A Queer Mountain Lion Leaps From the Page to the Little Island Stage
Henry Hoke’s 2023 novel, “Open Throat,” narrated by an animal in peril in the Hollywood Hills, is adapted for a staged reading.
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![“It’s the perfect setting for this experiment,” Caitlin Ryan O’Connell, the director of a staged reading of “Open Throat,” said of Little Island, an elevated park situated on the Hudson River.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static01.nyt.com/images/2024/07/10/multimedia/10open-throat-preview-cmtk/10open-throat-preview-cmtk-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg?auto=webp)
Henry Hoke’s 2023 novel, “Open Throat,” narrated by an animal in peril in the Hollywood Hills, is adapted for a staged reading.
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Cole Escola is dressing the part of fashion plate after achieving a new level of fame with the play “Oh, Mary!”
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Fun is the main point of Carl Cofield’s stylish outdoor staging of Shakespeare’s comic fantasy for the Classical Theater of Harlem.
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Years before they ascended to influential leadership roles, they worked at the Public Theater and became cheerleaders for each other’s professional dreams.
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2 Russians Found Guilty of ‘Justifying Terrorism’ in Their Play About ISIS
A theater director and playwright were sentenced to prison, a stark indication of the increasing suppression of free speech since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, their lawyers and critics say.
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At Avignon Festival, Theater’s World Gets Wider
Under its new director, the event is shining a spotlight on countries and performers rarely represented on the biggest European stages.
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Resisting the Far Right at a Festival of French Theater
Tiago Rodrigues said the Avignon Festival, which he leads, would become “a festival of resistance,” juggling activism with the premiere of a new play.
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15 Summer Theaters for That Nearby, Out-of-Town Experience
Easygoing days of drama and comedy are just a few hours away (or even closer) in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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Brooke Shields Has Worn Many Hats. Now She’s a Labor Boss.
The model-turned-actress-turned-businesswoman is the new president of Actors’ Equity. In an interview, she explained what she’s doing there.
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She wrote memorably about her upbringing by a circle of maternal elders and the life lessons they imparted, and of her yearning for the mother she lost.
By Penelope Green
Nostalgia will undoubtedly lure many to a London revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. It has more in common with a theme park than with theater, our critic writes.
By Houman Barekat
The Spanish director and performer Angélica Liddell elicited a standing ovation at the Avignon Festival in spite of her attacks on critics.
By Laura Cappelle
Jonathan Tunick, Stephen Sondheim’s longtime collaborator, unveiled a grand orchestration of “A Little Night Music” that deserves more than a concert.
By Joshua Barone
The playwright Jeremy O. Harris’s “Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.” wears its intellectual references on its sleeve.
By Annie Aguiar
Is moral leadership possible without parliamentary power? Two very familiar congresswomen battle it out onstage.
By Jesse Green
The organization, which won this year’s best play revival Tony Award for “Appropriate,” has chosen Evan Cabnet as its next artistic director.
By Michael Paulson
“BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical” had a run in Chicago last year. It is slated to open at a Shubert theater in April.
By Michael Paulson
“The Who’s Tommy,” which has a rock score by Pete Townshend, will end on July 21. A national tour is in the works.
By Michael Paulson
The awards, which celebrated excellence in high school musical theater on Monday, have become a launchpad for future stars and Tony nominees.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
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