Monday, March 19, 2012
“Lucky Duck,” a reboot of “The Ugly Duckling” billed for 4-to-8-year-olds, features babes in the dark woods of show business.
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Tom Hewitt, previously a vampire, a tiger and a swindler, now takes on Pilate in the Broadway revival of “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
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In Simon Van Booy’s “Hindsight,” a chance encounter between two women develops into a revealing exchange.
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Ethan Lipton, a singer and songwriter, has written a musical ode to unemployment called “No Place to Go,” which opens at Joe’s Pub on Wednesday.
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Nina Raine’s new play inventively stages the deaf experience — Even when the words in Tribes are delivered via newly empowered hands or innovatively placed surtitles, they have t…
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“Tokio Confidential” at Atlantic Stage 2 is a comically lurid tale that bases several characters’ names on those in James’s “Portrait of a Lady.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:19PMIn Jim Findlay’s “Botanica,” at the 3LD Art and Technology Center, scientists grow a little too close to the flora they’re experimenting with.
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In “Rx,” the actress finds the softer side of her comic chops The Playbill for Rx, now being produced by Primary Stages, casts Marylouise Burke in a familiar light: She’s l…
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The Prospect Theater Company’s revamped version of Adam Guettel’s “Myths and Hymns” has the potential to convince theaters everywhere that the piece is viable as a stage property.
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The theater company Van Cougar mashes up staged snippets of Hollywood war movies with testimonials from real-life veterans in “Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din.”
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A theatre makes an asset of its unusual space Actors have clambered up it. Paintings have hung on it, as have flags and bunting. It has been a fence post, a ship mast, a tiny house and (on n…
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Part of the Under the Radar festival, “Chimera,” created by Suli Holum and Deborah Stein, considers a character who carries more than one set of chromosomes.
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Matthew Dellapina plays a Yankee adrift in China Theatre is full of men and women mystified, rattled, and even paralyzed by alien surroundings. From Agamemnon to Blanche DuBois, from Nick an…
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The Tony-winning actor plays a spy in “Blood and Gifts” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about how actors create their roles The first time we meet…
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Critics and writers for The New York Times recall their favorite moments onstage in 2011, some of them happening in the smallest and most offbeat of places.
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“Shlemiel the First,” a musical drawn from the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer that played in New York briefly in 1994, is being revived at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
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Cirque Shanghai’s “Bai Xi,” at the New Victory Theater, includes plenty of moves that children shouldn’t do at home.
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Marin Ireland dives into a weird and pretty world When in doubt, Marin Ireland sends her mother the script. That’s always important in determining whether Mama Ireland will be comforta…
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Sean McNall, a former Hamlet for the Pearl Theater Company, steps into the shoes of Shakespeare’s king in this production from the same company.
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Qui Nguyen’s play “She Kills Monsters” centers on a woman’s discovery of her dead sister’s role-playing game.
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
In the Phantom Limb production “69°S.,” at the BAM Harvey Theater, Ernest Shackleton and five of his shipwrecked crew members are portrayed by marionettes.
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The actress tackles Goneril’s villainy in “King Lear” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles — I…
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Designer Anita Yavich gets metaphysical for Broadway’s “Venus in Fur” Bags of tricks don’t get much deeper or kinkier than the one Vanda carries into her audition/ambush/apoth…
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“A Felony in Blue, or Death by Poker,” by Daniel Gallant at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, focuses on five mob bosses and a suspicious dealer who hold a territory-carving card game.
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A hot young director focuses on new work “It’s just some dream projects of mine that happened to find their way into the calendar in a strange way.” Sam Gold is describing …
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
In a new Broadway comedy, the actress returns to Woody Allen’s world When Julie Kavner bought her ticket to see Midnight in Paris, she had no idea what she was in for. And that&…
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MCC’s new play tackles race and identity Call a Spade is the name of a daring new four-character play by Shaleeha G’ntamobi, who has been called “our next Lorraine&#…
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