1,790 stories by "ELISABETH VINCENTELLI"
The Pasadena Playhouse has a new tribute to Herman, the composer of "Hello, Dolly!," and Tomei turns up in "Beirut" and "Three Hotels."
Travis Alabanza's monologue starring Reece Lyons examines agency and safety, here inextricably intertwined with identity.
The shows have not been staged, but three concept albums are at the center of a sprawling fictional world created largely by teenagers.
Three theaters are exploring "Swingin' the Dream," which tanked on Broadway in 1939, but opens a window on the racial and artistic dynamics of its time.
The Under the Radar, Prototype and Exponential festivals are ready to open our minds with experimental work, even if their doors are shut.
Be an #ArtsHero started with a failed effort to extend unemployment benefits. It's gone on to be a prime proponent of the message: Cultural work is labor.
Plays by Mike Bartlett, Christina Anderson and Halley Feiffer are watchable at home, too. And for an alternative holiday hit, "Burning Bluebeard."
Open-air shows. Joint productions. Filmed dress rehearsals. Here's a faraway close-up on how one theater community has stayed reasonably robust in adversity.
Alan Cumming and Patti LuPone add their voices to this season's tidings, plus a gender-bending Scrooge and a live broadcast of "The Grinch Musical!"
As Split Britches, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver have made off-kilter theater for 40 years. Memory loss, and a pandemic, haven't stopped their creating.
Constance Wu and Samira Wiley star in a Zoom-ified Chekhov play, and Ars Nova punches above its weight with a 24-hour telethon.
With nods to Duchamp and Dada, this interactive production raises questions about fate, narrative convention and the process of making art.
Watch a theater maker's story of becoming an elected official, Greek tragedies transposed to Chicano America and Daniel Kitson's tour of the ghostly empty theaters of Britain.
In Aaron Posner's play, there is more than one John Quincy Adams, but only one way to ensure that American democracy endures.
The timing could not be better for Heidi Schreck's affecting play about the Constitution's impact on our daily lives, now streaming on Amazon.
New York cabaret houses beef up there digital offerings, and two theater adaptations of "Night of the Living Dead" arrive in time for Halloween.
Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley's virtual play includes a YouTuber, an influencer and a meme machine. Sometimes total chaos ensues.
Stars including Marisa Tomei, Billy Porter and Rosie O'Donnell dramatize the words of real-life nurses pushed to the brink by the pandemic.
Plus: A marquee cast tackles a Kenneth Lonergan play, and Glenn Close, Beanie Feldstein, Audra McDonald and Melissa Errico go digital.
Who gets to stay? The digital adaptation of a 2018 satire asks the playgoing audience to weigh in from home.
The interstellar adventure deftly mixes the lo-fi aesthetics of budget science fiction with dopey humor and experimental theater's sensibility.
In a fall season without many live shows, everything is up for grabs. That includes the canon of classics " and where Bill Irwin might be performing.
Before lockdown, she won praise for three fierce Off Broadway performances. Next: starring in an online reading of a rarely seen Pulitzer Prize finalist.
The Billie Holiday Theater offers a live performance of "12 Angry Men…and Women: The Weight of the Wait" in front of a Black Lives Matter mural.
Festivals from Sydney and Edinburgh move online, and Richard Nelson mixes in another of his theatrical franchises to conclude a Zoom trilogy.
