New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley has a suggestion in the March 27 issue of the New York Times for entertainment during the pandemic era: reading plays aloud! Now is your chance to be a star! If you’re performing with your household, however, we don’t recommend reading Hamlet with your parents or Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with your significant other, as Brantley says he did…
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Title: Turn the Living Room into a Stage: Read Plays Out Loud
Author: Ben Brantley
Date of publication: March 27, 2020