Thousands of students should have been gathering to cheer on the year’s best shows. But this isn’t a typical year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMA playwright, a director, an artistic director and an actor share their experiences — and prescriptions for change.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMIn his new audio comedy, Alan Ayckbourn does more than write: He and his wife, Heather Stoney, portray several couples in disarray.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMMiranda’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.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMWatching familiar plays online can be a comfort — and sometimes a revelation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMHis 10-minute, two-character play will test the possibilities of a new form that puts faces, more than bodies, at the center of the action.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMA virtual send-off for the artistic director and playwright drew more attendees than could have fit under a tent. “I liked this better,” she said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PM“Homebound” is one company’s attempt to give structure and meaning to the worries and what-ifs of the strange new present. But these aren’t plays, the artistic director says.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMWe continue our cast album series with more recommendations for wonderful musicals to listen to at home
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMA rare show that retooled and flourished after its New York debut, the musical, a decade later, has endured in schools and through international productions.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMIn committing to paying its people during a three-month shutdown, the theater gives itself breathing room to prepare for when it can open again.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMWhen theaters closed by the pandemic stream their shuttered plays online, watching sharpens the longing for the real thing.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06AMThe hero of Joe DiPietro’s new comic drama is Margaret Chase Smith, a U.S. senator who had the rare courage to stand up to McCarthyism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMIn Hilary Bettis’s play, a family separated by deportation wants to live regular American lives but discovers how mercilessly difficult that is.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PMVivian Neuwirth’s play is a fictionalized recollection of the life of the novelist John Kennedy Toole, who died before his Pulitzer-Prize winning classic “A Confederacy of Dunces” was …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PM“Grand Horizons” and “Dracula” assert the full humanity of women, a matter not as settled as we might like to think.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36AMThe writer Paula Vogel, the director Mark Brokaw, and the actors Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse on returning to a wrenching play two decades later.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32AMThe feminist rallying cry inspired Chelsea Clinton’s children’s book about the likes of Harriet Tubman and Sally Ride. Now it’s a cheerful stage adaptation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42PMJerry Herman’s buoyant score is the highlight of this Encores! production about a troubled silent-movie-era romance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMMinnesota’s Children’s Theater Company will present a play inspired by little-told stories of the wrenching Hormel strike: from kids on all sides of the dispute.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMJames Ijames’s satire reconsiders a story that reaches back to our shared past, with an eye toward demolishing it in favor of a better future.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMThis multimedia concert and career retrospective forgets that the best way to honor the composer is to have a good time with his music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMIn Sarah Einspanier’s fever-dream play, one half of a couple heads to Hollywood. The other gets an odd, and oddly familiar, new roommate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMDeirdre O’Connell has a peculiar challenge performing the recollections of Lucas Hnath's mother in his play “Dana H.” Give credit to earbuds and Epsom salts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMRoundabout Underground presents a flawed but tuneful musical about a young Manhattan couple challenged by addiction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMIt’s no surprise that this play about disillusionment, with its message of hope wrapped in warnings about nationalism and isolationism, was a choice for this season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMSarah Lozoff is joining one of the nation’s leading regional theaters for all 11 of its productions in its 2020 season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03PMPatrick Vaill took his final Broadway bow as Jud Fry, after performing in Daniel Fish’s production of the musical since college.
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