Thursday, July 17, 2014
Derek Ahonen’s “The Qualification of Douglas Evans,” about an oft-intoxicated writer, is part of a mini-festival from the Amoralists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:38PMFrom Sondheim to 30 Rock, Elaine Stritch commanded audiences' attention. Here she is at her bestElaine Stritch, who has died aged 89, was a visceral, volatile performer with more honest-to-g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:51PMHamlet’s mother, with her sexual appetites, takes over center stage in “Gertrude: The Cry,” a Howard Barker work at Atlantic Stage 2.
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A sitcom is central to the plot of “Enter at Forest Lawn,” by a former executive producer for “Two and a Half Men.”
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John Banville’s “Love in the Wars,” at Bard SummerScape, centers on an Amazonian queen who fights against the Greeks and falls in love with Achilles.
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A man imprisoned for raping a classmate comes to terms with life after incarceration in “The Long Shrift,” directed by James Franco.
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The Drunkard’s Wife, an experimental theatrical troupe, loosely adapts “Histoire du Soldat” to create a bleary, madcap musical at the New Ohio Theater.
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The local streets lend their spirit to the outdoor “Romeo N Juliet,” staged by the Classical Theater of Harlem.
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The Incubator Arts Project is presenting its final show, an ambitious, cryptic and yet tuneful sci-fi stage production.
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“Donogoo,” a 1930 French farce by Jules Romains, revived by Mint Theater Company, tosses barbs at targets like academia, psychiatry and big business.
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This Broadway musical inspired by Tupac has some exhilarating dance numbers. If only we could care about the charactersPour one out for Holler if Ya Hear Me, the dead-on-arrival Broadway juk…
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Theater Breaking Through Barriers’ “Power Plays” consists of five short works about physical disabilities and the people who cope with them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:17PMTheater artists look back at their experiences in the second-floor space at St. Mark’s Church, a home for experimental theater for decades.
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“Gertrude Stein Saints!” sets some of this author’s characters, real and invented, to music at Abrons Arts Center.
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Penelope Skinner and Sarah Treem write plays and characters that reflect on the complicated and often contradictory legacy of the various waves of feminism.
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Tracy Michailidis plays a 1950s wife and mother on her way to the electric chair in “Ethel Sings: The Unsung Song of Ethel Rosenberg.”
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From Neil Patrick Harris to Mark Rylance, from 'crazy-pants' to 'proper, proper actors', we round up the winning soundbitesBryan Cranston scoops best actor award for Broadway debutTony award…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31AMHugh Jackman was bouncy, the sneakers high-fashion and the winners weepy so no surprises there The main winners Bryan Cranston scoops award on debutLets say this of Hugh Jackman: Only a man…
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An episode of “This American Life” taped at the Brooklyn Academy of Music included work by Philip Glass and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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The Park Avenue Armory is transformed into a stadium-like space as this inventive staging comes to New York Sir Kenneth is dressed to kill. Or is that kilt? In battle woollens, Branagh strid…
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Lee's latest work, The Shipment, continues the New Yorker's exploration of race, identity and politics topics she must face to make herself uncomfortableIn the first act of Young Jean Lees …
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Three actresses in the Broadway revival of “The Cripple of Inishmaan” are jointly making the most of their downtime in New York City.
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In David Van Asselt’s “A Fable,” a devil figure and an angel figure place a bet on whether a young soldier will lead an exemplary life or be tempted into evil.
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The Pulitzer-winning Brooklyn playwright talks about writing lost voices into the theatre and the power of good lingerieA few years ago, the playwright Lynn Nottage went to clean out her gr…
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“The Essential Straight & Narrow,” a play by the Mad Ones, is about creating art and how people are pulled back to vital moments in their lives.
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Lena Hall and Lauren Worsham are in their 30s, are up for the same Tony and on dark nights, each sings with a rock band.
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In William Burke’s “the food was terrible,” at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, the discussion in a bar revolves around people who died and the services for them.
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The monologuist Edgar Oliver takes a walk in Prospect Park, and in his past, in “In the Park,” running at Axis Theater.
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Gardner McKay’s “Sea Marks” asks whether a lonely Irish fisherman can find happiness in the big city (Liverpool) with a worldly young woman who loves his blarney.
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“The Fabulous Miss Marie,” a 1971 play revived by Woodie King Jr., features a former showgirl married to a parking valet, and a prodigious amount of drinking.
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