The L.A. wildfires have resurfaced an old question: Are times too dark for a glitzy awards ceremony?
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 11:59AMThe actor discusses the West Philly musicians that inspired his style; the rejection that nearly made him quit show business; and the experience of making “Sing Sing” with former members…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 09:35AMJamie Lloyd, the very inked director of the new Broadway revival of “Sunset Boulevard,” gets a new tattoo inspired by the show.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMSister Margaret McEntee inspired the play “Doubt,” by her former pupil John Patrick Shanley. Her fellow Sisters of Charity went to see the Broadway revival.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMEssentially boom boxes on three wheels, the bicycle-drawn carriages are prompting theatre owners to push back.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMThe actor Robert Shaw used to bring his son Ian to the “Jaws” set. Now Ian’s playing his dad in “The Shark Is Broken,” his play about the mechanical predator.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMIt was a big night for the off-kilter appeal of “Kimberly Akimbo,” the nonbinary winners Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee, and try-hard musical-theatre-kid energy.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:34PMAdrienne Warren stars in “Room,” Rachel Chavkin directs the satire “The Thanksgiving Play,” accident-prone Brits put on “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” and more.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMJosh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford in “Sweeney Todd,” Aaron Sorkin’s revised “Camelot,” Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat together onstage, and more.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMHoushang Touzie parked cars and got punched by Mr. T on “The A-Team” before being cast in the theatrical version of Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner.”
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMAriana DeBose shined as the host, Michael R. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” was deservedly awarded, and the night was high-spirited fun.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:39PMDanai Gurira plays Richard III at Shakespeare in the Park, “The Kite Runner” opens on Broadway, Elevator Repair Service adapts Chekhov for “Seagull,” and more.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMMeet the parents who thought it was a good idea to have their kids audition to play young Michael Jackson.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMMichael R. Jackson’s salty musical “A Strange Loop,” Beanie Feldstein in “Funny Girl,” Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga in “Macbeth,” and more.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMI borrowed his cast albums from my school library so many times that the librarians finally let me keep them.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 01:59PMThe “Hamilton” creator’s directorial début, “Tick, Tick . . . Boom!,” channels the bohemian life and spirit of the theatre composer Jonathan Larson.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMHugh Jackman and Sutton Foster in “The Music Man,” Beanie Feldstein in “Funny Girl,” Lynn Nottage’s “MJ,” and more.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMTo plug Keenan Scott II’s new play, “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” the producers sent a mobile barbershop around the city, in an attempt to diversify a Broadway audience that, Scott says…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AMThe awards ceremony was a pep rally and a processing of trauma, but it also raised questions about inclusivity.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:07PMLast spring’s doomed Broadway season is revived, along with plays by Lynn Nottage, Alice Childress, Lucas Hnath, Annie Baker, and more.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 09:11AMMichael Schulman reviews the telecast of the Tony Awards, hosted by James Corden, in which Rachel Chavkin, Elaine May, and others gave winning speeches.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 09:07AMMichael Schulman reviews Joe Mantello’s Broadway production of Lucas Hnath’s play “Hillary and Clinton,” about the life of the former Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the 2…
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:06PMMichael Schulman writes on “Oklahoma!” and “What the Constitution Means to Me,” two current theatre productions that have unsettling stories to tell about statehood.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 11:47AMShoved into a locker as a teen, the actor Will Roland vowed to transform himself—and made it to the nerd-heaven of Broadway, Michael Schulman writes.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 05:00AMRevivals offer enticing actor pairings, including Adam Driver and Keri Russell, in “Burn This,” and Annette Bening and Tracy Letts, in Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.”
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 04:00AMMichael Schulman recaps his night at the 2019 Oscars ceremony, and at the Vanity Fair after-party.
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