Thursday, June 23, 2016
Written by Kim Davies, this play focuses on an apparently brutal rape, its aftermath and the writer for a national magazine who covers the story.
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“Privacy,” a British hybrid comedy-documentary remade for an American audience and starring Mr. Radcliffe, ponders the trade-offs of our connected world.
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Brooke O’Harra’s work, subtitled “A Living History Tour,” draws on her career and is a meditation on the process of creation and the weirdness of reception.
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Shakespeare in the Park, New YorkAn all-female version of Shakespeare’s problem play starts with a Trump-style announcer at a beauty pageant and ends with a rousing version of Bad Reputati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:40PMWhat works on Broadway doesn’t always succeed in London, but despite being a deeply American story, the blockbuster musical has the potential to be universalThe Americans are coming! The A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMHosting, Corden opened with an uncharacteristically serious monologue as the awards ceremony paid tasteful tribute to the victims of Orlando while demonstrating the consolations of theatreHa…
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59E59 Theaters, New YorkTwo plays from over 40 years apart show the persistence of Ayckbourn’s themes – the failure of humans to communicate – but offer a faint ray of hopeAlan Ayckbou…
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Irish Repertory Theater, New YorkA therapist and his patient are haunted by guilt and psychic visitations in this poignant revival of Conor McPherson’s ambiguous and shimmering playIt take…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22PMPublic Theater, New YorkThis exuberant and original new musical mashes up genres from rap to operetta, creating a flawed but glorious portrait of the face on the $10 billIn a letter to Georg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:27PMThey’re the biggest awards in theatre – and in 2016, the Hamilton juggernaut looks poised to bury the competition. But who else is likely to get a look-in? This is the year Hamilton blew…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07PMMs. Mitchell’s frisky and musically daring “Hadestown” is a version of the Orpheus myth retold in the American vernacular.
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Dan Hoyle’s play, an affectionate portrait of a South Bronx facing gentrification, is inspired by conversations with borough residents.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:57PMMCC, New YorkDespite the raunchy one-liners, comedy about a couple falling in love in a cancer ward is really about the people mask difficult emotions, especially in familiesAs places to mee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52PMTheater for the New City’s production, positioned as a cracked “One Thousand and One Nights” of sorts, shows the difficulty of translating prose works to the stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:55PMLeslie Odom Jr said last week that despite Hamilton’s success, he’s still not being offered the roles a white actor would be. Will things ever change? We speak to actors and casting agen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:19PMClaire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center, New YorkBranden Jacobs-Jenkins’s latest is his usual mix of complex ideas with impossible time constraints, so expect a series of knots rather than a …
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The theater sensation of the decade scooped a record 16 Tony nominations. Here are 16 reasons Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical broke new groundTony awards: Hamilton musical makes histo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:56PMMr. Rogers, whose play “Universal Robots” is opening at the Sheen Center, said science fiction “makes tackling challenging ideas a lot more fun.”
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Roles were spread around this year, but women are often still playing victims. Our critics discuss what worked, what didn’t and what they hope to see.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:57AMA dark take on the family drama in the post-financial crisis era, The Humans has been one of the most critically raved-about plays on Broadway for yearsStephen Karam is of two minds about th…
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As James Corden fans waiting to see One Man, Two Guvnors in the West End now know, the big-name actor may not be the one you see on stage. But sometimes these performances are the bestYou've…
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Pershing Square Signature Center, New YorkEisenberg is such a skilled practitioner of the comedy of mortification it’s surprising he can talk through all the feet in his mouth – but is i…
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Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New YorkThe Wall Street maniac rides again in a musical rich in synth pop and buff bodies, but the meaning of the original novel slides off the slick surroundingsH…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34PMVallejo Gantner, the artistic director of PS122 who will step down when a replacement is found, said, “You want to leave when the going’s good.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:01PMThe adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s modern classic couldn’t survive in a competitive theater landscape where only the very best is good enoughThe Broadway run of American Psycho, the m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMThursday, May 26, 2016
This solo show, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, imagines that “Friends” couple struggling in a long-term relationship.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:02PMLyric Theatre, New YorkThe popular circus troupe’s first Broadway show is a cacophony of ridiculous extravagance, from an erotic aerial pas de deux to … zombiesFitfully thrilling and con…
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The performer, playwright, composer and director Mike Iveson has preoccupied himself with what makes us human in his new sci-fi song cycle, at the Kitchen.
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Manhattan Theatre Club, New YorkThe multi-narrative work sees the cast – including Charlie Cox – shift through neurological oddities. But is the whole thing too cerebral for its own good…
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Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, New YorkCush Jumbo performs Jospehine Baker with such passion that it comes to seem less like homage and more like invocationErnest Hemingway called Joseph…
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