NYT Theater
When Monsters Make the Best Husbands
“Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk and the Sheep Have All Jumped the Fences” and “Heaven,” two plays in Origin’s 1st Irish Festival, offer two very different views of marriage.
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Review: ‘Not About Me’ Remembers Decades Shrouded by AIDS
Eduardo Machado’s autofictional play follows the playwright’s alter ego as he navigates gay life in the 1980s and ’90s.
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Review: A Far-From-Revolutionary ‘Danton’s Death’
A passé take on Georg Büchner’s 1835 play about the French Revolution leans into the worst instincts of the Comédie-Française, our critic writes.
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How Do You Measure a Season on Broadway? In Cast Albums.
From “A Strange Loop” to “Funny Girl,” most Broadway musicals of 2022 were recorded, offering listeners a chance to love or hate them again.
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Edie Landau, Film Producer Ahead of Her Time, Dies at 95
She and her husband invented a model for faithfully adapting acclaimed literature, illuminating an alternate path for independent cinema.
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At Under the Radar, Family Histories Bubble Up With No Easy Answers
The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a second selection of the works on display.
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When Black Characters Double-Deal to Make Ends Meet, It’s Never Enough
In three Broadway plays this season, a quest for financial stability can’t undo the trauma of the past or dismantle the architecture that places a ceiling on Black futures.
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Book Review: ‘Roald Dahl, Teller of the Unexpected’ by Matthew Dennison
“Teller of the Unexpected,” an elegant new biography, sidesteps the ugly side of the children’s book author while capturing his grandiose, tragedy-specked life.
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What’s Next for the Great Gay Play? Everything.
In recent shows, ideas of gayness are expanding, combining and disappearing all at once.
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As ‘A Strange Loop’ Ends, Its Creator Looks Back on a ‘Supernova’
Michael R. Jackson discussed his Pulitzer and Tony-winning musical, which closed Sunday after a nine-month Broadway run.
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At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers
The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display.
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Paul Mescal in a Streetcar Named Desire
In London, the Irish actor stars as Stanley Kowalski in a deeply empathic version of Tennessee Williams’s 1947 play, “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
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5 Broadway Veterans on Race and Representation in Theater Design
“Theater traffics in unconscious symbolism.” Set designers, lighting designers and a sound designer talk about skin tones, aesthetics and more.
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Frigid Fringe Festival Is ‘Uncensored’ No More After Pulling a Work About Gender
The Frigid Fringe Festival in New York said it would no longer bill itself as “uncensored” after deciding not to move ahead with a performance it deemed anti-trans.
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Shakespeare in the Park Will Stage ‘Hamlet’ This Summer
Ato Blankson-Wood will star as the aggrieved prince in a modern-dress production directed by Kenny Leon.
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‘Here Lies Love,’ an Imelda Marcos Disco Musical, Will Play Broadway
The immersive dance show, with music by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, will arrive this summer after a decade of productions Off Broadway and in London and Seattle.
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The Shed Changes Leadership Structure
In the face of financial challenges, the arts institution is making adjustments: Alex Poots, its founding artistic director and chief executive, will now just focus on being artistic director.
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Barry Grove to Depart Manhattan Theater Club After 48 Years
During his tenure, the nonprofit supported works that have gone on to earn seven Pulitzer Prizes and nearly 30 Tony Awards.
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A Paris Cabaret Makes Way for ‘Cabaret’
The 1966 American musical has opened at a venue that for decades hosted one of the city’s most famous revue troupes.
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How These Sign Language Experts Are Bringing More Diversity to Theater
As productions increasingly include characters and perspectives from a variety of backgrounds, deaf and hearing people who translate the shows for deaf audiences are trying to keep up.
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