“Hilton Als Presents,” from New York Theater Workshop, features three of the playwright’s overlooked and often disparaged works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMA solo show about a marathoner rebuilding her life takes its audience on a 5K through Central Park. Running is optional, our critic insists.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMIt’s a tale that Will Power intends as cautionary, with cycles of history and human violence in mind.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMOne would think that everyone involved in the parody series “Schmigadoon!” was in love with the sometimes hokey, sometimes magical musical genre. Not quite.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMTorrey Townsend’s backstage fiction is an indictment of the real world’s overwhelmingly white, disproportionately male theatrical establishment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42AMA live theatrical event in the Meatpacking district, featuring several playwrights and sets by David Rockwell, “turns New York itself into the playhouse.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMThe playwright Lynn Nottage chose to share her Signature Theater residency with other artists rocked by 2020. The immersive result: “The Watering Hole.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMThe experimental company 600 Highwaymen is back with theater of the most intimate kind, starring you and a stranger at close range.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMThis poignant, comic puppet play, by Dorothy James and Andy Manjuck, is as much about the ingenuity of the mind as it is about loneliness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMFuzzy puppet sheep. A light cutting through the haze. Hand-designed dreamscapes. There’s plenty to savor in the slow return of pixel-free theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMMike Daisey takes sluggish aim at juicy targets: the disgraced Broadway producer Scott Rudin and the New York governor, Andrew M. Cuomo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMThe Tony-winning musical theater actor and TV star planned to debut a cabaret show in 2019. Illness hit, then the pandemic. But he hasn’t been stopped.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32AMLupita Nyong’o and Juan Castano star in a podcast adaptation that delivers the poetry — in Spanish and English — but not the fire.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMTwo critics, hungry for live performance, weigh whether they’re ready to take a health risk for “Blindness,” which opens in New York next month.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PMDuring the pandemic, writers and actors have taken on an “adrenalizing” challenge: creating video monologues, more than 400 so far, in 24 hours.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06AMAdaptations of “Happy Days” and “First Love,” works by the master of existential wheel-spinning, show us how to live in place.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24PMBill Camp stars in JoAnne Akalaitis’s creepy, funny streaming production of this Samuel Beckett short story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMSamuel L. Jackson, David Alan Grier, Phylicia Rashad and others remember the Negro Ensemble Company founder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMRecorded on a Houston stage, “The Book of Magdalene” is theatrically intimate, while “Hotel Good Luck” gets caught up in digital trickery.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PMThe man was taciturn, but his Theater District restaurants were like Broadway clubhouses. Even the posters of flops were placed with affection.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMTwo short films that find pandemic-sidelined performers grappling with Beckett are a highlight of the annual Exponential Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMMark O’Rowe’s intricate, beautifully acted play begs for debate. To start: Why don’t its protagonists have full lives of their own?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMThe excellent program of short audioplays commissioned for “Under the Albert Clock” imagines the world in 2050.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMAs artists saw liberties threatened and inequities exacerbated, the stage became more thrillingly urgent than it had been in decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMWith a history of the Thornton Wilder classic coming soon, we talk with performers who found personal inspiration in the play’s beating heart.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMOne of the founders of Mabou Mines, he reveled in being an outsider even when his celebrated “The Gospel at Colonus” reached Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:36PMA 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMTom DeTrinis’s solo show is full of rage, but in a way that’s bizarrely out of touch with this overwhelmingly disastrous year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMWith their field rocked by unprecedented challenges in 2020, these people and groups — some notable, some new — stepped into the breach.
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