Coronavirus travel restrictions don’t prevent the mentalist from visiting your head in this hourlong online show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03PMIf you participate in a sound walk and no one is there to applaud, does it count as theater? Our critic argues that it does. Or at least that it can.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:02PMSix 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 05:18AMAnnouncing stage productions, and timing, has become a matter of wishful thinking, guesswork and experimentation. Case in point: the no-show plan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMAmong 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 04:06PMImmersive productions — from a wizardly treasure hunt to tall tales by phone or email — keep a young audience both entertained and active.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMSifting evidence and debating whodunit with strangers turns out to be an especially successful way for theater to be enjoyed from a laptop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMWhen actor training migrated online, our reporter gave herself two weeks to learn as many theater skills — and knife skills — as she could.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMShakespeare in the Park and other outdoor venues are shut. But for performers and directors, open-air memories are as sharp as the bite of a mosquito.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMAvailable online The Public’s emotive and effective hour-long play uses actors, including Lorraine Toussaint and Alison Pill, to share powerful testimonials In mid-March, when New York Cit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMImmersive theater, timed and ticketed, has arrived in virtual reality. Is this a brave new pixelated world for live performance? Or just another app?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMThis new Starz drama is set in a strip club but “pulses with the female gaze,” said the creator, Katori Hall. Its premise is that sex work is as worthy of exploration as any other kind o…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMThis Lorraine Hansberry play, set in the 1960s in a fictional African country, speaks incisively to the American present.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMFive were slated to make their Broadway debuts. Now? They’re bunking with family, grappling with unemployment and fighting injustice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMMoni Yakim has taught movement at Juilliard since 1968. A new film captures his impact on scores of actors. “He’s not a coddler,” says Jessica Chastain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMMiranda’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 02:18PMWith theaters and nightclubs closed, magicians have pivoted to remote performance. Can your screen be a place of enchantment?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMAll the world with an internet connection has suddenly become a stage. A lot of those stages have programmed Shakespeare.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03AMWith theaters shuttered, a host of audio dramas and musicals have popped up, and actors are honing a skill: creating characters with just their voices.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMWe continue our cast album series with more recommendations for wonderful musicals to listen to at home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PMHow does a two-and-a-half-hour show become a half-hour online event? Deliberately, haltingly, and with a few technical glitches.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMRichard Nelson’s new play, “What Do We Need to Talk About?” will be performed online, but live, restoring some of theater’s ephemerality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PMHillary Bettis’s immigration drama 72 Miles to Go … was one of many off-Broadway shows that didn’t make it to the stage after the Covid-19 outbreak, leaving the playwright ‘heartbrok…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMWith real theaters closed, our critic unlocked handcuffs, tried to land a plane and accidentally scalded herself, all while attempting immersive performances from her Brooklyn apartment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AMAn accomplished group of creatives have turned a musical into a new podcast at a time when theater fans need it the most “Nothing can replace the thrill of a great musical live on stage,�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMPhoebe Waller-Bridge’s solo stage show comes to Amazon to raise money for the arts and health care charities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMTwo theater critics suggest some of their favorite books about the theater, giving us portals to a world that is now forbidden.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMThese nine playwrights spent years dreaming up cataclysms and plagues. Did that prepare them for the current crisis? Sometimes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMA critic disguised as an actress who is also a suspect in the death of the Great Merlini. Her team didn’t use “Cats” to break the case, though.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMA host of big names, including Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sarah Jessica Parker, took part in a self-congratulatory yet oddly charming YouTube-based revue On Sunday night, Rosie O’Donnell hoste…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMFrom West Side Story to Company, he revolutionised the musical. As the supreme lyricist and composer turns 90, Jake Gyllenhaal, Patti LuPone, Chita Rivera, Nathan Lane and more pay tribute C…
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