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Our top theater picks for summer 2021, full of wicked performances from 'Whore's Eye View' to 'Tiny House.'
This American Wife sets out to be an avant-garde, haute-camp allegory of seduction, corruption, and betrayal that conspicuously consumes itself.
The National Theatre's 'Romeo and Juliet' focuses refreshingly more on the angst of these star-crossed lovers than the heat.
Given that the event is automated except for ushers and operators, you're effectively both spectator and live performer.
Unfolding in 90 minutes of hospital visits, "Men's Health" is sort of "Pygmalion" with its pants off.
Domestic pain and culinary craft combine to quietly wrenching effect in 'This Is Who I Am,' a Zoom drama by Amir Nizar Zuabi streaming at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
Performing an abridged but faithful version of 'A Christmas Carol,' Jefferson Mays keeps this holiday tradition alive for streaming audiences.
Playwright Adrienne Kennedy gets a long overdue major retrospective, streaming online courtesy of the Round House Theatre and McCarter Theatre Center.
Surrounded by few set pieces and zany couture, Irwin draws on decades of performance genius to present his memoir-ish review 'On Beckett,' transformed for the streaming age.
One a three-hour epic play, Anne Washburn's 'Shipwreck' has been turned into three-part audio drama produced by the Public Theater.
Heidi Schreck's fiercely urgent and soul-restoring play 'What the Constitution Means to Me' retains all the impact it had on Broadway in its shift to streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
Michael Sheen stars as a drunk, self-exiled Irishman who claims to have the gift of curing maladies in the Old Vic's excellent streamed production of 'Faith Healer.
A new production of Madhuri Shekar's 'Love and Warcraft' exploits the limitations of Zoom to bring new meaning to this work about intimacy found through a computer screen.
From Molière in the Park's 'The School for Wives' to the experimental work 'Cannabis! A Theatrical Concert,' there's plenty for theater lovers to steam this fall.
Voila: live theater thriving online.
Despite the insane popularity of the brand, delivering an equally great small-screen 'Hamilton' was never a slam dunk.
Fake piety and the stupidity of the rich prove to be as resonant topics now as they where when Molière wrote 'Tartuffe' in 1664.
Audra McDonald, Tituss Burgess and LaChanze are among the celebrity presenters slated to appear at the Antonyo Awards, which kicks off its first edition via a livestream.
'This House,' now streaming via the National Theatre, chronicles the triumphs and failures of the Labor party's time in power from 1974 to 1977, as they struggled to keep the soon-to-be That…
The loss of incubators for emerging stage talent will be devastating if Off-Off Broadway venues can't be saved.
In this dazzling one-person show, Simon McBurney tells a series of nested stories about a wild ride into the depths of the Amazon.
When the text is as good as in Brian Friel's 'Molly Sweeney,' even actors emoting at their computer screens with blank backdrops can be engaging viewing.
Playwright Richard Nelson shows how a thoughtful script and superb actors can make for an hour of online drama that is touching, funny, and deeply satisfying in 'What Do We Need to Talk Abou…
Get comfortable, turn off the lights, use headphones and give the screen the same attention you would 'the real thing.'
After you've finished streaming some favorite musicals or plays from the comfort of your home, consider these ways of supporting out-of-work actors and theaters that have been forced to clos…
