Friday, February 2, 2024
Monday, January 1, 2024
“Mad Max” gets a prequel, “The Wiz” returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMThursday, June 15, 2023
British director joked that he wanted to be remembered as ‘someone whose dress sense got better as time went on’
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:43AMMonday, June 12, 2023
With a clever opening number and repeated support for striking writers, the Tonys celebrated Broadway’s shows, performers and creative teams.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMWednesday, May 10, 2023
Jesse Green, the chief theater critic, and Maya Phillips, a critic-at-large, name the shows and artists who they think will win, should win and should have been nominated for this year’s T…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMIs theatrical choreography at a turning point? Or just leaping, lurching and shimmying as usual? Our critics weigh in.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMFriday, April 28, 2023
Does it seem far-fetched to imagine a future where the government subsidizes theatres and theatre artists at a living wage, and land-based art hubs rely heavily on new technologies while nur…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:12PMSunday, April 23, 2023
Sunday, February 5, 2023
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a second selection of the works on display.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:20PMFriday, January 13, 2023
The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display.
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‘A Little Life’ comes to the stage, Sheridan Smith and Lily Allen return to the West End, and ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is transported to 1930s Cable Street – we bring you our guid…
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:08AMMonday, December 19, 2022
The Independent’s theatre critics have chosen their top stage shows of 2022, a year in which fresh new writing and charming musicals reigned supreme
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:42AMTuesday, August 9, 2022
In this excerpt from “Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers,” a Broadway musical is born at a summer camp.
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Decoding the Tony nominations, our critics review a season of bold productions that met audiences often craving the familiar.
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From Shakespeare’s dithering Dane to Desperate Housewives’ steely-eyed Bree, our critics serve up the coldest revenge dishes
In Desperate Housewives, when her gay son, Andrew, sleeps wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMWednesday, January 5, 2022
Thursday, December 30, 2021
These are the pictures that defined an unpredictable year across the worlds of art, music, dance and performance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12AMFriday, December 3, 2021
Digital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child’s first fireworks.
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The streaming part of the ceremony actually did a better job conveying the electricity of being in a theater than the CBS special billed as “Broadway’s Back!”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMDespite an evening split between streaming and TV, the message on Sunday night was clear: Broadway is back.
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Two critics on the show’s return — a turning point in live theater and another stage in the rock star’s lifelong evolution.
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In the 50 years since the musical’s debut, revivals and concerts have served its great songs to great stars. Who’d be our Broadway babies 25 years from now?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMWednesday, December 30, 2020
A big-box store, a hotel for transgender women and a dinner party gone awry are some of the places your ears will take you to.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMWednesday, December 23, 2020
With their field rocked by unprecedented challenges in 2020, these people and groups — some notable, some new — stepped into the breach.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMThursday, December 17, 2020
Written by the Olivier award winner James Graham and produced by the Guardian in partnership with the National Theatre, this short musical film is a unifying song for the country to take …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMTuesday, December 1, 2020
It 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 05:06AMWednesday, November 4, 2020
Our theater experts provide a guide to some of the successful (and failed) cinematic adaptations of plays and musicals — all for your streaming pleasure.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMTuesday, October 13, 2020
After 27 years and more than 2,500 reviews, The Times’s co-chief theater critic reviews his own tenure and talks about why he’s (quietly) making an exit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03AMWednesday, October 7, 2020
In a few minutes or a full show, these performers capture heartbreak, fury and laughs. For the words of Samuel Beckett, a disembodied mouth did the trick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMFriday, September 11, 2020
Six months dark. Thousands of artists out of work. Could this disaster have a surprise ending? Five critics on what must change, onstage and off.
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