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For 40 Years, he was the man overseeing Rodgers and Hammerstein’s theatre properties including ‘The Sound of Music’ and ‘Carousel!’ After finally stepping down from the role, Ted C…
Linked From The Independent at 02:32AMWednesday, June 2, 2021
It has been a tough year for Broadway. Now it’s time to get tough on the show that too often honors investors instead of achievers.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PMMonday, May 31, 2021
Ted Chapin steps down as the head of the organization that makes sure you revisit “Oklahoma!” and keep hearing “The Sound of Music.”
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Talking dogs, green screen thrillers and gold turtles: Online productions, intended as a stopgap, are testing the boundaries of what makes theater theater.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMTuesday, May 18, 2021
Linked vignettes from five songwriting teams offer lots of head-scratching switcheroos but little for the heart.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMThursday, May 13, 2021
In Rinne B. Groff’s historical comedy, the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1947 looks awfully familiar today.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMTuesday, May 11, 2021
New concerts from Sutton Foster, Jeremy Jordan and Marilyn Maye offer examples of what the most intimate art form can and can’t do.
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Set at a Southern barbecue, James Ijames’s hilarious update on Shakespeare sees a recipe for liberation in the story of family disaster.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PMThursday, April 22, 2021
Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley star as the star-crossed lovers in a compelling stage-film hybrid adaptation.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMTuesday, April 13, 2021
Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s play about Black women struggling to survive Hurricane Katrina gets an ear-tingling podcast production.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMSunday, April 4, 2021
The monologuist appeared onstage, indoors, in front of a real audience, on the first day possible. Maybe he shouldn’t have rushed.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMWednesday, March 31, 2021
Fifty years ago, Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman exploded the Broadway “concept” musical by conjuring the bittersweet reunion of aging showgirls.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMIn the 50 years since the musical’s debut, revivals and concerts have served its great songs to great stars. Who’d be our Broadway babies 25 years from now?
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMTuesday, March 23, 2021
Liza Birkenmeier’s new play about a shape-shifting teenager makes a fitting contribution to Theater in Quarantine’s revamp of the avant-garde.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMWednesday, March 17, 2021
Arts workers are protesting closings and occupying playhouses all over France. On Broadway, that drama has yet to open.
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An uncanny new play imagines Meghan (and Kate, too) trapped in a nightmare palace where racism reigns.
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Because of pandemic restrictions, a performance piece about refugees requires you to draw on yourself, in both senses
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMSunday, February 28, 2021
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.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMFriday, February 19, 2021
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.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMTuesday, February 9, 2021
Samuel Bailey’s knockout professional debut isn’t so much about the pipeline to incarceration than about the toxic masculinity that keeps it flowing.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMFriday, February 5, 2021
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.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMThursday, January 28, 2021
Pandemics and ordinary tragedies clash in Lauren Gunderson’s overwrought portrait of her husband, the virologist Nathan A. Wolfe.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMWednesday, January 27, 2021
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.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMTuesday, January 19, 2021
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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