Wednesday, October 28, 2020
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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The nominators did the best they could with a Broadway slate hobbled by Covid-19. But some of the Tonys’ problems predate (and will outlast) the pandemic.
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In a new show by David Kwong, the noted cruciverbalist offers a collection of games built for Zoom that let the audience be part of the puzzle.
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After 27 years and more than 2,500 reviews, The Times’s co-chief theater critic reviews his own tenure and talks about why he’s (quietly) making an exit.
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From a pro-slavery Martha Washington to a blank-screen Melania Trump, the wives and other women of the U.S. presidents get sent up and dressed down.
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A starry selection of scenes from Tony Kushner’s 1993 classic discovers premonitions of another pandemic in the AIDS-era play.
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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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One-woman plays by Tracy Thorne and Eliza Bent explore the problems of white power and privilege — and how people who say the right things aren’t helping.
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A musical about two French chocolatiers may satisfy the hunger for live song and dance, but keep the insulin handy.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMTuesday, September 22, 2020
Stephen Karam’s celebrated play about economic distress looks very different in 2020 than it did in 2015 — and streaming is only part of the change.
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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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Sunday, September 6, 2020
The “Fleabag” star Andrew Scott is the entire brilliant cast of a penetrating play about toxic fathers and sons.
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The actors quarantined together all summer to produce Shakespeare’s tragedy safely. But they can’t overcome the remove of a camera.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMMonday, August 31, 2020
Theater for One was built on the idea of face-to-face encounters. Moving it online could have been a disaster, but instead it’s a heartbreaker.
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Among the performances you can catch online are a one-woman show about sexual assault and riffs on “Heart of Darkness” and “Rocky.”
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A collection of short solo works from the Weston Playhouse furthers the redefinition of theater online — and of life in isolation.
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With broad winks to Agatha Christie and the limitations of remote theater, a serialized song-and-dance mystery goes on. Well, not so much dance.
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Expanding content and experimenting with form, the avant-garde finds a congenial new home online, as two recent offerings demonstrate.
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In “The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy,” an experimental theater lab operating from a closet adapts a timely tale about the solitude of cramped quarters.
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Thursday, July 16, 2020
Not so long ago, top stars brought top musicals to suburban arenas that started their lives as tents.
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A documentary play based on interviews with New York doctors, nurses and paramedics underlines the inequities of a medical system “flawed from its root.”
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Our critics discuss the last four months, which thanks to Zoom (and Meryl Streep) have been full of experimentation and playfulness.
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The British government has promised $2 billion to save its cultural institutions, while the American theater, lacking meaningful leadership, is left to fend for itself.
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Richard Nelson’s fictional family returns, but for the first time this drama of connection in the age of American bewilderment feels smaller than life.
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A streaming production of the Molière comedy, with allusions to the White House as well as Black Lives Matter, tears down walls to rebuild a classic.
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An Atlanta theater company addresses racial inequity in a series of virtual dinners that mix drama with discussion.
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From the documentary works of Anna Deavere Smith to brief monologues written in this moment of unrest, dramatists are sounding an alarm.
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