Friday, July 31, 2015
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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AMThursday, July 30, 2015
This play centers on a pining Soviet locomotive who is dragooned by circus impresarios for some challenging tasks.
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New York City Center, New YorkThomas Ostermeier’s present-day production works against the text, which is exciting in the first half but makes the tragedy unmotivated and unlikelyThomas Os…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMMonday, July 27, 2015
Friday, July 24, 2015
In Jesse Freedman’s update of the Euripides tragedy, at the Ice Factory Festival, the citizens of Thebes gather and make music at a college-town sports bar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:30AMThursday, July 23, 2015
Cherry Lane Theater, New YorkIn a show invisibly directed by Jerry Seinfeld, the comedian riffs entertainingly on New York’s history, but his grouchy schtick winds up staleThe comedian Col…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20PMWednesday, July 22, 2015
This pair of actors, increasingly cast in Shakespeare in the Park productions, have built a chemistry onstage and off.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:28AMSunday, July 19, 2015
Joel Paley and Marvin Laird’s musical, about a little girl determined to secure a part in a school play, is revived at St. Luke’s Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:13PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
The actress, who has a recurring role on “The Americans,” plays a sports agent in the Fernanda Coppel play at Second Stage Uptown.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:50PMMr. Gold, a director, and Ms. Baker, a playwright, whose new show, “John,” opens next Wednesday, have been longtime collaborators with a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award between them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:31PMMonday, July 13, 2015
Marquis Theatre, New YorkEven when they hint at how to do their tricks, the magic double act, celebrating 40 years together, still manages to daze and bemuse“We pulled a rabbit out of a ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AMFriday, July 10, 2015
Pan Asian Repertory Theater’s production of this show promises a fresh approach to the material in this wartime musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21AMTuesday, July 7, 2015
The Weeds and The West Wing star, currently on Broadway, reflects on the stage: had this been a film, ‘they wouldn’t have cast me’In Simon Stephens’s two-character play Heisenberg, n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PMFriday, July 3, 2015
Williamstown Theatre FestivalVeering from melodrama to realism to pornography, William Inge’s play flummoxes both actors and audience as it careers to an unintentionally comic conclusionWh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:09PMWednesday, July 1, 2015
The acclaimed Irish troupe condenses “Richard II,” “Henry IV, Part 1,” “Henry IV, Part 2” and “Henry V” into a seven-hour marathon performance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:27PMMonday, June 29, 2015
Lincoln Center Theater, New YorkIt stars Patti LuPone in a gold lamé gown, but this story of a young gay man discovering life in the theatre lacks nuance and heartPatti LuPone is now in her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56PMManhattan Theater Club, New YorkThe jokes about pickles might be contemporary, but everything else is wearyingly familiar in Melissa Ross’s play about three sisters gathering for a weekend…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMFlea Theater, New YorkMarried for 23 years, Tony Shalhoub and Brooke Adams pour themselves into Beckett’s drama about a couple trapped in an implacable, sun-baked presentTony Shalhoub and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMSunday, June 28, 2015
The folk musical, at the South Street Seaport Museum, is set in the 19th century and centers on Percy, the son of a whaler.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMFriday, June 26, 2015
The star of Clueless and other 90s films left the spotlight – but continued to take meaty theatre roles, like her current one in new play Of Good StockIt’s been more than 20 years since …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10PMThursday, June 25, 2015
As the National Asian American Theater Company readies a revival of “Awake and Sing!,” a founder talks about the casting barriers her troupe is trying to surmount.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:46AMWednesday, June 24, 2015
American theatre's Wasserstein prize for young, female writers has failed to find a winner. I'm not surprised – but is it really a gender issue?The playwright Wendy Wasserstein had some ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:08AMMonday, June 22, 2015
This production by the company Piehole translates Samuel Beckett’s “Foirades/Fizzles” into an experimental performance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMSoho Rep, New YorkTaking place in rehearsals for an unnamed play, Anne Washburn’s engaging drama features a vexing actor, bizarre juxtapositions and unexpected poignancyIn Anne Washburn’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMSunday, June 21, 2015
This interactive dance-theater work from Ms. Frank invites the audience to take part in a coming-of-age tradition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:04PMThursday, June 18, 2015
Classic Stage Company in New York, New YorkThis production of the mortality play falls flat with diabolical sing-alongs, awful fight choreography and star Chris Noth wishing he were somewher…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PMWednesday, June 17, 2015
Delacorte theater in Central Park, New YorkThe beautiful outdoor setting of Michael Greif’s production can’t obscure its shortcomings as this Shakespeare in the Park play fails to ignite…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PMThursday, June 11, 2015
The playwright examines friendship and loneliness in a new play about a gay man who loses his three best girlfriends to marriage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37AMTuesday, June 9, 2015
Forced to leave a role he always wanted to play, Edward Petherbridge returns in ”My Perfect Mind,” a piece he helped create about not playing King Lear.
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