Wednesday, July 8, 2020
The industry’s show-must-go-on smile masks a harder truth: that there is no substitute for the live interaction between performer and audience.
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With its themes of white privilege and black rage, Kermit Frazier’s “Kernel of Sanity” resonates powerfully today. That’s why Paula Vogel is giving it a boost.
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Thousands of students should have been gathering to cheer on the year’s best shows. But this isn’t a typical year.
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A playwright, a director, an artistic director and an actor share their experiences — and prescriptions for change.
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In his new audio comedy, Alan Ayckbourn does more than write: He and his wife, Heather Stoney, portray several couples in disarray.
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Miranda’s rap. Rylance’s poems. Jackman’s pelvis. And a brassy reunion for Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury. Now set your clock for “Turkey Lurkey Time.”
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020
His 10-minute, two-character play will test the possibilities of a new form that puts faces, more than bodies, at the center of the action.
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A virtual send-off for the artistic director and playwright drew more attendees than could have fit under a tent. “I liked this better,” she said.
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“Homebound” is one company’s attempt to give structure and meaning to the worries and what-ifs of the strange new present. But these aren’t plays, the artistic director says.
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We continue our cast album series with more recommendations for wonderful musicals to listen to at home
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A rare show that retooled and flourished after its New York debut, the musical, a decade later, has endured in schools and through international productions.
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Two theater critics suggest some of their favorite books about the theater, giving us portals to a world that is now forbidden.
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In committing to paying its people during a three-month shutdown, the theater gives itself breathing room to prepare for when it can open again.
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When theaters closed by the pandemic stream their shuttered plays online, watching sharpens the longing for the real thing.
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What’s a birthday celebration without tribute concerts, new commissions and revivals of three classics? Here’s how to join the party, live.
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The hero of Joe DiPietro’s new comic drama is Margaret Chase Smith, a U.S. senator who had the rare courage to stand up to McCarthyism.
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In Hilary Bettis’s play, a family separated by deportation wants to live regular American lives but discovers how mercilessly difficult that is.
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Vivian Neuwirth’s play is a fictionalized recollection of the life of the novelist John Kennedy Toole, who died before his Pulitzer-Prize winning classic “A Confederacy of Dunces” was …
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“Grand Horizons” and “Dracula” assert the full humanity of women, a matter not as settled as we might like to think.
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The writer Paula Vogel, the director Mark Brokaw, and the actors Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse on returning to a wrenching play two decades later.
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The feminist rallying cry inspired Chelsea Clinton’s children’s book about the likes of Harriet Tubman and Sally Ride. Now it’s a cheerful stage adaptation.
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Jerry Herman’s buoyant score is the highlight of this Encores! production about a troubled silent-movie-era romance.
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Minnesota’s Children’s Theater Company will present a play inspired by little-told stories of the wrenching Hormel strike: from kids on all sides of the dispute.
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James Ijames’s satire reconsiders a story that reaches back to our shared past, with an eye toward demolishing it in favor of a better future.
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This multimedia concert and career retrospective forgets that the best way to honor the composer is to have a good time with his music.
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In Sarah Einspanier’s fever-dream play, one half of a couple heads to Hollywood. The other gets an odd, and oddly familiar, new roommate.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMDeirdre O’Connell has a peculiar challenge performing the recollections of Lucas Hnath's mother in his play “Dana H.” Give credit to earbuds and Epsom salts.
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Roundabout Underground presents a flawed but tuneful musical about a young Manhattan couple challenged by addiction.
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It’s no surprise that this play about disillusionment, with its message of hope wrapped in warnings about nationalism and isolationism, was a choice for this season.
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Sarah Lozoff is joining one of the nation’s leading regional theaters for all 11 of its productions in its 2020 season.
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