Lear deBessonet, whose musical adaptation of “The Winter’s Tale” opens Friday at the Delacorte Theater, has found a way to reconcile her activism with her art.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:54PMIts stars keep aging out of the title role, but “Matilda the Musical” remains sly and graceful.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:38PMIn Theresa Rebeck’s play “Poor Behavior,” trouble ensues when two couples go upstate for what promises to be a relaxing weekend getaway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe playwright Gary Winter combines unconventional, sometimes spooky elements in “Daredevil.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMTheater under the stars attracts all manner of unbidden, and unforgettable, human, creaturely and meteorological participation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:22PMCate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert reflect on their taxing roles as homicidal sisters in Genet’s 1947 play “The Maids,” opening at the Lincoln Center Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:13PMNeighborhood regulars protect a patch of territory, while newcomers try to revamp it in “Handball,” at Marcus Garvey Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PMLibation fuels intentions in “Strictly Dishonorable,” a comedy by Preston Sturges, revived by the Attic Theater Company.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PMWarren Leight’s “Sec. 310, Row D, Seats 5 and 6,” about three friends who are long-suffering Knicks fans, is the highlight of the three one-act plays of “Summer Shorts: Series A.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:58PMMarta Milans, whose family owns an organic goat farm in Spain, takes on a complicated role in Tanya Saracho’s “Mala Hierba,” now in previews at Second Stage Uptown.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21PMWant to know a good rhyme for fellatio? Or saxophone? Or Arkansas? So do the writers of this puerile musical comedyBill Clinton did not inhale. But the 42nd American president might want to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AMWith all the raw spontaneity of a rock'n'roll gig, this show cuts to the core of sexual identity, love and lossA friend brought me to Hedwig and the Angry Inch a few months after it opened o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThe soprano Renée Fleming stars in her first role in a play in “Living on Love,” a new comedy about a theatrical couple handling hard times.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:10PMThe discovery of a meaningful work of art in the Balkans sets off the drama in “Pentecost,” at Atlantic Stage 2.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PMDerek Ahonen’s “The Qualification of Douglas Evans,” about an oft-intoxicated writer, is part of a mini-festival from the Amoralists.
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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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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:51PMJohn 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMA man imprisoned for raping a classmate comes to terms with life after incarceration in “The Long Shrift,” directed by James Franco.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Drunkard’s Wife, an experimental theatrical troupe, loosely adapts “Histoire du Soldat” to create a bleary, madcap musical at the New Ohio Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:20PMThe local streets lend their spirit to the outdoor “Romeo N Juliet,” staged by the Classical Theater of Harlem.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:25PMThe Incubator Arts Project is presenting its final show, an ambitious, cryptic and yet tuneful sci-fi stage production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PM“Donogoo,” a 1930 French farce by Jules Romains, revived by Mint Theater Company, tosses barbs at targets like academia, psychiatry and big business.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:21PMThis 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:47AMTheater Breaking Through Barriers’ “Power Plays” consists of five short works about physical disabilities and the people who cope with them.
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