Theatre Reviews

1. Off Broadway’s Season Shook Up Norms of Life and Theater

   Our co-chief theater critics discuss the plays and musicals that reflected and predicted an unstable world.

2. Marie's Crisis Cafe Is Closed, but Franca Vercelloni Is Still Taking Requests

   With a piano and a camera, Franca Vercelloni of Marie’s Crisis Cafe continues to play for the bar’s show-tune singalongs on social media.

3. Dancing With Myself: How Artists Stay in Shape Without a Stage

   With the coronavirus pandemic putting live shows on hold, performers are adapting how they practice.

4. Missing the Theater? Trade Playbills for These Novels

   Two theater critics suggest some of their favorite books about the theater, giving us portals to a world that is now forbidden.

5. Who Says You Can’t Give Tony Awards in an Abbreviated Season?

   Our chief theater critics have no nickel-plated medallions to hand out, but they find plenty to celebrate among shut-down Broadway offerings.