Thursday, April 2, 2020
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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In committing to paying its people during a three-month shutdown, the theater gives itself breathing room to prepare for when it can open again.
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When theaters closed by the pandemic stream their shuttered plays online, watching sharpens the longing for the real thing.
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What’s a birthday celebration without tribute concerts, new commissions and revivals of three classics? Here’s how to join the party, live.
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The hero of Joe DiPietro’s new comic drama is Margaret Chase Smith, a U.S. senator who had the rare courage to stand up to McCarthyism.
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In Hilary Bettis’s play, a family separated by deportation wants to live regular American lives but discovers how mercilessly difficult that is.
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Vivian Neuwirth’s play is a fictionalized recollection of the life of the novelist John Kennedy Toole, who died before his Pulitzer-Prize winning classic “A Confederacy of Dunces” was …
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“Grand Horizons” and “Dracula” assert the full humanity of women, a matter not as settled as we might like to think.
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The writer Paula Vogel, the director Mark Brokaw, and the actors Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse on returning to a wrenching play two decades later.
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The feminist rallying cry inspired Chelsea Clinton’s children’s book about the likes of Harriet Tubman and Sally Ride. Now it’s a cheerful stage adaptation.
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Jerry Herman’s buoyant score is the highlight of this Encores! production about a troubled silent-movie-era romance.
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Minnesota’s Children’s Theater Company will present a play inspired by little-told stories of the wrenching Hormel strike: from kids on all sides of the dispute.
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James Ijames’s satire reconsiders a story that reaches back to our shared past, with an eye toward demolishing it in favor of a better future.
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This multimedia concert and career retrospective forgets that the best way to honor the composer is to have a good time with his music.
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In Sarah Einspanier’s fever-dream play, one half of a couple heads to Hollywood. The other gets an odd, and oddly familiar, new roommate.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMDeirdre O’Connell has a peculiar challenge performing the recollections of Lucas Hnath's mother in his play “Dana H.” Give credit to earbuds and Epsom salts.
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Roundabout Underground presents a flawed but tuneful musical about a young Manhattan couple challenged by addiction.
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It’s no surprise that this play about disillusionment, with its message of hope wrapped in warnings about nationalism and isolationism, was a choice for this season.
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Sarah Lozoff is joining one of the nation’s leading regional theaters for all 11 of its productions in its 2020 season.
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Patrick Vaill took his final Broadway bow as Jud Fry, after performing in Daniel Fish’s production of the musical since college.
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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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In this experimental play, a white talk-show host and a black science fiction writer have a challenging conversation. Plus dancing.
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Set in Dublin during the run-up to Ireland’s vote to repeal its abortion ban, this play by Eva O’Connor too easily pairs up two damaged souls.
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“Cartography,” a multimedia work inspired by migrants’ stories, presents their journeys as universal and heroic, not merely tales of suffering.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMWith powerfully contemporary stagings of “Betrayal” and “Cyrano,” Jamie Lloyd has had an attention-grabbing year. That’s not what makes him hard to miss.
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Steven Skybell was finally the right age for Tevye. Little did he know that when the time came, the show would be in Yiddish, and for a surprisingly long run that ended Sunday.
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The acrobatics in “’Twas the Night Before…” at Madison Square Garden are perfectly diverting, despite an illegible plot.
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Lois Smith, Estelle Parsons and Vinie Burrows on age, agility, perseverance and steering clear of “self-pitying old” roles.
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Amusing monologues and oddball encounters enliven T. Adamson’s overstuffed play that follows two friends on a very long car ride.
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Donja R. Love’s powerful play balances tenderness and fury to explore how H.I.V. has become a ”hidden emergency” in the black community.
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