Monday, April 9, 2018
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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The Bengsons are a folk-rock duo adapting their personal stories for the stage. But their new show, “The Lucky Ones,” posed a painful challenge: “Is it possible to tell the truth kindl…
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In this Primary Stages production, Sharon Washington recalls how an enchanting period in her family’s history was also tinged with pain.
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Friday, March 30, 2018
Familiarity with Tolstoy’s novel is no prerequisite for enjoying this antic show by the Berlin-based troupe Gob Squad.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:55PMThe movie is beloved. But it also pits girls against girls. How, then, do you make a stage musical that satisfies fans and meets our cultural moment?
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Reality and identity are mutable things in “Distant Observer: Tokyo/New York Correspondence,” by Takeshi Kawamura and John Jesurun, at La MaMa.
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A boxing champ who survived an attempt on her life prepares to seek revenge in this multimedia play at Abrons Arts Center.
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Jeremy J. Kamps’s play — a smart but overloaded riff on “The Cherry Orchard” set on a family farm — doesn’t quite hit the right accent.
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Jaclyn Backhaus and Andrew Neisler’s new play wants to be a collection of stories about fierce women. But it’s so packed with plot lines, it only partly succeeds.
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The play, inspired by real people and events in the decades leading up to the foundation of Israel, cuts to the role of music in creating a nation.
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This bio-play about the married artists Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner is a surreal sparring match, steeped in alcohol and dripping with paint.
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A primer of the books and films to get you ready for the Broadway opening of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two.”
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Friday, February 9, 2018
Roslyn Ruff and Jeff Hiller bring new dimensions to plays about Betty Shabazz and a chatty wedding guest.
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From a historical drama to an updated Restoration comedy classic, Washington, D.C., theaters make a case for evening the playing field.
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This smart, troubling piece of documentary theater spends time with men cordoned off from regular society, and those who believe they can be redeemed.
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Alexa Shae Nizak is uncannily persuasive as an adolescent girl who gets more than she bargained for in Scott Organ’s play.
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Michael Weller resets “Liliom,” the play that inspired Rodgers and Hammerstein, in Coney Island. But the central romance remains problematic.
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This New York-based showcase offers the kind of experimental plays, like “Pillowtalk,” that thrive in more obscure performance spaces.
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The Mint Theater’s handsome, rough around the edges production makes a better case for this 1912 play as a curiosity than as a forgotten gem.
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In her new play “Sovereignty,” Mary Kathryn Nagle brings together her legal activism and her family history.
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In this gentle, humane show by Ping Chong + Company, young New Yorkers share their real-life victories and fears.
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Stark, intricate and often exciting, the two-character chamber opera finds a prisoner tormented by the insect in her cell.
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Four women have sued the company and its artistic director, Albert Schultz, accusing him of sexual misconduct and creating a “culture of fear.”
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The dancer Robert Fairchild’s creature has a delicate, disarming beauty in Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s ambitious but awkward production.
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Friday, December 22, 2017
In acclaimed works like “The Children,” now on Broadway, the British writer argues for collective responsibility in the face of environmental and other challenges.
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Sunday, December 17, 2017
The sprawling life of a New York titan is given superficial treatment — and set to rock music — in this show.
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