Saturday, January 11, 2025
Whether it’s Elphaba in “Wicked” or Celie in “The Color Purple,” the star doesn’t choose parts “frivolously”; she wants roles that stay with viewers.
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“Severance” is finally back for its second season, three New York art museums are set to reopen and ballet goes extreme.
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As pop culture continues to fracture, our critic was drawn to art and performances that explored universal themes by way of specific settings.
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Walking around downtown Philadelphia, James Ijames reflected on his new play, “Good Bones,” gentrification and the absence that “haunts the cities.”
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“Wicked,” which arrives to the big screen this fall, redeems the villain who is barely a character in L. Frank Baum’s classic novel.
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The veteran and the newcomer each had their own fears as they joined the Broadway revival of the beloved all-Black musical.
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Suzan-Lori Parks’s play is the latest work by a Black writer seeking to prioritize Hemings’s life and perspective to make her fully dimensional.
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“Mad Max” gets a prequel, “The Wiz” returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale.
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A new adaptation shows how rich Alice Walker’s novel is and how the source material can lend itself to unconventional storytelling.
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Global conflict and personal loss encouraged our critic to seek out art that gave her a better understanding of grief and healing.
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The stars Leslie Odom Jr. and Kara Young and the director Kenny Leon discuss the revival, and why its satirical take on racism is still so timely.
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Our critic was haunted, in a good way, by the performances she saw in movies, theater and TV that offered glimpses into other worlds.
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Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II discuss their electrifying performances in the Broadway revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
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As she makes her Broadway directorial debut, she said her “vision is about seeing a deeper way into” what August Wilson intended with his Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
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The actress, nominated for a Tony Award for her magnetic performance in “Macbeth,” is drawn to female characters who challenge the status quo.
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The female protagonists in “Trouble in Mind,” “Caroline, or Change” and “Clyde’s” show the richness that comes from having a multitude of Black voices onstage.
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The “Pass Over” playwright’s bold decision to alter her play’s ending was essential, she said, to convey the message that “we as a people need to heal.”
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By staging Kathleen Collins’s rich psychological portraits of Black women, a theatrical group aims to enlighten, heal and inspire.
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Oscar-nominated performances this season put the emphasis on the trauma, not the artistry, of Billie Holiday and Ma Rainey. The most insightful movie might just be “Soul.”
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The actress-turned-director of “One Night in Miami” explains why she sees the fact-based drama about a meeting of four icons as a companion piece to “Watchmen.”
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020
A playwright, a director, an artistic director and an actor share their experiences — and prescriptions for change.
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Our writers suggest works that illuminate and tackle issues of police brutality, social injustice and racial inequity.
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How do you turn a magazine article about air travel and race relations into theater? For “Help,” Rankine’s new play, she started with a pile of letters.
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The creator of “A Soldier’s Play” has largely written for black theaters. But now he has the chance to remind the biggest audiences: African-Americans served, too.
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Why Anna Deavere Smith handed Michael Benjamin Washington a revival of her breakthrough 1992 documentary solo show about the Crown Heights race riot.
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How does who you are affect how you see this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama? Two critics finally have the talk.
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The bio-play “Twisted Melodies” aims to remind us of his timeless musicianship and unsettling personal struggles.
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The new documentary “Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” explores a more complex and complicated playwright than the civil rights figure known to most people.
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