Tuesday, January 7, 2014
The writer Toni Bentley and the actress Laura Campbell discuss preparations for a solo show based on “The Surrender,” Ms. Bentley’s erotic memoir.
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The director and multimedia-theater pioneer Jay Scheib creates a live cinematic adaptation of Chekhov’s unfinished play.
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True aficionados of inventive theater know exactly where they need to be every January: far Off Broadway.
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Stage heavy Brían F. O'Byrne confronts a "slight" romantic comedy
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Virgil Gadson and Julius Chisolm discuss their dance routine for the jazz revue “After Midnight” on Broadway.
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Friday, October 4, 2013
Women playing male roles in Shakespeare is a time-honored tradition, about to be refreshed in “Julius Caesar,” coming to St. Ann’s Warehouse.
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Some famous examples of actresses who have played important male roles in Shakespeare plays over three centuries.
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The actor Ray Fisher plays Muhammad Ali in Will Power’s “Fetch Clay, Make Man,” at New York Theater Workshop.
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In Daniel Pearle’s debut play with LCT3, young Jake — never shown onstage — has an affinity for dressing like the Little Mermaid, among others female heroines.
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Nell Benjamin, the author of “The Explorers Club,” and Jennifer Westfeldt, who plays the lead role, say their own experiences with male condescension helped them shape the play’s heroi…
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John Malkovich, who will play the lead in “The Giacomo Variations” at City Center, recently discussed rakes, roués and his own more discreet charms.
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Kristine Nielsen has a long history with the playwright Christopher Durang, and now she has a Tony nomination.
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PMWalter Kerr Theatre, New YorkThe Testament of Mary, a monologue scripted by novelist Colm Tóibín from his novella of the same name and performed by Fiona Shaw, boasts the most unusual pre-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PMPublic theatre, New YorkImelda Marcos, the shoe-crazed wife of ex-Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, loved the nightlife. A habitué of Studio 54, she installed a disco ball in her New Y…
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In her first visit to New York, Marisol Valles Garcia watches a “poetic impression” of her life story, which includes four months as the police chief in a community controlled by drug ca…
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Al Hirschfeld theatre, New YorkMost New Yorkers would hesitate to don the dazzling footwear displayed in the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots. When you live in a city of potholes, sloping si…
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Broadhurst theatre, New YorkNora Ephron's Lucky Guy is a profane love letter to the lost, rollicking world of New York tabloid journalism. It is also a tribute to its real-life fallen son, t…
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Richard Rodgers theatre, New YorkDoes Broadway need another revival of Tennessee Williams's Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, its third in three years? Perhaps not. But when an actor such as Scarlett J…
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Gerald Schoenfeld theatre, New York"Always be closing." That maxim of salesmanship seems positively caustic when projected on to the curtain during the Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glen…
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Music Box theatre, New YorkKatie Holmes, the celebrity divorcee and box office draw, is a lovely and slender young woman, even when garbed in the drab midwestern wear required of Theresa Reb…
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For Quiara Alegría Hudes, whose Pulitzer Prize winner, “Water by the Spoonful,” begins a run in New York this month, writing plays keeps her tethered to her family and hometown, Philade…
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Classic Stage Company, New YorkLast summer, at least three different Uncle Vanyas bestrode New York stages. Recent years have also witnessed fields of cherry orchards, a small flock of seagu…
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We're used to complaining about unscripted interruptions – but sometimes the external world can affect a play in a good wayBack in the summer, just at the close of DruidMurphy's devastatin…
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The novelist Ayad Akhtar is confounding expectations in his screenplays and his debut play, “Disgraced,” set for the Claire Tow Theater.
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Three Chicago theater buddies — the director Dexter Bullard, the actor Michael Shannon and the playwright Craig Wright — make their Broadway debut with Mr. Wright’s “Grace.”
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From the sweaty solidarity of baking auditoriums to fireflies flickering at dusk outside, summer theatre has a special allure. And then, of course, there's aircon ...For a while, the Ice Fac…
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With the production of its 13th and last play, the playwrights’ collective 13P is on the cusp of dissolving.
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