Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Howard Barker's 1983 play "Victory: Choices in Reaction," having its American premiere at the Atlantic Theater's Stage 2, features Jan Maxwell in a tour de force performance.
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In "Sirens," the Penguin Repertory Theater comedy, neither men nor their Greek sea temptresses have changed, but their digital playthings have.
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"I Wish You Love" considers Nat King Cole's image, the man beyond it and his place as a black entertainer in the racially charged America of the 1950s and '60s.
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The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's sole non-Elizabethan offering this summer is a Jules Verne adaptation shot through with silliness.
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Shakespeare on the Sound's lively, likable production of "Much Ado About Nothing" abounds with characters and situations that contemporary young people can easily relate to.
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Sunday, May 29, 2011
Two River Theater Company's production of "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" comes through as a moving and entertaining evening.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21PM[SHARE]Neil Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor," being staged in Croton Falls, was inspired by Mr. Simon's early television career working for Sid Caesar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 28, 2011
Mr. Conaway, who earned praise as Kenickie, John Travolta's bad-boy sidekick in the film version of "Grease," was known to have an addiction to alcohol and drugs.
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It is hard to think of another stage musical that piles one blissful number on top of another with such escalating force, and the production at the Gateway Playhouse serves it up well.
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Judy Rosenblatt, starring in this revival about Peggy Guggenheim, a rich woman who did what she wanted, has the most important quality for the solo role: attitude.
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"Italian American Reconciliation," at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, is an operatic comic romance about a man who regrets divorcing his wife.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:46PM[SHARE]"Italian American Reconciliation," at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, is an operatic comic romance about a man who regrets divorcing his wife.
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"Beyond Therapy," Christopher Durang's absurdist comedy about searching for a love connection through the personals, is the season-opener at the Westport Country Playhouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PM[SHARE]When "Curtains," about a murder mystery on the set of a show, made it to Broadway, its star won a Tony Award. Now, it's at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
The Crossroads Theater's new production of "A Raisin in the Sun" is as strong, textured and unrelenting as it must have been when it opened on Broadway in 1959.
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The leader of a suburban book club sells it to television as a reality show in "Reading Under the Influence: The 'Real' Westchester Women's Book Club."
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
In George Bernard Shaw's domestic comedy, written 15 years after Ibsen's feminist shocker "A Doll's House," love, practicality and social equality in Victorian times are explored.
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"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" at the Paper Mill Playhouse is a colorful, cartoonish version of the musical set in ancient Rome.
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