A Theater Photographer Senses a Broadway Bloom
For Sara Krulwich, who has shot productions for The New York Times for more than two decades, a series of recent assignments hinted at an industry revival.
From left, the monologuist Mike Daisey, an attendee at “Blindness” and the dancer Savion Glover.Credit.Sara Krulwich/The New York Times explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.
On the first evening in April, Sara Krulwich, a New York Times photographer, visited the Kraine Theater in the East Village, where Mike Daisey, an actor and monologuist, was rehearsing a show for which the seating capacity would be limited to 22. The restriction, Mr. Daisey said, reminded him of his earliest days as a performer, when he was thrilled if even a handful of people were in the audience.
âBlindnessâ Review: Listening to the Sound of Theater Again
Stimulating and immersive â yet actor-free â this audio adaptation of the Saramago novel brings the terror of an epidemic into your ears.
The audience at the Daryl Roth Theater for a performance of “Blindness,” an audio play by Simon Stephens which is experienced on headphones.Credit.Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
April 6, 2021, 3:29 p.m. ET
As I sat down in the dark of the Daryl Roth Theater in my oversized high school sweatpants, Slytherin T-shirt and mercilessly beaten down pair of Chuck Taylors, one arm freshly numb from a Pfizer shot and an N95 mask desperately clinging to me like a facehugger, I had a single thought:
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