Monday, May 25, 2015
Absent from the theatrical menu are original holiday dramas that are entertaining, accessible and even sentimental.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Public Theater’s annual festival of adventurous new works stretches theatrical forms and the imagination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMWith each performance, the cast of “Baby Wants Candy” concoct a different musical comedy with a story idea supplied by a member of the audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“What the Public Wants,” Arnold Bennett’s 1909 play about the newspaper business, has resonance for today.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMTrista Baldwin’s “American Sexy,” at the Flea Theater, shows how a group of young people can interact but not connect.
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SOURCE: Slate at 05:58PMTheater in the Dark, With Lights, a mini-festival in which three of his works are receiving short runs, provides an opportunity to judge whether Ashlin Halfnight has arrived.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Elizabeth Reaser and Justin Bartha play spouses who follow the precepts of Christian Domestic Discipline.
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Lisa D’Amour’s huge, atmospheric party of a play features bartenders, hustlers, strippers and other denizens of the city.
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The Annoyance Theater, long a staple of the Chicago improv scene, has brought comedy theater to Brooklyn.
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Cush Jumbo brings her solo show “Josephine and I” to New York, playing the American performer Josephine Baker.
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As Mr. David’s opening night for “Fish in the Dark” approaches, he bemoans the play’s enormous advance ticket sales as “a terrible thing.”
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What distinguishes acts like Sebastian Maniscalco’s is a full-bodied commitment to the act-out: stand-up jargon describing a shift from narrating a joke to acting it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PMLarry David’s new comedy, “Fish in the Dark,” has established itself as the blockbuster new play of the spring season even before it begins.
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January is when a glut of downtown festivals descend on New York with strange, daring and often thrilling international shows.
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“Every Brilliant Thing” arrives in New York with lots of good reviews and a high concept that sounds a bit mawkish.
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The New York Deaf Theater presents “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” with a cast that signs the dialogue.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
“Father Comes Home From Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)" is a new drama by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Like so many spectacularly successful comic playwrights from the first half of the 20th century, George Kelly (the uncle of Grace) is mostly forgotten.
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Of course, “Between Riverside and Crazy” is by Stephen Adly Guirgis, a playwright whose distinctive style extends to his titles.
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If you’re looking for high-energy fun, head to Union Square, where the high-flying acrobats from “Fuerza Bruta: Wayra” will splash around in giant pools over your head.
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Toshiki Okada discusses his new play, “The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise,” and how he writes for an audience that does not share his language or culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30AMIt’s hard to believe that Kenneth Branagh is only now making his acting debut on a New York stage, in “Macbeth” at the Park Avenue Armory.
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