EditorialFrom left, the actors Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman at the Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, Conn., on Nov. 8, 2002. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialHolland Taylor waves to the audience at the Pasadena Playhouse during the curtain call at the final showing of 'Ann' in Pasadena, California, April 24, 2022. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialAri Afsar, left, and Brandon Contreras, center, during a dress rehearsal of “Bhangin It” at La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, on March 6, 2022. (Tara Pixley/The New York Times)
EditorialPlaywright Dominique Morisseau, one of the supporters of a coalition of theater artists known by the title of its first statement, ?We See You, White American Theater,? in New York, Dec. 22, 2015. (Ramsay de Give/The New York Times)
EditorialPoll worker Richard Thompson during voting at the Redwood Playhouse in Garberville, Calif. on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. (Alexandra Hootnick/The New York Times)
Editorial After making a number of playhouses for her two 6-year-old boys, friends and family, Pilar DOnnelly realized it could be a business. (Arturo Olmos/The New York Times)
EditorialSinger Dimitra Kontou performs for an elderly patient at Charles-Foix hospital in Ivry-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris, Feb. 22, 2021. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Henry Street Playhouse, part of the Abrons Art Center in Manhattan, which has been used as a food pantry since the pandemic closed performances, Feb. 2, 2021. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
EditorialAn installation view, featuring, clockwise from center left: Antoni Gaudí’s “Grille from the Casa Milá (La Pedrera), Barcelona, Spain” (1906-1912); Anni Albers’s “Wall Hanging” (1927); Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Clerestory Windows from the Avery Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Ill.” (1912); window from Wright’s Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, N.Y. (1903-1906); and Louis Sullivan’s “Elevator Grille from the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chicago, Ill.” (1893), at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Nov. 9, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)