Thursday, February 16, 2017
Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre, New YorkDespite a strong performance from a perfectly cast Matthew Broderick, this play about a play doesn’t cut as deep as it shouldWallace Shawn is a pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMAsad is a refugee whose refuge keeps receding, in this music drama, directed by Mark Dornford-May, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Sunday, February 12, 2017
“Beardo,” the musical, is a louche, lewd and assertively weird fantasia on the life of Rasputin, now at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Brooklyn.
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This two-character play by Tanya Saracho centers on a Mexican-born woman who comes to Los Angeles to work in TV, and an American-born man who identifies as Mexican.
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This piece by the Wooster Group was inspired by a 1971 debate that pitted Norman Mailer against some of the most outspoken feminists of the day.
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“Her Opponent,” at the Provincetown Playhouse, reconsiders the 2016 campaign had the candidates’ sexes been flipped.
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St Ann’s Warehouse, BrooklynBenedict Andrews’ poignant new staging of Tennessee Williams’s play, imported from London, feels utterly contemporaryTennessee Williams’ play has travelle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18PMFriday, January 27, 2017
Three plays are presented in “Author Directing Author,” by Neil LaBute, Marta Buchaca and Marco Calvani, who direct one another’s works.
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In this Mint Theater production — written by Miles Malleson in 1933 but only now having its world premiere — a couple weigh the merits of polyamory.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
This updated version of Henrik Ibsen’s 1867 verse drama includes rock and pop songs as it centers on an adventurous Scandinavian lad.
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This play by Bekah Brunstetter (“Oohrah!”) follows a teenager in the 1990s through early adulthood, and a pioneer girl in the 1800s. Both are named Jane.
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Samuel J Friedman TheatreExtraordinary performances help to bring the decorated playwright’s 1979 script to life for the first time on BroadwayThe Broadway debut of August Wilson’s Jitne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48PMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Paul Cameron’s Hardy’s new play at the Ensemble Studio Theater focuses on two actors, one a success in pornography, the other just a journeyman player.
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Nothing much happens in this Under the Radar festival play about mellow headbangers by Philippe Quesne. But it’s a wonderful nothing.
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Box office records are being broken a theater-goers flock to popular shows – but what’s behind the sudden surge?In early January, just days after the Times Square ball had made its annua…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMSunday, January 8, 2017
Ethel Barrymore Theater, New YorkAndrew Upton’s Platonov is set in 1990s Russia, a country between communism and oligarchy. Between them, its star and Richard Roxburgh bring it fully to li…
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From Under the Radar to Coil to American Realness and beyond, the curtain’s going up on several January festivals that insist on engaged audiences.
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Big stars from Cate Blanchett to Sally Field and yet more stage adaptations of classic movies are set to dominate the boards in the new yearIf what’s wanted is farce and tragedy, drama and…
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016
The Australian actors team up yet again onstage, this time in “The Present.” It can’t possibly end well, can it?
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Musical revisits an important and shameful past of the internment of Japanese Americans but story on stage fails to deliver distinctive and rich performances The forced internment of 120,000…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12AMMonday, December 12, 2016
New York Theatre WorkshopAn army barracks provides a striking setting for Sam Gold’s take on Shakespeare’s classic that minimizes questions of race and amps up toxic masculinitySam Gold …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04PMThe year began downbeat and ended oddly, with Dear Evan Hansen and Heisenberg among the highlights as Cirque du Soleil fell flat with ParamourWhen history books come to discuss the Broadway …
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This Douglas Turner Ward “satirical fantasy” from 1965 has been revived by the Negro Ensemble Company, performed largely by black actors in whiteface.
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This play by Hillary Bettis, about a fictitious Florida tourist attraction, sits uneasily somewhere between gritty naturalism and magical realism.
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The creators of the buzzy high school-set production talk about the dangers of the digital world for teenagers as their play hits BroadwayDuring its development, the creators of Dear Evan Ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMSunday, December 4, 2016
Jason Bishop’s “Straight Up Magic” and “The Illusionists: Turn of the Century” offer audiences a chance to feel bewitched, bothered and bamboozled.
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