Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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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In the historical drama “Triangle,” brief eyewitness accounts of the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire are interspersed with a love story and Tin Pan Alley tunes.
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A new musical brings a Hollywood choreographer back to Broadway
The intertwined tango-ing limbs of Brangelina in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The alternately jaw-dropping (in an awful way) and jaw-dr…
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Belarus Free Theatre performs plays that would get them arrested back home
Command performances in London’s House of Parliament, 10-minute standing ovations in New York, adoring crowds in …
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
Classic Stage Company serves up “Double Falsehood,” which might be a late-career collaboration between Shakespeare and John Fletcher or might simply be a fraud.
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The playwright Sharr White has embraced the practical way in which he lives his life in his creative endeavors, and the approach has helped make his play “The Other Place” his first majo…
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How actors navigate big ideas in the Broadway revival of Stoppard’s play
Early in Arcadia, Tom Stoppard’s beguiling mashup of academic one-upsmanship, fractals, Lord Byron, landscape…
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
The actor becomes a director for John Leguizamo’s new Broadway show
Summer of Sam. The Ice Age films. Super Mario Brothers. For better or for worse, these were all major touchstones in Jo…
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With the Wooster Group’s latest production, Scott Shepherd extends his downtown legacy
Upon his first exposure to Gatz, Elevator Repair Service’s six-hour, word-for-word staging of F…
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B. H. Barry, a master of stage fighting, is directing a sword-studded version of “Treasure Island,” aimed at younger audiences.
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In the Polish novelist Dorota Maslowska’s play “A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians” at Abrons Arts Center, the seemingly nihilistic title couple are not without vulnerability.
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The vaunted actor discusses the dark side of his latest Broadway role
Brian Cox hates sports.
“I’m completely antithetical to them,” says the burly Scottish actor, who has assembled a …
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Ching Valdes-Aran reprises her role as an elderly immigrant missing the old country in the Ma-Yi Theater production of “Flipzoids.”
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
The “Proof” playwright David Auburn has adapted for the stage a forgotten 1906 comedy of manners, “The New York Idea.”
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Monday, January 3, 2011
How the fest celebrates everything from Beckett to Van Damme
Every January, just as a sizable number of Broadway theatres find themselves without inhabitants, off-Off Broadway basks in an ex…
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Judith Malina, legendary co-founder of the Living Theater, tells the biblical story of the rebellious Korach as a prototype for anarchists through the ages.
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In “Looking at Christmas,” a writer and an actress meet in front of Bloomingdale’s on Christmas Eve and begin a holiday tour, exchanging pop-culture minutiae all the way.
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The origins of “Three Pianos,” a rowdy mash note to Schubert at New York Theater Workshop, go back either 2 or 185 years.
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
How the Oscar nominee surfs the chaos of Mistakes Were Made
Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about how actors and how they create their roles
The bipolar truth-t…
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