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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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMWhen Broadway shut, stage doors found a new way to open — on digital platforms that offer private lessons, birthday videos and meet and greets with stars.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AMTwo critics, hungry for live performance, weigh whether they’re ready to take a health risk for “Blindness,” which opens in New York next month.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PMGorgeous but thin, this half-hour experiment from the Royal Shakespeare Company turns Puck into an avatar and “theatergoers” into fireflies.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PM“We Play Ourselves” finds a struggling playwright exiled to Los Angeles and obsessing over New York. Then she meets the manipulative filmmaker next door.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24PMHiring couples to act together allows us to see two people in one virtual space. For the couples themselves, though, it can feel like “there’s no escape.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMIs theater even theater when you watch it on your laptop? Ask the artists who’ve blurred the boundaries between live and filmed performance for years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03AMMarches and parades are on pause this year. But streamed events and exhibitions are still commemorating King’s achievements.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:03AMThe Under the Radar Festival entries “Capsule” and “Disclaimer” explore intimacy, isolation and identity. Bring your own fenugreek.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMThanks to streaming, two American critics got to binge a bunch of the holiday extravaganzas. So how does this silly British tradition translate?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PM“Stars in the House,” a variety show and fund-raiser, started just after the Broadway shutdown. Some 250 episodes later, its creators won’t quit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMStream productions of reimagined fairy tales and Christmas standards like ‘A Christmas Carol’ being staged at theaters around the world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24AMTheatermakers are devising new, immersive ways to engage children, with a few sending boxes of props and set pieces to your home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMIt 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 05:06AMWilliamstown Theater Festival’s summer season is now a winter experiment, all on audio. That includes “A Streetcar Named Desire,” recorded in actor’s closets.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMWith its latest show, the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles has cornered the American market on long-running, agreeable online theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMAn all-star cast came together, remotely and in socially distanced shoots, to turn Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir into a vivid amalgam of art, music and performance for HBO.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54AMConnection or isolation? Intensity or escape? This spate of shows that put the watcher to work are rewarding, but often in contrasting ways.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMA musical satire reframes the origins of the invasion of Iraq as a story of bureaucratic bungles and spy games gone catastrophically wrong.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMThe immersive games are reinventing for online, at-home play — which is no surprise, an industry expert said: “These folks are deeply creative, and they’re scrappy.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMSarah Kane’s 1999 play, performed live at the Chichester Festival Theater and available to stream this week, meditates on power and powerlessness, and makes specific devastation feel unive…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMTheaters may be closed, but streamers and studios are flocking to the stage to meet the insatiable demand for content.
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