It’s not hyperbole to suggest that Dan O'Brien's "True Story: A Trilogy" represents a distinctive achievement in theater history.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:36PMThe isolated characters in “Dancing Lessons” by Mark St. Germain, one with severe Asperger’s syndrome, are challenged by their limitations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:55PMTheaterWorks stages a sweet, fast-paced production that comes off as an urban fairy tale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:45PM“Million Dollar Quartet” explores the day that four country music legends were in the same studio at the same time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:45PMThe Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, in Putnam County, offers two plays, one traditional and one with a modern twist.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMThe richest vein running through these two plays about painting is what they say about men and how heavily ego figures into their lives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:25PMA play uses the art of origami to ferret out some intriguing truths about love.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:01PMThe director Evan Yionoulis stages a production of a fine Shakespearean mess that bends genders in addition to twisting genres.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:45AMLife merely plays on the stones of death in this tale of the star-crossed lovers, with a pit of pebbles like a grave at their feet.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMFrom the stuff of dreams, “The Moors” at Yale Rep, a new comedy, is a play of deceit and revelations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:57AMA six-actor production of Shakespeare’s dark comedy about life’s complexities and contradictions is playing at the Long Wharf Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:16PMThe Goodspeed Opera House’s adaptation of Frank Capra’s classic Christmastime film, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” sets the original’s existential struggle to music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:13AMAudiences have followed Hudson Stage Company’s move to Armonk from Briarcliff Manor; “Other Desert Cities” is its third production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:13AMA production of an early Alan Ayckbourn comedy at the Westport Country Playhouse delivers big laughs and a few insights.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:40PM“La Cage aux Folles” may be campy, but it succeeds because it celebrates that most traditional of values: love.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:14PM“My Name Is Asher Lev,” a play based on the novel of the same name by Chaim Potok, continues through Aug. 2 at Penguin Rep Theater in Stony Point, N.Y.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:09PMIn Britain during World War II, a working-class family keeps calm and carries on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:07PMThe play, at Penguin Repertory Theater in Stony Brook, imagines Walt Disney debating Igor Stravinsky part of the creative process that produced “Fantasia.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PM“Outside Mullingar,” by John Patrick Shanley, a 2014 nominee for the Tony Award for best play, is being presented by the Hudson Stage Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02PMBrecht’s “Chalk Circle” explores the strong temptation of virtue despite the pull of expediency.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PMAn experiment becomes a metaphor for the gloomy lives of the family in a revival of Paul Zindel’s play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PM“NOW” follows Kevin Spacey and his fellow actors in a production of “Richard III” that is staged around the world, from Beijing to Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:01PMVarious issues unfold for a family of actors in “Just 45 Minutes From Broadway,” a film adaptation of the Henry Jaglom play.
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