Queen Elizabeth II was portrayed in plays and highbrow films, in made-for-TV movies and broad comedies and, of course, in “The Crown.” Many sought to answer the question: What was she li…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:19PMThe Netflix version of Broadway’s “Diana, the Musical” landed with a thud. But it got people talking. Now the show’s lead actress is staying positive ahead of opening night.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMMandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody’s charming, irreverent pandemic-era posts led to unlikely social media stardom. Will the vaccine end their run?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMElizabeth Strout created the character. Rona Munro put her at the center of a play. And Laura Linney has brought her to life in a solo Broadway show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMThe creators of “Memphis,” including a longtime member of Bon Jovi, are behind the new show that explores the fallout from a seemingly fairy-tale marriage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48AMWith a cast of 21, plus a live goose and rabbit, the dizzying number of comings and goings in this Broadway show requires an incredible attention to detail.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54AMThis bald and earless troupe, which has become an institution in Manhattan and elsewhere, celebrates its silver anniversary.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMJ.K. Rowling’s play picks up at the end of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” fast forwards and then shoots off into unexpected directions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:57PMHer juggernaut plows on, with a two-part “Potter” stage sequel and coming film spinoff. Some fans like it. Others don’t.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01AMA reporter’s unnerving plunge into 10 events across New York City involving all kinds of audience participation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:57PMMr. Bartlett discusses the use of language to transform his protagonists from cardboard figures of ridicule into full-blown characters of tragedy and pathos.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMFlorence Birdwell, the exacting former voice teacher of two musical actresses vying for a Tony Award, was in Manhattan recently to catch their shows and teach a master class.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMMs. Wilson has gone back to her role in “Fish in the Dark,” opposite Larry David, after a one-month break and a double mastectomy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMPreparing to open in “On the Twentieth Century” on Broadway, Ms. Chenoweth reflects on transformation, beauty pageants and a role that everybody seemed to believe she was meant to play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMKenneth Branagh, who stars in and jointly directs a stage production of “Macbeth,” discusses its genesis on the eve of its New York opening at the Armory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMJames Franco and Chris O’Dowd talk about preparing for their roles as George and Lennie in a Broadway revival of “Of Mice and Men.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMLike Rocky the boxer, Andy Karl the actor has trained hard for his breakout moment, his being the title role in “Rocky” on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMJames Corden brings his slapstick farce, “One Man, Two Guvnors,” a West End hit, to Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:57PMCillian Murphy is Brooklyn bound as the star of a one-man play, “Misterman,” by Enda Walsh.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PM“Private Lives,” making an Atlantic crossing after a run in London, picks up a Canadian leading man, Paul Gross, on its way to Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMDerek Jacobi climbs the mountain of “King Lear” in a production directed by Michael Grandage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:47PMMichael Morpurgo’s “War Horse,” a “huge nonevent” when it was published in 1982, has been adapted for the stage and will be a Steven Spielberg film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:44PMMichael Morpurgo discusses his seemingly forgotten 1982 book, “War Horse,” that is about to open at Lincoln Center Theater and is to be a Steven Spielberg film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:05PMThe author of "Brick Lane" ponders what might have been.
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