At Theaters, Push for Racial Equity Leads to Resignations and Restructuring
"It takes a lot of work and humility, and it requires that white people step aside," says one of several artistic leaders who have done just that.
"It takes a lot of work and humility, and it requires that white people step aside," says one of several artistic leaders who have done just that.
Toppling arches, swarming mosquitoes and celebrity encounters are among the singular summer sensations readers can still recall.
Staying creative in lockdown means setting the scene for a cat, a baby and a garden. Plus an Instagram account that makes Mom and Dad into art stars.
The musical comedy will be livestreamed from England, with a quarantined cast and tickets aiding more than 30 global venues.
This streaming piece by Abigail and Shaun Bengson translates the agonies and ecstasies of lockdown into a cosmic hootenanny at his folks' house.
Two critics square off to determine how well this body slam of a comedy, about stereotypes and storytelling, made it to the very small screen.
He worked with Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley, wrote the theme music to many familiar series and accompanied Nichols and May and Bea Arthur on Broadway.
Pairing Molière and Millay for a socially distanced audience, Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey offers light entertainment just when we need it.
For the first time in its 73-year history, the hugely influential festival is canceled. Devoted fans and theater makers are finding ways to keep the spirit alive.
Only 50 audience members apiece will be allowed to attend tent performances of "Godspell" and "Harry Clarke" in the Berkshires.
This month, watch Ming Peiffer's play about the women's suffrage movement and a virtual reading that reunites Ed Harris and Bill Pullman.
How can you get your cultural fix when many arts institutions remain closed? Our writers offer suggestions for what to listen to and watch.
The Donmar Warehouse is the first major playhouse in the city to reopen, with a socially distanced sound installation.
Through articles, a book, a play and more, a Times special project commemorating the ratification of the 19th Amendment focuses on lesser-known women who were crucial to the fight.
The pandemic has darkened theaters around the country. So this summer, some are staging scenes in parks and fields for small groups of masked patrons.
The show will be recorded in the empty Broadway theater where it had been playing in previews, and still plans to open in May 2021.
A Seeing Place Theater production and a Play-PerView reunion reading by the 2007 Cherry Lane Theater cast bring out different aspects of Amiri Baraka's famous play.
Immersive productions " from a wizardly treasure hunt to tall tales by phone or email " keep a young audience both entertained and active.
A collection of short solo works from the Weston Playhouse furthers the redefinition of theater online " and of life in isolation.
The Berkshire Theater Group put on the first professional musical in the U.S. since the pandemic lockdown, and it's a revival in every sense.
He played Hamlet, the wizard Gandalf and Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof." But he was probably best known for "Kiss of the Spider Woman."
At issue: payment for media buying and marketing strategy for the Broadway revivals of "West Side Story" and "The Music Man."
Sifting evidence and debating whodunit with strangers turns out to be an especially successful way for theater to be enjoyed from a laptop.
With broad winks to Agatha Christie and the limitations of remote theater, a serialized song-and-dance mystery goes on. Well, not so much dance.
A new documentary looks at the prodigious talent of Howard Ashman, one half of the musical team behind "The Little Mermaid" and others, before he died of AIDS at 40.