Tuesday, April 23, 2013
A lust triangle is the framework for “Apple,” a play by Vern Thiessen fueled by bathos, tragic illness, coincidences, alcoholism and tearful confessions of star-crossed love. …
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Laura Butler Rivera stars in “so go the ghosts of méxico, part one,” a Matthew Paul Olmos play inspired by a female sheriff of a town dominated by drug cartels in Mexico. &nb…
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Six short plays, including one that features the playwright Annie Baker as an actress, are onstage at the Medicine Show Theater in Manhattan.
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Everyone in “_______ Up Everything,” a rock musical and winsome love story, is a Brooklyn faux-hemian desperately trying to prove anti-establishment bona fides.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
In a modernization of Lope de Vega’s “Fuenteovejuna” at Repertorio Español, oppressed office workers rise up against their tyrannical overlord.
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Masks, comic-book drawings and a rock band are incorporated into a new production of “Iphigenia in Aulis” at La MaMa.
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In “Foodacts” the cast members perform excerpts from novels, essays and other literary works that touch on food-related themes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PM“Totally Tubular Time Machine” is a mash-up of pop music set in 1989 that includes celebrity impersonators from today.
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Like many Living Theater productions, “Here We Are” is part examination of historical anarchist movements, part indictment of the current sociopolitical order and part team-building love…
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In “The Truth Quotient” a billionaire hires a company to create pleasant doppelgänger robots of dead relatives with whom he had not always had good relations.
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In Corneille’s play “Le Cid,” a man faces the dilemma of letting an insult stand or responding with deadly force.
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“Ingenious Nature,” playing at SoHo Playhouse, is the rapper Baba Brinkman’s latest theatrical take on love, psychology, politics and more.
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In “Let’s Kill Grandma This Christmas” a family considers permanently getting rid of an especially difficult grandmother.
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“The Boss,” a 1911 melodrama revived by Metropolitan Playhouse, paints a portrait of a ruthless plutocrat with emotional extremes.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
“In the Summer Pavilion,” by Paul David Young, three recent Princeton grads spend a night boozing and living out their possible futures together and apart.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
A Greek-loving, man-loving Roman emperor is the center of “Open Up, Hadrian,” a new play by Javierantonio González.
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Anna Grace Carter’s new musical, “Rent a White Guy,” follows a recent college graduate who finds that being a Caucasian in China can be a good thing.
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In “Bird in the Hand” the playwright Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas chronicles the teenage years of a lonely, gay, precocious Cuban-American boy in Miami, with flamingos helping tell the tale.
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Suzanna Geraghty stars in the one-woman comedy “Auditions, Zoe’s Auditions Part 2,” part of the 1st Irish Theater Festival.
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In "The Particulars" Brian Silliman plays a persnickety young crank frustrated by the limits of household pest control.
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This piece by Erin Leddy is a meditation on the dignity of aging, the fragility of memory, and the inescapability of our own mortality.
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“Coriolanus” is this summer’s second offering by the Drilling Company in its Shakespeare in the Park(ing) Lot series.
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“The Last Smoker in America” has the spark of a smokin’-hot new musical, but a soggy book keeps it from ever fully igniting.
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