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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Twenty-five-year-old Londoner Jamael Westman has definitely come around, now that he’s starring in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop smash.
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This multimedia show, featuring the Lemon Bucket Orkestra and set during the Maidan revolution, doesn’t translate its protest anthems, which the audience is asked to join.
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Cultural appropriation isn’t a worry for the director Ariane Mnouchkine, who, at 78, isn’t slowing down, but knows she won’t be here forever.
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Big Dance Theater’s animated investigation of Samuel Pepys reads like a refraction of our recent monster parade.
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Theresa Rebeck’s furious play looks at what happens when a young architect fights back against colleagues who don’t take her seriously.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMThe Wales Millennium Center’s take on this dark, dreamy 1982 play, part of BAM’s Next Wave Festival, seems to prize atmospherics over narrative.
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Mickey Rowe is thought to be the first openly autistic actor to play Christopher, a 15-year-old with autism, in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”
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Monday, October 23, 2017
As a Manhattan therapist, Alison Fraser may seem composed. But when she tells her story, Aaron Mark’s ghoulish monologue earns its title.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
David Henry Hwang has reworked his gender-blurring, career-launching Tony-winning play to assure that it feels “resonant with the culture today.”
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Diana Oh’s rambunctious show is more a concert with storytelling than a play, but that doesn’t make it any less heartfelt, joyous or necessary
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMAnnette O’Toole plays a mother whose daughter inexplicably falls for a boasting buffoon in this classic George Kelly comedy.
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Seeing Sarah Ruhl’s “For Peter Pan” reminds a critic of her own father and why she turns to theater to “confront the hard stuff,” like grieving his death.
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Bringing together wrestlers, a food cart, a cellist and a bandstand, Pig Iron Theater Company takes on catastrophe in “A Period of Animate Existence.”
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“Macbeth Muet” is a frolic through tragedy with puppetry, while “Makbet” is a darkly gregarious production (shots included).
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The National Black Theater production of Liza Jessie Peterson’s monologue explores the personal and societal costs of mass incarceration.
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017
A plantation-set adaptation of “The Cherry Orchard” and a scatological monologue are visceral reminders of theater’s power to unsettle.
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Thomas Klingenstein’s new play about an unrequited interracial love is like watching a sepia-tinged tableau.
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Medora, N.D., population 132 — except in summer when 100,000 tourists pour into town to see a musical celebration of Old West values.
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The playwright is preparing to return to the stage as an actor in “American Buffalo” at the Dorset Theater Festival.
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Monday, July 31, 2017
A program of 10 short pieces, set in and around Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, touches on tennis, dragon boats and the 1939 World’s Fair.
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At the New York Musical Festival, a love story plays out in a divided Berlin, and women entangled in suburban soccer-mom life become the center of another drama.
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James Smith’s solo show, part of Soulpepper’s New York residency, examines his family’s history of disorders with a striking lack of bitterness.
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Howard Barker’s BBC teleplay is being professionally staged for the first time, thanks to Potomac Theater Project, which has regularly mounted his work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:19PMLooking after her ailing husband, and the perils of climate change, are inspirations for her new play, “Singing Beach.”
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This Wooster Group production, inspired by Tadeusz Kantor and his play “I Shall Never Return,” is an esoteric project that fails to connect with its audience.
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Gender inequality remains a problem, but it’s heartening to see playwrights and performers argue for more opportunities.
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