Wednesday, November 17, 2021
The tabloid press and the monarchy used the Princess of Wales for their own purposes, and now a new Broadway show does the same.
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021
In this bizarrely cheery adaptation of the Academy Award-winning film, suicide among young gay people proves difficult to sing about.
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Monday, November 1, 2021
Anna Deavere Smith’s one-woman play about the aftermath of the Rodney King case gets a cast of five in an updated Off Broadway revival.
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An electrifying revival of the 2003 musical, featuring a titanic performance by Sharon D Clarke, follows the money to the source of American inequality.
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Douglas Carter Beane’s winky fantasia finds Pinocchio, Puck and other unlikely characters meeting cute in a storybook setting.
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Deirdre O’Connell brilliantly lip-syncs the testimony of a woman abducted by a white supremacist in a play by Lucas Hnath.
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Sunday, October 10, 2021
Squabbling siblings, familiar stereotypes and a chorus of amens: A new play aims for the pleasures of Broadway’s traditional family sitcoms.
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The exuberant queenhood-is-powerful pageant about the wives of Henry VIII was shut down on opening night by the pandemic. Now it’s back, and it totally rules.
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It takes 15 minutes or less in each segment of “Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts” for the bard of male moral decrepitude to skewer his subjects.
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For the undocumented immigrant teenagers in Martyna Majok’s unsparing, unsentimental new play, home is a heartbreaking lesson in betrayal.
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Thursday, September 9, 2021
In the last installment in his 12-play series, Richard Nelson asks how his characters, and the theater, got where they are today.
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Sunday, August 22, 2021
Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s play about young Black men in peril inaugurates the new season with unexpected joy.
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Joshua William Gelb turned a small space in his small apartment into a blueprint for streaming during the pandemic. But what happens as real venues open again?
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Jocelyn Bioh reshapes a comedy of clever women, frail men and harsh revenge into one of love and forgiveness, just when New York needs it.
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Having revamped “Oklahoma!” into a dark X-ray of itself, Daniel Fish rethinks another Golden Age classic with “Most Happy in Concert.”
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Plays about writers, including “Mr. Fullerton,” a new potboiler probing Edith Wharton’s love life, too often undermine the real brilliance of their subjects.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMJames Lapine’s book shows how he and Stephen Sondheim invested two years of work to burnish their musical from an avant-garde near-disaster to a mainstream classic.
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In new versions of “The Designated Mourner” and “Grasses of Many Colors,” Wallace Shawn brings moral horror right to your ear.
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Ann Dowd stars in a contemporary rewrite of Ibsen’s play that forces a community, played by the audience, to make a series of fateful choices.
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Two critics on the show’s return — a turning point in live theater and another stage in the rock star’s lifelong evolution.
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Father-and-son actors Reed and Ephraim Birney play an anxious doctor and his imaginative patient in a compelling psychological mystery.
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A psychological drama from Japan and a classic English comedy are among the high-contrast offerings in the Berkshires and Hudson Valley.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021
For 40 Years, he was the man overseeing Rodgers and Hammerstein’s theatre properties including ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘Carousel!’ After finally stepping down from the role, Ted C…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:32AMWednesday, June 2, 2021
It has been a tough year for Broadway. Now it’s time to get tough on the show that too often honors investors instead of achievers.
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