Ms. Jah is slim and not quite 5-foot-2, but on stage she looms larger. Especially when she’s holding a machine gun.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:49PMDeconstructing Eugene O’Neill’s take on Aeschylus’ “Oresteia” cycle, Target Margin mostly strips the stage and places the audience at a remove.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:41PMLydia R Diamond’s play, set during Barack Obama’s 2008 victory, plays with ideas of race and academia but fails to join the dots in this unrooted dramaHas a play ever boasted a cast of c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:44PMThe Pulitzer prize-winning writer’s latest sees him tackle his own youth with an at times predictable yet bracing tour of a small Catholic boarding schoolManhattan Theater Club, New YorkHa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32PMThis performance presents seminal events and issues of the period, but leaves many others untouched.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:14PMSiblings try to decide how to honor the memory of their brother, who died on Sept. 11, in Nick Gandiello’s affecting if overwrought drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMRobert Askins drew on his evangelical Texas upbringing to create a comedy about a teenager tormented by an evil puppet. As the play hits Britain, will he quit his day job mixing margaritas i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMA Brooklyn warehouse becomes a 1970s tropical resort in a sensuous Third Rail stage production that aims for immersion – but ultimately feels forcedHow quickly an orgy can pall.That’s on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AMA Nigerian couple embrace and rebuff life in America in Mfoniso Udofia’s play, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PMMr. Shepard comments on his play, soon to have its third major production in New York; his upbringing; and the limitations he finds in his own oeuvre.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMSam Shepard’s play has had two major New York productions; a third is coming to the New Group. Cast members in each have something to say about it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMThis play, an adaptation of Margery Williams‘s 1922 book, features the bond between a boy and a stuffed toy he receives for Christmas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:39PMSamuel J Friedman Theatre, New YorkUnfocused, anemic and astonishingly trivial, the only audience members likely to be scandalised by this adultery drama are those who need to get out moreTh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56PMIn Anna Moench’s play a woman gives up her job to accompany her husband to a seminary, where she must learn to be a docile homemaker.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PMDorothée Munyaneza uses spoken word, song and movement to revisit the genocide that forced her to flee her home as a 12-year-old.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:14PMAmerican Airlines Theater, New YorkMichael Frayn’s play about a disastrous attempt to stage the farce Nothing On is one of the funniest ever – but at times the cast seem to be acting in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26PMThe piece by the Australian company Ranters Theater is said to be based on a series of conversations with strangers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03PMSt Anne’s Warehouse, New YorkMusic’s eclectic spin on minimalism the high points of composer Donnacha Dennehy and playwright Enda Walsh’s collaborationThis small inn on the Irish coast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AMClove Galilee revives a show she developed with her mother, Ruth Maleczech, a founder of the experimental theater company Mabou Mines, who died in 2013.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:09AMMs. Lewis, a Broadway veteran, is replacing Tonya Pinkins, who quit the production last week because of creative differences with its director, Brian Kulick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:10PMThe new 18-day theater festival, which begins on Jan. 13, in the combined effort of several Brooklyn theaters seeking broader exposure for local work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:38PMThe differences between Tonya Pinkins, the lead actress, and Brian Kulick, the director, were touched by racial perceptions and diverging visions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:04PM“Skeleton Crew,” set in 2008, is the last in her trilogy of plays about Detroit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:46PMTyler Lea steps into the principal role in this mystery, using posture and gesture to convey his distress in certain situations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:14PMThe show’s opening, which was slated for Jan. 7, will be postponed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:28PMA Christmas in the company of Thornton Wilder is not exactly merry. The Peccadillo Theatre Company combines two of Wilder’s seasonal one acts—“The Long Christmas Dinner” and “Pullm…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01PMRadical hip-hop history, reinvented modern classics and emotive musicals led a wave of innovative and poignant plays on and off-BroadwayAt this point it’s almost embarrassing to devote any…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15AMBroadway Theatre, New YorkDespite the controversy over a framing device featuring actor Danny Burstein in modern dress, this is a solid, well-acted rendering of the classic musicalHas it rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMThe two shows are performing in New York for the holiday season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:56PMIn his solo show, Paterson Joseph plays an 18th-century gentleman said to have been the first black Briton to vote.
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