Songs have been dropped, dance routines booted out and the street-fights look nasty. This is a West Side Story for the Trump era, says the avant-garde superstar director Ivo van Hove likes i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMBerkeley’s Judith Butler is the star attraction in a stimulating if overlong performance piece by her fellow academic Alexandra Chasin.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMThe star of Jett and Sin City is back on stage in Alice Birch’s raw Anatomy of a Suicide. She talks about the play’s emotional toll, how she unwinds and American puritanism Carla Gugino …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMThe Mint Theater Company pairs stage adaptations of short stories by the 19th-century Russian authors. They mesh like mismatched matryoshka dolls.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AMThe Pershing Square Signature Center, New York Despite the presence of a sublime Suzanne Vega, a cheery musical adaptation of the 1969 movie about two couples is too unsure of itself Ten tho…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMHaunted by Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” Rachel Bonds’s restless and friable play gathers a group of mostly artists at a lakeside retreat.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PMThe assignment: Head to Boston to see the touring stage show and the movie musical all in one day. The result: a purr, a yowl or both?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03PMTalene Monahon’s show at 59E59 Theaters feels provocative but unfinished, a pieced quilt of overlapping textures and ideas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12PMTelevision is in love with musical shows, with “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” and “Katy Keene” joining the growing chorus this winter. But they’re not easy to pull off.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PME.S.P. Conjuring the dead. Speaking with them. Shows like “The Thin Place” and “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” use the occult to put on a show.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMAfter another smash hit year at the box office, the next 12 months promises more of the same ... with added controversy The lights are bright on Broadway. Blinding even. With 35 plays and mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMAfter a family tragedy, the Australian director found a home in the theater, creating harrowing updates of classics. His latest: “Medea” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMNow playing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the 19th-century operetta is a fairy tale confection you can feel right down to your kishkes.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMNew York Theatre Workshop, New York An adaptation of the 2016 comedy is charming and well-performed but so slight that it fades from the memory fast I left Sing Street, the new musical from …
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMThere were big musicals, thoughtful political statements and big star disappointments in a disordered year of theater Broadway went to Paris this year. And to New Haven, north London, the Gu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMShows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMThe playwright left his home state 20 years ago. While rehearsing his new play, “Greater Clements,” he drove through the lonesome landscapes that still inspire his work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AMLyceum Theatre, New York Jack Thorne’s Broadway transfer of the Christmas classic is sentimental but moving and boasts a host of surprises Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has always …
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