Wednesday, April 11, 2018
The first Broadway revival of Mark Medoff’s 1980 play shows that it was ahead of its time about deafness, but not about gender.
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A new musical at the Public Theater reinvents the family road trip narrative as a mother-daughter tale of immigration policy gone astray.
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Years after committing a senseless murder, a young man returns to his Nebraska hometown. That’s when the real trial begins.
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A new electro-folk singspiel by the authors of “100 Days” finds horror under the skin of a seemingly idyllic childhood.
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After 23 years in politics, the English star of “Elizabeth R” returns to the American stage in a torrential revival of Edward Albee’s play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMBeyond the blockbuster musicals (and Harry Potter) this month, there are a handful of potential gems like “Saint Joan,” “Miss You Like Hell” and “Iceman Cometh.”
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Arin Arbus’s new production at Theater for a New Audience makes a powerful case for one of Shakespeare’s strangest works.
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The neurotic stage musical adaptation of the animated blockbuster raises questions about how Disney transforms its biggest hits.
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The Parrotheads were after me.
Parrotheads are fans of the singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and I am the co-chief theater critic for The New York Times. Normally our flight paths would not…
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Monday, March 12, 2018
Thursday, March 8, 2018
David Rabe’s dramedy is set in the emotional war zone of a mental health center, where the patients are colorful and the therapists are troubled.
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The characters in Martyna Majok’s new play come from Poland, Afghanistan, Honduras and elsewhere. Illegal or not, they’re New Yorkers now.
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As Taylor Trensch takes over the title role in the Tony-winning musical, the show’s meaning and impact change too.
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In Jordan Harrison’s wily comedy, a medieval theater troupe tries to outrun the Black Death — and the critics.
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Hammaad Chaudry’s first play is an ambitious look at the traumas of dislocation among the assimilated children of Pakistani immigrants in London.
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Bernadette Peters, sadder but wiser, makes a very different Mrs. Levi from her predecessors in the hit revival.
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A terrific revival of this master playwright’s double bill of “Homelife” and “The Zoo Story” proves that there was nowhere he would not go.
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A political neophyte discovers the ethical nightmare of governance — lobbyists and donors and super PACs, oh my! — in Sarah Burgess’s new play.
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Tuesday, February 6, 2018
In a new one-woman show, the author of “The Vagina Monologues” connects global violence and her own life-threatening illness.
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In Terrence McNally’s new play, Diaghilev invents Nijinsky, modern ballet and the 20th century. And that’s just in the first act.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMPoliticians, talk-show hosts, feminists, actors and executioners are featured in intriguing productions opening off Broadway.
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She’s got a big idea and he’s got a big headache in Greg Pierce’s new play about a Rust Belt town on the skids and a desperate plan to save it.
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A new play recreates, sometimes shot by shot, the 1973 tennis match promoted as the Battle of the Sexes. If only it scored any points.
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Ngozi Anyanwu’s comedy wrings all the pleasure possible out of its familiar tropes even as it revamps their meaning entirely.
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Dael Orlandersmith’s new play explores the lives — both black and white — left behind in the wake of the 2014 police shooting in Ferguson.
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A new comedy at the Bushwick Starr satirizes 20-somethings, gentrifiers, landlords and activists. In other words, Bushwick.
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In a touching tribute to his father and the tradition of reading aloud, Mr. Lithgow recites two classic tales of deception and comeuppance.
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At the 14th Under the Radar festival, artists working with found audio and video stretch the boundaries of theater.
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