Follow New York Times - Theater, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/new-york-times-d-theater Mon, 04 Dec 2023 03:04:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_BxiurtcBYGXXn9ye8UNv30 What happened when four young theater actors performed for an older generation? “I was expecting to have the best show ever and that happened.”“The residents are more excited for this concert than anything we’ve ever publicly done,” the event’s organizer Evan Rossi said of the concert featuring, from left, Aria Kane, Corey J, Benjamin Pajak and Jillian Paige Platero.]]> Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:37:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_BxiurtcBYGXXn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_AmhdPPZcoJVpVjH6qdYdAk For our critic-at-large, the year was marked by the Black excellence of “Purlie Victorious,” the brutality of “Bottoms” and rage of “Beef.”]]> Sun, 03 Dec 2023 12:02:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_AmhdPPZcoJVpVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_AVpxQ7oQ5KTsb1naedg1wr Global conflict and personal loss encouraged our critic to seek out art that gave her a better understanding of grief and healing.]]> Sat, 02 Dec 2023 12:01:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_AVpxQ7oQ5KTsb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_AQ83-ondkUZOT5HJgy6HUf At Abrons Arts Center, a hilarious family show in the British holiday tradition that runs “like a steam train when it goes well.”“Sleeping Beauty” cast members at a recent rehearsal at Abrons Arts Center. This original new pantomime is scheduled to run from Dec. 2 to 24.]]> Fri, 01 Dec 2023 22:40:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_AQ83-ondkUZOT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_BRi-TjD_ZRJ6CY3L745TL_ Rébecca Chaillon’s “Carte Noire Named Desire” provoked harassment in France this summer, leading one actor to pull out of a new run in Paris.]]> Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:24:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_BRi-TjD_ZRJ6CY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DhXACSpQine6CY3L745TL_ Jen Silverman’s noir play considers the role of artists in the making of propaganda.In Jen Silverman’s “Spain,” at Second Stage Theater, Marin Ireland is fascinating to watch, our critic writes, delivering a typically incisive performance, here colored with a touch of period archness.]]> Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:00:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DhXACSpQine6CY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_BcrjDZ7bG1lXn9ye8UNv30 A stage adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s novel “Life & Times of Michael K,” about a man’s struggles during a fictional South African conflict, includes actors alongside a puppet version of Michael K.“We agreed that it would just be Michael, his mother, the children and the animals that would be puppets,” said the director Lara Foot. Here, the puppets are operated by, from left, Nolufefe Ntshuntshe, Roshina Ratnam and Andrew Buckland.]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:57:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_BcrjDZ7bG1lXn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DH9EHGdo2v7l1cWWor9YPv Her Tony-winning Broadway career included “Driving Miss Daisy,” “On Golden Pond” and “The Heiress.” On TV she had maternal roles on “Cheers” and “Sex and the City.”Frances Sternhagen in 2002. She appeared on hit television series and in two-dozen movies, but the stage was her first home.]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:32:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DH9EHGdo2v7l1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CFizoxN2N3AF1cWWor9YPv At 21, he already has two Broadway leads under his belt. On Thursdays, he sheds Marty McFly’s signature vest for a bowling shirt.Casey Likes is a boy-next-door type who has brought a mix of the extraordinary and perfectly ordinary to his roles in “Back to the Future: The Musical” and “Almost Famous.”]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:02:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CFizoxN2N3AF1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_A1kyTyqZMrXps0ohxaO6Yr A new musical from National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene stitches together music written and performed in Eastern Europe in the 1930s and ’40s.]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 19:44:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_A1kyTyqZMrXps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CDEextiftrmuT5HJgy6HUf The show, which toggles between the 17th century and the early 21st, arrives on the island on which it is largely set.“Probably every play of mine is critiquing a white system of power that has been forced on us,” the playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle said. “But also, it’s 2023, we’re all living in it now. So how are we responsible? How are we involved?”]]> Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:00:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CDEextiftrmuT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_AKOSGdf9PwlZVjH6qdYdAk After establishing herself as a teacher, she started a prolific screen acting career in her 50s that included roles in “Goodfellas” and “The Sopranos.”]]> Thu, 23 Nov 2023 20:04:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_AKOSGdf9PwlZVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DFhfVoggeN4ezdsCmHakzH He was a villain in “Lethal Weapon 2,” C.S. Lewis on TV in “Shadowlands” and Falstaff onstage in “Henry IV” — and had a cameo in a Pet Shop Boys video.Joss Ackland in 1985. “My quality is variation,” he said in 2006. “I’m a hit- and-run actor. I get to do a lot of villains, but that’s because I’m English.”]]> Thu, 23 Nov 2023 02:36:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DFhfVoggeN4ezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CfevVXW4fNQeT5HJgy6HUf Christmas classics, comedic musicals and a star-studded Sondheim revival: a guide to the shows to see this season.Big Apple Circus: A holiday season rite returns to Lincoln Center with aerialists, trapeze acts and four clowns, all of whom were legitimately funny.]]> Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:52:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CfevVXW4fNQeT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CcvLLHYEAZa-T5HJgy6HUf The best-selling album turned veteran Cuban musicians into global stars and inspired a documentary almost 30 years ago. Now it’s an Off Broadway musical.The “Buena Vista Social Club” creative team includes, from left, the choreographers Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck; the director Saheem Ali; and the writer Marco Ramirez. “We’re not following a template,” Ali said.]]> Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:01:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CcvLLHYEAZa-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CNJvlSua4R1SejEQ2Mq9rY Lameece Issaq’s “A Good Day to Me Not to You” strives for intimacy, but that is not necessarily the aim of works by Alexandra Tatarsky, Milo Cramer and Ikechukwu Ufomadu.]]> Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:18:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CNJvlSua4R1SejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DvwURMM8PEWiejEQ2Mq9rY Michael John LaChiusa’s beautifully sung tribute to sisterly admiration, starring Priscilla Lopez, was inspired by the early life of the show’s director, Graciela Daniele.From left: Eden Espinosa, Mary Testa, Priscilla Lopez, Kayln West and Andrea Burns in “The Gardens of Anuncia” at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.]]> Tue, 21 Nov 2023 04:04:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DvwURMM8PEWiejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CksyEc1_sWG5VjH6qdYdAk Deepali Gupta offers a meandering and muddled take on the trial of Rajat Gupta, a former head of McKinsey & Company.]]> Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:10:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CksyEc1_sWG5VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_C480F5XJs9Rl1cWWor9YPv Two creative people in two different fields in one wide-ranging conversation. This time: the actress and the comedian.]]> Mon, 20 Nov 2023 12:01:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_C480F5XJs9Rl1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_B0yBZS89-f85s0ohxaO6Yr A promising Off Broadway jukebox musical features hits by the R&B star (including “Fallin’,” “If I Ain’t Got You” and “No One”) and a story much like her own.Maleah Joi Moon, center, as Ali, singing Alicia Keys’s “Empire State of Mind” in the musical “Hell’s Kitchen” at the Public Theater in Manhattan.]]> Mon, 20 Nov 2023 04:30:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_B0yBZS89-f85s0ohxaO6Yr