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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Soho Rep Returns With Job Initiative and New Plays by Sarah Bahr

Sarah Benson, the theater’s artistic director, said she hopes that the productions this season will respond to a transformative moment in theater.

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Monday, September 13, 2021

‘Beetlejuice’ Will Return to Broadway in April by Sarah Bahr

It was pushed out of the Winter Garden to make way for “The Music Man.” Now this fan-favorite musical is getting a second life at the Marriott Marquis.

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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

James Whiteside Thinks ‘The Legend of Zelda’ Would Make a Great Ballet by Sarah Bahr

The American Ballet Theater dancer discusses the beauty of anime soundtracks, the virtue of late ’90s music videos and playing video games backstage.

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Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Sara Bareilles on the Lessons of Pema Chodron and the Joy of 10-Mile Walks by Sarah Bahr

The 41-year-old singer-songwriter is back on Broadway in September for her fourth starring turn in “Waitress.”

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Sunday, August 22, 2021

A Rush of News: Behind The New York Times's Live Coverage by Sarah Bahr

When readers need information immediately, teams of journalists collaborate to tell a single unfolding story.

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Friday, August 20, 2021

La MaMa’s Season Includes an Indigenous Take on Shakespeare by Sarah Bahr

A version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is planned, along with the company’s puppet series, an examination of the Tulsa Race Massacre and more.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2021

92nd Street Y’s New Season Includes Colson Whitehead and Susan Orlean by Sarah Bahr

The fall season also includes appearances by a Supreme Court justice, Broadway actress and presidential biographer.

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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Abrons Arts Center’s Fall Season Celebrates Trailblazers by Sarah Bahr

Highlights include a photography exhibition on female leaders in public housing and a contemporary play about the life of Mary Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein.”

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Friday, July 30, 2021

New York City Awards $3 Million for Latino and Puerto Rican Theater by Sarah Bahr

The Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater will use the funds, along with $7 million from the city over the last eight years, for an expanded South Bronx space.

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Friday, July 23, 2021

Positive Coronavirus Test Halts Shakespeare in the Park for Third Night by Sarah Bahr

“Merry Wives,” an adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, had already pushed back its opening night by nearly two weeks after an injury to its leading man.

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Monday, July 19, 2021

Andrew Lloyd Webber Delays ‘Cinderella’ Musical in West End by Sarah Bahr

The composer and producer blamed Britain’s coronavirus restrictions for the delay.

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Historic Cherry Lane Theater Sold for $11 Million by Sarah Bahr

The Lucille Lortel Theater Foundation, which has managed the 97-year-old theater for the past decade, will take over the building in Greenwich Village.

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Friday, July 16, 2021

Ford and Mellon Foundations Expand Initiative for Disabled Artists by Sarah Bahr

The foundations are adding $5 million to the Disability Futures program, which will continue through 2025 with two more classes of 20 fellows each.

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Rattlestick Theater Focuses on Social Change in New Season by Sarah Bahr

The theater will produce three plays in an ambitious 2021-22 season, but it has also committed to a five-day workweek and reforms that prioritize artists.

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Thursday, July 15, 2021

BAM’s Fall Season Kicks Off With a Beach Opera by Sarah Bahr

“Sun & Sea,” which won top honors at the Venice Biennale in 2019, will make its U.S. premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this fall.

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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

New Playwrights Horizons Season Includes Will Arbery World Premiere by Sarah Bahr

Arbery’s “Corsicana” was added to the theater’s slate for next summer, along with four plays previously announced for 2021.

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Tuesday, June 22, 2021

At a Queer Theater Festival, the Plays Are Brazenly Personal by Sarah Bahr

The Criminal Queerness Festival offers three works that address subjects including addiction, fluid identity and social change.

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Monday, June 21, 2021

‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ at 25: ‘The Most R-Rated G You Will Ever See’ by Sarah Bahr

How did the ratings board overlook songs filled with lust and damnation? “Maybe we bamboozled them with gargoyles,” one filmmaker said.

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Monday, June 7, 2021

Peek at Broadway Comeback: Times Event With "Me and the Sky" by Sarah Bahr

When The Times staged a musical number for its live event series, the performance served as a sneak preview of a theater world preparing for takeoff.

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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Broadway Theater Owner Cited by OSHA in Stagehand’s Fatal Fall by Sarah Bahr

Federal regulators cited the Shubert Organization for four workplace safety violations in the death of an employee in the Winter Garden Theater.

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Sunday, May 30, 2021

The Surprising Evolution of Cruella De Vil by Sarah Bahr

From a calm socialite, she morphed into an unhinged puppy kidnapper and then a vindictive glamourpuss. Why don’t we hate her?

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Friday, May 28, 2021

Broadway Creative Teams Head to … Indiana? by Sarah Bahr

Discovering Broadway, a nonprofit founded in 2019, brings actors and writers to Central Indiana for weeklong retreats to workshop their new musicals.

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Thursday, May 27, 2021

Leader of Americans for the Arts Retires After Workplace Complaints by Sarah Bahr

Robert L. Lynch, the longtime president and chief executive who had been on paid leave since December, retired on Thursday, the organization’s board announced.

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Monday, May 24, 2021

After Tragedy, an Indianapolis Theater Stages a Comeback by Sarah Bahr

Bryan Fonseca, the founder of a notable company, died of complications from Covid-19. But at the theater named for him, the show goes on.

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Thursday, May 6, 2021

Emergency Grants for New York City Artists With Disabilities by Sarah Bahr

Applications for the $1,000 grants, from the New York Foundation for the Arts, can be submitted through June 15.

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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

A Rare Peek Inside a Semi-Secret ‘Secret Garden’ by Sarah Bahr

The 2018 workshop for a possible revival of the lush musical was never meant to be seen by the public, but will now stream as a benefit this weekend.

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

‘Great Gatsby’ Musical Sets Creative Team by Sarah Bahr

The production will feature lyrics by Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine and a book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok.

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Sondheim Musical, in Development for Years, Looks Unlikely by Sarah Bahr

The 91-year-old composer told the Public Theater last year that he was no longer working on a show based on the films of Luis Buñuel.

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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

‘Game of Thrones’ Aims for Broadway by Sarah Bahr

A stage adaptation is in the works for Broadway, the West End and Australia. The goal is a 2023 debut.

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Saturday, March 20, 2021

Virus Cases Delay Effort to Bring Indoor Dance Back to New York by Sarah Bahr

The Park Avenue Armory is postponing “Afterwardsness” after three members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane dance company tested positive for the coronavirus.

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Monday, March 15, 2021

Andra Day Earns a Best Actress Nomination for ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ by Sarah Bahr

“It shouldn’t be an uncomfortable idea that it could be all Black women being represented in this space,” said the star, who’s also working on a new album.

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards