Friday, September 13, 2019
Ntozake Shange’s play, with its unflinching depiction of black women’s experience, is coming back to the Public Theater more than 40 years after opening there.
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The Flea Theater has revived this brief play, in which a flat tire is the least of the problems you might encounter in Central Park.
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Was it a one-time telephone interruption, or was it written into the show? And why was it so crucial to find out?
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A frenzy of strained joke-making and audience participation overwhelms a promising exploration of romance in the internet age.
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The screen and stage star is making his Broadway debut as the bottled-up husband wearing a “mask of control” in Harold Pinter’s romantic triangle.
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In a tender pair of monologues, Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal portray young fathers shaken out of complacency.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PMWith plays and musicals folding left and right, Broadway stars impart wisdom they gained when it happened to them.
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In Domenica Feraud’s potent drama, hard-driving parents don’t recognize the examples they set for a daughter with anorexia.
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This new “comedy musical” is lesser material than she deserves, but Ms. Rudner delivers an innocuously pleasant evening.
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Bereavement and self-destruction stalk the plays in Series A of this year’s Summer Shorts Festival in New York.
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
The “Oslo” playwright J.T. Rogers found himself moved stitching a story he thought he knew well: “It is a piece about hope and wonder.”
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This play by Zayd Dohrn, about a victim of a horrific crime who grows up to be a dollmaker, is a dark comedy — with a touch of horror.
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The City Center revival of this satire on the haves and have-nots features book and lyrics by María Irene Fornés and a score by Al Carmines.
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Aedín Moloney and Colum McCann lift the character from James Joyce’s novel to create a celebration of womanhood for the stage.
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Faith has had a powerful role in shaping some recent dramas. But plays can bring spiritual solace to the nonbeliever, too.
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His world tour “The Man. The Music. The Show.” stopped at Madison Square Garden. But it would have been better on Broadway.
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To make the actors comfortable, the director of “Frankie and Johnny” brought in an expert in staging sex scenes — Broadway’s first, and certainly not its last.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Hollywood filmmakers tell a period story set in China in Gordon Dahlquist’s layered look at truth, lies and the power of narrative.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMBased on an anecdote from the set of an infamous commercial, the play focuses on the behind-the-scenes people who work to realize an artist’s vision.
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Bekah Brunstetter’s civic-minded new play is about parenthood, paternalism and what it means to work for the people.
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Thursday, May 30, 2019
Set in the 1930s, this musical comedy about a young man striving for stardom lands most of its jokes in song.
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Monday, May 20, 2019
Erica Schmidt’s raucously exuberant adaptation finds common cause between rebellious teenagers and bloody-minded Shakespeare.
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Things are tense and tingly enough before the curtain rises at any time of the year. What’s it like during prize season?
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Sunday, May 12, 2019
Romeo Castellucci’s Tocqueville-inspired spectacle, presented by Peak Performances, offers highbrow style without the substance to back it up.
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The play, a sort-of autobiographical story about an author and an inmate, includes a post-show “community conversation” about incarceration.
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