Theater
Performing Original Works in a Pandemic, Artists Turn to New Tools
Here’s a look at some of the pieces of theater, improvisation, and radio drama being created in a world under quarantine.
Clockwise from top left: Sanders, Plunkett, Murphy, Robins, and Kunken in the livestreamed world premiere of the latest drama in the Apple Family Plays, “What Do We Need To Talk About?”
Under Covid-19 lockdown, art still imitates life.
Writer-director Richard Nelson recently presented What Do We Need to Talk About?, his fifth work in a series of dramas premiered by the Public Theater in New York City. In it, audiences eavesdrop on members of a family in Rhinebeck, N.Y., as they discuss what’s going on in their lives.