Digital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child’s first fireworks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMJake Gyllenhaal, Patti LuPone, Judi Dench and an all-star Zoom trio find the wit, pathos and heartbreak in a remarkable songbook.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:42PMAudra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, Andrew Lloyd Webber and others mourned and celebrated the essential composer and lyricist, who died at 91.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMListening to the album. Singing along at the show. And wearing a loincloth to play the title role. All fresh in our readers’ minds in the 50 years since.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMThe pandemic pause has prompted a prizewinning cohort to ask hard questions about salaries, working in other media and choosing collaboration over “scarcity.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMAfter a lost live 2020, the theater will stage a musical at a museum’s reflecting pool and an immersive show, all over town, based on real events.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMIn the 50 years since the musical’s debut, revivals and concerts have served its great songs to great stars. Who’d be our Broadway babies 25 years from now?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMWith their field rocked by unprecedented challenges in 2020, these people and groups — some notable, some new — stepped into the breach.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMIt wasn’t the year for celebration. But watching innovation flourish inspired our chief critic, while other writers found the joys of the stage in other media.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMAfter criticism over gender parity, Pearl Cleage, Larissa FastHorse, Adrienne Kennedy and Sarah Ruhl will be featured in the spring.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMOne night only: “This is Our Youth,” “Uncle Vanya,” two Mamet plays, and more. With casts that include Morgan Freeman, Laurie Metcalf and Lucas Hedges.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PMEnd unpaid internships. Set term limits for leaders. Get real about inclusion. Take performances to the streets. Say yes to joy, and no to couch plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMShakespeare 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMMiranda’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.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMHarvey Fierstein, Betty Buckley and more on the sunny songwriter behind “Hello, Dolly!” and “Mame,” who hoped that even a flop would find a second life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMThe revival of Terrence McNally’s play is wrapping up a month earlier than expected.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42PMEach show arrived on Broadway with a big name in its title and major creative talents behind the scenes. But audiences kept their distance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:06PMReaders share their own theatergoing binges in response to the “repeat attenders” who’ve seen their favorite musical 25 times — and counting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42AMSwinging lights. Broadway beefs. Words of wisdom. And a restroom serenade. If only some of the highlights were on TV.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PMWishing for challenge, boldness, new work, intimacy, a friendly welcome — and inexpensive parking.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:43PMA revival of Richard Greenberg’s baseball comedy “Take Me Out” will also be part of Second Stage Theater’s 2019-20 season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PMA brief sampling of productions that use augmented reality, smartphone mapping and motion capture, blurring the line between the live and the virtual.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMA producer announced that one Oscar-winning actress will play another in Matthew Lombardo’s “Tea at Five.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:04PMReturn engagements mean second chances to see acclaimed productions, like “School Girls” and “Happy Birthday, Wanda June,” that got away.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMThey are often Broadway sensations, but jukebox musicals rarely get good reviews. We invited our critics to stop snarking and tell us what they want.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMWhat the stage director Lileana Blain-Cruz saw in New Orleans and how it informs her production of “The House That Will Not Stand.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMThe two actors, who have never met, share insights on understanding the character of Prior Walter and how to maintain the stamina to play him.
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