Tuesday, July 7, 2020
The British government has promised $2 billion to save its cultural institutions, while the American theater, lacking meaningful leadership, is left to fend for itself.
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Richard Nelson’s fictional family returns, but for the first time this drama of connection in the age of American bewilderment feels smaller than life.
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A streaming production of the Molière comedy, with allusions to the White House as well as Black Lives Matter, tears down walls to rebuild a classic.
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An Atlanta theater company addresses racial inequity in a series of virtual dinners that mix drama with discussion.
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From the documentary works of Anna Deavere Smith to brief monologues written in this moment of unrest, dramatists are sounding an alarm.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Our chief theater critics have no nickel-plated medallions to hand out, but they find plenty to celebrate among shut-down Broadway offerings.
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Mr. McNally, who died of coronavirus complications, introduced audiences to characters and situations that most mainstream theater had previously shunted into comic asides.
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One of the country’s most racially diverse cities struggles, nicely, with representation and inclusion on its many bustling stages.
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Let’s not underrate Stephen Sondheim any longer: Theater’s greatest songwriter is also one of theater’s greatest playwrights. Here’s why.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Richard Greenberg’s overstuffed new play about family feuds and ethical choices turns a wedding comedy into a crisis.
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Monday, February 24, 2020
With this season promising so many revivals and touring productions, our critic wonders whether it’s possible for audiences to treat them as exciting arrivals.
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Charles Busch’s mash-up of mother-love weepies finds both pathos and hilarity in the tough talk of Hollywood divas.
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Bess Wohl’s new play puts a Neil Simonesque spin on the story of a couple considering divorce after 50 years.
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The Broadway premiere of Charles Fuller’s 1981 drama finds premonitions of today in the story of a 1944 murder.
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Kathryn Hunter stars as the fabulously rich Greek who understands the corrupting value of money only after she loses it.
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The Public Theater’s festival has included 12 featured offerings, four cabaret acts and six pieces of developmental work. Here’s what our critics saw.
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Music (and eventually emotion) cuts through the alienating layers of abstraction in this new work by the musician-storytellers James & Jerome.
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Two productions at the Under the Radar Festival ask if the theater is ready to embrace the artistry of autism and other once disqualifying conditions.
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A jazz memoirist, a Palestinian rocketeer and Mexican myths set to music kick off the Public Theater’s annual festival of adventurous work from across the globe.
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Friday, December 27, 2019
A comedy number from the flop “Mack & Mabel” found the unexpected sweet spot between Irving Berlin and Stephen Sondheim.
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Lucas Hnath’s cunning new ghost story, about a psychic and her client, is a twisty yarn that won’t unravel.
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At the Park Avenue Armory, Odon von Horvath’s 1937 drama gets a rare and physically overwhelming staging.
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Samuel D. Hunter’s creaky play about the downsizing of the American West features terrific performances by Judith Ivey and Edmund Donovan.
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Alanis Morissette’s “ironic” fury finds a perfect Broadway musical setting in Diablo Cody’s fiery indictment of, well, everything.
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