The New York Times – Music:
“Hell’s Kitchen,” a musical inspired by the singer-songwriter’s teenage years in New York, is set to open Off Broadway.
Category: Public Theater
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Stephen Sondheim’s Final Musical is Opening. How Complete Was It?
The New York Times – Music:
Sondheim said days before his death in 2021 that he did not know when it would be finished, but the musical, now called “Here We Are,” begins performances Thursday.
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Alicia Keys Is Making a Musical. Her Own Life Inspired the Story.
The New York Times – Music:
The show is a highlight of the Public Theater’s new season, which will also include plays by Suzan-Lori Parks, Itamar Moses, Mary Kathryn Nagle and Ife Olujobi.
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Review: In ‘The Harder They Come,’ Innocence Lost to a Reggae Beat
The New York Times – Music:
A stage adaptation of the 1972 movie about a Jamaican singer turned outlaw hero sounds great but falls hard at the Public Theater.
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Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else
The New York Times – Music:
The first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama has four shows this season. “If you can hear the world singing, it’s your job to write it down,” she said.
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James Rado, Co-Creator of the Musical ‘Hair,’ Is Dead at 90
The New York Times – Music:
Working with his fellow writer and actor Gerome Ragni and the composer Galt MacDermot, he jolted Broadway into the Age of Aquarius.
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‘Raisin in the Sun’ and ‘The Harder They Come’ Part of Public Theater Season
The New York Times – Film:
Two new works by Suzan-Lori Parks will be included in a season that delves into “relationships between Black and white America.”
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When Their Show Was Postponed, a Playwright and Cast Turned to Poetry
The New York Times – T Magazine:
Two years ago, on what was meant to be opening night of “The Vagrant Trilogy,” Mona Mansour hosted the first of many readings with her colleagues.