Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman have resurrected their Christmas act for “a big, old chosen family reunion.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMPaul Osborn’s 1930s play is revived, with its thin psychology, predictable structure and somewhat bitter slice of small town life intact.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:03PMThe writer maps her life in a one-woman show, “Is There Still Sex in the City?,” beginning previews this weekend at the Daryl Roth Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06AMAn immersive show at the SoHo Playhouse takes theatergoers back to a speakeasy in 1929, when New York was also in a mayoral race.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMRajiv Joseph’s new drama revisits the protagonist, and the metaphoric possibilities of origami, of his earlier play “Animals Out of Paper.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:06PMIn a drama that taps straight into these angry, anguished times, a Black artist responds to a police beating by becoming his white friend’s ‘enslaved person’. Pulitzer-winner Parks exp…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54AMWhile insubstantial, this immersive online performance gathers people virtually until they can get together more safely in person.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMEdie Falco, Blair Brown and Marin Ireland portray three generations of women sharing the same Greenwich Village walk-up in Simon Stephens’s new play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMThe US playwright’s new drama, at the Old Vic in London, is a tragicomic romance amid swastika-shaped flowerbeds. She talks about finding a dark past on a trip to Long Island In May 2020, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMThis verbatim hockey drama, at Here Arts Center, considers issues of masculinity and the peculiar ownership that fans feel toward a team and its players.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMAmy Berryman’s three-character drama, set in a one-room cabin as crises rage outside, asks how much we owe to ourselves and our world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMAn exhibition offers a close-up look at “Hamilton,” “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” and more. Here are 10 highlights.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:42PMWhere justice is virtual, crimes have no names and audience members step up to the dock to examine anonymous witnesses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMThere’s great pleasure in seeing the actress Jackie Hoffman take center stage, even if the play, by E. Dale Smith, doesn’t quite deliver.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMRecent audio and walking tours provide a gentle return to spectatorship while also revealing overlooked corners of the city.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06AMThe Delacorte Theater in Central Park is reopening with a Harlem-set version of Shakespeare’s comedy “The Merry Wives of Windsor.”
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AMReed and Ephraim Birney are in the Berkshires, reprising their roles in “Chester Bailey.” They discuss what it’s like to play off — and fight — each other.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMA lurid story about the serial killer H.H. Holmes gets an absurdist spin at the Axis Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMChristopher Chen’s new play is big on concept and cleverness, but withholds the intimacy that theater-lovers have craved during the pandemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMRenée Elise Goldsberry plays a delusional diva reuniting a girl group in a music biz satire executive produced by Tina Fey. It’s her midcareer moment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:59PMNew and returning TV series like “The Gilded Age” and “The Good Fight” have been a lifeline for celebrated theater actors during the pandemic. Will TV, or theater, ever look the same?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMThree new virtual productions, set in haunted homes and an interactive hotel, give you the excitement of exploring spaces that are off limits.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:12PMWith playhouses closed, theater fans have taken drama into their own hands and mouths, forming play reading groups online and off.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMThis interactive play gives voice to marginalized people, while also asking its audience to mistrust them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48PMIn HBO Max’s “Made for Love,” the “Palm Springs” actress again dismantles romantic clichés. “I didn’t get into this to be a handbag to a man’s story,” she said.
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