Friday, September 11, 2020
Six months dark. Thousands of artists out of work. Could this disaster have a surprise ending? Five critics on what must change, onstage and off.
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Shakespeare in the Park and other outdoor venues are shut. But for performers and directors, open-air memories are as sharp as the bite of a mosquito.
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A playwright, a director, an artistic director and an actor share their experiences — and prescriptions for change.
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Miranda’s rap. Rylance’s poems. Jackman’s pelvis. And a brassy reunion for Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury. Now set your clock for “Turkey Lurkey Time.”
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Two theater critics suggest some of their favorite books about the theater, giving us portals to a world that is now forbidden.
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The best new writers, the indispensable books, the go-to websites… our arts writers reveal their sources of insight Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMTuesday, March 24, 2020
Co-writers Keith Harrison and Laura Schein share the backstory to their songs, which can be heard on the original cast album released by Broadway Records.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:43AMFriday, 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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Phoebe Waller-Bridge. DaBaby. Slime. Tom Hanks. Amy Schumer (naked). The Times’s culture photographs revealed striking truths about art and the people who make it.
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Shows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.
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Six years after its debut, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s monologue is back in the theatre after its tearaway success on TV. We sent three millennial critics to watch it
Related: Sexy, subversive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMFriday, May 17, 2019
Things are tense and tingly enough before the curtain rises at any time of the year. What’s it like during prize season?
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The Swedish producer’s debut musical sees Juliet ditching Romeo to move to Paris. We use his hits to plot the narrativeA jukebox musical based on Swedish super-producer Max Martin’s bigg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMFriday, December 28, 2018
Kanye West. Philip Roth. Opera. Jazz. Salsa. King Kong. Tonya Harding. We can go on, but why don’t you see for yourself.
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Our three European theater critics pick their favorite productions of the year — plus a turkey for the festive season.
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Friday, June 1, 2018
Majority rule (mostly). One play per playwright. How we put together the 25 Plays list, and a bid to remember notable writers and favorite works that missed the cut.
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Condola Rashad is incandescent as Joan. She is so convincing, you can almost hear "the voices" ...
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Get to know the playwright Hammaad Chaudry, the 13-year-old actress Rileigh McDonald and the actor Andrew Burnap.
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So here is my short catch-up on this lackluster season to date.
SOURCE: showbuzznyc.com at 04:43PMSaturday, December 30, 2017
This ONCE ON THIS ISLAND is an overly busy, Disneyfied version misdirected by Michael Arden.
SOURCE: showbuzznyc.com at 06:11PMSunday, November 19, 2017
In TIME AND THE CONWAYS, there is a Set change that is so achingly mournful, I won't easily forget it.
SOURCE: showbuzznyc.com at 09:50PMThursday, November 2, 2017
Imagine a dystopian society where everyone is motivated solely by greed and the only god anyone worships is Money.
SOURCE: showbuzznyc.com at 05:32PMFriday, October 20, 2017
If you want to celebrate 'The Honeymooners," I would suggest YouTube.
SOURCE: showbuzznyc.com at 02:48PMTuesday, October 3, 2017
you need to hurry if you are going to catch this modern classic brought to electrifying life...
SOURCE: showbuzznyc.com at 11:06AMFriday, September 15, 2017
Budget-minded theater lovers will applaud the Denver Center for Performing Arts' ongoing $10 ticket program, now that the 2017-18 theater season is underway.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 02:06AMFriday, August 18, 2017
Comedy may be hard, but it seems dark comedy is harder still.
SOURCE: showbuzznyc.com at 02:24AMFriday, July 21, 2017
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
The art of skilled buffoonery is on full display at the raucous, hilarious delight, THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR.
SOURCE: showbuzznyc.com at 02:26PMFriday, July 7, 2017
OSLO never soars beyond a PBS docudrama with very few thrills and almost no depth.
SOURCE: showbuzznyc.com at 08:20AMWednesday, June 28, 2017
These writers and performers are using the warmer months to take some risks, test themselves and expand their talents onstage.
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