Sunday, November 1, 2020
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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It might seem churlish to criticize productions improvising through a pandemic. But for audiences taking the chance, design makes a difference.
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The Billie Holiday Theater’s brilliantly designed performance, staged for a live audience in Brooklyn and filmed for YouTube, is an urgent response to police misconduct.
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Six months dark. Thousands of artists out of work. Could this disaster have a surprise ending? Five critics on what must change, onstage and off.
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Thrice-delayed and now virtual, this year’s scrambled show-tune revue “Miscast” has to entertain while recognizing that casting is political.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMJonathan Groff tapping a tribute to Sutton Foster? Lin-Manuel Miranda singing Anita’s part in “West Side Story”? Watch these videos and see what’s possible.
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Pairing Molière and Millay for a socially distanced audience, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey offers light entertainment just when we need it.
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In this gay haven known for its nightlife, the crowds are smaller this summer. And the nightclubs are closed. But by the pool, the show goes on.
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Shaun Prendergast’s play, written to be performed in darkness, asks audiences to imagine what the “ugliest woman in the world” looks like.
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Shakespeare 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.
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With an influenza pandemic and a war on, New York’s health commissioner took an unorthodox stand, declining to shutter public entertainment.
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The industry’s show-must-go-on smile masks a harder truth: that there is no substitute for the live interaction between performer and audience.
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With its themes of white privilege and black rage, Kermit Frazier’s “Kernel of Sanity” resonates powerfully today. That’s why Paula Vogel is giving it a boost.
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Thousands of students should have been gathering to cheer on the year’s best shows. But this isn’t a typical year.
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A playwright, a director, an artistic director and an actor share their experiences — and prescriptions for change.
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In his new audio comedy, Alan Ayckbourn does more than write: He and his wife, Heather Stoney, portray several couples in disarray.
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Miranda’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.”
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020
His 10-minute, two-character play will test the possibilities of a new form that puts faces, more than bodies, at the center of the action.
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A virtual send-off for the artistic director and playwright drew more attendees than could have fit under a tent. “I liked this better,” she said.
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“Homebound” is one company’s attempt to give structure and meaning to the worries and what-ifs of the strange new present. But these aren’t plays, the artistic director says.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020
A rare show that retooled and flourished after its New York debut, the musical, a decade later, has endured in schools and through international productions.
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Two theater critics suggest some of their favorite books about the theater, giving us portals to a world that is now forbidden.
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In committing to paying its people during a three-month shutdown, the theater gives itself breathing room to prepare for when it can open again.
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