Monday, March 2, 2015
In this play at the Irish Arts Center, Mr. Murfi’s cobbler has to deliver goods to a customer, and the audience gets to hear his internal monologue.
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This experimental play by William Burke, whose cast includes dogs played by humans and real dogs, forces you to look at the nature of communication a little differently.
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Ms. Barfield’s new drama at City Center explores a long-term relationship from start to finish, but not necessarily in that order.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:39PMThe actor once struggled to move on from American Pie-type roles, but now he is digging deeper as he costars in the Broadway revival of The Heidi Chronicles Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PMVineyard Theater, New YorkWith characters created by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, this show has good jokes for Brooklyn aficionados but never generates real heat Continue reading...
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Ms. Moss returns to Broadway, portraying a successful professional wondering if she can have it all in this 1988 Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
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The Pearl Theater Company’s “The Winter’s Tale” plays out as a tipsy dinner party that skids toward tragedy over dessert.
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Marc Palmieri’s half comedy and half tragedy, at Axis Theater, follows a landscaper turned playwright who hires some New York professionals to stage his work in his Long Island garage.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Trav S.D.’s play, at La MaMa, is based on the life of Adah Isaacs Menken, a flamboyant liar and theater star of the mid-1800s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:49PMPublic Theater, New YorkThis exuberant and original new musical mashes up genres from rap to operetta, creating a flawed but glorious portrait of the face on the $10 billIn a letter to Georg…
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A professor at Brooklyn College has helped to turn out some of the city’s most wildly inventive young playwrights by shooing them out of their comfort zones.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music, New YorkLaughter in the dark rings loudly in this uncut, immaculately cast and virtuosically staged five-hour version of O’Neill’s excoriating drama Continue r…
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Sheila Callaghan’s volatile new work touches on beauty and body image, intimacy and alienation, art and commerce, fantasy and reality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Josephine and I,” Ms. Jumbo’s new solo show, tells the story of Josephine Baker, the St. Louis-born performer who became a legend in Paris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:14PMAt 76, the actor is currently climbing a theatrical mountain: the five hours of Eugene O’Neill’s bleak The Iceman Cometh. Yet he can’t resist – the playwright’s work, he says, is �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:38PMAt 76, the actor is currently climbing a theatrical mountain: the five hours of Eugene O’Neill’s bleak The Iceman Cometh. Yet he can’t resist – the playwright’s work, he says, is �…
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
Monday, February 2, 2015
“The Human Symphony,” Dylan Marron’s new play, is performed by six audience members taking instruction from MP3 tracks.
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“Shesh Yak,” created by Laith Nakli, is set four years ago during the first heady days of protest during the uprising in Syria.
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The star of Orange is the New Black proves that she’s a real theatre actor, but for all the fine performances, this is a tepid revival of a second-rate play Continue reading...
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Jonathan Christenson’s “Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe” opens at New World Stages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PM“Da,” Hugh Leonard’s semi-autobiographical work, is a memory play with a spectral turn as a son is visited by his father’s ghost.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMSt Ann’s Warehouse, New YorkHaving played in London and Scotland, this stage version of the Swedish book and film has lost none of its eeriness – or its brutality Continue reading...
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The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Centre for Theatre, New YorkA lo-fi version of Stephen Sondheim’s classic, currently in the cinema, manages to be both lucid and moving – despite the odd …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00PMMaggie Bofill’s domestic comedy “Winners” stars Grant Shaud and Florencia Lozano as a couple with relationship and peanut butter problems.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Rasheeda Speaking,” by the Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson, is a dark comedy about racism both covert and obvious, and stars Tonya Pinkins and Dianne Wiest.
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Caps Lock Theater’s immersive, site-specific “Mrs. Mayfield’s Fifth-Grade Class of ’93 20-Year Reunion” enlists its audience members as classmates.
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Nederlander Theatre, New YorkDrab sets, bad politics and wince-inducing stereotypes sink this threadbare production, in which Tony Danza steals scenes but can’t save themThe first rule of …
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