Monday, April 2, 2018
A starry cast and perceptive staging make Edward Albee's 1991 play feel almost new
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Kenneth Lonergan's play launches 2nd Stage's life at the retooled Hayes Theater
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Toni Kushner's epic returns to Broadway. . . visually stunning and decidedly of our
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Joshua Harmon's satire targets the very audience buying tickets to see his play
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A. R. Gurney' economically cast 1993 dramady brought back to life at the Keen Company's Theatre Row hom
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David Rabe's epic-length look at mental health care
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:10PM[SHARE]Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris big-cast, time-traving saga proves that economics can be lots of fun
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Lindsey Ferrentino has written an extraordinary play about an ordinary American family. It packs all the elements of a Greek tragedy into just ninety minutes.
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Jordan Harrison's new play tackles disasters though the ages with two distinct theatrical styles
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 21, 2018
a finely acted and staged version of Mr. Albee's first play that's now a two-act play that takes us to Peter's home before heading to his park bench meet-up with a volatile…
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Playwright Sarah Burgess takes on the alliances of our legislators and the influence peddling lobbyists and their paid matchmakers.
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The invaluable York Theater's Musical Mufti series' new version of little known Jule Styne musical.
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Thursday, November 9, 2017
Julia Cho's play at the Public is painfully, perhaps too much so, timely
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:14AM[SHARE]If Shakespeare were still with us and writing history plays about kings and those seeking to usurp them, he'd not be looking to Holinshed's Chronicles for plot ideas. Instead, like Ayad Akhtar, he'd subscribe to the Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times< to find his dramatic personae
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 31, 2017
David Henry Hwang's bizarre East-West socio-political romance, updated and back on Broadway
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:00PM[SHARE]Nelson takes us back to 1958 when Public Theate founder Joe Papp faced the collapse of his dream of free Shakespeare productions. Given where it's runing the Shakespeare festival…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Anna Ziegler uses tennis as metaphor for the universal game of life. Anna Ziegler uses tennis as metaphor for the universal game of life. Though you don't have to be…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:01AM[SHARE]John Patrick Shanley is back with another comedy about moonstruck losers. . .this one aiming for freshness with a running "how could you vote for Trump" joke
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After almost half a century Harvey Fierstein's story about drag queen Arnold Beckoff's quest for a satisfying love and family life is dated, an artifact of gay history on stag…
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J. B. Priestley's 1937 "time play" presents us with a diverse representatives of the British middle class attempting to prosper and regain its equilibrium in the years between the t…
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Brian Friel's final visit to Ballybeg at the Irish Rep
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Playwright William Donnelly t doesn't always manage to make the glib banter and more painful undercurrents mesh fluidly, there is a lot that's heart-touching and compelling here.
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the emphasis in this very loose take on Shakespeare's play is on comedy and the fine cast and ear-pleasing score succeed in making it wonderfully entertaining
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 28, 2017
For most of its 100 minutes, John Doyle's production doubles its pleasures. That's even though the running time has probably been cut to half of its usual length and there a…
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Max Posner depiction of one man's battle with the slings and arrows tossed at his aging mother and the sleeping demons of resentment they stir in him isn't light entertai…
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Director Anne Kauffman hit the perennial nail on the head in describing Amy Herzog's title character as a modern
day Job
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a small, well-acted play about two men with very big egos
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 04:09PM[SHARE]Outstanding performances make Dan McCormick's 3-hander about a lost Stradivari worth seeing
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:43PM[SHARE]Monday, September 18, 2017
unning new production of Suzan-Lori Parks' 2nd Red Letter Play.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:26AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 17, 2017
an early Simon Stephens play at the Atlantic Theater
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