Sunday, February 24, 2019
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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The path to opening night in New York used to pass through several cities. Now it rarely does — but are shows better off for it?
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In “Sea Wall/A Life,” at the Public Theater, a pair of monologues gives the two stars ample opportunity to shine and mourn.
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Since you provide the content for this group’s delightful hip-hop musical improvisation, you really have to lend them your ears (and phones).
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This 1950 musical has some charming numbers, but without a monster personality at its center it seems like less of a comedy than a requiem.
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A prizewinning play by Leah Nanako Winkler puts the traditional “crazy family” dramedy in a new social and racial setting.
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Laura Benanti and three other recently arrived principals adjust the focus of the hit revival from the political to the personal.
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With the help of fresh air, a Mother Abbess and a mild hallucinogen, six women spend a week in search of a female spirituality.
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Calvin Trillin has turned his heartbroken memoir into a stage play that reincarnates his beloved wife and muse.
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The Italian conductor (and philanderer and anti-Fascist) gets the Great Man treatment from Ensemble for the Romantic Century.
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Something groundbreaking on Broadway: The story of “an effeminate young man of color” who finds his strength through singing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMOfferings at the festival include a riff on “Uncle Vanya”; a “Frankenstein” adaptation highlighting a mother’s grief; and an intimate tale of displacement.
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An eclectic opening weekend included sketches and songs by Nigerian women, two unsettling monologues and a punk-rock reminiscence (with mixtape to follow).
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Glossy and bristling with fine performances, this adaptation of the 1960 Harper Lee classic gets the Aaron Sorkin treatment.
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Monday, December 10, 2018
In her new play, loosely inspired by “A Doll’s House,” Heather Raffo is radiant as a New York architect caught between cultures.
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In a staggering professional New York debut, the playwright Jeremy O. Harris unpacks interracial relationships both antebellum and postmodern.
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It was a year when classics were reincarnated in deceptively modest interpretations, conventional story forms were tossed aside and strong voices roared.
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The three faces of Cherilyn Sarkisian Bono Allman are the subject of a new Broadway jukebox musical that’s big on sequins, low on insight.
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Off Broadway productions in December consider migrants from Africa, the Middle East and Manhattan, plus one well dressed emissary from Beverly Hills.
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A gorgeously illustrated stage version of the classic essay about 1960s California ennui may miss the point.
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A delicious new musical about Broadway narcissists, Indiana homophobes, the possibility of accommodation — and zazz.
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Thursday, November 8, 2018
The one-ton, 20-foot marionette is impressive, but the $35 million musical he stars in doesn’t even succeed as camp.
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Larissa FastHorse’s theatrical debunking of the Pilgrims and Natives narrative is really a satire of theatricality itself.
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As a black mother with a son in danger, Ms. Washington is up against a situation she may not be able to fix.
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Steven Levenson’s new play about young ’60s radicals has the unintentional effect of making all protest seem childish.
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Soho Rep continues its laudable tradition of sure-to-be-divisive plays with Kate Tarker’s word-drunk new satire of … well, something.
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Samuel D. Hunter’s golden diptych, set in twin cities in Idaho and Washington, gets a riveting production, with barbecue, at the reconfigured Rattlestick.
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