Wednesday, August 15, 2018
A production with same-sex leads is one of many signs that directors are approaching the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic with new eyes.
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Jonathan Leaf sticks close to historical fact in his ambitious new verse play, but the action in this production always feels removed, like a diorama.
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A play based on a confessional, self-obsessed woman’s memoir — from the 15th century — is back, at the Duke.
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Following “The Originalist,” the judge talked fondly about its subject: her frequent legal sparring partner Antonin Scalia.
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But, racing through 40 classic Leiber and Stoller songs in 90 intermission-less minutes, the show only occasionally slows down enough to breathe.
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This immersive British import at Roy Arias Stages puts a crusty toilet in the center of the audience, but it lacks the film version’s sense of seamy tragedy.
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Defiance and justice drive this brisk staging from the Classical Theater of Harlem, directed by Carl Cofield.
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Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj’s visceral play with music explores an ugly historical chapter in the fight for school integration.
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In this Charles Mee play, two sixty-somethings, who have never known true love, find the tender comfort of companionship.
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There are shows that find their true best form in concert. “Songs for a New World,” which was Jason Robert Brown’s first musical, is one of these.
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Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt are just a few of the apparitions in Christina Quintana’s bittersweet new comedy about a lesbian wrestling with her Catholic upbringing.
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The women in Will Arbery’s funny, surreal, ultimately muddled play devote vast emotional acreage to men who don’t return the favor.
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Natalie Soto and her brother, Christian, joined a training program at Roundabout Theater Company that aims to diversify the ranks of theater workers.
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Certain moments are politically and artistically potent, but most of “Fruit Trilogy,” a program of three short plays, is pervaded by a curious flatness.
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In the middle of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and “Angels in America” are late-afternoon gaps to fill. We offer some ideas to pass the time.
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Antoinette Nwandu’s “Pass Over” considers the fate of young black men in a gun-torn city. Its first production caused a stir — and won a fan in Spike Lee.
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In Nilo Cruz’s poetic tangle of a play, an opera star finds the recipient of her husband’s heart after he dies in a car accident.
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Maly Drama Theater’s spare, subdued — and slow — adaptation finds dreamy lovers split apart by political schemers.
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Majority rule (mostly). One play per playwright. How we put together the 25 Plays list, and a bid to remember notable writers and favorite works that missed the cut.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Marina Carr’s blistering play seems ideal for this cathartic cultural moment. Its Irish Repertory Theater production is a missed opportunity.
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The aftermath of the Fukushima disaster infiltrates the lives of a young couple in Toshiki Okada’s spare, affecting play
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Philip Dawkins’s play blends realism and campy melodrama as it envisions the fumbling beginnings of an affair between Williams and William Inge
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The show had its premiere on Cape Cod two summers ago. It has been revised, but it retains its primary strengths and its fatal weaknesses.
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Monday, April 16, 2018
A conquering hero comes home in a ferociously funny, and surprisingly timely, revival of the novelist’s 1970 play.
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Jason Grote and Marisa Michelson‘s new musical, set in modern-day New York, deconstructs the Middle Eastern folk tales of “One Thousand and One Nights.”
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First produced in 2011, this coming-of-age story about a pregnant teenager lands uncomfortably in the wake of #MeToo.
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A solo show by Eliza Bent and directed by Knud Adams explores cultural appropriation — and how we can call it out when we see it.
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