Thursday, July 4, 2013
With more than 2,000 new shows each summer, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world. But if you don’t feel up to flying off to Scotland and digging through …
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The young man onstage is singing the traditional spiritual “Trust and Obey.” But just as we’re settling into his sweet, lilting voice, we hear the taunts of “Sissy,” “F - - - - t…
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No, “The Banana Monologues” isn’t a male rejoinder to Eve Ensler’s feminist classic. Rather, in this solo turn, John R. Brennan tells the story of an ill-fated relationship starring …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:51PM‘Swapping is the new cheating,” declares one of the partner-swapping marrieds in Jeff Gould’s play.
Perhaps, but one thing’s for certain: “It’s Just Sex” is the same old sex c…
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When the Ice Factory Festival opens its 20th season tonight, no one will be happier than Robert Lyons, its artistic director: That’s because he’ll finally get to see the shows.
The Obie…
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The acclaimed troupe Theater Breaking Through Barriers offers something you won’t find anywhere else: Its works revolve around disability — which is only appropriate, since some of its m…
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A famous American composer proves an unlikely mediator between a violinist dad and his basketball- loving daughter in “Charles Ives Take Me Home.” Jessica Dickey’s three-character fant…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:39PMTime to fess up. You never did get around to reading James Joyce’s epic-length “Ulysses,” did you? You meant to, but something else always came up . . . like life.
Fortunately, Patrick…
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There’s a serious “ick” factor at the final roundup of Ensemble Studio Theater’s “34th Marathon of One-Act Plays.” From the elderly gentleman groping his wife’s breasts to a bl…
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It's a post office — New York’s main branch — on its way to becoming an Amtrak train station. For now, though, the historic James A. Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue is also a theat…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:49PMJ.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” was a surprise hit when it was revived on Broadway nine years ago. Now comes Priestley’s “Cornelius,” which vanished after its 1935 West End…
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It’s best known as the place where the Titanic was built. But Harland and Wolff, the Belfast shipyard where “The Boat Factory” is set, was much more than that — a place where generat…
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We get not one but two Susan Sontags in Moe Angelos’ “Sontag: Reborn.” The first is the younger version, beginning in the late intellectual’s teenage years, as she begins a search fo…
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Reality Tv seems almost too easy a target for satire, but “Good Television” mostly avoids the pitfalls. This debut work by veteran Atlantic Theater Company actor Rod McLachlan offers dis…
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What does it take to go “Around the World in 80 Days?”
Just two hours, five actors and some highly inventive theatricality.
Jules Verne’s 1873 classic about the globe-trotting adventur…
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Christopher Lloyd stars in this off-Broadway revival of Bertolt Brecht's modern classic. read more
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Love lost and found is at the heart of the best works in Ensemble Studio Theatre’s “34th Marathon of One-Act Plays.” The first in its annual three-part series is a better-than-usual bi…
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Perhaps you thought you could get away with secretly reading “Fifty Shades of Grey” on your Kindles and iPads. But your naughty literary predilections will be exposed should you see “C…
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The veteran comedian delivers riffs on the U.S. Constitution in his new solo show.read more
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Talk about setting the scene: For “Core Values,” Lauren Helpern’s vividly realistic set design depicts the cramped, dreary conference room of a small Manhattan travel agency.
Lit by f…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AMNow that she’s 73, Christina Crawford might want to resolve her mommy issues. That’s the main feeling evoked by “Surviving Mommie Dearest,” a bizarre show in which Crawford rehashes …
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For “This Side of Neverland” — two one-act plays by “Peter Pan” author J.M. Barrie — the Pearl Theatre leaves this side of the Atlantic for the starchy shores of Edwardian Englan…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:52PMA few minutes into his new show, Mark Nadler orders the theater doors to be locked. “You will stay for ze entire show und you vill like it!” he announces in a comical German accent he dr…
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Manhattan therapist Colleen Fitzgerald has an unorthodox twist on treatment: She sees only the patients she likes.
Good luck with that in this town.
And good luck to audiences at “Love The…
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Purim came and went, but the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene is celebrating it now with “The Megile of Itzik Manger,” a freewheeling musical adaptation of the Book of Esther that’s…
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You may not think a play set in rural Ontario, Canada, is worth a New York minute, let alone two hours — but if you pass up “The Drawer Boy,” it’s your loss.
Michael Healey’s dram…
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Immigration is a hot-button issue — and you can literally feel the heat at “La Ruta.” The Working Theater’s new sitespecific production about illegal aliens being smuggled across the…
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Leaping about the stage three years ago in Broadway’s “Brief Encounter,” Tristan Sturrock seemed to defy gravity. So it’s shocking to learn that he came very close to not being able …
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Who would have thought a play titled “The Dance of Death” would be one of the funniest shows in town?
August Strindberg hardly has a reputation as a cutup. But the Red Bull Theater’s r…
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Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's musical based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale receives a Broadway revival.read more
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Right now on Broadway, you can see a fake Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons or ersatz versions of Motown’s Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye.Or, you can see the former Young Rascals — the real…
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