Review: In 'Plays for the Plague Year,' the Soundtrack of Our Lives
Suzan-Lori Parks wrote one play a day for 13 months during the pandemic. Those stories come to life onstage in the form of monologues, dialogues and songs at Joe’s Pub.
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Suzan-Lori Parks wrote one play a day for 13 months during the pandemic. Those stories come to life onstage in the form of monologues, dialogues and songs at Joe’s Pub.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the company’s music director, and Peter Gelb, its leader, discuss presenting 17 new and recent works over the next five seasons.
As artistic director, Johnson, a pathbreaking ballerina, helped get the company back on its feet after a hiatus. Now, she’s ready to be an artist again.
The festival will include hip-hop, Korean arts, Mostly Mozart and a flock of 200 flamingo lawn ornaments.
A revival of the 1960 musical with the famously great score and infamously bad book gets a gorgeous makeover that makes no difference.