Michel Marc Bouchard's melodrama, about an illicit gay love affair in 1912, displays a lot of kookiness and little self-awareness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48PM[SHARE]With four actors and a contemporary setting, Bedlam offers an audacious, if half-baked, take on the Schiller play about the fate of Mary, Queen of Scots.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PM[SHARE]Exquisite Corpse Company's clever choose-your-own-adventure play has a handful of viewers peek in on a Brooklyn couple in really close quarters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PM[SHARE]Live performances via Zoom mix with actual game footage in this well-intentioned but preachy play by the poet Darrel Alejandro Holnes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]A lusty new production is both an enticement and a warning as we tentatively explore intimacy after a year of forced solitude.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PM[SHARE]In this clever show, audience members join a "neighborhood" and lobby for how its discordant residents should to spend a chunk of community money.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42PM[SHARE]Casting Black actors and filming in a claustrophobic New York apartment revitalizes Jason Robert Brown's popular two-character musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PM[SHARE]At the Yale School of Drama, the playwright Jeremy O. Harris found the kind of classmates that you can trust with your first drafts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03AM[SHARE]The autobiographical solo show from Daniel J. Watts shows off his skill with spoken word and dance, but doesn't add up to more than the sum of its parts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PM[SHARE]Stimulating and immersive " yet actor-free " this audio adaptation of the Saramago novel brings the terror of an epidemic into your ears.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PM[SHARE]It's easier to find meaning in fiction than in the senseless mass killings of our reality, which seem to render the critical perspective pointless, even silly, at times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03AM[SHARE]Keli Goff's series of vignettes feature Black women recounting how their hair affected their school lives, relationships or careers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03PM[SHARE]Oscar Wilde meets Instagram in a slick, shrewd and screen-filled update, the filmed collaboration by five British theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PM[SHARE]This new franchise installment, "Sponge on the Run," wants to be clever in nodding toward genre conventions. But its execution is poor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:26AM[SHARE]A fund-raiser, a tribute, a documentary " and a reminder that Jonathan Larson's musical remains especially inspiring in hard times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PM[SHARE]This audio series translates the Greek myth of Perseus for teens, making its hero a young man still figuring out his destiny.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03PM[SHARE]Patrick Page writes and stars in a meditation on the Bard's villains, moving swiftly through a catalog of characters as if he were a chameleon.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PM[SHARE]A breakneck performance by Joseph Potter as an embittered former prodigy carries this unnerving monologue from Philip Ridley.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PM[SHARE]Sibyl Kempson's unruly audio play takes Mary Shelley and her famed creation from old England to contemporary America. Bigfoot shows up, too.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PM[SHARE]As she packs her things to make a move, a critic lingers over her memories, many slickly packaged, some not.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PM[SHARE]A digital four-play retrospective, capped by a world premiere, illuminates this writer's fascination with doubling, violence and Black identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PM[SHARE]Short, sharp and often funny, the work featured in the "Playing on Air" series can even make vacuuming a pleasure.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03PM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PM[SHARE]Brave Spirits Theater expected to mount an ambitious cycle of eight history plays. Instead it became yet another victim of the pandemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PM[SHARE]An elaborate production streamed live from London makes a miser out of Andrew Lincoln and the rest of us rich with holiday cheer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PM[SHARE]"A Christmas Carol" is a favorite of Maya Phillips, but this year, she writes, she found in it "a timely study of what it truly means to be a decent person in a community."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PM[SHARE]Perhaps no playwright has asserted the richness and complexity of everyday Black lives and language so deeply. Now, two screen projects affirm his legacy for new audiences.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:03AM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AM[SHARE]With fewer guests at the table this Thanksgiving, theatrical reminders that food, drink and reminiscence can unsettle as well as comfort.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AM[SHARE]Drawing on interviews with soldiers and classical texts, Theater Mitu's experimental collage is visually absorbing but thematically fuzzy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PM[SHARE]Five Black women narrate a filmed rendition of Claudia Rankine's heady play, which was rethought after an initial version was shut down by the pandemic.
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