Thursday, September 24, 2015
Mr. Karam, who specializes in agonizing comedies that are funnier than their subjects would indicate, has a new play, “The Humans,” that can also be viewed as a horror story.
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This Mark Dendy cabaret explores the story of Ms. Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, who is serving a prison term for leaking documents.
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Friday, September 18, 2015
Playwrights Horizons, New YorkA play about a charismatic pastor who has had a revelation that upsets his congregation asks difficult questions about belief and behaviour in AmericaWhether or…
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Classic Stage Company, New YorkThis ‘transadaptation’ of a Greek tragedy by an experimental playwright charts the creation of the characters we recognise from the epics – with spine-ti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38PMMr. McGrath, a longtime character actor in theater, has won praise for his caricature-free portrayal of Tracy in Matthew Lopez’s play.
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Al Hirschfeld theatre, New YorkMost New Yorkers would hesitate to don the dazzling footwear displayed in the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots. When you live in a city of potholes, sloping si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25PMIn Gabrielle Reisman’s play, three sisters sort through their dead father’s belongings in search of a will.
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Inspired by a Jean Genet novel, this misbegotten mash-up includes nudity, cross-dressing and a bathroom break.
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Her experimental play Mr Burns was described as ‘three hours of utter hell’ by one critic – but Washburn has been hailed as one of the most innovative playwrights aroundThe playwright …
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Woodshed Collective’s theatrical scavenger hunt sends participants racing from one location to the next in Lower Manhattan, often at a jog, sometimes in a moving vehicle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:26PMIf an existentialist philosopher ever attempted a light romantic comedy, it might sound a little like this quaintly absurdist play by Alan Hruska at the Cherry Lane Theater.
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MCC Theater, New YorkIt’s charming, but this play about an initially reluctant drag queen ducks the complicated questions – though the musical numbers are dynamiteTo thine own self be tr…
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The quirky theater company Elevator Repair Service is staging a play by Sibyl Kempson, who is known for her offbeat scripts.
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The German writer Marius von Mayenburg’s play about troubled adolescent siblings is at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMMs. Engel, best known for Georgette on the 1970s sitcom, returns to the stage in the play “John,” which features her in her first leading role.
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French whimsy, British royals and Liberian rebels vie for attention with adaptations of Misery and a Confederacy of Dunces and a Lloyd Webber musicalThe Berkeley Repertory Theatre trades nor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMThis play, set five years after the Rwanda genocide, examines the slipperiness of truth, the difficulty of ever determining what happened and why.
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The new Broadway season includes no new plays by women or writers of color, and last season less than a quarter of plays produced in America were by women. While the internet is finally begi…
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The writer has several plays preparing for production, including “Photograph 51,” which will star Nicole Kidman in London.
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In Mr. Posner’s first New York production, the melancholy comedy “Judy,” set in the year 2040, the theater no longer exists.
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The New York International Fringe Festival, now in full swing, features glimmers of talent and skill amid the amateurism and malfunctioning air-conditioners.
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Mr. Ridley, whose controversial play, “Mercury Fur,” opens this week Off Broadway, follows his art across many forms: photography, film and children’s novels among them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:51PMMr. Ridley, whose controversial play, “Mercury Fur,” opens this week Off Broadway, follows his art across many forms: photography, film and children’s novels among them.
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Shakespeare in the Park, New YorkSex, sleaze and leather jerkins all feature in Daniel Sullivan’s farcical take on ancient Britain, which despite its shortcomings manages to succeed despit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMSignature Theatre, New YorkThe latest offering from Annie Baker focuses on things both seen and unseen, and benefits hugely from the playwright’s feel for character and dialogueMaybe the p…
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The second part of this series comprises three plays centering on an intimate encounter, a dictator and a man stuck in his comfort zone.
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A journalist has called for a return to the days when theatregoers would put on their best outfits – but given that most people consume culture at home, showing up with pants on probably s…
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