“Merry Wives,” an adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, had already pushed back its opening night by nearly two weeks after an injury to its leading man.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:03PMThe composer and producer blamed Britain’s coronavirus restrictions for the delay.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PMThe Lucille Lortel Theater Foundation, which has managed the 97-year-old theater for the past decade, will take over the building in Greenwich Village.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AMThe foundations are adding $5 million to the Disability Futures program, which will continue through 2025 with two more classes of 20 fellows each.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMThe theater will produce three plays in an ambitious 2021-22 season, but it has also committed to a five-day workweek and reforms that prioritize artists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AM“Sun & Sea,” which won top honors at the Venice Biennale in 2019, will make its U.S. premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this fall.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMArbery’s “Corsicana” was added to the theater’s slate for next summer, along with four plays previously announced for 2021.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32AMThe Criminal Queerness Festival offers three works that address subjects including addiction, fluid identity and social change.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMHow did the ratings board overlook songs filled with lust and damnation? “Maybe we bamboozled them with gargoyles,” one filmmaker said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:26PMWhen The Times staged a musical number for its live event series, the performance served as a sneak preview of a theater world preparing for takeoff.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMFederal regulators cited the Shubert Organization for four workplace safety violations in the death of an employee in the Winter Garden Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMFrom a calm socialite, she morphed into an unhinged puppy kidnapper and then a vindictive glamourpuss. Why don’t we hate her?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:44PMDiscovering Broadway, a nonprofit founded in 2019, brings actors and writers to Central Indiana for weeklong retreats to workshop their new musicals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMRobert L. Lynch, the longtime president and chief executive who had been on paid leave since December, retired on Thursday, the organization’s board announced.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PMBryan Fonseca, the founder of a notable company, died of complications from Covid-19. But at the theater named for him, the show goes on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMApplications for the $1,000 grants, from the New York Foundation for the Arts, can be submitted through June 15.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:37PMThe 2018 workshop for a possible revival of the lush musical was never meant to be seen by the public, but will now stream as a benefit this weekend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PMThe production will feature lyrics by Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine and a book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36AMThe 91-year-old composer told the Public Theater last year that he was no longer working on a show based on the films of Luis Buñuel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMA stage adaptation is in the works for Broadway, the West End and Australia. The goal is a 2023 debut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMThe Park Avenue Armory is postponing “Afterwardsness” after three members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane dance company tested positive for the coronavirus.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:43PM“It shouldn’t be an uncomfortable idea that it could be all Black women being represented in this space,” said the star, who’s also working on a new album.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:34PMAndra Day and Viola Davis are the category’s first pair of Black nominees since 1973, when Diana Ross was nominated for “Lady Sings the Blues” and Cicely Tyson was up for “Sounder.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PMIt was the final role — and first win — for the late star of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” who died in August from colon cancer at age 43.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PMThe Disney songwriting power couple behind “Frozen” and “Coco” wrote the very spoiler-y “WandaVision” theme that has permanently lodged itself in people’s brains.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:56PMTwo former students of Mr. Franco’s have agreed to drop their claims that he had intimidated them into performing explicit sex scenes. Mr. Franco has denied the allegations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:24PMThe Emmy-nominated writer and performer will work with Matthew López to adapt the comedy for the stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33PM“NY PopsUp” will kick off Feb. 20 and run through Labor Day.
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