
This poignant, comic puppet play, by Dorothy James and Andy Manjuck, is as much about the ingenuity of the mind as it is about loneliness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PM[SHARE]Fuzzy puppet sheep. A light cutting through the haze. Hand-designed dreamscapes. There's plenty to savor in the slow return of pixel-free theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AM[SHARE]Mike Daisey takes sluggish aim at juicy targets: the disgraced Broadway producer Scott Rudin and the New York governor, Andrew M. Cuomo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PM[SHARE]The Tony-winning musical theater actor and TV star planned to debut a cabaret show in 2019. Illness hit, then the pandemic. But he hasn't been stopped.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32AM[SHARE]Lupita Nyong'o and Juan Castano star in a podcast adaptation that delivers the poetry " in Spanish and English " but not the fire.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PM[SHARE]Two critics, hungry for live performance, weigh whether they're ready to take a health risk for "Blindness," which opens in New York next month.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PM[SHARE]During the pandemic, writers and actors have taken on an "adrenalizing" challenge: creating video monologues, more than 400 so far, in 24 hours.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AM[SHARE]A critic writes a plea to the film and TV stars who got their starts in the theater and can do more to aid its rescue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06AM[SHARE]Adaptations of "Happy Days" and "First Love," works by the master of existential wheel-spinning, show us how to live in place.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24PM[SHARE]Bill Camp stars in JoAnne Akalaitis's creepy, funny streaming production of this Samuel Beckett short story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PM[SHARE]Samuel L. Jackson, David Alan Grier, Phylicia Rashad and others remember the Negro Ensemble Company founder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PM[SHARE]Recorded on a Houston stage, "The Book of Magdalene" is theatrically intimate, while "Hotel Good Luck" gets caught up in digital trickery.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PM[SHARE]The man was taciturn, but his Theater District restaurants were like Broadway clubhouses. Even the posters of flops were placed with affection.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PM[SHARE]Two short films that find pandemic-sidelined performers grappling with Beckett are a highlight of the annual Exponential Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PM[SHARE]Mark O'Rowe's intricate, beautifully acted play begs for debate. To start: Why don't its protagonists have full lives of their own?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AM[SHARE]The excellent program of short audioplays commissioned for "Under the Albert Clock" imagines the world in 2050.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PM[SHARE]As artists saw liberties threatened and inequities exacerbated, the stage became more thrillingly urgent than it had been in decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PM[SHARE]With a history of the Thornton Wilder classic coming soon, we talk with performers who found personal inspiration in the play's beating heart.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AM[SHARE]One of the founders of Mabou Mines, he reveled in being an outsider even when his celebrated "The Gospel at Colonus" reached Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:36PM[SHARE]A big-box store, a hotel for transgender women and a dinner party gone awry are some of the places your ears will take you to.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PM[SHARE]Tom DeTrinis's solo show is full of rage, but in a way that's bizarrely out of touch with this overwhelmingly disastrous year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PM[SHARE]With their field rocked by unprecedented challenges in 2020, these people and groups " some notable, some new " stepped into the breach.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AM[SHARE]A son in New York and a father in the West Bank prepare a favorite family recipe. Longing and resentment are in the mix, too.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32AM[SHARE]How do you like your celebration? Taylor Mac gives it to you dazzling and arch, while "Meet Me in St. Louis" is a nostalgic comfort.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:06PM[SHARE]The joy of "A Christmas Carol" isn't merely the story; it's the ritual of communion and reflection with family and fans. This year that's not possible.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PM[SHARE]Charming performers, elegant design and a smart video capture bring a bittersweet chamber play about the artist and his wife to the screen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36PM[SHARE]It wasn't the year for celebration. But watching innovation flourish inspired our chief critic, while other writers found the joys of the stage in other media.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AM[SHARE]The life of Emilia Bassano Lanier is interwoven with Shakespeare's in a boisterous British comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PM[SHARE]Connection or isolation? Intensity or escape? This spate of shows that put the watcher to work are rewarding, but often in contrasting ways.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PM[SHARE]Social distance has left us rusty when it comes to connecting with strangers. The latest piece by 600 Highwaymen aims to help us practice " starting with a call.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AM[SHARE]With a marquee creative team, this romantic musical should have been a sure bet. One great song survived the out-of-town turmoil.
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