Tuesday, April 7, 2020
A rare show that retooled and flourished after its New York debut, the musical, a decade later, has endured in schools and through international productions.
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Monday, March 30, 2020
In committing to paying its people during a three-month shutdown, the theater gives itself breathing room to prepare for when it can open again.
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Thursday, March 12, 2020
What's a birthday celebration without tribute concerts, new commissions and revivals of three classics? Here's how to join the party, live.
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The hero of Joe DiPietro's new comic drama is Margaret Chase Smith, a U.S. senator who had the rare courage to stand up to McCarthyism.
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In Hilary Bettis's play, a family separated by deportation wants to live regular American lives but discovers how mercilessly difficult that is.
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Vivian Neuwirth's play is a fictionalized recollection of the life of the novelist John Kennedy Toole, who died before his Pulitzer-Prize winning classic "A Confederacy of Dunces" was publis…
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020
The writer Paula Vogel, the director Mark Brokaw, and the actors Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse on returning to a wrenching play two decades later.
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The feminist rallying cry inspired Chelsea Clinton's children's book about the likes of Harriet Tubman and Sally Ride. Now it's a cheerful stage adaptation.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Minnesota'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.
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James 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.
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This multimedia concert and career retrospective forgets that the best way to honor the composer is to have a good time with his music.
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In Sarah Einspanier's fever-dream play, one half of a couple heads to Hollywood. The other gets an odd, and oddly familiar, new roommate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PM[SHARE]Deirdre 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.
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Sunday, January 26, 2020
It's no surprise that this play about disillusionment, with its message of hope wrapped in warnings about nationalism and isolationism, was a choice for this season.
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Friday, January 17, 2020
The Public Theater's festival has included 12 featured offerings, four cabaret acts and six pieces of developmental work. Here's what our critics saw.
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Sunday, January 12, 2020
Set in Dublin during the run-up to Ireland's vote to repeal its abortion ban, this play by Eva O'Connor too easily pairs up two damaged souls.
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"Cartography," a multimedia work inspired by migrants' stories, presents their journeys as universal and heroic, not merely tales of suffering.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PM[SHARE]With powerfully contemporary stagings of "Betrayal" and "Cyrano," Jamie Lloyd has had an attention-grabbing year. That's not what makes him hard to miss.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2020
Steven Skybell was finally the right age for Tevye. Little did he know that when the time came, the show would be in Yiddish, and for a surprisingly long run that ended Sunday.
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