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 Wed, 31 May 2023 13:20:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_Av7rspqc77gMb1naedg1wr Following a neurotic writer and a wealthy aesthete over four bumpy decades, “Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style” is a gay rom-com that tugs at the heart.]]> Wed, 31 May 2023 10:59:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_Av7rspqc77gMb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_AU16nv8Vzo2JVjH6qdYdAk He created sets for more than 50 of Broadway’s most celebrated productions, including “Hair,” “A Chorus Line,” “On the Twentieth Century” and “The Producers.”]]> Wed, 31 May 2023 01:49:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_AU16nv8Vzo2JVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_A6L7v41s_-WuT5HJgy6HUf Three new plays at theaters in Washington explore how the past is both erased and inescapable.]]> Tue, 30 May 2023 20:35:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_A6L7v41s_-WuT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_BxXq5LIYy6geT5HJgy6HUf With two Tony Award nominations in a single season, this prolific costume designer lets textiles tell the story.“A teacher of mine used art to try to get me to come out of my shell,” Emilio Sosa said. “She put a colored pencil in my hand, and I never let it go.”]]> Tue, 30 May 2023 19:17:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_BxXq5LIYy6geT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_B0_8KugUNruilmFkX7M1Jw The show plans to use recorded music instead of a live band, but a labor union says its contract for the theater requires musicians for musicals.Conrad Ricamora in the musical “Here Lies Love” during its run at the Public Theater in New York. Ricamora is returning to the Broadway production.]]> Tue, 30 May 2023 19:01:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_B0_8KugUNruilmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CUdSsqu17Jq8b1naedg1wr From LaGuardia High School to Broadway, this Tony Award-nominated star has traveled many miles on her journey to theater stardom.“I didn’t have many resources easily available and easily accessible but I would use what I had,” the actress Lorna Courtney said of working toward her goals.]]> Tue, 30 May 2023 10:55:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CUdSsqu17Jq8b1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_Ccb91b1IgxAsb1naedg1wr “Double Helix,” at Bay Street Theater, illuminates the British scientist’s contributions, which became the basis for James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 breakthrough.]]> Mon, 29 May 2023 21:15:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_Ccb91b1IgxAsb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_Dyuo0eMet0sezdsCmHakzH In her adaptation of Lorca, Diane Exavier emphasizes the importance of belonging to a place, and how painful it is to consign memories of it to the grave.]]> Fri, 26 May 2023 21:48:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_Dyuo0eMet0sezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DR-gHQ_rOa8-zdsCmHakzH A London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s partner-swapping musical is a camp amoral romp. But is this obsession really the same as romance?]]> Fri, 26 May 2023 17:55:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DR-gHQ_rOa8-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_D4q6MVM2IpmSlmFkX7M1Jw In Eboni Booth’s new play, William Jackson Harper performs with astonishing vulnerability as a man alone and adrift.Eric Berryman, left, and William Jackson Harper in the new play “Primary Trust” at Laura Pels Theater in Manhattan.]]> Fri, 26 May 2023 03:30:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_D4q6MVM2IpmSlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_BKRvkY22QoJHn9ye8UNv30 Audible Theater’s leader and the creator of “Sorry for Your Loss” hope the autobiographical comedy helps others learn to talk about grief.Kate Navin, the head of the audiobook company Audible’s theater division, with Michael Cruz Kayne at the Minetta Lane Theater.]]> Thu, 25 May 2023 21:53:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_BKRvkY22QoJHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CFCWq32y0ZQuT5HJgy6HUf A new production of Matthew Lopez’s seven-hour play was among 10 shows chosen for Theatertreffen, a celebration of the best theater from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.]]> Thu, 25 May 2023 15:53:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_CFCWq32y0ZQuT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_Bs2qPI6kdbKHn9ye8UNv30 Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks festival opener, written by ruth tang, rages against the machines and examines human alienation.Sagan Chen, left, as Jeff and b as Elon in the play “Work Hard Have Fun Make History” at the Wild Project.]]> Thu, 25 May 2023 01:29:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_Bs2qPI6kdbKHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_AcxN_x6zJqgXn9ye8UNv30 A family processes its bereavement in the midst of a demonic haunting in Keelay Gipson’s new play for Bushwick Starr.]]> Wed, 24 May 2023 19:52:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_AcxN_x6zJqgXn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_C6zFO2RAJ_2OT5HJgy6HUf The screenwriters’ strike threatened next month’s broadcast, a key marketing moment for the fragile theater industry. That’s when leading dramatists sprang into action.Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer-winning playwright of “Angels in America,” and Lisa Kron, the Tony-winning librettist and lyricist of “Fun Home,” are among many Broadway artists who also work in film and television and have joined picketing screenwriters in New York.]]> Tue, 23 May 2023 18:01:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_C6zFO2RAJ_2OT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_C6zFO2RAJ_2CejEQ2Mq9rY In roles in HBO’s “Succession” and “A Doll’s House” on Broadway, politics are never far from mind for the Iranian American actor.“If you show humanistic qualities,” Moayed said of playing unlikable characters, “you get a lot of people to look at it and be like, ‘Oh, I wonder if I do that.’”]]> Tue, 23 May 2023 17:33:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_C6zFO2RAJ_2CejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DRj3nvn9YXBZs0ohxaO6Yr Mira Nair’s 2001 movie about a couple brought together by their families becomes a song-filled pageant, with mixed results.Salena Qureshi, center, as Aditi, with cast members of the company St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.]]> Tue, 23 May 2023 12:36:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DRj3nvn9YXBZs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DUIC84ycrBr6CY3L745TL_ In this play by Guadalís Del Carmen, a couple’s shared heritage is integral to their meeting and the ups and downs of their daily relationship.]]> Tue, 23 May 2023 01:00:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_DUIC84ycrBr6CY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_BT1Yj1CcSREV1cWWor9YPv In this play by Guadalís Del Carmen, a couple’s shared heritage is integral to their meeting and the ups and downs of their daily relationship.]]> Tue, 23 May 2023 01:00:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_BT1Yj1CcSREV1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_D_0UdxUnoNEXn9ye8UNv30 The Children’s Theater Company production, based on the animated film, elevates the depiction of its characters’ religious and ethnic backgrounds.]]> Sun, 21 May 2023 20:32:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/VFKxVgFua_D_0UdxUnoNEXn9ye8UNv30