Tuesday’s finale of “Only Murders in the Building” wrapped a season that was a love letter to Broadway musicals, not least because it was a little silly.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:13PMThe festival presents a violent Shakespearean interaction with fruit, dance for neurodiverse and neurotypical audiences and showers of (play) money.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:07PM“What the theater gives me is the feeling that I’m using everything,” the actress said of returning to the stage after a decade away.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMThe writer and actress visits Coney Island as the New York leg of “Death, Let Me Do My Show” arrives Off Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:37PMTwelve years after opening “The Book of Mormon,” the two actors — and good friends — return with “Gutenberg! The Musical!”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMIn his Broadway debut, the illusionist Antonio Díaz does levitation and teleportation. But it’s simple tricks, with cards and balls, that really wow.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33AMHow a theater collective transformed the too-weird-to-be-true story of a World War II counterintelligence scheme into a West End musical with heart.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:37AMIn a show staged in Federal Hall, five prominent playwrights tell the story of the site of significant events in the country’s founding, without glossing over the uglier parts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:19AMThe magician worked with the playwright Lucas Hnath to create “a more vulnerable version of magic performance,” Hnath said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:25PMThe theatrical performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, opening this month at the Park Central Hotel, is the latest in a very long, heavily sequined line of “Gatsby” adaptation…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PMWith a clever opening number and repeated support for striking writers, the Tonys celebrated Broadway’s shows, performers and creative teams.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AM“It wasn’t a choice I would have made,” said Mark Russell, whose festival of experimental work will no longer be produced by the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:19PMDirected by Hansol Jung and Dustin Wills, this sportive, vividly acted production fails to make a convincing case for its new gags and directorial flights.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMThe 17th-century play, staged by the theater company Molière in the Park, skewers those who preach morality yet practice anything but.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36PMThe musical comedy savant is a Tony nominee for playing Mrs. Lovett, a pie maker with an unusually gruesome recipe hack. “I can’t judge her. I just have to love her,” she said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMTornadoes whoosh dinner from the table and a shark swims through a flooded living room in a clown show that brings the environmental crisis home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:07PMThe actress said she hopes that the play continues to generate discussions around sexual assault and said the response so far has been “beautiful.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PMTony nominators singled out new faces and set up fascinating face-offs, but missed the chance to recognize a Native American breakthrough.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMWith a 17th-century grocer as its hero, Red Bull Theater and Fiasco stage a 400-year-old comedy that’s both a satire of the theater and a valentine to it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48PMIn David Auburn’s new play, “Summer, 1976,” the actresses play unlikely friends whose relationship has the intensity of a love affair.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54AMAs the longest-running musical in Broadway history closes, Times critics with a lasting affection for the show take stock of its legacy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMThe one-woman show, coming to Broadway, is the “Killing Eve” star’s first stage role. She dared herself to do it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18AMZadie Smith brings her first play, an adaptation of Chaucer’s the Wife of Bath tale, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36PMHuman ingenuity and animal grace course through this rich, inventive play about difficult choices and the stories we tell to make sense of them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMBroadway’s slapstick comedy “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” is full of daring sequences. What does it take? Countless rehearsals (and bruises).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMLunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford play Stephen Sondheim’s murderous Victorian couple in a bold and barnstorming take Despite having worn a beard for much of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMAttention to culinary detail is the best part of this heavily seasoned family drama by Christin Eve Cato at the WP Theater.
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