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On the farm with Isabella Rossellini, as she readies a streaming theater piece with cameos from her animal friends.
Enjoy a reading from Marilynne Robinson's new book, attend the opening night of a film fest and take the kids on a virtual tour of a museum for musical instruments.
A starry selection of scenes from Tony Kushner's 1993 classic discovers premonitions of another pandemic in the AIDS-era play.
"The Music Man" and other shows will have to plan new opening dates, as a new reality sets in: Many theaters are likely to stay shut through next fall.
Radha Blank's film is an intimate, epic reckoning with age, ambition and everything else.
He was involved with the Brooklyn Philharmonic for many years and performed both on Broadway and off. He died of the novel coronavirus.
"The Guermantes Way" at the Comédie-Française sets contemporary concerns aside to carve out a place in the theater's repertory.
Radha Blank spent years trying to impress the theater world. Now, her Sundance hit, "The Forty-Year-Old Version," is proof that dreams don't expire.
When the virus forced New York theater to go dark, it upended thousands of lives, from actors to ticket takers. An anatomy of one production.
Three producers " in New York, Washington and Toronto " aim to offer the show, "Blindness," for socially distanced, masked audience members.
Two dozen shielded performers, including Bernadette Peters and Andrew Rannells, surprised passers-by with a rendition of Stephen Sondheim's "Sunday."
At issue: Who should represent performers and stage managers when theater is recorded and streamed, one of the few viable options during the pandemic.
One night only: "This is Our Youth," "Uncle Vanya," two Mamet plays, and more. With casts that include Morgan Freeman, Laurie Metcalf and Lucas Hedges.
New Brunswick takes pride in its cultural offerings, including the Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts, George Street Playhouse, the Crossroads Theatre Company and the American…
Plus: A marquee cast tackles a Kenneth Lonergan play, and Glenn Close, Beanie Feldstein, Audra McDonald and Melissa Errico go digital.
In a few minutes or a full show, these performers capture heartbreak, fury and laughs. For the words of Samuel Beckett, a disembodied mouth did the trick.
Self-aware, self-conscious or self-deluding, it's a form as old as theater itself. And it's flourishing in a time of social isolation.
After three decades, the noted experimental New York theater company will stop producing shows in 2022.
The setting is stylish, and some tricks are nifty. But this Zoom show, which encourages audience involvement, is more scattershot than inspired.
He's been in the theater world for decades, but painting, he says, has taught him a new way of seeing.
Who gets to stay? The digital adaptation of a 2018 satire asks the playgoing audience to weigh in from home.
The MacArthur fellowships are awarded for "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits." Below are this year's fellows.
The writer N. K. Jemisin and the playwright Larissa FastHorse are among the fellows recognized for their "exceptional creativity" with a no-strings-attached grant of $625,000.
This week, dive into the British Museum's artifact collection, make art out of leftover veggies and revisit the myth of the Loch Ness monster.
Coronavirus travel restrictions don't prevent the mentalist from visiting your head in this hourlong online show.
