Sunday, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMFriday, April 1, 2016
In A. Rey Pamatmat’s play at Here, two Filipino families living in New York try to master Monopoly, mah-jongg, affection, aversion and assimilation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:01PMIvo van Hove’s production – set in a gloomy classroom and starring Ben Whishaw and Saoirse Ronan – doesn’t reach the highs of his version of A View from the Bridge and feels overly r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AMTuesday, March 29, 2016
With Hungry, the first in a planned election-year trilogy opening at New York’s Public Theater, Trump’s rise is a dubious gift: ‘I’m a citizen before I’m a writer’The plot of Hun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50AMMonday, March 28, 2016
Actors in William Burke’s play describe futile searches for authenticity and originality, while dangling in a rope net.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:34PMFriday, March 25, 2016
Musical theater had a bumper year in 2015, with breakout hits such as Hamilton drawing in new crowds and renewed excitement. But is this really a new dawn or has the hype clouded the much mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMThursday, March 24, 2016
Cort Theatre, New YorkDespite its impressive cast and soundtrack, Steve Martin’s tale of an editor in the American south who takes a young writer under her wing lacks Broadway lustreFinall…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42PMIn this adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel, Mr. Walker is working out and absorbing his character, a smooth banker who sidelines as a killer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:09AMFriday, March 18, 2016
Studio 54, New YorkThis joy of this musical, about two warring shop workers unwittingly conducting an epistolary romance, is how the songs deepen and contradict the conversationHungarian pas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMMonday, March 14, 2016
Atlantic Theatre Company, New YorkKenneth Lonergan once again explores the hypocrisy of likable characters in a play starring Timothy Olypahant that veers between farce, comedy and dramaStri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26PMThis play at the New Victory Theater, set during World War II, shows the heroism of these black Army pilots and the discrimination they faced back home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:22PMPublic Theatre, New YorkThough the plot falters, this is an important show in its conviction that transgender people’s social and romantic lives are as worthy of interest and empathy than …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PMThursday, March 10, 2016
Clurman Theater, New York, NYBased on a real-life case of a boy raised as a girl after a dire surgical mishap, this play is sensitively acted but could go deeper into the issuesIs biology de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01PMBelasco Theater, New YorkA distressing, nuanced two-hander about the dangerous influence and magnetism of traumatic events, this is the most lacerating play on BroadwayIt is hard to imagine …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PMThe performer’s work, which is having an encore run at 3LD Art & Technology Center, is continually being refined.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:20AMWednesday, March 9, 2016
Nederlander Theatre, New YorkSet on a floating casino hit by an earthquake (among other things), this knowingly awful musical seems more suited to a bar than BroadwayWho among us has not lon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:20AMTuesday, March 8, 2016
Westside Theater, New YorkNassim Soleimanpour’s play has a different performer every night, each handed the script upon arriving onstage. Lane took up the challenge, and his performance ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AMFriday, March 4, 2016
New York Theatre Workshop, New York, New YorkBeginning with the discovery of performance enhancing drugs in a locker-room, this play comes to the boil – and the lead actor deserves a medal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51AMPlaywrights Horizons, New YorkThe tensions between assimilation and honoring ancestry and tradition provide the subject for Danai Gurira’s inconsistent but engaging playDanai Gurira’s of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51AMFriday, February 26, 2016
Untitled Theater Company No. 61 presents an adaptation of the first novel in Paul Auster’s enigmatic “New York Trilogy.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:27PMThe minutiae of the pressures and games among female teachers living in close quarters at a boarding school are revealed in this Irish play from 1938.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMPolonsky Shakespeare Center, New YorkTrevor Nunn turns one of Shakespeare’s least-loved plays into something sumptuous and spectacular – though the seafaring plot remains ridiculousPeric…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AMThursday, February 25, 2016
Booth Theater, New YorkThe actor does not entirely inhabit the part of Erie, a melancholy gambler, in this lavish Michael Grandage production of a minor Eugene O’Neill workWhat small bliss…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWednesday, February 24, 2016
Dan O’Brien’s play examines his friendship with the photojournalist Paul Watson after Mr. Watson won a Pulitzer for images of a dead American soldier.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25AMMonday, February 22, 2016
With “Pericles” at Theater for a New Audience, Mr. Nunn is directing his 35th play out of 37 by Shakespeare.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMSunday, February 21, 2016
St Ann’s Warehouse, New YorkLike a folksy Waiting for Godot, this play, co-written by Rylance with the poet Louis Jenkins, is intensely charming in its cock-eyed humanityIf Samuel Beckett …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:09PMThe stage director Jack O’Brien reflects on his friendship with Mr. Nichols and the interviews for this documentary, which runs Monday on HBO.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:27PMThursday, February 18, 2016
Helen Hayes Theater, New YorkThe pressures of family, work and keeping a roof over one’s head simmer slowly in this superbly acted play about a beleagered family meeting in a tumbledown ap…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31PMThis Russian production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music plants actors amid the audience to heighten a sense of trepidation and exasperation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:39PMWednesday, February 17, 2016
Shakespeare’s comedy gets a party setting by an English troupe that specializes in wild versions of classic texts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:10PMMs. Jah is slim and not quite 5-foot-2, but on stage she looms larger. Especially when she’s holding a machine gun.
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