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Digital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child’s first fireworks.

30/11/2021 - Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam returns with a characteristically disturbing and unclassifiable film

30/11/2021 - Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam returns with a characteristically disturbing and unclassifiable film

30/11/2021 - Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam returns with a characteristically disturbing and unclassifiable film

Talking Heads to classical music: Raising the curtain on a new theatre season

Theater to Stream: Lincoln Center Theater Joins the Fray Presentations include a star-studded reading of “The Thanksgiving Play,” musicals crossing the Atlantic and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. From left, David Hyde Pierce, Genevieve Angelson and Sigourney Weaver in “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” which will be streamed through Lincoln Center Private Reels series.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Published March 17, 2021Updated March 19, 2021 Theater has faced many ba...

A ‘Roman Tragedies’ for the History Books The International Theater Amsterdam presented Ivo van Hove’s exhilarating Shakespeare marathon in a one-off, livestreamed production. Chris Nietvelt as Cleopatra giving in to grief at the death of Mark Antony in Ivo van Hove’s staging of “Antony and Cleopatra,” part of the director’s “Roman Tragedies.”Credit...Jan Versweyveld Six hours have rarely passed so quickly, or been so smart. That was the immediate ta...