A 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 09:24AMFour not-very-believable characters in a chain of monologues are rescued by a cast of exceptionally believable actors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMSamuel Bailey’s knockout professional debut isn’t so much about the pipeline to incarceration than about the toxic masculinity that keeps it flowing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMAt home in the footlights, he knew the power of charm and every trick of the stage trade. But even after a celebrated “King Lear,” there was more to play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24PMThree new revues offer war horses, showstoppers and standards — but, even better, rarities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PMAll Ryan J. Haddad wants is a boyfriend. But his pride — or is it his prospects’ prejudice? — keeps getting in the way.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMPandemics and ordinary tragedies clash in Lauren Gunderson’s overwrought portrait of her husband, the virologist Nathan A. Wolfe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMWith minimal rehearsal and production values, online events are becoming a distinct (and worthy) new genre of theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMWith minimal rehearsal and production values, online events are becoming a distinct (and worthy) new genre of theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMPundits have likened the president to Lear, to Hamlet, to Macbeth, to Coriolanus. That may have been four years of wishful thinking.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03PMForget tragic lovers. At the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, fast cars and other luxuries fuel tragedies about the love of things.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMWhat started as a TikTok meme and became a crowdsourced musical could have online lessons to offer for Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMA 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 05:48PMWith 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 11:12AMNot for decades have so many plays and musicals been turned into movies. But even in the best of the new crop, a lot gets lost in translation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMIn Heather Christian’s “I Am Sending You the Sacred Face,” the saint of Calcutta vogues and lip-syncs and broods on the nature of selflessness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMIn his latest magic show, Helder Guimarães shuffles an old genre into a new technology with mixed results.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMNine months covering a devastated art form have changed one critic’s habits, and tastes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMSerious new plays are always in danger of disappearing — never more so than now. But inventive virtual productions, such as “The Wolves” and “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” offer h…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMAudra McDonald stars as Blanche DuBois in a radio-like production of the Tennessee Williams classic that still has a way to go.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMIt 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 05:06AMThe astonishing Jefferson Mays stars as everyone (and a potato) in a dark and pointed adaptation of the Dickens holiday classic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMThey’re attractive, young and tech savvy, but their 24 hours don’t add up to much.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMFour new shows are part of a movement to engage more directly in the debates of our times — sometimes even stealing the script.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMOur 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 05:36AMWould you like to see a new musical from the people who brought you “West Side Story”? For better or worse, you probably never will.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMThe story of a marriage saved by the pandemic, “True Love Will Find You in the End” features a live audience but recorded actors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMA trenchant workplace comedy about the folks who tried to promote Pizzagate, confuse Wisconsin and, ultimately, elect Donald J. Trump.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMAnne Washburn’s would-be epic of power and powerlessness, presented as a podcast, may be too close to current events to fulfill its big ambitions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMThe nominators did the best they could with a Broadway slate hobbled by Covid-19. But some of the Tonys’ problems predate (and will outlast) the pandemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMIn a new show by David Kwong, the noted cruciverbalist offers a collection of games built for Zoom that let the audience be part of the puzzle.
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