“Joy and Pandemic” is slated to be performed this fall before an in-person audience at the Magic Theater in San Francisco.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMThe man was taciturn, but his Theater District restaurants were like Broadway clubhouses. Even the posters of flops were placed with affection.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMDissecting the failure of “Frankenstein,” which closed on Broadway on opening night 40 years ago, came with its own set of reporting challenges.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMOn Jan. 4, 1981, the effects-heavy production opened and closed on the same night. Forty years later, the creators revisit a very expensive Broadway flop.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMA Vineyard Theater streaming project re-enacts verbatim interviews with James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and others to explore echoes between the past and the present.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMEnd unpaid internships. Set term limits for leaders. Get real about inclusion. Take performances to the streets. Say yes to joy, and no to couch plays.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMThe Disney+ filmed version has fans wondering what’s accurate. Historians are fans, too, and they have answers, along with caveats.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 07:36PMThe musical’s world tour, now in Seoul, weathered a cast outbreak to become perhaps the only major show running. Can theater learn from its example?
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMJennifer Schantz, an executive at the New-York Historical Society, will lead the library, which is home to more than 8 million items relating to music, theater and dance.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMThe performer Taylor Mac and the playwright Suzan-Lori Parks have signed on to a video-sharing subscription service to raise money for New York colleagues in crisis.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:54PMSince its 1957 premiere, The New York Times has tracked the musical’s evolution, covering its casting, its politics and its role in the Cold War along the way.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:33AMWill Arbery has brought the “secretive” world of Catholic intellectuals to the stage in “Heroes of the Fourth Turning.” He’s pleased to find that they appreciate being seen, not ju…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:33PMThis year’s fellows include artists, writers, scientists, urban designers, community activists and others who have demonstrated “extraordinary originality.”
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 07:33AMA scholar in England suspected annotations in a First Folio at the Free Library of Philadelphia were John Milton’s, so he connected the dots with someone who had studied the work for a dec…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMA series of readings at Classic Stage Company will present the fruits of a project that charged people with “translating” Shakespeare into accessible (and faithful) modern English.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:19PMEven his closest friends and colleagues marvel at how the director Daniel Fish has managed to stick to his vision — and even lighten up — while shepherding his dark take on the beloved m…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMThis year’s American installment of the Night of Ideas will feature appearances by philosophers, musicians, artists and a puppet of Noam Chomsky.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMThe archive of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, now at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, traces more than 60 years in the theater, in the movies and at the front lines of social a…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMAn outdoor production that draws from the Hudson Valley community aims to unearths the strangeness in Washington Irving’s classic story.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMThe Goodman Theater’s five-and-a-half-hour stage adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s mammoth, seemingly unstageable novel will be available for at least two years.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMA puppet play by the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes explores technology, freedom and inequality (and the lost rap version of “The Communist Manifesto”).
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PM“Prurience,” a new immersive theater piece by Christopher Green, is set at a self-help group for pornography addicts.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMAfter a discreet tug-of-war with the playwright’s estate and Yale, the University of Texas has acquired the papers, including an “Aladdin’s cave” of unpublished material.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:01PMFour of the contributors to the Princeton and Slavery Plays project talk about the hidden histories that inspired them.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMThe American Jewish Historical Society is facing charges of censorship after it canceled a play and a panel that had been targeted by right-wing activists
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 09:33AMThe MacArthur fellowship this year honors 24 artists, scholars, activists and others chosen for exceptional “originality, insight and potential.”
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:06AMThe magician Derek DelGaudio has tried to keep his work invisible on the internet. Did another professional secretly film his show?
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMGeorge Orwell’s novel has led to adaptations and variations since its publication in 1949, including a coming Broadway version. Here’s an overview.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMA British adaptation of George Orwell’s classic arrives on Broadway with Tom Sturridge and Olivia Wilde, bringing contemporary political resonance.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMThe 1901 script for “The Shadow of a Doubt” turned up in an archive in Texas, where scholars discovered it after noticing a cryptic reference to it in a letter.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMMr. Mac’s “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music” will be performed in San Francisco and Los Angeles, with abridged versions staged elsewhere.
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