Cynthia Zarin writes that the work of the English playwright Tom Stoppard, whose 1974 play “Travesties” opens on Broadway on April 24th, explores shifting identities.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00PMThe playwright’s 1974 work defends the purpose of art as an activity that can grant a sliver of immortality.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:00AMCynthia Zarin writes about “Returning to Reims,” a stage play from the German troupe the Schaubühne, based on the French philosopher Didier Eribon’s memoir.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 04:36PMCynthia Zarin writes about the Broadway musical “West Side Story,” which made its début in 1957.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 03:00PMCynthia Zarin on Richard Nelson’s new play, “Illyria,” about Joseph Papp and the founding of the Public Theatre.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:31PMCynthia Zarin reviews the theatre company Elevator Repair Service’s new production of Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure,” at the Public Theatre, starring Scott Shepherd and directed…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 09:00AMSimon McBurney has two phones. In his dressing room at the Golden Theatre, on Broadway, they’re both ringing. He cuts off one call, answers the other, then apologizes, scans his messages, …
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 09:57AMOnstage & off Plunkett's ability to inhabit & portray experience has an almost tactile, corporeal quality. Her performances have the kind of intelligence & emotional range that prods an audi…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 03:50PMThe Brooklyn Academy of Music recently staged a rare production of the entire Henriad—“Richard II,” “Henry IV” Parts I and II, and “Henry V”—by the Royal Shakespeare Company.…
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