Thursday, September 12, 2024
By presenting “The Orphan of Chao” and “Snow in Midsummer,” the Shaw Festival is helping “the past to smash its way into the modern world.”
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At St. Ann’s Warehouse, a collaboration between a Danish director and a South African troupe that questions the tropes of Western films.
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In Bekah Brunstetter’s new play “The Game,” women withhold sex from their partners who are obsessed with a Fortnite-like game. Her previous work includes “The Oregon Trail.”
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The “Appropriate” playwright has teamed up with the actors Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll and the director Lila Neugebauer for the play’s Broadway debut. “Everybody onstage is a polit…
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With its commitment to presenting free spectacles, the event has become one of the country’s more prominent multidisciplinary events.
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The Shaw Festival in Canada is staging the novelist’s 1901 script, discovered only a few years ago. But how to get its mix of satire and melodrama just right?
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022
At this year’s Shaw Festival in Ontario, a favorite melodrama is reimagined, and other plays grapple with femininity and gender fluidity.
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One hundred years ago this month, the interfaith marriage comedy “Abie’s Irish Rose” kicked off a five-year Broadway run — critics be damned.
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The lyricist and composer, who died on Friday, wrote dozens of piercing tunes for Broadway. Here is a selection of them, as lean as a Sondheim couplet.
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The playwright Keenan Scott II, the director Steve H. Broadnax III and others discuss how “a timeless piece” for Black actors has evolved over 15 years.
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Friday, April 16, 2021
James C. Nicola, who balanced provocative programming with shows aimed at Broadway, will have served 34 years as artistic director.
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With a virtual performance marking the Broadway musical’s anniversary, original cast and creative team members talk about losing Jonathan Larson and carrying on his legacy.
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The musical comedy will be livestreamed from England, with a quarantined cast and tickets aiding more than 30 global venues.
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How Adam Schlesinger and his writing partner created what may be the most outrageous opening number the broadcast has ever seen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42PMMiranda’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.”
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It often seems like safety first on Broadway, but the commercial stage has historically been home to shows that push buttons — and ring alarms.
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Thursday, June 6, 2019
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Underwriting the heart-rending “Everything Is Wonderful” has prompted a Baltimore couple to learn more about the car crash that killed their son.
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Galt MacDermot helped welcome rock musicians to Broadway. Then hip-hop artists like Run-DMC welcomed him.
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In “Usual Girls,” “Dance Nation” and other plays, actors are playing characters that are sometimes decades younger than they are. Here’s how it works.
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A downtown theater has cleared the house to make room for Samuel D. Hunter’s pairing “Lewiston/Clarkston.”
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With two more high-profile plays opening in New York this season — and a huge movie deal in the works — Theresa Rebeck’s time may have come.
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Shakespeare finds his way into many a musical, from faithful adaptations to breakthrough works like “Hair.”
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The creators of “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” took their bighearted revue all the way to Broadway. A concert production will show how it plays today.
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The rock musical moved to Broadway in April 1968, and it quickly became an inescapable part of American culture. Readers share what the show means to them.
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Under a new artistic director, one of the biggest stage festivals in North America is experimenting with pop-up shows and audience interaction. Of course, “Saint Joan” is on the bill, to…
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Hal Prince, who helped bring “Cabaret,” “Evita” and “Sweeney Todd” to Broadway, talks with Jason Robert Brown about the musical revue “Prince of Broadway.”
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How a theater troupe called Improbable dramatizes psychological experiments described in a controversial 2004 book.
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