
The tabloid press and the monarchy used the Princess of Wales for their own purposes, and now a new Broadway show does the same.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PM[SHARE]Jocelyn Bioh's new comedy about making movies in Nigeria throws some side-eye on Hollywood as well.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PM[SHARE]In this bizarrely cheery adaptation of the Academy Award-winning film, suicide among young gay people proves difficult to sing about.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PM[SHARE]A new play by Simon Stephens has hearty performances but a nearly undetectable pulse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PM[SHARE]An electrifying revival of the 2003 musical, featuring a titanic performance by Sharon D Clarke, follows the money to the source of American inequality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12PM[SHARE]Douglas Carter Beane's winky fantasia finds Pinocchio, Puck and other unlikely characters meeting cute in a storybook setting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:06PM[SHARE]Deirdre O'Connell brilliantly lip-syncs the testimony of a woman abducted by a white supremacist in a play by Lucas Hnath.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:24PM[SHARE]Beneath the dry words of an F.B.I. interview, a new play unearths a world of interior terror.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PM[SHARE]Squabbling siblings, familiar stereotypes and a chorus of amens: A new play aims for the pleasures of Broadway's traditional family sitcoms.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54PM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PM[SHARE]For the undocumented immigrant teenagers in Martyna Majok's unsparing, unsentimental new play, home is a heartbreaking lesson in betrayal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PM[SHARE]If you think Ngozi Anyanwu's new play is a straightforward romance, think again.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]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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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AM[SHARE]Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's play about young Black men in peril inaugurates the new season with unexpected joy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]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?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PM[SHARE]Having revamped "Oklahoma!" into a dark X-ray of itself, Daniel Fish rethinks another Golden Age classic with "Most Happy in Concert."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PM[SHARE]New York Stage and Film provides an unlikely haven for inquiring writers of new plays and musicals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PM[SHARE]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 02:32PM[SHARE]James 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AM[SHARE]In new versions of "The Designated Mourner" and "Grasses of Many Colors," Wallace Shawn brings moral horror right to your ear.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:32PM[SHARE]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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PM[SHARE]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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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]A psychological drama from Japan and a classic English comedy are among the high-contrast offerings in the Berkshires and Hudson Valley.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PM[SHARE]Theater shrank to tiny proportions during the pandemic. Sometimes that's a big plus.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06PM[SHARE]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 Chapin spok…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:32AM[SHARE]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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