Monday, May 25, 2015

Pro-Life or Pro-Choice, ‘The Water Children’ Is Fun and Thought-Provoking

Is abortion murder? Should the rights of the mother supersede those of the unborn? Would you take an acting job to pay the rent though you disagreed with the

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Everything That Is the Case for Two Young Women on the Eve of the Great War Among Other Elegant Lies

Full disclosure: My critical powers fail utterly when confronted with a clever wordy title. Nothing tickles me more than an awkward descriptor that refuses to

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L.A.'s VS. Theatre Company Finds a Home

After eight years without a home, the VS. Theatre Company has signed the lease on its first permanent space. The group announced Aug. 22 that it will be taking

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Heartless

I’m honestly not sure what Sam Shepard is up to with “Heartless,” his new play at Signature Theatre. It is visually arresting, beautifully

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Honorary Recipients Announced for 2012 NYIT Awards

The New York Innovative Theatre Awards will present honorary awards to Five Lesbian Brothers, the Theatre Development Fund, and Astoria Performing Arts Center

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Space Captain: Captain of Space!

Those 1930s sci-fi serials such as “Flash Gordon,” “Buck Rogers,” and “Commando Cody” really were something, weren’t

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An Interrogation Primer

There are 17 “approaches” that the United States Army trains its interrogators to take with detainees, none of them involving physical violence;

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An End to Dreaming

Emma Dean and Jake Diefenbach are alarmingly unique, talented vocalists fromAustralia, and their show “An End to Dreaming” showcases their range as

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A Short Trip

So much goes on in Jason Atkinson’s “A Short Trip,” yet so little happens that we’re left wondering what the fuss is about. The

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Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi,” which began life as a series of magazine articles, was never in a class with “Huckleberry

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Chaplin

It’s hard to know where to begin with “Chaplin,” the dismally dull musical by Christopher Curtis (book, music, lyrics), with an assist from

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Mary Broome

Mint Theater Company is giving the first New York revival of Allan Monkhouse’s slyly subversive 1911 drawing-room comedy “Mary Broome,” and

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'Detroit' Gets Under Your Skin

Lisa D’Amour’s “Detroit” gets under your skin and stays there. This disquieting comedy-drama speaks specifically about its

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Phantomwise

A thoughtful play previously presented by the Yale University Dramatic Association, “Phantomwise” is exquisitely performed and boasts a creative

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The Hills Are Alive!

What happened after the von Trapp, forgive me, the van Klapp family fled the Nazis inAustriaand climbed every mountain in the Alps to get toSwitzerland? Sure,

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Hot Mess in Manhattan

For a generation of girls (and some boys), television’s “Sex and the City” sounded the siren song of Manhattan, setting visions of cosmos and

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Audiences May Develop a 'Habit' for Voyeurism

When audiences arrive at the Essex Street Market for Jason Grote’s “Habit,” they encounter the frame of a one-story house (created by Marsha

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Macy's Brings 'Yes, Virgina The Musical' to Schools

Over the next few months, Macy’s is spreading more than just holiday cheer; it’s also bringing the gift of musical theater to schools

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Brooklyn’s Steiner Studios Plans Expansion of Sound Stages and Media Campus

Brooklyn’s Steiner Studios is already the largest site of film and television production outside Hollywood, and a proposed plan for expansion would

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From Busk Till Dawn: The Life of an NYC Street Performer

For the past seven years Tim Intravia has painted his face silver and stood like a statute inTimes Square, occasionally moving like a robot. This is how he

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Sony Makes Deal to Bring Studio's Movies to Broadway

Love the movie, then see the play. Sony is banking on its catalog of films finding new life on the boards. In a new deal with “The Color Purple”

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Ticket 2 Eternity

With “Ticket 2 Eternity,” Matthew Ethan Davis wants to say something about spirituality, servitude, career happiness, the corrupting pursuit of

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Alicia Silverstone and Malin Akerman Land New Roles

Alicia Silverstone (“Clueless”) joins Henry Winkler, Cheyenne Jackson, Daniel Breaker, and Ari Graynor on Broadway in “The Performers,”

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Planned L.A. Production of 'Deathtrap' Canceled Amid Controversy

The L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center’s fall production of “Deathtrap” won’t go on, now that a creative dispute with playwright Ira

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Fractured Atlas Develops Site to Match Artist With Space

Everyday countless New Yorkers search for new digs on StreetEasy.com, where they easily search desired neighborhood, price, and space needs. Now, a new online

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SLIDESHOW: 10 Successful Acting Comebacks

It's not easy to stay in the spotlight. While some have made failed attempts at comebacks, others have returned to establish a better career than the one they

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Dark Hollow: An Appalachian Woyzeck

A five-piece ensemble sits prominently onstage for Alkis Papoutsis’ staging of Elizabeth Chaney’s “Dark Hollow: An Appalachian

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Vacuum

I’m afraid that playwright Arlene Hutton, author of the wonderfully restrained, emotionally acute “Last Train to Nibroc,” is a bit stymied by

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Our Lady

There’s no two ways about it. Author-director-actor James Fluhr’s “Our Lady” is as stunning a piece of performance art as you’re

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David Lindsay-Abaire and Naomi Wallace Win 2012 Horton Foote Prize

Recent work by playwrights David Lindsay-Abaire and Naomi Wallace successfully beat out 53 other plays for the 2012 Horton Foote Prize. Named after the

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Tender Napalm

English playwright Philip Ridley certainly loves words. His pretentious two-hander “Tender Napalm,” which looks at the teetering marital

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards