Sunday, January 3, 2021
What started as a TikTok meme and became a crowdsourced musical could have online lessons to offer for Broadway.
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A big-box store, a hotel for transgender women and a dinner party gone awry are some of the places your ears will take you to.
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Not for decades have so many plays and musicals been turned into movies. But even in the best of the new crop, a lot gets lost in translation.
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In Heather Christian’s “I Am Sending You the Sacred Face,” the saint of Calcutta vogues and lip-syncs and broods on the nature of selflessness.
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In his latest magic show, Helder Guimarães shuffles an old genre into a new technology with mixed results.
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Sunday, December 6, 2020
Serious new plays are always in danger of disappearing — never more so than now. But inventive virtual productions, such as “The Wolves” and “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” offer h…
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Audra McDonald stars as Blanche DuBois in a radio-like production of the Tennessee Williams classic that still has a way to go.
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The astonishing Jefferson Mays stars as everyone (and a potato) in a dark and pointed adaptation of the Dickens holiday classic.
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Monday, November 16, 2020
Four new shows are part of a movement to engage more directly in the debates of our times — sometimes even stealing the script.
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Would you like to see a new musical from the people who brought you “West Side Story”? For better or worse, you probably never will.
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The story of a marriage saved by the pandemic, “True Love Will Find You in the End” features a live audience but recorded actors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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A starry selection of scenes from Tony Kushner’s 1993 classic discovers premonitions of another pandemic in the AIDS-era play.
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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.
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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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A musical about two French chocolatiers may satisfy the hunger for live song and dance, but keep the insulin handy.
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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.
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Sunday, September 6, 2020
The “Fleabag” star Andrew Scott is the entire brilliant cast of a penetrating play about toxic fathers and sons.
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The actors quarantined together all summer to produce Shakespeare’s tragedy safely. But they can’t overcome the remove of a camera.
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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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A collection of short solo works from the Weston Playhouse furthers the redefinition of theater online — and of life in isolation.
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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.
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Expanding content and experimenting with form, the avant-garde finds a congenial new home online, as two recent offerings demonstrate.
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