‘Miscast’ Is Finally Ready for Its Closeup
The postponed MCC gala, originally set for April, will play recorded songs for a wide web audience.
Previews
Saheem Ali’s ‘Richard II’: What Does Authority Sound Like?
The director rounds out a stellar season with a radio rendering of a play salvaged from the Public Theater’s canceled Shakespeare in the Park season.
Hearing History Tick in Steppenwolf’s Audio-Only ‘American Clock’
The Chicago company records a starry, large-cast revival of Arthur Miller’s late work, set amid economic hardship that has fresh resonance.
A New Art Form for a New World?
It’s got ‘play’ in the title, but PlayGround’s Zoom Fest is entering a new gray zone between theatre, film, and TV—and it has the SAG-AFTRA contract to prove it.
Caryl Churchill’s ‘Mad Forest’ Gets Ready for Its Close-Up
A Zoom production by Bard College students gets a second life as a TFANA co-presentation, with sets, lights, props, and live editing.
Vengeance, Plague, Death, Confusion: Stacy Keach, Ed Gero Join Zoom ‘Lear’ Reading
An online benefit on Shakespeare’s birthday will reunite some storied professional casts with local Pennsylvania actors.
Roslyn Ruff: A Cry for ‘Help’
The powerhouse actor has been on a streak of shows about race and the white gaze. Her newest: a theatrical essay by Claudia Rankine.
What ‘A Wonderful World’ Wants to Say About Louis Armstrong
A bio-musical at Miami New Drama tells his iconic story through the 4 women and 4 cities that shaped his life and his music.
You Should See Them in a Crown: The Dope Queens of ‘Six’
A British concert musical about Henry VIII’s wives comes to Broadway on a wave of ‘Hamilton’-worthy buzz.
A ‘Mahabharata’ Staged and Acted Entirely by South Asians—Why Not?
Adapting the Sanskrit epic into two-part spectacle for the Shaw Festival, Ravi Jain goes back to the beginning—and imagines the end.