
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 05:42AM[SHARE]Liza 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 03:32PM[SHARE]Arts 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 01:18PM[SHARE]An uncanny new play imagines Meghan (and Kate, too) trapped in a nightmare palace where racism reigns.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PM[SHARE]Because of pandemic restrictions, a performance piece about refugees requires you to draw on yourself, in both senses
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PM[SHARE]The 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 04:48PM[SHARE]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 09:24AM[SHARE]Four 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 02:03PM[SHARE]Samuel 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 01:54PM[SHARE]At 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 06:24PM[SHARE]Three new revues offer war horses, showstoppers and standards " but, even better, rarities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PM[SHARE]All 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 09:32PM[SHARE]Pandemics 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 02:24PM[SHARE]With minimal rehearsal and production values, online events are becoming a distinct (and worthy) new genre of theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PM[SHARE]With minimal rehearsal and production values, online events are becoming a distinct (and worthy) new genre of theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AM[SHARE]Pundits 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 05:03PM[SHARE]Forget 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 02:24PM[SHARE]What 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 01:18PM[SHARE]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 05:48PM[SHARE]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 11:12AM[SHARE]Not 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 05:06AM[SHARE]In 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 12:42PM[SHARE]In his latest magic show, Helder Guimarães shuffles an old genre into a new technology with mixed results.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PM[SHARE]Nine months covering a devastated art form have changed one critic's habits, and tastes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]Serious 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 hope.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PM[SHARE]Audra 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 02:18PM[SHARE]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 05:06AM[SHARE]The 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 02:36PM[SHARE]They're attractive, young and tech savvy, but their 24 hours don't add up to much.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PM[SHARE]Four 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 05:18PM[SHARE]Our theater experts provide a guide to some of the successful (and failed) cinematic adaptations of plays and musicals " all for your streaming pleasure.
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