Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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&#…
SOURCE: TDF at 04:06PMThursday, September 15, 2011
Ellen McLaughlin’s “Septimus and Clarissa,” an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway,” throws down a bold visual gauntlet from its very first moments.
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“Lush Valley” amounts to a gussied-up high school civics class, albeit one that is occasionally commandeered by the glee club.
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Over the years Jonas Hassen Khemiri, the playwright behind “Invasion!,” has learned the subtle but corrosive role that words can have.
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In “The Tenant” by the Woodshed Collective, the audience has the run of a landmark Upper West Side church.
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“Follies” reminiscences from theater folks who have seen productions of the show from the original 1971 and beyond.
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A new show pushes the boundaries between the circus and the stage Les 7 Doigts de la Main, the Montreal circus troupe colloquially known as 7 Fingers, makes a point of pushing its vir…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:40AMWednesday, August 17, 2011
A husband-and-wife composer-lyricist team, inspired by the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and his wife, Consuelo, created a show called “Saint-Ex.”
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How the crew handles the raucous finale of the Broadway revival In the final haunting moments of Hair, the entire cast (with one crucial exception) files its way up the aisles singing an a c…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:01PMThursday, July 28, 2011
“The Yellow Brick Road,” a Latino-flavored riff on the L. Frank Baum classic, is carried by salsa and merengue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:46PMHow projection designers create their increasingly prominent art Call it the revenge of the A/V club. As theatre becomes more and more expensive, freestanding sets are increasingly giving wa…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:36PMTuesday, July 26, 2011
In “The Shoemaker” Danny Aiello plays an immigrant caught up in the terrorist attacks and recalling an earlier dark time in his family’s history.
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The actor-writer launches “The Patsy” and “Jonas” With his gray temples, strong features, and sunken eyes, David Greenspan could almost pass for Mitt Romney’s b…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:03PMThursday, July 21, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Unusual settings for staging Shakespeare have come to be celebrated as much as the plays and performances themselves.
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How the actress approached her latest Broadway role Sierra Boggess’ recent stage efforts have pitted her against, in order, a deformed impresario, a conniving octopus, and the impresar…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:58PMThursday, July 7, 2011
“MoLoRa” is a visceral approach to Aeschylus’s “Oresteia” by the South African playwright and director Yael Farber.
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Sunday, July 3, 2011
In “Mama, I Want to Sing: The Next Generation” a gospel musical is given a fresh look by a new generation of performers.
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A new series at New Georges asks playwrights to write the impossible For a playwright, it’s the dramaturgical equivalent of a blank check: a theatre company asking for a piece, …
SOURCE: TDF at 01:26PMTuesday, June 21, 2011
How the actor is tackling two roles for Shakespeare in the Park One advantage of performing in repertory is the chance to try on a variety of roles: Coriolanus one night, a stable han…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:28PMWednesday, June 15, 2011
The character actor John Cullum, at 81, shows no signs of slowing down: he’s playing in two Shakespeare in the Park productions this summer.
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The animal trainer William Berloni, who found Little Orphan Annie her dog and has groomed scores of other animals for Broadway, will be honored during the Tony Awards this weekend.
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An Off Broadway company revives a forgotten classic Three people appear in the very first scene of Rachel Crothers’ A Little Journey, never to be seen again. That fact alone wou…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:10AMThursday, May 26, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
How Mackenzie Crook Mastered His Tony-Nominated Role
When award season comes around, playing giants among men (and women) is often good for one’s mantelpiece. Hamlet, Medea, Max Bialys…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:34PMMonday, May 16, 2011
Tommy Smith and Reggie Watts’s “Radio Play” is performed in almost complete darkness at Performance Space 122, placing a higher premium on what is heard, as opposed to what is seen.
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Ronan Noone’s “Little Black Dress,” at the Theater at St. Clement’s, focuses on a woman who yearns to flee her husband and son.
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Humor is found in the grim setting of a not-so-distant time in Laurel Haines’s “Future Anxiety,” now at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa.
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