Thursday, March 4, 2021
Because of pandemic restrictions, a performance piece about refugees requires you to draw on yourself, in both senses
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The tragedy of racism is only part of the story in two very different plays from London that carry a dimension of meaning not usually seen in this country.
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A sparkling new recording of the 1964 musical makes half the case for Stephen Sondheim’s endlessly inventive score.
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Four not-very-believable characters in a chain of monologues are rescued by a cast of exceptionally believable actors.
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Samuel Bailey’s knockout professional debut isn’t so much about the pipeline to incarceration than about the toxic masculinity that keeps it flowing.
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At home in the footlights, he knew the power of charm and every trick of the stage trade. But even after a celebrated “King Lear,” there was more to play.
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Sunday, January 31, 2021
All Ryan J. Haddad wants is a boyfriend. But his pride — or is it his prospects’ prejudice? — keeps getting in the way.
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Pandemics and ordinary tragedies clash in Lauren Gunderson’s overwrought portrait of her husband, the virologist Nathan A. Wolfe.
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With minimal rehearsal and production values, online events are becoming a distinct (and worthy) new genre of theater.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMWith minimal rehearsal and production values, online events are becoming a distinct (and worthy) new genre of theater.
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Pundits have likened the president to Lear, to Hamlet, to Macbeth, to Coriolanus. That may have been four years of wishful thinking.
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Forget tragic lovers. At the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, fast cars and other luxuries fuel tragedies about the love of things.
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What started as a TikTok meme and became a crowdsourced musical could have online lessons to offer for 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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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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Not for decades have so many plays and musicals been turned into movies. But even in the best of the new crop, a lot gets lost in translation.
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In Heather Christian’s “I Am Sending You the Sacred Face,” the saint of Calcutta vogues and lip-syncs and broods on the nature of selflessness.
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In his latest magic show, Helder Guimarães shuffles an old genre into a new technology with mixed results.
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Sunday, December 6, 2020
Serious new plays are always in danger of disappearing — never more so than now. But inventive virtual productions, such as “The Wolves” and “Heroes of the Fourth Turning,” offer h…
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Audra McDonald stars as Blanche DuBois in a radio-like production of the Tennessee Williams classic that still has a way to go.
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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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The astonishing Jefferson Mays stars as everyone (and a potato) in a dark and pointed adaptation of the Dickens holiday classic.
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Monday, November 16, 2020
Four new shows are part of a movement to engage more directly in the debates of our times — sometimes even stealing the script.
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Our theater experts provide a guide to some of the successful (and failed) cinematic adaptations of plays and musicals — all for your streaming pleasure.
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Would you like to see a new musical from the people who brought you “West Side Story”? For better or worse, you probably never will.
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The story of a marriage saved by the pandemic, “True Love Will Find You in the End” features a live audience but recorded actors.
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A trenchant workplace comedy about the folks who tried to promote Pizzagate, confuse Wisconsin and, ultimately, elect Donald J. Trump.
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Anne Washburn’s would-be epic of power and powerlessness, presented as a podcast, may be too close to current events to fulfill its big ambitions.
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