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City Center to Honor Michael Friedman by Joshua Barone

The theater's Off-Center series, which Mr. Friedman led until his death last year, will stage his 2003 musical "Gone Missing" in July.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 3:44pm on January 12, 2018☆⚑

For Lorraine Hansberry, 'A Raisin in the Sun' Was Just the Start by Salamishah Tillet

The new documentary "Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart" explores a more complex and complicated playwright than the civil rights figure known to most people.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:43pm on January 12, 2018☆⚑

Review: Who Am I? 'Panorama' Says There Is No Easy Answer by Ben Brantley

In this multimedia, multidimensional performance piece, the boundaries of race, gender and ethnicity blur into a shifting pageant of identity.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:20pm on January 12, 2018☆⚑

Critic's Notebook: How to Listen to Rock 'n' Roll in a Theater by Elisabeth Vincentelli

Rock is underexplored onstage, but two Under the Radar shows, "How to Be a Rock Critic" and "The Hendrix Project," grapple with its transformative power.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 1:49pm on January 12, 2018☆⚑

Darren Criss Plays the Happy-Go-Lucky Killer in the Versace TV Drama by Michael Schulman

He acts, he sings, he dances. And in his latest role, the 30-year-old, who shot to fame with "Glee," is the serial killer who murdered Gianni Versace.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:58am on January 12, 2018☆⚑

The Women Running London's Donmar Warehouse Are Leaving

"[Josie] Rourke will step down in 2019, after eight years as the Donmar's artistic director, and [Kate] Pakenham, the executive producer, will leave this June. The pair made up the first fem…

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 8:01am on January 12, 2018☆⚑

Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow's 'Stories by Heart' by Jesse Green

In a touching tribute to his father and the tradition of reading aloud, Mr. Lithgow recites two classic tales of deception and comeuppance.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 9:45pm on January 11, 2018☆⚑

5 Shows to See if You're in New York in January by Ben Brantley

For the new year, productions that aim to shake up your senses and challenge your assumptions. Plus: '80s jargon and hair.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 3:30pm on January 11, 2018☆⚑

Three Journeys Under the Radar: Trippy, Unsettling and Affectionate

Audiences at the Public Theater's festival of experimental theater can hallucinate, watch a Cuban "Antigone" or get nostalgic with a New Yorker writer.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 3:14pm on January 11, 2018☆⚑

Josie Rourke and Kate Pakenham to Depart London's Donmar Warehouse by Anna Codrea-rado

Ms. Rourke, the artistic director, will leave in 2019 and Ms. Pakenham, the executive producer, will leave in June.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:21am on January 11, 2018☆⚑

The Royal Shakespeare Company Goes to Rome, With Mixed Results by Matt Wolf

There were highs and lows in a triptych of Shakespearean plays set in ancient Rome at the Barbican Theater in London.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:44am on January 11, 2018☆⚑

Review: 'Electric Lucifer,' or the Passion of the Bleep Bloop Beep by Alexis Soloski

Take two electronic music concept albums. Add a glamorous performer and lots of spandex. The result: a rock opera battle for the soul of the universe.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 9:42pm on January 10, 2018☆⚑

Purge of Kevin Spacey Gives 'All the Money in the World' a Pay Problem by Brooks Barnes

Mark Wahlberg received $1.5 million for reshoots of the kidnapping drama after it cut out the disgraced Spacey. Michelle Williams got just a small per diem.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 8:19pm on January 10, 2018☆⚑

New Yorkers Making Up Bigger Portion of Broadway Audience by Michael Paulson

Other findings from a report on the 2016-17 season: Crowds remain white and predominantly female, but more young people are attending.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 3:36pm on January 10, 2018☆⚑

Adrienne Kennedy, Playwright: Still Quiet, Still Bold, Still Furious by Alexis Soloski

Her new Jim Crow-era play, "He Brought Her Heart Back in Box," shows that even late in an influential career, she's not mellowing.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:11pm on January 10, 2018☆⚑

Review: Dancing to Destruction in Enda Walsh's Fierce 'Disco Pigs' by Ben Brantley

This harrowing and exhilarating revival, featuring an inexhaustible cast of two, summons the agonies and ecstasies of being 17 in a blighted Irish town.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:15am on January 10, 2018☆⚑

Three Win $100,000 Prize For The People Who Write Musical Theater's Words

The Kleban Prize, established by the lyricist of A Chorus Line, goes to promising lyricists and librettists. The 2018 award winners are Alan Schmuckler (lyrics for Diary of Wimpy Kid: The Mu…

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 7:29am on January 10, 2018☆⚑

John Lithgow, on Barnstorming His Way to Broadway by John Lithgow

For nine years, this actor has taken his one-man show on the road like a "time-warp vaudevillian." What did he learn along the way?

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 6:12pm on January 9, 2018☆⚑

Inside the Battle for Arthur Miller's Archive by Jennifer Schuessler

After a discreet tug-of-war with the playwright's estate and Yale, the University of Texas has acquired the papers, including an "Aladdin's cave" of unpublished material.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 4:01pm on January 9, 2018☆⚑

Broadway San Diego Moves to End Ties With Ben Vereen by Sopan Deb

After a New York Daily News report detailed sexual misconduct allegations against Mr. Vereen, Broadway San Diego removed his name from an awards program.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:50pm on January 9, 2018☆⚑

Critic's Notebook: In Solo Shows, Lip-Syncing 'Hamlet' and Investigating Home Movies by Jesse Green

At the 14th Under the Radar festival, artists working with found audio and video stretch the boundaries of theater.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:11pm on January 9, 2018☆⚑

He Made Kids' Music and Albums About Lucifer. Now His Work Is a Rock Opera. by Elisabeth Vincentelli

The psychedelic work of Bruce Haack, an electronic-music pioneer who died in 1988, is coming to the stage.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 1:58pm on January 9, 2018☆⚑

Review: In 'Mankind,' Men Are Men and Women Are Extinct by Jesse Green

Robert O'Hara's latest satire takes on too many targets as it imagines a future world in which men still ruin everything.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 9:45pm on January 8, 2018☆⚑

3 Promising Musical Theater Writers Receive $100,000 Prizes by Peter Libbey

This year's Kleban Prizes go to Alan Schmuckler, Amanda Yesnowitz, and Christian Duhamel.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 6:16pm on January 8, 2018☆⚑

Scene City: Elisabeth Moss, Mariah Carey and Reese Witherspoon Party After the Golden Globes by Monica Corcoran Harel

Still wearing black, celebrities hit parties hosted by InStyle, HBO and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:21pm on January 8, 2018☆⚑
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