Monday, March 13, 2017
This whimsical exploration of the world created by the writing of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë gets an alternately intriguing and irritating production.
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This musical pushes emotional buttons as it portrays a town’s efforts to accommodate travelers whose planes were diverted to a Canadian town after the 9/11 attacks.
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The director Sam Gold and his cast, led by an intrepid Sally Field, have deconstructed the Tennessee Williams classic. But don’t expect the pieces to be reassembled.
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Joshua Harmon’s comedy, at the Booth Theater, tells of a gay man’s turmoil as he watches wedding bells break up his gang of gal pals.
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This musical about a demonic barber could be more penetrating, but still respects the original story’s depiction of madness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03PMMr. Lipton teams up with Leigh Silverman to bring “The Outer Space†to Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater.
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Contemporary womanhood has its challenges, and this play explores many of them, like sexual harassment, eating disorders, Ophelia complexes and more.
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There are echoes of Samuel Beckett in this short, resonant tragicomedy, written by Will Eno and featuring Michael Emerson.
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Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford star in the marvelous revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical, at the newly restored Hudson Theater.
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This dark musical by Greg Pierce and John Kander examines the ordeals of a teenager trying to recover from a drugged captivity.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s take on a stark 15th-century morality play includes characters like Stuff, Death and Love.
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MartÃn Zimmerman’s play, starring Marin Ireland, approaches the subject of American gun violence from a startlingly original perspective.
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Fear festers, burrows and blooms in Caryl Churchill’s short and wondrous play that plumbs the depths of 21st-century terrors.
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In this Tracy Letts play, an Everyman suddenly realizes he doesn’t believe in God and goes about re-examining all aspects of his life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThis Richard Maxwell production at the Abrons Arts Center could be described as a sugar-free version of the new Hollywood musical.
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The author Katherine Rundell has repurposed some of Saki’s anarchic short stories for a 21st-century theater audience.
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Maura Tierney, Kate Valk, Scott Shepherd and the Wooster Group recreate a firestorm of a panel discussion in the timely and time-bending piece.
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The pared-down revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical relies more on Glenn Close’s astounding performance than the original lavish production could.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Lucas Hedges stars in this highly physical production about two dog-owning brothers who are short on social skills and living in a squalid suburban London apartment.
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This unsettling and imaginative production from Bela Pinter and Company looks back at state surveillance, sexual desires and the folk dancing scene in Communist Budapest.
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With soaring language and an improvisatory jazz spirit, Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s revival brings lives shaped by privation to throbbing life.
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Set in a women’s prison, this production is the third and last installment of the director Phyllida Lloyd’s series of Shakespeare plays for Donmar Warehouse.
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A revival of Martin McDonagh’s play features Marie Mullen as the mother, Mag; almost 20 years ago she played Maureen, Mag’s daughter.
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In this emotionally raw play from the Belarus Free Theater at the Under the Radar festival, three women relive their incarceration and interrogation.
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Our critics Ben Brantley and Wesley Morris talk about listening to the playwright, a great chronicler of the 20th century.
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