Monday, July 24, 2017
Sunday, July 23, 2017
Tedious or contentious, the post-show discussion has become part of the theater landscape. Given a choice, would other writers issue a gag order?
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Monday, July 17, 2017
It’s almost always a good time to resurrect Willy Loman, Arthur Miller’s desperate Everyman, but Theater Mitu’s staging at BAM Fisher saps the play’s power.
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Anspacher theater, New YorkDirector Sam Gold finds more theatric bullion with his topsy turvy version of Hamlet that refuses to be hemmed in by tradition or – at times – sartorial tasteA…
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Thursday, June 29, 2017
This cabaret at the Triad offers broad sendups of President Trump for the two-drink-minimum crowd, but it’s hard to be farcical when real life is so bizarre.
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In Lauren Yee’s play, the disappearance of a child short-circuits language and takes over reality itself. But it can be survived.
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This Torben Betts play, a comedy set in northern England, skewers working class narrow-mindedness and liberal condescension.
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Annie Baker and Heidi Schreck wrote an episode of Amazon’s “I Love Dick” that our critic calls the best 20 minutes of television she has seen in years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMNew York City Center Stage IICan an affair between a middle-aged woman and an older man be explored through science? Simon Stephens springs some surprises, though his play is not entirely cr…
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The House of Cards actor offered outdated Johnny Carson impressions, a Bobby Darin number and a misfiring gag about Hillary Clinton’s emails on a night of occasional shock and unforgivable…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMSecond Stage TheatrePop score and outcast protagonist hit all the right notes as Benj Pasek and Justin Paul production explores intense issues – and critiques internet culture Can a perfor…
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Chisa Hutchinson’s portrait of a Chinese-American girl and her college admissions counselor is energetic but overstuffed.
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The experimental troupe Sister Sylvester reworked its script after the subject of this play, a young Turkish woman, was killed in Syria.
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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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Video clips, incense and guided meditation are mashed up in Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble’s offbeat exploration of courtship in the age of the app.
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They met while cast in the same play, married, and now appear together again, in “Animal,” which opens at Atlantic Stage 2.
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The decision of Edward Albee’s estate to deny production rights over the casting choice of a black actor has reignited a debate over theater’s relationship with raceLast week, a casting …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PMWednesday, May 17, 2017
Ain Gordon’s messy, heartbreaking show is both eulogy and autobiography, capturing the exciting and ungentrified city he knew in the 1970s.
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Atlantic Theater, New YorkA show filled with masterful mind-reading and nifty tricks successfully announces the celebrated mentalist’s stateside arrival off-BroadwayDon’t lie to Derren B…
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In this work written and choreographed by Jinah Parker, women detail their harrowing stories as female dancers swirl around them.
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A staged reading at Town Hall revisited confirmation hearings for President Trump’s cabinet nominees, with charismatic stars as the politicians.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PMAs musicals continue to break records, straight plays are struggling – with Sally Field-starring The Glass Menagerie the latest casualty of the seasonTom, the narrator of Tennessee William…
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Ms. Benton, a star of “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” talks about proving that women who look like her can play the girl who saves the day.
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Tuesday, May 2, 2017
In this collaborative work by the company Bucket Club, a sighting of the mythical monster forces an evolutionary biologist to confront her unhappy past.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMBette Midler, Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline provide some A-list glamour for this year’s nominations, but there’s no love for Amélie and Significant OtherAt the Tony awards this year, a…
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Golden Theater, New YorkLaurie Metcalf gives a thrilling performance in a speculative follow-up to Henrik Ibsen’s defining 1879 masterworkThere are sofa plays and dinner table plays. Plays…
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