Tuesday, December 13, 2022
“Downstate” asks its performers to portray men who have done the unimaginable. Three of the play’s actors discuss what it takes to meet that challenge.
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New York Theatre Workshop, New York
The infamous 1981 disaster has returned off-Broadway with help from Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe
It is a paradox of human existence that while we e…
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Attempts to modernise the gender politics of the classic comedy struggle but there are some moments that deliver enough razzle-dazzle
There are several chase …
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Early 20th-century San Francisco and Guangdong, China, overlap in Lloyd Suh’s artful examination of the emotional price of immigration.
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Though smaller and less glitzy than extravaganzas of years past, “Dream Big” is a brisk, welcoming, back-to-basics experience brimming with pizazz.
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Jefferson Mays stars in a Broadway adaptation of the Dickens classic, a one-man production that was originally live-captured for streaming.
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Will Arbery’s play explores the existential dread filling the minds of an Illinois city’s public employees with the subtlety of a polar vortex.
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Their new Off Broadway play, a dark comedy about power, inheritance and, of course, witchcraft, is now in previews at Lincoln Center Theater.
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In Quiara Alegría Hudes’s new play at the Signature Theater, five performers try to summon generations of willful women.
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The Irish actor’s one-man show on Broadway delves into painful and playful memories alike. He even imitates the oddballs of his Dublin boyhood.
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Not quite a comedy and not quite a thriller, Kate Tarker’s play is an antic study of two women preparing for a game (or possibly an attack).
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The playwright Jiehae Park’s sly and polished adaptation of “Macbeth” transports the characters from the Scottish heath to the halls of a Midwestern high school.
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American Airlines Theatre, New York
A diverse re-envisioning of the 1969 historical musical offers up some great opportunities for a game cast but struggles to justify its existence
The firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PMA new play by Diane Davis at the New Ohio Theater addresses the topic head-on, but clumsily, our critic writes.
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Manhattan Theater Club at the Samuel J Friedman Theater, New York
Martyna Majok’s sensitive drama about four characters on the margins is empathetically acted and unusually compassionate
T…
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Elevator Repair Service, the experimental theater company, brings to life the 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr.
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A Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” has a Black lead for the first time, giving Pierce a chance to step into a role he was “born to play.”
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Monday, September 19, 2022
This three-actor play initiates a dialogue with Georg Büchner’s “Woyzeck,” examining men’s violence against women.
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David Strathairn is remarkable in a solo show about Jan Karski, who was profoundly changed by what he witnessed during World War II.
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We spoke to three actors and a playwright — Gregg Mozgala, Bonnie Milligan, Solea Pfeiffer and Noah Diaz — who are taking big shots this season.
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The comedian Kate Berlant’s latest experiment, directed by Bo Burnham at the Connelly Theater, positions her as an actress with a semi-traumatic origin story.
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The Broadway legend, who has won more Tony awards than any other performer, on what ‘the American songbook’ means to her
“I’m trying to get to the truth of why I’m singing this son…
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Daniel K. Isaac’s stylistically daring play at La MaMa doesn’t quite fulfill its promise, but it suggests the playwright has more stories to tell.
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This shimmering Shakespeare adaptation at the Delacorte Theater retains the outline of the original, while making space for songs. You don’t have to sing along, though you may want to.
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The Tony-winning Broadway actor has made a career playing powerful women. Her latest is a drug queenpin inspired by 50 Cent’s mother in the newest “Power” series on Starz.
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The new Elton John-Shaina Taub musical, based on the popular film about a fashion-world ingénue and her demanding boss, isn’t yet ready-to-wear.
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Themes of change, death and rebirth abound in this peculiar production, a triumph of style and low-budget ingenuity.
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Anne Washburn’s 2012 play about a post-pandemic society reckoning with loss has not aged at all, our critic writes.
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The Encores! revival of this fairy-tale musical, with songs by Stephen Sondheim, arrives on Broadway with its humor, wonder and humanity intact.
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