Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Presentations include a star-studded reading of "The Thanksgiving Play," musicals crossing the Atlantic and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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Sunday, February 28, 2021
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Anna Moench's play, about a woman working in social media content moderation, begins with dark humor but slides into psychological horror.
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Presentations include the 30th anniversary of George C. Wolfe's "The Colored Museum"; Andréa Burns in "Bad Dates"; and a solo show by Riz Ahmed.
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Patrick Page looks at bad guys, Steven Carl McCasland gives us literary women, and Jill Sobule mines her own history, including the dreaded seventh grade.
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Cleverly edited and darkly funny, the latest Theater in Quarantine show finds a nervous couple afraid to go out or let anyone in. Sound familiar?
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
The Pasadena Playhouse has a new tribute to Herman, the composer of "Hello, Dolly!," and Tomei turns up in "Beirut" and "Three Hotels."
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Friday, January 15, 2021
The shows have not been staged, but three concept albums are at the center of a sprawling fictional world created largely by teenagers.
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Three theaters are exploring "Swingin' the Dream," which tanked on Broadway in 1939, but opens a window on the racial and artistic dynamics of its time.
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The Under the Radar, Prototype and Exponential festivals are ready to open our minds with experimental work, even if their doors are shut.
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Be an #ArtsHero started with a failed effort to extend unemployment benefits. It's gone on to be a prime proponent of the message: Cultural work is labor.
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Plays by Mike Bartlett, Christina Anderson and Halley Feiffer are watchable at home, too. And for an alternative holiday hit, "Burning Bluebeard."
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Open-air shows. Joint productions. Filmed dress rehearsals. Here's a faraway close-up on how one theater community has stayed reasonably robust in adversity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PM[SHARE]Alan Cumming and Patti LuPone add their voices to this season's tidings, plus a gender-bending Scrooge and a live broadcast of "The Grinch Musical!"
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As Split Britches, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver have made off-kilter theater for 40 years. Memory loss, and a pandemic, haven't stopped their creating.
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Monday, November 9, 2020
With nods to Duchamp and Dada, this interactive production raises questions about fate, narrative convention and the process of making art.
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Watch a theater maker's story of becoming an elected official, Greek tragedies transposed to Chicano America and Daniel Kitson's tour of the ghostly empty theaters of Britain.
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Thursday, October 22, 2020
The timing could not be better for Heidi Schreck's affecting play about the Constitution's impact on our daily lives, now streaming on Amazon.
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New York cabaret houses beef up there digital offerings, and two theater adaptations of "Night of the Living Dead" arrive in time for Halloween.
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Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley's virtual play includes a YouTuber, an influencer and a meme machine. Sometimes total chaos ensues.
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Stars including Marisa Tomei, Billy Porter and Rosie O'Donnell dramatize the words of real-life nurses pushed to the brink by the pandemic.
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Plus: A marquee cast tackles a Kenneth Lonergan play, and Glenn Close, Beanie Feldstein, Audra McDonald and Melissa Errico go digital.
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Thursday, September 24, 2020
The interstellar adventure deftly mixes the lo-fi aesthetics of budget science fiction with dopey humor and experimental theater's sensibility.
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