Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Friday, November 3, 2023
Becca Blackwell and Amanda Duarte play exuberant, boundary-pushing alter egos, and the Irish Rep revives Brian Friel’s stately “Translations.”
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
The writer David Ives and the director Joe Mantello continued without the late composer on an adaptation of two lacerating Luis Buñuel films.
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Two new intergenerational sagas, by Nathan Alan Davis and Javier Antonio González, explore the American legacy.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023
Rebecca Gilman and Theresa Rebeck use plants as metaphors for human flourishing in their latest works.
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The playwright’s exquisite new comic drama, “Infinite Life,” nails the absurdity of having a body.
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The new Broadway play, by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, imagines frequently irritable chats among the movie’s three main actors, including Shaw’s father, Robert Shaw.
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Monday, June 26, 2023
Helen Shaw reviews Robert Icke’s adaptation of an Arthur Schnitzler play, starring Juliet Stevenson as a doctor who is a target of anti-Semitism and language policing.
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“Operation Mincemeat,” “Guys and Dolls,” and “The Motive and the Cue” gallop into the past.
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James Grissom says that he met the playwright and his famous muses, and quoted them extensively in his work. Not everyone believes him.
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David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s “Here Lies Love” on Broadway, Ato Blankson-Wood’s “Hamlet” in the Park, Robert Icke’s “The Doctor,” and more.
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In a new production of “Camelot,” reimagined by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Bartlett Sher, Arthur is more perfect than ever. But this iteration of the hero’s kingdom isn’t worthy of…
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Experimental theatre and soap tropes commune in Julia Izumi’s “Regretfully, So the Birds Are” and Michael R. Jackson’s “White Girl in Danger.”
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Sondheim’s music and lyrics gleam as bright as ever, even when the production loses its edge.
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Ben Platt stars as the doomed Leo Frank in Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s all too relevant musical tragedy.
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Jamie Lloyd’s ascetic production of Ibsen’s 1879 drama eliminates nearly every conventional marker of character, location, or gesture.
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Nathan Lane and Danny Burstein rely on shtick in Sharr White’s adaptation of Larry Sultan’s book, while Norbert Leo Butz can’t save the musical “Cornelia Street.”
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The actor, a fixture of New York’s experimental-theatre scene, did not “become” his characters; he stood, somehow, next to them, amused and delighted.
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In “Small Talk,” “Without You,” and “cryptochrome,” Colin Quinn, Anthony Rapp, and Evan Silver take the mike.
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Recent shows’ visions of the future haven’t exactly been post-apocalyptic, with the violence and darkness that term implies. Instead, they have delighted in our disappearance, savored it.
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Sunday, December 18, 2022
The playwright and author discusses preshow rituals, throbbing anger, tenderness, and her new play, “Becky Nurse of Salem.”
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Friday, December 2, 2022
Monday, November 21, 2022
Will Arbery tackles the climate crisis with a funny nightmare about human and environmental fragility.
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Mia Chung’s drama, by turns comedic, bitter, and ineffable, shows how racism soaks through an American family.
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In a full-tilt production at BAM, Lars Eidinger gives the sad prince a punk, chaotic edge and turns familiar tragedy into Dionysian revel.
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