What if the Disabled Characters Were Just Going About Their Day?
Madison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez star in the meet-cute “All of Me” — proof that depictions of disability onstage don’t have to be “a buzz kill,” as Ferris puts it.
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Madison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez star in the meet-cute “All of Me” — proof that depictions of disability onstage don’t have to be “a buzz kill,” as Ferris puts it.
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The six-time Tony-winning actress will play musical theater’s most famous stage mother in a production directed by George C. Wolfe.
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The Irish Rep ends its season-long Brian Friel survey with the story of a blind woman who undergoes an operation to try to restore her sight.
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In “The Playbook,” James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work to writers and actors until politics took center stage.
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Two More ‘Succession’ Actors Are Broadway Bound, in ‘Job’
Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon will star in the two-hander, a psychological thriller that previously found success downtown.
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Wayne Brady and Nichelle Lewis on Striving for Excellence in ‘The Wiz’
The veteran and the newcomer each had their own fears as they joined the Broadway revival of the beloved all-Black musical.
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‘Bluets’ Review: This Maggie Nelson Adaptation Is All About the Vibes
How do you bring an almost plotless book of elliptical fragments to the stage? The director Katie Mitchell has tried with three actors, four screens and three bottles of whiskey.
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Review: In ‘The Fires,’ a Triptych of Stories About Gay Men and Love
Raja Feather Kelly makes his playwriting debut with a spellbinding story of three generations of Black men at Soho Rep.
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Brooke Shields Elected President of Stage Actors’ Union
She takes office immediately. The previous leader of Actors’ Equity, Kate Shindle, had been president since 2015, and did not run again.
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Adaptations of films will be a factor at the Tonys this year. Surprisingly the best of these shows are not always the most faithful.
By Alissa Wilkinson
The London production, starring Tom Holland, sold out in hours. But its understated rendering of the central romance may leave some theatergoers wanting more.
By Houman Barekat
In José Rivera’s latest play, a Puerto Rican family moves to Long Island in 1960, contending both with Hurricane Donna and their neighbors’ hostility.
By Juan A. Ramírez
A production at the Shakespeare’s Globe theater faced criticism because a nondisabled actor plays the scheming king. But disputes like these miss the point, our critic writes.
By Houman Barekat
T. Adamson’s new comedy, which opens Clubbed Thumb’s popular Summerworks series at the Wild Project, is about a group of worked-up Franciscan friars.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
A production featuring the screen stars, with music by Jack Antonoff, will open in October at Circle in the Square.
By Michael Paulson
A hit at Edinburgh Fringe last year, Julia Masli’s show arrives at SoHo Playhouse for its New York debut.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
Lauren Patten and Taylor Iman Jones star in an achingly romantic, softly sexy new musical by Rachel Bonds and Zoe Sarnak.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
It’s open mic at the post-pandemic cocktail bar where Dave Malloy’s hypnotic triptych of monodramas takes place.
By Jesse Green
At this year’s Theatertreffen drama festival, one production explores an incident that shocked the German theater world last year.
By A.J. Goldmann
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