Modesto Jimenez, known as Flako, has turned cab theater into a genre, and his latest show takes place on a ride through Bushwick, Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMHighlights include concerts by Melissa Errico and Sutton Foster, and an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:06PMThe projection designer Jared Mezzocchi has become a go-to guy for ambitious virtual productions. Next up: Starring in his own haunted house play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMWithout international tours, streaming high-concept, director-driven European theater is the next best thing to being there.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMHighlights include a virtual production of Adam Rapp’s “The Sound Inside” and a new reading series by Roundabout Theater Company.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMIn “The Jackson C. Frank Listening Party w/ Special Guests,” the musician is simultaneously central and peripheral to the story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMPresentations include a star-studded reading of “The Thanksgiving Play,” musicals crossing the Atlantic and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06AMThe magician explains how he worked up to “In & Of Itself” in a new memoir, “Amoralman,” a prequel of sorts to the show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMThe past year has made us rethink the boundaries between theater and film. Many of these shows are a little bit of both.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMAudience members can shift from camera to camera in this streaming solo show, like security guards keeping watch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMAnna Moench’s play, about a woman working in social media content moderation, begins with dark humor but slides into psychological horror.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PMPresentations include the 30th anniversary of George C. Wolfe’s “The Colored Museum”; Andréa Burns in “Bad Dates”; and a solo show by Riz Ahmed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMPatrick Page looks at bad guys, Steven Carl McCasland gives us literary women, and Jill Sobule mines her own history, including the dreaded seventh grade.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMCleverly edited and darkly funny, the latest Theater in Quarantine show finds a nervous couple afraid to go out or let anyone in. Sound familiar?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PMA film of Derek DelGaudio’s idiosyncratic show captures its surreal vibe and unconventional approach.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18AMThe Pasadena Playhouse has a new tribute to Herman, the composer of “Hello, Dolly!,” and Tomei turns up in “Beirut” and “Three Hotels.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMTravis Alabanza’s monologue starring Reece Lyons examines agency and safety, here inextricably intertwined with identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMThe shows have not been staged, but three concept albums are at the center of a sprawling fictional world created largely by teenagers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMThree theaters are exploring “Swingin’ the Dream,” which tanked on Broadway in 1939, but opens a window on the racial and artistic dynamics of its time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMThe Under the Radar, Prototype and Exponential festivals are ready to open our minds with experimental work, even if their doors are shut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMThanks 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 01:32PMWith their field rocked by unprecedented challenges in 2020, these people and groups — some notable, some new — stepped into the breach.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMPlays by Mike Bartlett, Christina Anderson and Halley Feiffer are watchable at home, too. And for an alternative holiday hit, “Burning Bluebeard.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMOpen-air shows. Joint productions. Filmed dress rehearsals. Here’s a faraway close-up on how one theater community has stayed reasonably robust in adversity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMAlan Cumming and Patti LuPone add their voices to this season’s tidings, plus a gender-bending Scrooge and a live broadcast of “The Grinch Musical!”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMIt 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 05:06AMAs Split Britches, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver have made off-kilter theater for 40 years. Memory loss, and a pandemic, haven’t stopped their creating.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMConstance Wu and Samira Wiley star in a Zoom-ified Chekhov play, and Ars Nova punches above its weight with a 24-hour telethon.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMWith nods to Duchamp and Dada, this interactive production raises questions about fate, narrative convention and the process of making art.
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