Monday, August 3, 2020
Expanding content and experimenting with form, the avant-garde finds a congenial new home online, as two recent offerings demonstrate.
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In "The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy," an experimental theater lab operating from a closet adapts a timely tale about the solitude of cramped quarters.
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Thursday, July 16, 2020
Thursday, July 9, 2020
A documentary play based on interviews with New York doctors, nurses and paramedics underlines the inequities of a medical system "flawed from its root."
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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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Friday, June 12, 2020
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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Thursday, March 12, 2020
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
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
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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Thursday, January 23, 2020
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Friday, January 17, 2020
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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