Having revamped “Oklahoma!” into a dark X-ray of itself, Daniel Fish rethinks another Golden Age classic with “Most Happy in Concert.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMNew York Stage and Film provides an unlikely haven for inquiring writers of new plays and musicals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMPlays about writers, including “Mr. Fullerton,” a new potboiler probing Edith Wharton’s love life, too often undermine the real brilliance of their subjects.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMJames Lapine’s book shows how he and Stephen Sondheim invested two years of work to burnish their musical from an avant-garde near-disaster to a mainstream classic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMIn new versions of “The Designated Mourner” and “Grasses of Many Colors,” Wallace Shawn brings moral horror right to your ear.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:32PMAnn Dowd stars in a contemporary rewrite of Ibsen’s play that forces a community, played by the audience, to make a series of fateful choices.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMTwo critics on the show’s return — a turning point in live theater and another stage in the rock star’s lifelong evolution.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMFather-and-son actors Reed and Ephraim Birney play an anxious doctor and his imaginative patient in a compelling psychological mystery.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMA psychological drama from Japan and a classic English comedy are among the high-contrast offerings in the Berkshires and Hudson Valley.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMTheater shrank to tiny proportions during the pandemic. Sometimes that’s a big plus.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06PMFor 40 Years, he was the man overseeing Rodgers and Hammerstein’s theatre properties including ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘Carousel!’ After finally stepping down from the role, Ted C…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:32AMIt has been a tough year for Broadway. Now it’s time to get tough on the show that too often honors investors instead of achievers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PMTed Chapin steps down as the head of the organization that makes sure you revisit “Oklahoma!” and keep hearing “The Sound of Music.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMTalking dogs, green screen thrillers and gold turtles: Online productions, intended as a stopgap, are testing the boundaries of what makes theater theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMLinked vignettes from five songwriting teams offer lots of head-scratching switcheroos but little for the heart.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMIn Rinne B. Groff’s historical comedy, the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1947 looks awfully familiar today.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMNew concerts from Sutton Foster, Jeremy Jordan and Marilyn Maye offer examples of what the most intimate art form can and can’t do.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMEthan Hawke and John Leguizamo star as Beckett’s tragicomic tramps — minus the comic part.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMThe much-loved Broadway soprano, who died in December, had one more miracle up her sleeve.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMSet at a Southern barbecue, James Ijames’s hilarious update on Shakespeare sees a recipe for liberation in the story of family disaster.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PMJosh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley star as the star-crossed lovers in a compelling stage-film hybrid adaptation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMErika Dickerson-Despenza’s play about Black women struggling to survive Hurricane Katrina gets an ear-tingling podcast production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMThe monologuist appeared onstage, indoors, in front of a real audience, on the first day possible. Maybe he shouldn’t have rushed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMFifty years ago, Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman exploded the Broadway “concept” musical by conjuring the bittersweet reunion of aging showgirls.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMIn 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 05:42AMLiza Birkenmeier’s new play about a shape-shifting teenager makes a fitting contribution to Theater in Quarantine’s revamp of the avant-garde.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMArts workers are protesting closings and occupying playhouses all over France. On Broadway, that drama has yet to open.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMAn uncanny new play imagines Meghan (and Kate, too) trapped in a nightmare palace where racism reigns.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PMBecause of pandemic restrictions, a performance piece about refugees requires you to draw on yourself, in both senses
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMThe tragedy of racism is only part of the story in two very different plays from London that carry a dimension of meaning not usually seen in this country.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMA sparkling new recording of the 1964 musical makes half the case for Stephen Sondheim’s endlessly inventive score.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24AM
