The season’s most moving new musical earns its place among the behemoths of Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMThe new Kate Nash dance musical, choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler, is spectacular as long as you pay no attention to what it’s saying.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06PMIn a new Off Broadway play, Linda Lavin shines as a woman paid to say what an ailing young man cannot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48PMCameron Crowe’s 2000 film, set in the world of bands and groupies, does not survive its Broadway musical transplant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PMIn a revival of the 2002 musical “A Man of No Importance,” the star of “The Big Bang Theory” achieves something more delicate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMOff Broadway at the Shed, Ralph Fiennes is glorious in David Hare’s sputtering portrait of the man who paved New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33PMLorraine Hansberry’s 1959 classic ends on a note of cautious optimism. Its latest incarnation, at the Public Theater, does not.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:07PMA latter-day Lincoln and Booth try to survive the American dream in a hilarious, harrowing and superbly acted Broadway revival of the Suzan-Lori Parks play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37PMShe performed without sentimentality or histrionics, embodying the full range of human joy and depravity while remaining professional and approachable.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PMWendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke star in a powerful revival of Arthur Miller’s drama, led by a Black cast.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:13PMA revival of the musical about the Declaration of Independence underlines the gender imbalance among the Founding Fathers — and everything else.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25PMThe Viennese Jewish family at the heart of this new Broadway production thinks it is too assimilated to be in danger when the Nazis arrive. They are wrong.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMAn imaginary electronic conversation between the two playwrights falls somewhere between a ❤️ and a 🤷.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:07AMThe “Glee” star is stupendous in the role Barbra Streisand made famous, turning the 1964 musical into something better than we know it to be.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:33PMBehind every new New York season are a lot of wannabes, also-rans and hopeless cases to keep track of.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AMWe can no longer ignore the theater’s systemic inequities. But leaving them behind may remake the industry in unexpected ways.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMBarrington Stage Company offers a take on the Sondheim-Wheeler classic highlighted by performances in shades of regret.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PMIn this excerpt from “Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers,” a Broadway musical is born at a summer camp.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AMAt the Stratford and the Shaw theater festivals, four heated classics get cool new productions for summer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMThe requirements of the theater, and the constant physical and emotional risks facing performers, have many demanding their basic needs as humans.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AMThe Stratford Festival in Ontario opened a glamorous new theater last month that prioritizes the theater itself, not just what surrounds it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:07AMAt Shakespeare in the Park, athletic stamina and action-hero charisma muddy the meaning of a play about disability.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33AMFrank talk about salaries and the end of unpaid internships are positive steps, but the cost may be fewer opportunities to learn the ropes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07AMIn a strange and beautiful new play by Will Arbery, finding happiness is a process of failing upward.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PMA revival of the Fats Waller musical revue emphasizes the blues in its blueprints.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMMany of the “great men” who helped America create its classics, its institutions and its own acting style were tyrants. We need to cut them loose.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMThe comedian’s memoir was funny. But when the new show based on it tries for something deeper, it sinks into bathos.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMÉdouard Louis grew up scorned by his family for being gay. Now he sees homophobia as part of the portfolio of “humiliation by the ruling class.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMDecoding the Tony nominations, our critics review a season of bold productions that met audiences often craving the familiar.
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