Tuesday, January 9, 2018
At the 14th Under the Radar festival, artists working with found audio and video stretch the boundaries of theater.
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Robert O’Hara’s latest satire takes on too many targets as it imagines a future world in which men still ruin everything.
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In Lucy Kirkwood’s chilling play, the meltdown of a nuclear power plant is not just an environmental crisis, but an existential one.
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Susan Soon He Stanton’s new play uses only audio interactions, from voice mail to intercom, to tell a story about the breakdown of intimacy.
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Théâtre du Soleil brings a huge, dizzy epic of all the world’s ills (and theatrical styles) to the Park Avenue Armory.
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Rajiv Joseph’s new play jams 90 years of lies, fantasies, propaganda and conspiracy into just under three hours. Also: the worst soup ever.
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After a dismal theatrical fall, this 1990 musical fable, set in the French Antilles, is a big, bold delight.
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Dark plays are fitting for a dark month, and perhaps for our national mood. These productions offer criticism, mystery, warning and hope.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
The comic actress makes her Broadway debut in Steve Martin’s funny if strained play about two couples sharing a stressful celestial evening together.
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Billy Crudup is having a blast as a Midwestern sad sack and his English alter ego in David Cale’s one-man, double-life play at the Vineyard.
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Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk’s musical is about a high school senior who finds inspiration and danger in “On the Road.”
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Jocelyn Bioh’s new play takes the “Mean Girls” genre to a boarding school in Ghana, refreshing and deepening it in the process.
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Two millenniums of oppression may not seem very funny, but in his latest one-man show, Mr. Leguizamo hones the art of comic revisionism.
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In Anna Ziegler’s new play, a charge of sexual assault on a college campus leads to a hearing that may be worse than the events that prompted it.
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In Julia Cho’s tense new work, a creative-writing teacher tries to reach a shut-down (and possibly armed) young student.
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With nonverbal characters and savants, a new play demonstrates just how broad and multicolored that spectrum is.
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“Marcel” and “The Art of Laughter” at Theater for a New Audience offer a demonstration and then a master class in European-style clowning.
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Denise Gough is sensational as a strung-out actress facing a world of questions about addiction and responsibility in a play by Duncan Macmillan.
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With its relentless fusillade of punch lines, John Patrick Shanley’s new play starring Jason Alexander and Sherie Rene Scott winds up on the ropes.
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A riveting revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s prison drama may be more timely today than at its premiere in 2000.
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In a hybrid of concert and autobiography, Bruce Springsteen delivers a major statement about his life’s work — but also a major revision of it.
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Elizabeth McGovern stars as a narcissistic materfamilias in the first Broadway revival of J. B. Priestley’s 1937 metaphysical drama.
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A young black man in 1961 must choose between going to college and joining the Freedom Rides in Jiréh Breon Holder’s play at Roundabout Underground.
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Does having children tame the wild gay spirit? To answer the question, a new satire by Dan Giles looks to an unusual pair of experts.
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The director John Doyle brings to Shakespeare the same techniques that helped him refresh many a musical. So why doesn’t it work?
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A child’s illness raises existential questions in Amy Herzog’s heartbreaking new play, starring Carrie Coon, at New York Theater Workshop.
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