its many bustling stages.
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An opinionated take on the songwriter’s major works, from a delayed debut to a Pulitzer Prize- winning classic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06AMLet’s not underrate Stephen Sondheim any longer: Theater’s greatest songwriter is also one of theater’s greatest playwrights. Here’s why.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Richard Greenberg’s overstuffed new play about family feuds and ethical choices turns a wedding comedy into a crisis.
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