Monday, May 23, 2016
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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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Manhattan Theater Club, New YorkPlaywright Penelope Skinner offers a powerful portrait of an anguished woman fixating on the prospect of a baby as a source of affection, hope and escapePenel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16PMTuesday, May 17, 2016
Brooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theatre, New YorkThe 1998 production faltered, but David Hare’s play is back with Everett physically transformed to play the famed wit, sharp of mind but f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38PMVineyard Theatre, New YorkA tender unconventional new play explores the furore created by Sholem Asch’s play God of Vengeance, a flashpoint in Jewish and queer theatrical historyIn 1923, G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38PMMonday, May 16, 2016
Signature Theater, New YorkQuiara Alegría Hudes’ new play, which shares a director with Hamilton, has a fierce compassion for its characters and an ardent love for New York’s diversityI…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMSunday, May 15, 2016
Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New YorkHarvey Weinstein has spent millions trying to make a film about Peter Pan’s author fly on stage – but though the child stars shine, the music is leadenDo y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMThursday, May 12, 2016
The actress, nominated for a Tony for playing an office manager and mother from Scranton, Pa., knew from an early age that she wanted to be onstage.
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Acrobats, musicians and pole dancers infuse an air of surrealism into this neo-cirque show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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The theater sensation of the decade scooped a record 16 Tony nominations. Here are 16 reasons Lin-Miranda Manuel’s hip-hop musical broke new groundTony awards: Hamilton musical makes histo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:50PMMonday, May 2, 2016
Second 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSunday, May 1, 2016
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 10:48PMThis play by Leah Nanako Winkler has a crowded stage and a frenetic rhythm, but heralds the arrival of a new voice in theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PM59E59 TheatersRichard Bean’s 1999 play blends social realism with sometimes cruel jokes, managing a distinctive voice despite sticking with a standard recipe Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PMFriday, April 29, 2016
In the St. Ann’s Warehouse revival of the Tennessee Williams drama Mr. Foster plays Stanley Kowalski as “an ape: See. Grab. Take.”
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Music Box Theatre, New York This show about the creation of the first jazz musical manages to be both entertaining and informative – but unfortunately not at the same timeIf Broadway has t…
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American Airlines Theater, New YorkJessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne and Michael Shannon are all superb as the family tearing one another apart in a dark production of Eugene O’Neill’s finest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:44PMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Broadhurst Theatre, New YorkThis adaptation of the Natalie Babbitt book has flaws – the songs are repetitive and the set is chaotic – but the show’s spirit is ultimately touchingThe qu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38PMMonday, April 25, 2016
Lyceum Theatre, New YorkJesse Tyler Ferguson’s turn as a put-upon restaurant worker has more elements than El Bulli’s taster menu, and just as many surprisesOn a nondescript morning a fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52PMBrooks Atkinson Theatre, New YorkBased on the 2007 film, this show about a small-town diner waitress trapped in a loveless marriage is witty and bittersweet, yet its sexual politics leave a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AMThursday, April 21, 2016
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New YorkThe Wall Street maniac rides again in a musical rich in synth pop and buff bodies, but the meaning of Bret Easton Ellis’s original novel slides off the s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:57PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
One character in this conventional drama, presented at the New Ohio Theater, is dead but not exactly gone.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:26PMJessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Shannon and John Gallagher Jr. talk about their work for a coming Eugene O’Neill revival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:38AMMonday, April 18, 2016
In the Pearl Theater Company’s adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s farce “Le Dindon,” a wife swears that she will cheat on her husband only if he betrays her first.
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The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit presents this 90-minute version of the tragedy, with Sheldon Best and Ayana Workman as the star-cross’d lovers.
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Manhattan Theatre ClubWith elements of a thriller and absurdist comedy, the play takes us into the experience of a man losing his grip – though some very English slang ranklesAndré (Frank…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
Monday, April 4, 2016
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Playwrights Horizons, New YorkAnne Washburn’s constellation-referencing play provides moments to savor but ultimately leaves audiences hoping for what might have…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:44PMThe Hollywood actors join forces on a Broadway stage in this abuse-revenge drama. They discuss coping with the play’s shattering themes eight times a weekActors Jeff Daniels and Michelle W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:16PMSunday, April 3, 2016
With his troubled air and tousled hair, the actor has made his name with anguished characters – from Hamlet to Danny in London Spy. Now on Broadway in The Crucible, he talks about coming o…
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