“American Night: The Ballad of Juan José,” at the Yale Repertory Theater, isn’t exactly a play or musical; it feels like an absurdist history pageant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:45PM“Vita and Virginia,” a play about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West that is adapted from two decades of their correspondence, is at Luna Stage in West Orang…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:14AMSuzan-Lori Parks directed “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize play, in the shining first production of the 2012-13 season of the Two River Theater Company in Red Bank.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:19AM“Sounding Beckett,” directed by Joy Zinoman, features three Samuel Beckett plays written rather late in his life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PM“Harbor,” at the Westport Country Playhouse, starts as a horror story of houseguests who swear they are staying only one night but refuse to leave, then the tale takes surprising turns.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12AMKeith Lee Grant directs an intimate chamber version of “Dreamgirls,” Michael Bennett’s 1981 R&B musical about the rise of a 1960s girl group.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:27PMThe message of “Cougar the Musical” is that relationships between older women and younger men are a great idea.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03PMDani Vetere's play is about an archaeologist whose professional and personal life is in disarray.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:57PMWritten by Ido Bernstein, the show explores the culture of aggressive masculinity in contemporary Israel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:37PMMark Chrisler's solo show is presented in the form of an art history lecture about Vermeer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:15PMThe cheerfully absurdist satire comes courtesy of Trembling Stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:27PMA 1956 Broadway flop is given the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" treatment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PMA Shakespeare work that has been performed only twice on Broadway is at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater at Drew University in Madison, N.J.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:39PM“The 39 Steps,” at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, N.Y., is a perfect example of the company’s fabulous sense of play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:29PMKaroline Leach’s “Tryst,” playing at TheaterWorks Hartford, City Arts on Pearl, is a story of a con man and a spinster that delivers psychological twists and turns.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PM“Tiny Bubbles,” at the Medicine Show Theater, follows a gay man whose roommate has decided to give up drinking.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:23PMIn “Tartuffe,” a comedy by Molière being staged at the Westport Country Playhouse, a family struggles to free its patriarch from his thrall to a religious charlatan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:30PMThe musical "Central Avenue Breakdown" follows a family of jazz musicians and their move to Los Angeles in 1943.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:47PMThe comedy “Hell: Paradise Found” at 59E59 Theaters, written and directed by Seth Panitch, makes the argument for why it’s better to end up in hell than in heaven.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:17PMMs. Holm was 25 in 1943 when she was cast as Ado Annie in “Oklahoma!,” and in 1947 her performance in “Gentleman’s Agreement” garnered her the Oscar for best supporting actress.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:23PMShakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors” is performed outdoors at the Greek Theater at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morris Township, through July 29.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00PMIn the New York Classical Theater’s “panoramic” production of “Twelfth Night,” the cast moves to a new spot for nearly every scene, and the audience follows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMIn Neil Simon’s comedy “The Odd Couple,” Felix is as morose and finicky as Oscar is cheerful and easygoing; when he moves in, he turns Oscar’s relaxed home into a bastion of neatness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:50PM“The Ahh Factor,” by Bruce Graham, and works by A. R Gurney and Neil LaBute highlight six plays about dealing with disabilities in “More of Our Parts,” at the Clurman Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:37PMThe Westport Country Playhouse puts on a moving production of the play “The Year of Magical Thinking,” which Joan Didion adapted from her memoir of dealing with the death of her husband.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:30PM“Once on This Island,” a fairy tale with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty, is at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:13PMIn a happy spoof of what was once a serious piece of fiction, the moors of Devon, England, are a comedy location.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:26AM“My Wonderful Day,” one of Alan Ayckbourn’s lesser-known but not-less-funny comedies, is the final production of the Two River Theater Company’s 2011-12 season.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:09PM“My Name Is Asher Lev,” adapted from the novel by Chaim Potok, is being staged at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven through May 27.
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