Our theater experts provide a guide to some of the successful (and failed) cinematic adaptations of plays and musicals — all for your streaming pleasure.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMSix months dark. Thousands of artists out of work. Could this disaster have a surprise ending? Five critics on what must change, onstage and off.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMAmong the performances you can catch online are a one-woman show about sexual assault and riffs on “Heart of Darkness” and “Rocky.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMTwo critics square off to determine how well this body slam of a comedy, about stereotypes and storytelling, made it to the very small screen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMEvery year, 34 million people go to the theatre, double the number that attend Premier League football. But lockdown and physical distancing rules mean the industry is on the edge of collaps…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMMiranda’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 02:18PMThe show about race, sex and trauma didn’t earn back its costs, but did demonstrate that audiences would turn out to see, and argue about, risky material.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PMShows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMWe spoke with five actors to see how they were feeling after hearing about their Tony Award nods.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33PMTwenty more plays to read before college The post Add these scripts to your canon appeared first on Dramatics Magazine Online.
SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 11:59AMVisionary stylist or one-trick pony? With “Network” on Broadway and “All About Eve” on the horizon, the multimedia-mad stage director is ready for his close-up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24AMDamien Chazelle’s first movie since “La La Land” was mostly loved by critics. Audiences were less impressed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:28PMThey are often Broadway sensations, but jukebox musicals rarely get good reviews. We invited our critics to stop snarking and tell us what they want.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMMajority rule (mostly). One play per playwright. How we put together the 25 Plays list, and a bid to remember notable writers and favorite works that missed the cut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48AMQueens of Syria, an adaptation of Euripides’ antiwar tragedy The Trojan Women, will visit London, Liverpool and EdinburghFor Sham, who fled Syria with her family, life in Damascus before t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMAn Italian court last week upheld a 2014 appeal won by the dancer and ordered the theater to pay her back wages from her firing in February 2012 until she won that appeal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:35PMIt’s like walking into an abandoned house where everything’s been left the way it was.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:40AMHappy families, Tolstoy mused, are all alike — it's the messy, miserable ones we love to watch. So are great dramas born, from “King Lear” through “Long Day's Journey…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMA look at what Footlights has to say for April, What do you call it when a 6th grade hall monitor goes up to the smallest 4th grader and “says get off the playground!”? We call it bullyi…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:47PMProductions Raises Women’s Voices in “Properties of Silence” “I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you’d prefer to imagine me.” ― Juana Inés de …
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:24PMElizabeth Stevens interviews Alex Torra about THE SINCERITY PROJECT.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:30PMWhen people ask, “What’s your favorite restaurant?” I usually want to know, in which category? If it’s Indian, the answer is ANGARA in Torrance (matched, perhaps, by Jaipur in West L…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:49PMAfter rounding up at least four Chinese food fans, which shouldn’t be too difficult, head for DRAGON STREET in North Hollywood. Unprepossessing is a kind word for the interior, whose booth…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:28PMTheatre was born the moment one being tried to express a story to another. It’s as simple as that. Given that every culture anywhere in this world has some form of theatre, it can easily…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:16PM24th Street Theatre Answers the Question: What is Theatre? It all started with a simple question from an inquisitive young boy strolling past the open doors of a converted 1928 carriage hous…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:03PMThe breadth of human creation is a derivative of prior moments. Art, all human knowledge is built upon a foundation originally started before the dawn of man and added to by each subsequent …
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:01PMFor those that want to know how life changes as you gain seniority, let me offer this perspective. Mostly it doesn’t. But what does happen is you, or me in this case, pause for reflection …
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:59PMThose of you who have tried Cuban food, know that it’s not spicy but mildly and cleverly seasoned involving citrus juices in marinades etc. Why not try it at EL RINCON CRIOLLO, where a sma…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:57PMIt’s all Greek to you, when you visit GEORGE’S GREEK CAFÉ, one of the few restaurants with authentic, home-style cooking and decent prices, owned for decades, by the Loizides Family. Th…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:53PMAcross the Freeway from Universal City is CALIFORNIA CANTEEN, a misnomer which might imply a veggieburger/hot dog counter. But, it’s actually a charming French bistro with a tempting menu …
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