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5 Things to Do This Weekend
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.
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With ‘Dramazon Prime,’ Streamed Theater Goes Head-to-Head With TV
A German playhouse realizes it’s no longer competing merely against other local venues for audience attention.
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Karen Olivo Won’t Return to ‘Moulin Rouge!’
Citing recent reports of abusive behavior, including by the powerful producer Scott Rudin, the actress said advocacy mattered more than a lucrative role.
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The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Soyica Diggs Colbert’s “Radical Vision” situates the playwright of “A Raisin in the Sun” as a writer who offered “a road map to negotiate Black suffering in the past and present.”
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Review: Close Quarters and Distant Love in ‘The Last Five Years’
Casting Black actors and filming in a claustrophobic New York apartment revitalizes Jason Robert Brown’s popular two-character musical.
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Miami Outdoor Theater Hit Announces a New York Arrival
“The Seven Deadly Sins,” a theatrical anthology series, will start off on June 23 at a series of storefront windows in the Meatpacking District.
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Theater to Stream: ‘Assassins’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Highlights include a virtual production of Adam Rapp’s “The Sound Inside” and a new reading series by Roundabout Theater Company.
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Put Down Your Book. It’s Time to Act Out.
With playhouses closed, theater fans have taken drama into their own hands and mouths, forming play reading groups online and off.
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25 Free Performances Come to Bryant Park Starting in June
The park will host events for live audiences of 200 with institutions including the New York Philharmonic, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub and the Classical Theater of Harlem.
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Review: A Perfect Storm of Weather and Racism in ‘shadow/land’
Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s play about Black women struggling to survive Hurricane Katrina gets an ear-tingling podcast production.
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Edinburgh Festivals Will Go Ahead, in Person and Online
The Edinburgh International Festival, canceled last year, said it would proceed in August thanks to three specially built pavilions.
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Jeremy O. Harris's Grad School Reunion
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Things To Do At Home
This week, spend story time with the National Postal Museum, listen to a lecture from the artist Lorraine O’Grady or take a Syrian cooking class.
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Paul Ritter, British Stage, Film and TV Actor, Dies at 54
A familiar face to British theatergoers, he was also well known for his role as an eccentric father on the popular sitcom “Friday Night Dinner.”
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‘Only Child’ Review: A Magnetic Performer Without a Story to Match
The autobiographical solo show from Daniel J. Watts shows off his skill with spoken word and dance, but doesn’t add up to more than the sum of its parts.
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Williamstown Festival Will Take the Shows Outside
After a lost live 2020, the theater will stage a musical at a museum’s reflecting pool and an immersive show, all over town, based on real events.
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5 Things to Do This Weekend
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.
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Poems! Songs! Demands! It’s Not Theater, but It’s … Something
Performing-arts protesters locked out by the pandemic have occupied playhouses across France, but drama is not allowed. Cue the “agoras.”
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Erika Dickerson-Despenza Wins Blackburn Prize for ‘cullud wattah’
The play is about the effect of the Flint, Mich., water crisis on three generations of women.
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At 91, John Cullum Is Ready to Try Something New
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.
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