Wednesday, November 4, 2020
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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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Thursday, October 22, 2020
A trenchant workplace comedy about the folks who tried to promote Pizzagate, confuse Wisconsin and, ultimately, elect Donald J. Trump.
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Anne 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 03:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2020
The 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 03:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 14, 2020
In 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2020
After 27 years and more than 2,500 reviews, The Times's co-chief theater critic reviews his own tenure and talks about why he's (quietly) making an exit.
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From a pro-slavery Martha Washington to a blank-screen Melania Trump, the wives and other women of the U.S. presidents get sent up and dressed down.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2020
In a few minutes or a full show, these performers capture heartbreak, fury and laughs. For the words of Samuel Beckett, a disembodied mouth did the trick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 27, 2020
One-woman plays by Tracy Thorne and Eliza Bent explore the problems of white power and privilege " and how people who say the right things aren't helping.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Stephen Karam's celebrated play about economic distress looks very different in 2020 than it did in 2015 " and streaming is only part of the change.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2020
Six months dark. Thousands of artists out of work. Could this disaster have a surprise ending? Five critics on what must change, onstage and off.
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Sunday, September 6, 2020
Friday, September 4, 2020
Monday, August 31, 2020
Theater for One was built on the idea of face-to-face encounters. Moving it online could have been a disaster, but instead it's a heartbreaker.
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Monday, August 10, 2020
Thursday, August 6, 2020
With broad winks to Agatha Christie and the limitations of remote theater, a serialized song-and-dance mystery goes on. Well, not so much dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2020
Expanding content and experimenting with form, the avant-garde finds a congenial new home online, as two recent offerings demonstrate.
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In "The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy," an experimental theater lab operating from a closet adapts a timely tale about the solitude of cramped quarters.
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Thursday, July 16, 2020
Thursday, July 9, 2020
A documentary play based on interviews with New York doctors, nurses and paramedics underlines the inequities of a medical system "flawed from its root."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
The British government has promised $2 billion to save its cultural institutions, while the American theater, lacking meaningful leadership, is left to fend for itself.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2020
Richard Nelson's fictional family returns, but for the first time this drama of connection in the age of American bewilderment feels smaller than life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2020
A streaming production of the Molière comedy, with allusions to the White House as well as Black Lives Matter, tears down walls to rebuild a classic.
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