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Tina Turner Musical to Open on Broadway Next Fall

“Tina,” which is running in London and will open in Germany in the spring, will have a Broadway production in the fall of 2019.

 

National Theater in London Offers Glasses With Live Subtitles

To help those with hearing problems, speech is shown in real time on the lenses. The technology will be available free during the 2019 season.

 

5 Shows to See in New York: With Glenn Close, Michael Cera and More

Revivals, transfers and new plays that look to the past make for an unusually reflective October theater scene.

 

An ‘Intoxicating’ Singer, Whether It’s Green Day or ‘Oklahoma!’

Still waiting for her signature role, the versatile Rebecca Naomi Jones is changing things up in a stripped-down new staging of the musical classic.

 

Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow

Conor McPherson’s bleak tale of a Minnesota boardinghouse in the Great Depression finds a luminous transcendence in the Dylan song book.

 

Defacing ‘Art’: After 20 Years, the Hit Play Gets a Brash Coat of Paint

Yasmina Reza’s tidy comedy has been produced in 45 countries and translated into 30 languages. How will it withstand a deconstruction by two experimental theater companies?

 

Review: She’s Still Debating ‘What the Constitution Means to Me’

In the baggy, emotionally fraught play, Heidi Schreck considers her ever-changing relationship with a seminal document.

 

The Week in Culture: Native Art at the Met; the Fringe Festival in a Ferry

The museum is showcasing 116 masterworks from 50 cultures across North America.

 

‘Kinky Boots’ Will End Its Broadway Run in April

The show’s lead producers said that the final performance will be April 7, 2019, making it by then the 25th-longest-running Broadway production in history.

 

Joe Masteroff, Playwright of ‘Cabaret’ Fame, Is Dead 98

The winner of a Tony for his evocation of decadent prewar Berlin, he is also remembered for another acclaimed Broadway musical, “She Loves Me.”

 

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