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What Happens to New York Theater on April 2?

 Governor Cuomo announced that indoor performance will be allowed to return at 33 percent capacity starting today. What, exactly, will that look like? By Helen Shaw
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The Best Online Staging of Chekhov’s The Seagull Is in The Sims. Really.

 “We were giddy.” By Helen Shaw
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David Byrne and Heidi Schreck, in Conversation

 The creators of American Utopia and What the Constitution Means to Me on the links between their filmed Broadway shows. By Jackson McHenry
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    By Jackson McHenry
  2. theater review
    A Play Opens! In a Theater! And … It’s a Recording.Blindness is our one-eyed king.
    By Helen Shaw
  3. broadway
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    By Halle Kiefer
  4. backstories
    What Happens to New York Theater on April 2?Governor Cuomo announced that indoor performance will be allowed to return at 33 percent capacity starting today. What, exactly, will that look like?
    By Helen Shaw
  5. game of thrones
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    By Rebecca Alter
  7. broadway
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    By Jackson McHenry
  8. shakespeare in the park
    Shakespeare in the Park Plans to Return to New York This SummerThe Public Theater has announced an adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
    By Jackson McHenry
  9. trailer mix
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    By Charu Sinha
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    By Rebecca Alter
  11. theater
    A Theater Critic Reviews a Year Without Theater“Little did I know that night that I’d go into Manhattan only three times in the next 365 days.”
    By Helen Shaw
  12. musicals
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    By Jackson McHenry
  13. casting call
    With Broadway Shuttered, Mandy Patinkin Joins The Good FightBecause what else is a stage icon to do these days?
    By Justin Curto
  14. rent! rent! rent!
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    By Jackson McHenry, Chris Murphy, and Helen Shaw
  15. the coronavirus
    Smaller New York Performance Spaces Allowed to Open at Limited CapacityVenues would max out at 100 people indoors or 200 outdoors.
    By Jackson McHenry
  16. theater
    Theater Is Closed, But That Hasn’t Stopped the WoostersFor the group, theater is a religion and the process is the point. Its latest: a years-in-the-making adaptation of Brecht’s The Mother.
    By Helen Shaw
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    By Rebecca Alter
  18. streaming theater review
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    By Helen Shaw
  19. improv
    The Peoples Improv Theater Is Closing Its Main SpaceIt’s another loss for the New York comedy scene.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  20. in memoriam
    Please, Everyone, Read Christopher Plummer’s AutobiographyThese few bits will get you hooked.
    By Helen Shaw
  21. obits
    Christopher Plummer, Legendary Actor, Dead at 91One of a few to win the “Triple Crown of Acting.”
    By Justin Curto
  22. it’s possible!
    The Brandy-Whitney Cinderella Is Finally Belting Onto Disney+Impossible things are happening on February 12.
    By Jackson McHenry
  23. rip
    Actor Hal Holbrook, Who Embodied Mark Twain for Over 60 Years, Is Dead at 95From playing Deep Throat in All the President’s Men to his one-man stage show as Mark Twain, Holbrook had a substantial career.
    By Zoe Haylock
  24. tony awards
    The Tony Awards Inch Closer to Finally Giving Aaron Tveit That TrophyBallots will go out in March, with a ceremony “in coordination with Broadway’s eventual reopening.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  25. streaming theater review
    Bollywood Kitchen, Where the Script Is Also a RecipeA streaming innovation: Instead of getting better seats when you pay more, you get closer interaction with the star.
    By Helen Shaw
  26. streaming theater review
    Irish Eyes, Unsmiling: Mark O’Rowe’s The Approach Is a Three-Actor ShowcaseStreaming from Dublin.
    By Helen Shaw
  27. inauguration day
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    By Chris Murphy
  28. theater review
    It’s Theater-Festival Season, in a Year When Everything’s Avant-Garde AnywayThe January of the Weird has arrived.
    By Helen Shaw
  29. broadway
    Broadway’s Mean Girls Musical Will Not Return After the PandemicThe production is still set for a movie adaptation.
    By Jackson McHenry
  30. extremely online
    The Rats Hidden Under All Our Hats Helped Ratatouille Musical Raise Over $1MProceeds from the TikTok musical will go to the Actors Fund.
    By Halle Kiefer
  31. streaming theater
    How Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical Came to Be (and Yes, Disney’s Okay With It)A benefit for the Actors Fund brought everyone together.
    By Helen Shaw
  32. theater
    Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical Cooks Up a Cast of Broadway Heavy-HittersTituss Burgess and Andrew Barth Feldman will star.
    By Justin Curto
  33. improv
    Upright Citizens Brigade Closes Sunset Theater in Los AngelesThe organization says it’s “still working to maintain our Franklin space” as the pandemic drags on.
    By Halle Kiefer
  34. obits
    Rebecca Luker, Three-Time Tony Nominee, Dead at 59She had previously announced an ALS diagnosis in February.
    By Justin Curto
  35. best of 2020
    The 10 Best Theater Moments of 2020Our favorite live, streamed, Zoomed, and Sims’d plays from Joshua William Gelb, Natalie Palamides, Eboni Booth, and more.
    By Helen Shaw
  36. the industry
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    By Justin Curto
  37. theater review
    The Holidays Are a Drag: Taylor Mac and Joshua William Gelb Dress for ItReviews of Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce: Pandemic!, and Joshua William Gelb in Heather Christian’s I Am Sending You the Sacred Face.
    By Helen Shaw
  38. obits
    Ann Reinking, Chicago Star and Tony-Winning Choreographer, Is Dead at 71The late actress and dancer played Roxie Hart in both the original Broadway production, and its long-running revival.
    By Halle Kiefer
  39. unruly heart
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    By Madison Malone Kircher
  40. institutions
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    By Helen Shaw
  41. live tv
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    By Chris Murphy and Helen Shaw
  42. looking respectfully
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    By Charu Sinha
  43. zazz?
    Nicole Kidman Seen Recklessly Giving It Some Zazz in The PromShe’s dreamed a little dream of a Fosse number.
    By Jackson McHenry
  44. how-to
    Circle Jerk’s Recipe for a Viral Theater Hit“If it gets screwed up, that’s part of the energy.”
    By Helen Shaw
  45. what?
    Well, Here’s Meryl Streep Rapping on a New Song From The Prom“If somebody starts in with new drama, just go high like Michelle Obama.”
    By Jackson McHenry
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    By Wendy Goodman
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    By Helen Shaw
  48. broadway
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    By Jackson McHenry
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    By Helen Shaw
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