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Vinie Burrows, Acclaimed Actress Who Became an Activist, Dies at 99
She got her start on Broadway at 15. But after finding a dearth of roles for Black women, she ultimately turned to one-woman shows that addressed racism and sexism.
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Vinie Burrows, Acclaimed Actress Who Became an Activist, Dies at 99
She got her start on Broadway at 15. But after finding a dearth of roles for Black women, she ultimately turned to one-woman shows that addressed racism and sexism.
publicat de By Alex WilliamsMbongeni Ngema, Playwright Best Known for ‘Sarafina!,’ Dies at 68
Before the fall of apartheid, his plays, which also included “Woza Albert!” and “Asinamali,” challenged the South African government’s racial policies.
publicat de By Richard Sandomir‘Appropriate’ Review: When Daddy Dies, a Disturbing Inheritance
Making a blistering Broadway debut, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2014 play about the legacies of hatred feels like a new work entirely.
publicat de By Jesse GreenReview: Onstage, the ‘Stranger Things’ Franchise Eats Itself
“Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” a London theater show based on the Netflix series, pummels the audience with sensory overload and its lavish budget.
publicat de By Houman Barekat‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Review: Bringing a Classic Record to Life
A new Off Broadway musical adds the thrill of intimacy and the weight of history to the Cuban songs popularized on a 1997 album.
publicat de By Jesse GreenReview: In ‘How to Dance in Ohio,’ Making Autism Sing
A musical about seven autistic young adults, played by seven autistic young actors, breaks new ground on Broadway.
publicat de By Jesse GreenAlicia Keys’s ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ to Open on Broadway This Spring
The musical, now midway through a sold-out Off Broadway run at the Public Theater, will transfer to the Shubert Theater in March.
publicat de By Michael PaulsonBroadway Babies, Singing Show Tunes for Seniors
What happened when four young theater actors performed for an older generation? “I was expecting to have the best show ever and that happened.”
publicat de By Sarah Bahr‘Gardens of Anuncia’ Review: The Broadway Star and the Women Who Molded Her
Michael John LaChiusa’s beautifully sung tribute to sisterly admiration, starring Priscilla Lopez, was inspired by the early life of the show’s director, Graciela Daniele.
publicat de By Juan A.‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Review: How Alicia Keys Got Her Groove
A promising Off Broadway jukebox musical features hits by the R&B star (including “Fallin’,” “If I Ain’t Got You” and “No One”) and a story much like her own.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Spamalot’ Review: You’ll Laugh in Its General Direction
In the first Broadway revival of the Monty Python musical, the old bits are verbatim but the clowns are running the circus.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Scene Partners’ Review: Is She Brilliant? Demented? Both?
The transcendent Dianne Wiest stars in an absurd yet poignant new play about a 75-year-old woman who sets out to be a star.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Waiting for Godot’ Review: Old Friends Falling in and Out of Sync
Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks star in Arin Arbus’s pandemic-delayed production at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center.
publicat de By Laura Collins-hughes‘Harmony’ Review: Barry Manilow Writes the (Broadway) Songs
The pop star of the 1970s and ’80s crosses over to musical theater with a dark story about pop stars of the 1920s and ’30s.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Poor Yella Rednecks’ Review: A Writer’s Origin Story Remixes Conventions
Qui Nguyen’s crowd-tickling comedy about a Vietnamese family in Arkansas mixes hip-hop and martial arts with soapy twists and turns.
publicat de By Naveen KumarReview: Kenneth Branagh’s Short, Shallow ‘King Lear’
The veteran actor directs and plays the title role in a brisk and curiously weightless London production.
publicat de By Matt Wolf‘I Can Get It for You Wholesale’ Review: Rag Trade Revival, Recut for Today
A story considered too dark for Broadway in its time is too much of a patchwork in ours.
publicat de By Jesse GreenReview: In ‘Stereophonic,’ the Rock Revolution Will Be Recorded
David Adjmi’s riveting new play, with songs by Will Butler, is about a ’70s band that nearly destroys itself making an epochal album.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Boy Parts’ Review: Onstage, a Dangerous Woman Isn’t Enough
A London production adapted from Eliza Clark’s debut novel refuses to justify its unreliable narrator’s violence, but lacks narrative depth and complexity.
publicat de By Houman BarekatReview: In ‘Daphne,’ Remaking a Myth, With Mixed Results
The playwright Renae Simone Jarrett makes her professional stage debut with a surreal reworking of a Greek myth about a river nymph.
publicat de By Maya Phillips‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic
This inventive, beguiling and not quite fully solved puzzle of a show is a worthy and loving farewell to the great musical dramatist.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’ Review: Revenge of the Broadway Nerds
The history of movable type is a terrible idea for a show. Which is why it’s so on brand for this satire of theater and its eternal hopefuls.
publicat de By Jesse GreenFor ‘Shucked,’ a Broadway Chapter Ends, and Its Future Is Uncertain
The show said Thursday that it would play a final performance at the Nederlander Theater on Jan. 14, but did not rule out continuing elsewhere.
publicat de By Michael PaulsonReview: In ‘Bite Me,’ Taking Aim at Familiar Teenage Tropes
Eliana Pipes’s new play is too pat to convincingly explore the societal imbalances resulting from race, class and gender.
publicat de By Naveen KumarReview: At ‘Jaja’s,’ Where Everybody Knows Your Mane
Jocelyn Bioh’s Broadway playwriting debut, set in a Harlem hair braiding shop, is a hot and hilarious workplace sitcom.
publicat de By Jesse Green‘Dracula, a Comedy of Terrors’ Review: An Equal-Opportunity Seducer
A gender-bending play at New World Stages filters well-known characters through influences like “The Rocky Horror Show” and “Young Frankenstein.”
publicat de By Elisabeth Vincentelli‘Swing State’ Review: All Is Not Well in Wisconsin
Rebecca Gilman’s play, set in a rural farmhouse, sees an image of the decline of Americans’ interdependence in the death of wildflowers.
publicat de By Jesse GreenMichael McGrath, Tony Winner and ‘Spamalot’ Veteran, Dies at 65
He clanged coconuts in the Monty Python stage musical in 2005; seven years later, he won a Tony for “Nice Work if You Can Get It.”
publicat de By Neil GenzlingerIn ‘The Refuge Plays,’ Nicole Ari Parker Comes Home
“What the theater gives me is the feeling that I’m using everything,” the actress said of returning to the stage after a decade away.
publicat de By Alexis Soloski