We visit the “Hadestown” company and a new playwright, share backstage performances, and answer your theater questions in the “Offstage” series finale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMEmbodying the Thornton Wilder character “helped heal something inside me that I hadn’t even realized had been broken,” says one.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33AMMany seasonal mainstays have been reimagined for online viewing this year. Here are some of our favorites, from “A Christmas Carol” to Handel’s “Messiah.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMReaders said “Sweeney Todd” and “Wicked,” among other classics, made them fall in love with musicals. One sheepishly confessed: “Starlight Express.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMOur critic confesses she discovered musicals via the widely panned film adaptation of “Rent,” a flop. We want to hear from readers: What was your first favorite?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMToppling arches, swarming mosquitoes and celebrity encounters are among the singular summer sensations readers can still recall.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32AMExploring the season that was, and wasn’t, and protests to remake the Great White Way. Plus Mary-Louise Parker and the casts of “Company” and “Six.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18AMSome readers are primed to take their seats, masks on, but more are hesitant: “My love of theater is not so important to me that I risk dying for it.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMFurious, despairing, yet inescapably entertaining, often in the very same show, featuring Chita Rivera, Nathan Lane and Zoe Caldwell, to name a few.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:24PM“The Rosie O’Donnell Show” returns for a night with streaming and the Metropolitan Opera will have a week of Wagner starting on Monday. Here is a list of digital content.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AMWhat is your favorite Sondheim song and why?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMThe Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Opera are among other institutions that have suspended their programs. Here’s a list of closures and cancellations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PMTéa Leoni is president in her series’ final season; and the Shakespeare veteran Corey Stoll tackles the Scottish king.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AMThe actor stars in Soderbergh’s “The Laundromat” and Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory”; and Jill Soloway’s TV series wraps up as a musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMBurt Lancaster is celebrated nearly 40 different ways; “Mum” crosses the pond; and a fierce, fiddling Finn, Pekka Kuusisto, comes to town.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12AMA new level of kawaii with a Japanese pop group, a triple-threat art option at Bard College and a Riley Stearns movie that takes on karate and fear.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PM“Mac Beth” actors wear school uniforms, Julia Michaels is at Bowery Ballroom, and Honor Swinton Byrne appears in “The Souvenir.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48AMHBO introduces the documentary by Erin Lee Carr chronicling the abuse Larry Nassar inflicted on girls and women in the guise of therapy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00AMA classic movie streaming service arrives; a singer tours in Brooklyn; and Acorn TV debuts a new series.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00AMMichelle Dorrance brings three distinct programs to City Center; Jackson and others are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; and an artist gets a retrospective in D.C.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00AMElba drives up with both a film and a Netflix series that revisit his other life, that of a D.J.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00AMFresh from sharing a major award with Grandmaster Flash, the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter returns to Carnegie Hall with Lambert Orkis nearly 30 years after her debut there.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMHighlights from The New York Times Culture Calendar, your monthly cure for FOMO.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PMWith over 100 performances to come in his long goodbye tour, Elton John returns to New York City this month to play four nights.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMNo need to go to Venice to see Giorgione’s “La Vecchia.” Fresh from conservation, the 500-year-old canvas is on view at Cincinnati Art Museum.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:50AMBroadway, Wagner’s “Ring,” the opening of the Shed: what our critics and writers are looking forward to this season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMThe brash saxophonist performs at the Apollo; Season 2 of “At Home With Amy Sedaris" begins; and the Spanish dancer returns to Manhattan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48AMIn Nick Payne’s new play, Gyllenhaal stars as a man in mourning — a much more sympathetic role than his art snob in “Velvet Buzzsaw.”
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