Monday, March 8, 2021
Adaptations of “Happy Days” and “First Love,” works by the master of existential wheel-spinning, show us how to live in place.
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Bill Camp stars in JoAnne Akalaitis’s creepy, funny streaming production of this Samuel Beckett short story.
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Samuel L. Jackson, David Alan Grier, Phylicia Rashad and others remember the Negro Ensemble Company founder.
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Recorded on a Houston stage, “The Book of Magdalene” is theatrically intimate, while “Hotel Good Luck” gets caught up in digital trickery.
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The man was taciturn, but his Theater District restaurants were like Broadway clubhouses. Even the posters of flops were placed with affection.
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Two short films that find pandemic-sidelined performers grappling with Beckett are a highlight of the annual Exponential Festival.
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Mark O’Rowe’s intricate, beautifully acted play begs for debate. To start: Why don’t its protagonists have full lives of their own?
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The excellent program of short audioplays commissioned for “Under the Albert Clock” imagines the world in 2050.
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As artists saw liberties threatened and inequities exacerbated, the stage became more thrillingly urgent than it had been in decades.
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With a history of the Thornton Wilder classic coming soon, we talk with performers who found personal inspiration in the play’s beating heart.
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One of the founders of Mabou Mines, he reveled in being an outsider even when his celebrated “The Gospel at Colonus” reached Broadway.
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A big-box store, a hotel for transgender women and a dinner party gone awry are some of the places your ears will take you to.
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Tom DeTrinis’s solo show is full of rage, but in a way that’s bizarrely out of touch with this overwhelmingly disastrous year.
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With their field rocked by unprecedented challenges in 2020, these people and groups — some notable, some new — stepped into the breach.
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A son in New York and a father in the West Bank prepare a favorite family recipe. Longing and resentment are in the mix, too.
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How do you like your celebration? Taylor Mac gives it to you dazzling and arch, while “Meet Me in St. Louis” is a nostalgic comfort.
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The joy of “A Christmas Carol” isn’t merely the story; it’s the ritual of communion and reflection with family and fans. This year that’s not possible.
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Charming performers, elegant design and a smart video capture bring a bittersweet chamber play about the artist and his wife to the screen.
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It 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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Sunday, November 15, 2020
Connection or isolation? Intensity or escape? This spate of shows that put the watcher to work are rewarding, but often in contrasting ways.
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Social distance has left us rusty when it comes to connecting with strangers. The latest piece by 600 Highwaymen aims to help us practice — starting with a call.
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With a marquee creative team, this romantic musical should have been a sure bet. One great song survived the out-of-town turmoil.
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Robin Frohardt has turned a vacant space in Times Square into a colorful installation that slyly doubles as an eco-warning. Puppets have their moment, too.
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Sinclair Lewis’s 1930s novel-turned-stage play about the rise of fascism in America returns as an audio drama from Berkeley Rep.
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This stylized, two-character play finds the woman whose false accusation led to the lynching of Emmett Till bound to him, and to racist myths, forever.
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On the farm with Isabella Rossellini, as she readies a streaming theater piece with cameos from her animal friends.
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In a few minutes or a full show, these performers capture heartbreak, fury and laughs. For the words of Samuel Beckett, a disembodied mouth did the trick.
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The setting is stylish, and some tricks are nifty. But this Zoom show, which encourages audience involvement, is more scattershot than inspired.
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In the dreamscape of Toshiki Okada’s play, the American philosopher is a 21st-century presence, and an author meets his younger self.
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