1,308 stories by "Alexis Soloski"
With theaters and nightclubs closed, magicians have pivoted to remote performance. Can your screen be a place of enchantment?
All the world with an internet connection has suddenly become a stage. A lot of those stages have programmed Shakespeare.
With theaters shuttered, a host of audio dramas and musicals have popped up, and actors are honing a skill: creating characters with just their voices.
We continue our cast album series with more recommendations for wonderful musicals to listen to at home.
How does a two-and-a-half-hour show become a half-hour online event? Deliberately, haltingly, and with a few technical glitches.
Richard Nelson's new play, "What Do We Need to Talk About?" will be performed online, but live, restoring some of theater's ephemerality.
Hillary Bettis's immigration drama 72 Miles to Go … was one of many off-Broadway shows that didn't make it to the stage after the Covid-19 outbreak, leaving the playwright 'heartbroken'
On…
With real theaters closed, our critic unlocked handcuffs, tried to land a plane and accidentally scalded herself, all while attempting immersive performances from her Brooklyn apartment.
An accomplished group of creatives have turned a musical into a new podcast at a time when theater fans need it the most
"Nothing can replace the thrill of a great musical live on stage," th…
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's solo stage show comes to Amazon to raise money for the arts and health care charities.
These nine playwrights spent years dreaming up cataclysms and plagues. Did that prepare them for the current crisis? Sometimes.
A critic disguised as an actress who is also a suspect in the death of the Great Merlini. Her team didn't use "Cats" to break the case, though.
A host of big names, including Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sarah Jessica Parker, took part in a self-congratulatory yet oddly charming YouTube-based revue
On Sunday night, Rosie O'Donnell hosted …
From the bubonic plague to the AIDS crisis, theater and public health have a long history of shaping each other, our critic writes.
Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York
A flashy, concert-style musical offers some virtuosic performances but also a rather shallow take on female empowerment
The ladies are making it reign. In h…
Belasco Theater, New York
The acclaimed playwright has used the songbook of Bob Dylan to create an overstuffed yet often transcendent 30s-set Broadway show
Overstuffed, often hollow, and for…
The stage adaptation of Rex Pickett's novel about two friends on a last-hurrah wine tour preserves the white male wish fulfillment of the original.
C.A. Johnson's play stars Kara Young in a full-body, whole-heart, tensed-muscle performance.
Alice Birch's cleareyed and comfortless play follows three generations of women tethered to life by the thinnest possible filament.
Classic Stage Company is running adaptations of two 19th-century horror classics in repertory. Don't let that frighten you.
Songs have been dropped, dance routines booted out and the street-fights look nasty. This is a West Side Story for the Trump era, says the avant-garde superstar director
Ivo van Hove likes i…
Berkeley's Judith Butler is the star attraction in a stimulating if overlong performance piece by her fellow academic Alexandra Chasin.
The star of Jett and Sin City is back on stage in Alice Birch's raw Anatomy of a Suicide. She talks about the play's emotional toll, how she unwinds and American puritanism
Carla Gugino has …
The Mint Theater Company pairs stage adaptations of short stories by the 19th-century Russian authors. They mesh like mismatched matryoshka dolls.
"Unknown Soldier," one of the last projects the beloved composer and lyricist worked on before he died, is coming to New York.
