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Starting on Friday, theaters, comedy clubs and other arts venues can open at 33-percent capacity. The formula doesn't work for everyone.
With coronavirus restrictions easing in England, several venues have plans to give classic plays new life.
Two online business models see a future post-pandemic, but success might depend on cooperating with actual clubs.
She sought to move audiences with her lighting in shows like "The Threepenny Opera," "I'm Not Rappaport" and "Ain't Misbehavin'."
Among the offerings are a well-matched double bill, Ute Lemper's tribute to Marlene Dietrich and a virtual revival of Michel Legrand's musical "Amour."
Calvin Royal III, slated to be the 2020 artist in residence, will take up the mantle this year instead.
He was best known for writing the music for "The Connection," an Off Broadway play that depicted the lives of heroin-addicted musicians in New York.
"Limitations and boundaries have always focused me," Pam Tanowitz says from Australia. "I like rules, but also like to break them " and quarantine is a rule I can't break."
Fifty years ago, Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman exploded the Broadway "concept" musical by conjuring the bittersweet reunion of aging showgirls.
On a thrilling trip to New York, a 16-year-old budding critic learned that the insistent optimism of musical theater was a beautiful lie.
In the 50 years since the musical's debut, revivals and concerts have served its great songs to great stars. Who'd be our Broadway babies 25 years from now?
In "The Jackson C. Frank Listening Party w/ Special Guests," the musician is simultaneously central and peripheral to the story.
A stage adaptation is in the works for Broadway, the West End and Australia. The goal is a 2023 debut.
In an unprecedented move, a recording of the show will start streaming in October, while audiences can see it live (if theaters reopen) in December.
Their venues are closed and their stages are dark, but New York City's burlesque performers are itching for the return of feathers, tassels and harnesses.
It's easier to find meaning in fiction than in the senseless mass killings of our reality, which seem to render the critical perspective pointless, even silly, at times.
The Palais Garnier, which inspired the first "Phantom" in 1910, is silent at the moment, but it continues to hold the imagination.
Keli Goff's series of vignettes feature Black women recounting how their hair affected their school lives, relationships or careers.
The choreographer Madeline Hollander's "Flatwing," at the Whitney, considers a genetic mutation that silences some male crickets.
He was Miami City Ballet's resident choreographer before establishing his own company. He later returned to his native Peru to run the National Ballet. He died of Covid-19.
He was a star of the HBO series "Oz" under the name muMs, which he also used on the poetry circuit both before and after finding success on television.
Before this week's meltdown, ViacomCBS had actually been on a bit of a tear, rising nearly tenfold in the past 12 months.
In HBO Max's "Made for Love," the "Palm Springs" actress again dismantles romantic clichés. "I didn't get into this to be a handbag to a man's story," she said.
The Irish Repertory Theater is streaming poetry readings, and Playwrights Horizons and St. Ann's Warehouse are showcasing art dealing with race and injustice.
In a six-decade career, the Emmy Award-winning actress gained early fame with "Play Misty for Me" and found a new audience as Lucille Bluth, the matriarch of the dysfunctional family in "Arr…
