Thursday, November 20, 2014
Seven actors draw on their adolescence to animate “Punk Rock,” a drama about the power, vulnerability and confusion of youth, set at a private school in England.
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“The Underclassman” is adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s earliest novel, loosely based on his days at Princeton.
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St James Theatre, New YorkRevived by the director of the movie version of Chicago, this story about conjoined twins never gets to the heart of what makes the two women tick Continue reading.…
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Circle in the Square, New YorkJackman reels in the audience but theres plenty more to savour in Jez Butterworths moody, elegiac and fishy tale Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:53AMWednesday, November 12, 2014
The lingering theatrical convention of casting Caucasians in roles that call for Asians incites exasperation in Han Ong’s play “Chairs and a Long Table.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:15PMCity Center, New YorkThe stage is set for a thriller, but David Auburns play, while accurate in its portrayal of human relationships, never delivers a knockout blow Continue reading...
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In Nikkole Salter’s “Carnaval,” three men travel to Rio de Janeiro, in an exploration of black masculinity and friendship.
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Emily Padgett and Erin Davie star as the performers Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, in the Broadway revival of the musical “Side Show.”
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Two African-American executives, caught in an elevator during a building crisis, discuss matters of class and sex as well their own threatened physical safety.
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Genet’s “The Maids” is reconceived with a little help from the professionals — professional housekeepers, that is — at Abrons Arts Center.
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Friday, October 31, 2014
Old Sound Room, a company built by recent Yale School of Drama grads, has adapted spooky yarns plucked from Neil Gaiman’s “Fragile Things.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:19PMAmerican Airlines theatre, New YorkThe shows stars give complex and endearing performances, but this is an emotionally distant revival of Tom Stoppards heart-wrenching play Continue reading.…
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In “The Dreary Coast,” an immersive theatrical work from Jeff Stark, Hades, king of the underworld, sits enthroned on the banks of the Gowanus Canal.
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Neil Simon Theatre, New YorkThe folk-inflected songs are full of vigour and Jimmy Nail proves distractingly charismatic in this industrial musical Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AMNeil Simon Theatre, New YorkThe folk-inflected songs are full of vigour and Jimmy Nail proves distractingly charismatic in this industrial musicalAfter suffering 10 years of writer’s block…
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Lyceum theatre, New YorkA posse of TV talent tackles a Pulitzer prize-winning drama that asks difficult questions of religion, assimilation and individuality Continue reading...
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James Dickey’s 1970 novel, “Deliverance,” has been given the theatrical treatment by the Godlight Theater Company.
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Kimber Lee’s “brownsville song (b-side for tray),” at the Claire Tow Theater, explores a teenager’s death.
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“Inner Voices” consists of two solo musicals: one about an artist whose friend is dying of AIDS in the next room, and the other about a famous writer in the process of going blind.
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Mark Dendy, a Broadway choreographer, structures his autobiographical piece “Labryinth” around the myth of Theseus, combining confession with dance, video and songs.
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Not even Nathan Lane and a slew of vulgar jokes can save this play about plays from Terrence McNallys sour scriptF Murray Abraham: I am afraid of nothing on stage Continue reading...
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The Assembly’s “That Poor Dream” is an expressive, uneven update of Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations.”
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“The Killing of Sister George,” a 1964 black comedy, features a radio actress whose personality is at odds with her sweet on-air character.
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Ethel Barrymore theatre, New YorkAlex Sharp delivers a star turn in an amped-up staging of Mark Haddons bestselling novel Continue reading...
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The Bushwick Starr, a dingy, elegant but strangely welcoming performance space in Brooklyn, has become a bright spot on the Off Off Broadway map.
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Films of different genres and eras run through “Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature,” presented by Big Dance Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Scott Elliss revival of the 1936 play, starring James Earl Jones, will melt the hardest hearts with its strange central family Continue reading...
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Self-effacing in person, Romola Garai, making her New York theater debut in Tom Stoppard’s “Indian Ink,” is drawn to strong-willed characters on the stage and screen.
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In “A Sucker Emcee,” Craig Grant, known as muMs, recounts his ups and downs in rhymed couplets while a D.J. plays hip-hop.
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In “riverrun,” a solo show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Olwen Fouéré plays the character who personifies the River Liffey in “Finnegans Wake.”
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