Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Performers share fragmented reveries in “Electric Feeling Maybe,” while “Voyeur” brings a touch of Paris to the West Village.
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Airships float by, avatars sing and the audience is the jury in this visually enticing but overstuffed steampunk experiment.
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A look back at the band’s 15-year-old debut, “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out,” a commercial success that simultaneously satirized and celebrated staged spectacles.
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This comic short about an actor and his kids staging Greek tragedies under lockdown slyly comments on links between the politics of the family and the state.
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In this brief but eerie installation, one viewer and one performer, separated by glass, share the feeling of being trapped underwater.
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A naïve young woman struggles with the pitfalls of intimacy in the digital age, on and off the battlefield of a multiplayer online game.
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The second grouping of these excellent “Here We Are” monologues includes a raucous report from outer space and a small gem from Lynn Nottage.
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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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It was a flop, but the film adaptation of the Broadway smash turned me on to theater. And those starving artists made me want to make art too.
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Theater in Quarantine’s latest small-scale, digitally savvy production is an adaptation of a Borges story about a man stopping time to stare down death.
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Replete with music, masks and vibrant costumes, “Quince” and “Beast Visit” turn urban green spaces into stages for festivity.
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Staying creative in lockdown means setting the scene for a cat, a baby and a garden. Plus an Instagram account that makes Mom and Dad into art stars.
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Two critics square off to determine how well this body slam of a comedy, about stereotypes and storytelling, made it to the very small screen.
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A Seeing Place Theater production and a Play-PerView reunion reading by the 2007 Cherry Lane Theater cast bring out different aspects of Amiri Baraka’s famous play.
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Friday, July 17, 2020
Electric performances, led by André Holland, transcend didacticism in an audio rendition that replaced a Shakespeare in the Park production.
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Efforts like ‘The Oedipus Project’ are worthy, but in an attempt to draw contemporary parallels, they can misread drama and mislead about the present.
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Animated shows are finally moving away from letting white actors play characters of color. But even well-intentioned efforts at increasing diversity create complications.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMOur critics discuss the last four months, which thanks to Zoom (and Meryl Streep) have been full of experimentation and playfulness.
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Anchored by a charismatically off-kilter performance, this one-woman show asks viewers to judge a young Russian accused of a crime of passion.
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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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Despite charming performances, a Culture Project production works too hard bringing a delicate novella to the stage.
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A solo stage adaptation of Paul Muldoon’s poem considers whether making art can offer solace in the wake of grief.
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The neighborhood is referrred to constantly, insistently, but doesn’t come to life in Pearl Cleage’s play about a nightclub singer from the 1930s.
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Donnetta Lavinia Grays is winningly uninhibited in her fable-like solo show about a community seduced by a mysterious benefactor.
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Edward Einhorn’s playful play takes on a lot: his scientist grandfather, his aging mother and his own doubts about putting their lives onstage.
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Eric Tucker updates the allegorical play about the Salem witch trials, directly implicating the audience in its examination of mass hysteria.
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An immersive play crossed with an art installation offers sharp angles on race and white supremacy, but is dampened by didactism.
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Tawni O’Dell set herself a bracing challenge: Writing and reliving her family’s trauma onstage. But it’s more than the novelist can pull off.
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Friends and family about to be left behind when a young man goes to college reckon with a world of narrow choices in Chad Beckim’s play.
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Mr. Sunshine is one of the rare Westerners to become a master of the centuries-old Japanese comic storytelling form.
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