Thursday, February 20, 2020
Acclaimed in London, the two-part play about gay culture and the legacy of AIDS drew a chillier response in New York, where it is set.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 08:36PMIvo van Hove’s attention-splintering revival of the immortal 1957 musical features new choreography, a ravishing orchestra and smothering visual effects.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 08:36PMJerry Herman’s buoyant score is the highlight of this Encores! production about a troubled silent-movie-era romance.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMPeter Brook and Thomas Ostermeier are presenting unfinished shows in Paris, offering a rare chance to see how their productions come together.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMWednesday, February 19, 2020
Compelling revivals make “Endgame” (with Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe) and “Far Away” feel more unsettlingly relevant than ever.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMWhat is the proper punishment for #MeToo-era infractions? Demonstrators have been calling for Amar Ramasar’s removal from the cast because of his role in a photo-sharing scandal at City Ba…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMIn literature and pop culture, women often come in threes, deriving power from solidarity even as they work to forge their own paths.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Alice Birch’s cleareyed and comfortless play follows three generations of women tethered to life by the thinnest possible filament.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PMHer signature performances included the title role in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and Maria Callas in “Master Class.”
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 09:04PMA new documentary play at the Public Theater weaves together interviews from people whose lives were forever changed by the 2010 mining disaster in West Virginia.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMMinnesota’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.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMDonnetta Lavinia Grays is winningly uninhibited in her fable-like solo show about a community seduced by a mysterious benefactor.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PMThe show will open in the late fall at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in downtown Pittsburgh.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMMonday, February 17, 2020
Classic Stage Company is running adaptations of two 19th-century horror classics in repertory. Don’t let that frighten you.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:32PMAn immersive theater project in a dilapidated hotel aims to reanimate a Miami neighborhood’s past. It’s popular, but is it sanitizing gentrification?
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMSunday, February 16, 2020
“Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Story” will premiere at the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End next year.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 07:32PMThe theatrical concert has been a critical and commercial success. A film version by Spike Lee is also on the way.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMDrew Droege’s solo show is a laugh-out-loud funny social sendup, but it doesn’t add up to more than a series of vignettes.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMJames 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.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMFriday, February 14, 2020
Berkeley’s Judith Butler is the star attraction in a stimulating if overlong performance piece by her fellow academic Alexandra Chasin.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMThursday, February 13, 2020
An Illinois farm boy who came to New York to be a singer left an indelible mark on the Upper West Side co-op where he lived for more than six decades.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 07:32PMThis murky and tedious reworking of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s dark fable of love and lucre is illuminated by Lesley Manville’s dazzling star turn.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 07:32PMThis multimedia concert and career retrospective forgets that the best way to honor the composer is to have a good time with his music.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMAn avant-garde Berlin director has sold out a 2,000-seat venue that usually draws crowds with death-defying acrobatics or rousing musical numbers.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:33AMWednesday, February 12, 2020
In what he says will probably be his last work, a master playwright finds urgent lessons for the present in the past of a Viennese family.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMShe was one of the first black women to make the transition, propelled by the musical “Sweet Charity.” She also broke ground playing a black lesbian on TV.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMIn 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.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMThe former “Gilmore Girls” star and best-selling author shares what she watched, read and listened to in a week.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMThe Mint Theater Company pairs stage adaptations of short stories by the 19th-century Russian authors. They mesh like mismatched matryoshka dolls.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:33AMTuesday, February 11, 2020
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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