Sunday, May 26, 2019
A new adaptation of “The Oresteia” reminds us that a 2,400-year-old work can still feel appallingly familiar.
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At the center of Chisa Hutchinson’s one-woman play, written for Audible, is a love triangle with just one side in view.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMAdventurous directors and galvanizing performances made for unexpected — and very welcome — departures on what once felt like the Staid White Way.
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Merciless comedy shades to delicate tragedy in a terrific playwriting debut from the poet and performer Aziza Barnes.
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Women on the front lines of danger in 1963 were often pushed to the backbench of the civil rights movement. A new play gives them their due.
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A flamboyant artiste who danced nearly naked into his 80s gives one last performance in a new play from the Civilians.
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New York Times theater critics on a Tonys roster that highlighted originality, if not diversity, and made room for some welcome surprises.
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Sunday, April 21, 2019
This comedic sequel to “Titus Andronicus” finds Nathan Lane and Kristine Nielsen cleaning up after a Shakespearean blood bath.
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After a downtown stop, a concept album based on Greek myths has become a full-scale Broadway entertainment.
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The latest play from the Mad Ones finds the seeds of momentous social change in a 1979 focus group about a kids’ television show.
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If the nuance-free singing doesn’t turn you against this revue of songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, perhaps his holographic ghost will do the trick.
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A revival of the Marc Blitzstein “play in music” about unions and kleptocrats is too wan to make much of the material’s contradictions.
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“What the Constitution Means to Me,” the best new play of the Broadway season so far, rivetingly combines personal history and civic engagement.
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What if black people, sick of injustice, picked up and left the United States? An outrageous satire by Jordan E. Cooper imagines the possibility, and the loss.
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What happens when the husband you thought you knew is discovered harboring a terrible secret? Maddie Corman learned the hard way.
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How should we look at an old show with objectionable gender politics? As a historical curio, or as the next item on the cancel culture agenda?
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A threatening text message with a homophobic epithet leads to catastrophe for two families in a new play by Michael McKeever.
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In John Guare’s Möbius strip of a play, John Larroquette is a playwright who finds himself trapped in a surreal mystery called “Nantucket Sleigh Ride.”
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With a few changes of emphasis and one major lyric rewrite, the 1948 musical comedy comes through detox as a bawdy, heady pleasure.
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Tori Sampson’s play blends elements of mean-girl comedy and African folk tale to create a fable for our time about women and their bodies.
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Milo Rau, called “the world’s most controversial director,” asks a cast of young people to relate the story of a notorious Belgian pedophile.
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Bekah Brunstetter’s timely comedy about a Christian baker looks with sympathy (if not approval) at the other side of the public accommodation debate.
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Look! Up on the stage! It’s a show with good intentions (and a “Dear Evan Hansen”-like setup) that can’t rise above its cartoonish plot.
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The fine Signature Theater revival of Athol Fugard’s 1969 play shows how a classic seemingly fixed in one era nevertheless keeps evolving.
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Madeleine George’s new play brings back the god Dionysus to convince the women of Monmouth County, N.J., that the ecological end is near.
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