• Neil LaBute’s new COVID-19 play has no live actors

    Neil LaBute’s new COVID-19 play has no live actors

    Denizen Theatre has swapped Zoom for a room.
  • New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley stepping down

    New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley stepping down

    Ben Brantley, the influential New York Times theater critic, will leave the job next month. “This pandemic pause in the great, energizing party that is the theater seemed to me like a good moment to slip out the door,” Brantley said in a statement. News of Brantley’s departure was announced on Twitter by the newspaper’s theater …
  • Ian McKellen to start ‘Hamlet’ rehearsals next week

    Ian McKellen to start ‘Hamlet’ rehearsals next week

    Sir Ian McKellen’s show must go on. A new production of “Hamlet,” starring the 81-year-old actor in the title role, will begin rehearsals Monday in Windsor, England, The Post has learned. It will be the first major play in the English-speaking world to get back to work in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Put …