As an exhibition of Al Hirschfeld’s works opens at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, four performers talk about how they felt about being drawn by that illustrator. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PMThe actor and playwright performs a scene from “100 (Monologues),” a collection built from his popular one-man shows from the 1980s and ’90s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AM“Carrie,” the horror novel by Stephen King, has been adapted for the stage, television and film several times, with varying degrees of success.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMThe actor, accompanied by Jim Hershman on guitar, sings the number “Fight the Dragons” from the new Broadway musical based on Tim Burton’s 2003 film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMMr. Bloom performs an excerpt from the balcony scene of “Romeo and Juliet” as part of the Maximum Shakespeare series.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AMAnnie Baker and Rajiv Joseph are the winners of the Steinberg Playwright Awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:39PMShane Baker and Nicholas Jenkins perform a scene from a Yiddish-language production of Samuel Beckett’s play, a co-presentation of the New Yiddish Rep and the Castillo Theater. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMDan Markley, a management consultant with experience as a producer, will succeed Isaac Robert Hurwitz in the post.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:39PMThe actor performs a scene from Anne Washburn’s post-apocalyptic play at Playwrights Horizons.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMDavid Ives’s dark sexual comedy “Venus in Fur” will be the most-produced play of the 2013-14 season, according to the Theater Communications Group.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:08PMGay theater companies like About Face in Chicago find that the mainstream success of gay plays has some unintended side effects.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:55PMThe actor performs a scene from the Yale Repertory Theater revival of the Tennessee Williams drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMPerformers recall the Shakespeare moment they still can’t shake.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:41PMThe actress performs a scene from “The Old Friends,” a family drama written by her father, the playwright Horton Foote, who died in 2009.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMMr. Swenson will replace Mr. Chase in the coming musical adaptation of the Oscar-nominated film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:04PMMr. Schneider plays Ralph Berger in the National Asian American Theater Company revival of the 1935 Clifford Odets play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMThe downtown theater’s new season includes the New York premiere of David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette” and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Octoroon.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:40PMThe actress performs a scene from Derek Ahonen’s new play being mounted by the theater company the Amoralists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMThe revue of Jewish humor and songs will close in September at the Westside Theater after a 15-month run.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMA new work from the playwright Chiori Miyagawa and a stage version of Flann O’Brien’s surreal crime novel “The Third Policeman” are part of La MaMa’s new season. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:44PMThe actors sing a number from the new Broadway musical about the folk-singing Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:01AMMs. Daly will play a mother who visits her dead son’s former lover in Mr. McNally’s new play “Mothers and Sons.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:58PMThe actors perform the number “First Impressions” from the new Broadway musical at the Longacre Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMFrom the immense lineup of shows in the New York International Fringe Festival, staff members at The Times play some hunches and make some picks to see.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMThe playwright Young Jean Lee performs a monologue from her pop-music cabaret, at the Claire Tow Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMA marathon performance of the composer John Zorn’s “Book of Angels” and a festival of works from Chinese artists are among the offerings in the 2013-14 season at the NYU Skirball Cente…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:07PMThe actors will star in a Broadway revival of the classic drama in the spring of 2014.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:31PMKeen Company will begin its season with a revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s 1989 play “The Film Society.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07PMThe company will mount Eric Simonson’s play that features Derek Jeter, Yogi Berra and other Yankees stars as characters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMSala Iwamatsu, as Christmas Eve, and the puppeteer Veronica J. Kuehn, with Kate Monster, sing “The More You Ruv Someone” from “Avenue Q,” which celebrates its 10-year run on July 31.…
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