To begin with, don’t call them soundtracks!
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMA listening guide to the cast albums, playlists and video footprints left behind by 18 Broadway and Off Broadway musicals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMOur co-chief theater critics discuss the plays and musicals that reflected and predicted an unstable world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMOur chief theater critics have no nickel-plated medallions to hand out, but they find plenty to celebrate among shut-down Broadway offerings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMMr. McNally, who died of coronavirus complications, introduced audiences to characters and situations that most mainstream theater had previously shunted into comic asides.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMOne of the country’s most racially diverse cities struggles, nicely, with representation and inclusion on its many bustling stages.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06AMLet’s not underrate Stephen Sondheim any longer: Theater’s greatest songwriter is also one of theater’s greatest playwrights. Here’s why.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06AMWhat do Korean divers and Manhattan playwrights have in common? A new play looks for the connection.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03PMRichard Greenberg’s overstuffed new play about family feuds and ethical choices turns a wedding comedy into a crisis.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMYoung Jean Lee offers upbeat tunes about downbeat lives and inevitable ends.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03AMA cold case. An amateur sleuth. A new clue. But sometimes the murder isn’t the real mystery.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PMWith this season promising so many revivals and touring productions, our critic wonders whether it’s possible for audiences to treat them as exciting arrivals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03PMCharles Busch’s mash-up of mother-love weepies finds both pathos and hilarity in the tough talk of Hollywood divas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03PMBess Wohl’s new play puts a Neil Simonesque spin on the story of a couple considering divorce after 50 years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMThe Broadway premiere of Charles Fuller’s 1981 drama finds premonitions of today in the story of a 1944 murder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMKathryn Hunter stars as the fabulously rich Greek who understands the corrupting value of money only after she loses it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMThe Public Theater’s festival has included 12 featured offerings, four cabaret acts and six pieces of developmental work. Here’s what our critics saw.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMMusic (and eventually emotion) cuts through the alienating layers of abstraction in this new work by the musician-storytellers James & Jerome.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PMTwo productions at the Under the Radar Festival ask if the theater is ready to embrace the artistry of autism and other once disqualifying conditions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMA jazz memoirist, a Palestinian rocketeer and Mexican myths set to music kick off the Public Theater’s annual festival of adventurous work from across the globe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMFour recent works put plays and the people who make them in a weird spotlight.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMA comedy number from the flop “Mack & Mabel” found the unexpected sweet spot between Irving Berlin and Stephen Sondheim.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMLucas Hnath’s cunning new ghost story, about a psychic and her client, is a twisty yarn that won’t unravel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMAt the Park Avenue Armory, Odon von Horvath’s 1937 drama gets a rare and physically overwhelming staging.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMSamuel D. Hunter’s creaky play about the downsizing of the American West features terrific performances by Judith Ivey and Edmund Donovan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMAlanis Morissette’s “ironic” fury finds a perfect Broadway musical setting in Diablo Cody’s fiery indictment of, well, everything.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMShows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMRead and studied for decades, a key work of the American avant-garde finally returns in a major New York revival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03AMWill Eno’s new play about the many people each person contains is glib at first, but grows, like life, from trick to tragicomedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42AMTwo plays based on the autobiographical novels of Édouard Louis put the problem of violence against gay men in a larger social context.
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