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  2 days ago

  Commentary: Critics weren’t invited to David Mamet’s new play. Then the show’s star, Shia LaBeouf, sent a personal invite

  Los Angeles Times - Charles McNulty

  David Mamet has recently unveiled a new play, “Henry Johnson,” at the Electric Lodge in Venice. Tickets have been so scarce for the production, which features Shia LaBeouf in a top-notch cast, that the September run was extended through Oct. 7. The reason you likely haven’t heard much about this …

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  1 day ago

  Thoughts on a New Era in New York Theater

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  The news came this week that two titans of New York theater will be stepping down from the powerful perches on which they’ve long roosted. André …

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  5 days ago

  On Leaving the Life of the Body: A Dancer Reports

  The New York Times - Russell Janzen

  It is one of my last ballet classes as a professional dancer. Halfway through barre we do rond de jambes — an exercise in which you paint half circles on the floor with your toes. The teacher, Gonzalo Garcia, sets a combination that sweeps back and forth as we transfer our weight from one foot to …

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  4 days ago

  Column: In the wake of the Lauren Boebert incident, how do we behave in the theater?

  yahoo.com - Michael Phillips and Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune

  CHICAGO — Sept. 10, 2023: A date that will live in audience disruption infamy. That night at the Buell Theatre in the Denver Center for the …

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  3 days ago

  A Tiananmen Square Musical Worries About China’s Glare

  The New York Times - Christopher Kuo

  When it was announced that Zachary Noah Piser would be playing the lead role in “Tiananmen: A New Musical,” he happened to be on a concert tour of five Chinese cities with a group of Broadway actors. One day later, Piser, who played the title role in “Dear Evan Hansen” on Broadway last year, posted …

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  Sep 15

  Nathan Alan Davis Goes Into the Woods

  americantheatre.org - American Theatre Editors

  The fourth of this prolific playwright's 2023 premieres, 'The Refuge Plays,' is also his most ambitious and searching.