Our theater critic on some of the Broadway legend’s greatest vocal performances.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMHer dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMHer dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMLess than 30 years after her death, fictional reincarnations of Diana are everywhere. But even icons deserve more time to rest in peace.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMHeather Christian’s latest exploration of the religious sublime is a musical spectacle about the often overlooked “caregivers and makers.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMIn Joshua Harmon’s play about the legacies of antisemitism, a Parisian family must decide when it’s time to get out.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM“Mad Max” gets a prequel, “The Wiz” returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMStories evolve. But a recent review proved to a theater critic that people can change even more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMMaking a blistering Broadway debut, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2014 play about the legacies of hatred feels like a new work entirely.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMA new Off Broadway musical adds the thrill of intimacy and the weight of history to the Cuban songs popularized on a 1997 album.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54PMA musical about seven autistic young adults, played by seven autistic young actors, breaks new ground on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12PMJen Silverman’s noir play considers the role of artists in the making of propaganda.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMA promising Off Broadway jukebox musical features hits by the R&B star (including “Fallin’,” “If I Ain’t Got You” and “No One”) and a story much like her own.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMIn the first Broadway revival of the Monty Python musical, the old bits are verbatim but the clowns are running the circus.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:24PMThe transcendent Dianne Wiest stars in an absurd yet poignant new play about a 75-year-old woman who sets out to be a star.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMThe pop star of the 1970s and ’80s crosses over to musical theater with a dark story about pop stars of the 1920s and ’30s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36PMDanny DeVito returns to Broadway in a Theresa Rebeck comedy about a lonely old man lost in a houseful of junk.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMJoey is still a heel in this major revision of the 1940 antihero musical, but he’s now a Black artist trying to find his true voice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMA story considered too dark for Broadway in its time is too much of a patchwork in ours.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:07PMDavid Adjmi’s riveting new play, with songs by Will Butler, is about a ’70s band that nearly destroys itself making an epochal album.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:19PMThis inventive, beguiling and not quite fully solved puzzle of a show is a worthy and loving farewell to the great musical dramatist.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03AMThe history of movable type is a terrible idea for a show. Which is why it’s so on brand for this satire of theater and its eternal hopefuls.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:19PMJonathan Groff, supported by Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, is thrillingly fierce in the first convincing revival of the cult flop Sondheim musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:07AMJocelyn Bioh’s Broadway playwriting debut, set in a Harlem hair braiding shop, is a hot and hilarious workplace sitcom.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:19PMOssie Davis’s 1961 play is no period piece, as a blazing and hilarious revival starring Leslie Odom Jr. testifies.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PMIn Donald Margulies’s heavy-handed new play, Reed Birney is terrific as a farmer forced by his wife, played by Karen Allen, to face his grief.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:43AMRebecca Gilman’s play, set in a rural farmhouse, sees an image of the decline of Americans’ interdependence in the death of wildflowers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:19PMIllness is no metaphor, and neither is pleasure, in Annie Baker’s weird and great new play set at a fasting clinic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:55PMRemaking a vintage musical for the 2020s takes guts, sensitivity and perhaps a medium.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:49AMRemaking a vintage musical for the 2020s takes guts, sensitivity and perhaps a medium.
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