Remaking a vintage musical for the 2020s takes guts, sensitivity and perhaps a medium.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:04AMA joyful, bumpy musical version of Shakespeare’s late romance closes the Delacorte Theater before an 18-month renovation.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07AMBarrington Stage Company’s revival of the 1998 musical brings vocal luster and newfound relevance to the story of a songwriter’s near-death experience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:34AMJust when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater, a play about the making of Hollywood’s first summer blockbuster bobs up on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:37PM“Candide” in an opera house. “Spamalot” and “Rent” cheek by jowl with Shakespeare. But treating them as classics may not be doing them justice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:49PMThe addition of 17 songs turns the 1985 sci-fi classic into a big “why?” musical with a big wow factor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMThis peculiar early Shakespeare comedy gets updated with 10 songs for a youthful alfresco production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:55AMJason Alexander directs a Broadway farce that aims for the high style of Noël Coward but falls on its face instead.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33PMA new Broadway musical tells the disturbing story of Imelda Marcos by putting her, and the audience, in a disco.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:07PMThe Public Theater’s alfresco production has plenty to offer audiences who know the play already. But it may not be so easy for newcomers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:55PMIs it a stand-up act or a morality play? Either way, Alex Edelman’s look at race, religion and the limits of empathy is at home on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33PMIn lyrics of rare humor, elegance and compassion, the man who put words to “Fiddler on the Roof” and “She Loves Me” explored the complex emotional architecture of love.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PMA revival of the 1998 revisal of the 1966 musical highlights the stories of trans and nonbinary performers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMRobert Icke’s surgery on a 1922 play about the disease of antisemitism turns it into a riveting debate about identity. But at what cost to the patient?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PMThe writing is on the wall: With or without writers, the Broadway awards are a strangely bland and canned way to celebrate a thrillingly live medium.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:07PMWith a clever opening number and repeated support for striking writers, the Tonys celebrated Broadway’s shows, performers and creative teams.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMTori Sampson’s look at the Black Panther movement is a warm sitcom that becomes a jarring inquest into a real murder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:49PMIn his haunting new play, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins updates the reunion genre with too much jungle juice and an otherworldly visitor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMA new play about a sisterhood of sorrows brings something scary to the stage, but is delivering shocks and icks enough?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:06PMThree new plays at theaters in Washington explore how the past is both erased and inescapable.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMMira Nair’s 2001 movie about a couple brought together by their families becomes a song-filled pageant, with mixed results.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06AMJesse Green, the chief theater critic, and Maya Phillips, a critic-at-large, name the shows and artists who they think will win, should win and should have been nominated for this year’s T…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMThe Encores! production, directed by Lear deBessonet, looks to deepen and darken a musical that resists the change. But it’s still delightful.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMThe “Will & Grace” star is unrecognizable in a Broadway biography of Oscar Levant: wit, pianist and “Eeyore in a cheap suit.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PMThe “Killing Eve” star has a spectacular Broadway debut in a play that puts sexual assault jurisprudence on trial.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMLarissa FastHorse’s comedy of performative wokeness is also a brutal satire of American mythmaking.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PMAerial mishaps and half-wit actors turn a fantasy classic into a farce. But, like Peter, not all of the jokes land.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PMA revival of the 1960 musical with the famously great score and infamously bad book gets a gorgeous makeover that makes no difference.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54PMA modern gloss on “Hamlet” set at a backyard barbecue remakes the tragedy as a comedy, and as a challenge for today.
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