Monday, October 21, 2019
Sylvia Khoury’s insidiously sharp new play arrives as the eight-year-old conflict is making fresh headlines in the United States.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMGerard Alessandrini’s franchise was looking as long in the tooth as the shows it aimed to skewer. A new edition brings it back to hilarious life.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMA television mainstay, he was also a playwright. His best-known play, “Norman, Is That You?,” flopped on Broadway but went on to international success.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMSunday, October 20, 2019
This jubilant production, choreographed by Annie-B Parson, transforms an icon of alienation into a cosmically cozy senior statesman.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:48PMThe “Arrested Development” actress made quite the New York stage debut, repeating one fiery scene opposite about 100 different actors in “The Second Woman.”
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMFriday, October 18, 2019
Focusing on the entertainer’s early years, this Paper Mill Playhouse musical offers buoyant tap numbers but sidesteps the material’s most troubling implications.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMThe singer headlines Tidal’s benefit concert in Brooklyn; and the Museum of Modern Art debuts its larger, more diverse collection.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMWhether it’s finishing what Jane Austen started, imagining the private conversations of first ladies or inserting the personal, on London stages female playwrights are mixing things up.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:33AMThursday, October 17, 2019
Michael Mayer’s revitalizing revival of this genially gruesome classic becomes a sly morality tale for the age of universal celebrity.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMWith recovery no longer so secret, a new wave of plays dealing with its realities has started to emerge. Some of the playwrights have drawn from their own lives.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMWednesday, October 16, 2019
In a work opening with a goat tethered to a cinder block, the closest we get to Tchaikovsky’s ballet is four dancers representing swans.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMTim Sanford, the longtime artistic director at the prestigious Off Broadway theater, will turn over the reins to his deputy, Adam Greenfield.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMAsia Kate Dillon of “Billions” is calling on the Television Academy to scrap gendered categories. But the organization and others have no plans for change, for now.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMThe legendary stage actress’s character was shaped as much by the roles she lost as those she won. These are some of the ones that got away.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMThe 1993 comedy has a Broadway-friendly family plot, but filling one of Robin Williams’s most memorable roles could be risky.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Trip Cullman’s unmoored production of this atypical comedy from Tennessee Williams presents sexual attraction as a raging force of nature.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:54PMIn Michael Keegan-Dolan’s reimagining at the Next Wave Festival, there are no tutus, Tchaikovsky or castles.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:24PMThe Broadway and TV star’s decorating style? Art Deco meets Hollywood Regency, with a bit of the 1960s thrown in.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMMonday, October 14, 2019
The actor, best known for “Company” and “Law & Order,” cooks, chops and sautés onstage as a finicky chef in Theresa Rebeck’s play.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMTheaterWorksUSA has brought a best-selling children’s book series to the stage in a bubbly, puppet-filled musical.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMIn Sean Daniels’s grim autobiographical comedy, a charming stage director tries, and tries again, to sober up.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMSunday, October 13, 2019
Intimate but distant by design, Andy Bragen’s play takes us on a journey many are likely to face with an aging parent.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 08:42PMWill Arbery has brought the “secretive” world of Catholic intellectuals to the stage in “Heroes of the Fourth Turning.” He’s pleased to find that they appreciate being seen, not ju…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:33PMThis head-tripping play from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, inspired by Euripides’ “The Bacchae,” allows women past and present to find catharsis in one truly wild bash.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMFriday, October 11, 2019
She bantered with John Lennon in “A Hard Day’s Night” and won a Tony for playing four women in “Stop the World — I Want to Get Off.”
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMThe Nubians of ancient Sudan left behind artwork as fine as the Egyptians’. Now it’s on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMThirty Colorado inmates staged “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” for nearby prisons. For some, it was the first time in years they were outside 20-foot walls and razor fences.
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