Contagion, Soap, Immersion: London Theatre Unmasked
The city’s theatres are stumbling back to their feet, with mixed results and a seemingly cavalier attitude toward COVID.
Stories by David Cote
Tomorrow’s Pandemic Plays, Today!
Can’t wait to see how playwrights will be inspired by the coronavirus quarantine? Yeah, me neither.
‘Oklahoma!,’ Still Okay?
Two new revivals—one ebulliently LGBTQ, another brooding and immersive—make this musical warhorse run in new directions.
A Second Act for Theatre Criticism?
Reviewers and reporters are an endangered species. Here’s how some of them are surviving—and even thriving.
How to Cross the Critic-Artist Divide and Live to Write About It
Shaw, Bentley, Tynan—it’s not so odd for professional critics to work the other side of the footlights. But there are a few ground rules.
The Directions They Took
New volumes about stage directors, Jack O’Brien and Jonathan Miller, who’ve had larger-than-life—you might even say dramatic—careers.
Critical Juncture
As theatres and audiences face a brave new digital world, 12 of the nation’s most influential theatre critics talk about their towns and their changing roles.
