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When the Delta variant came to town, the Broadway stars, drag queens and comics were performing indoors again and the iffy summer of 2020 was just a memory.
The Broadway revival received federal aid through the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program. But the show decided not to reopen, and said it would return the money.
Theater and agriculture intersect at Willow Wisp Organic Farm, where an arts collective performs site-specific plays about climate change amid the greenhouses and flower beds.
Luigi Nono's furiously political and prophetic "Intolleranza 1960" arrives at the Salzburg Festival.
Opening with five days of in-person performances, the International Puppet Fringe Festival NYC also includes streaming productions and an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.
Jocelyn Bioh reshapes a comedy of clever women, frail men and harsh revenge into one of love and forgiveness, just when New York needs it.
A strong ensemble, music and movement round out the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's last production in its longtime home at Boscobel House and Gardens.
The reimagined revival was closed by the pandemic, and then its lead producer, Scott Rudin, said he would step back from active participation in his shows after being accused of bullying.
Having revamped "Oklahoma!" into a dark X-ray of itself, Daniel Fish rethinks another Golden Age classic with "Most Happy in Concert."
Quick and daring with New York City Ballet, she was a favorite of its leader, who would throw her into a role sometimes with barely a rehearsal.
The playwright Antoinette Nwandu is making her Broadway debut with "Pass Over" " and trying to change long-held precedents in the process.
He more or less stumbled into a career as an actor, but it proved to be a long and prolific one, on film, on television and especially on the stage.
"We made these musicals to get people who don't go to musicals go to musicals," said a creator of the Off Broadway "Friends" and "The Office" parodies. "They're a gateway drug."
As England's theaters welcome capacity audiences again, Ian McKellen is back in a role he first played a half-century ago.
Don't expect bowler hats and dirty negligees in a new production at the Berliner Ensemble, the theater Bertolt Brecht founded.
The play is the first staged on Broadway since the pandemic-prompted shutdown, and is one of seven by Black writers planned this season.
At Jacob's Pillow, with all shows outdoors, a new uncontrollable element emerged: weather. That's where Paul Caiano comes in.
Other highlights include a project by Lisa Loeb, Dominique Morisseau's "Detroit '67" and a new production of "South Pacific."
Namir Smallwood and Jon Michael Hill talk about returning to the roles of two men trapped by existential dread and what it means to land on Broadway.
Silver mining may have disappeared, but Creede Repertory Theater has been an economic and cultural boon to its community for 50 years.
Shanta Thake, a theater executive, faces challenges that include helping the center embrace new genres and attract virus-wary audiences.
New York Stage and Film provides an unlikely haven for inquiring writers of new plays and musicals.
Highlights include a photography exhibition on female leaders in public housing and a contemporary play about the life of Mary Shelley, the author of "Frankenstein."
"I have the energy, I have the interest," says Blanka Zizka of the Wilma Theater. "But I need to go a different way."
After more than two decades in New Mexico, the actress and director is back on the East Coast, with new digs and a renewed focus on the theater.
