Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Monday, August 27, 2018
This dementedly daffy piece of fun, from the theater company TV, will give you a warm glow in the fleeting moment it's here for a brief run.
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The Mint Theater Company's revival of Lillian Hellman's 1936 play is a mishmash of acting styles, tonally uneven and frustratingly unfocused.
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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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Monday, July 30, 2018
Sunday, July 22, 2018
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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Monday, July 2, 2018
Sunday, July 1, 2018
Thursday, June 28, 2018
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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2018
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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Monday, June 18, 2018
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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Friday, June 8, 2018
Friday, June 1, 2018
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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Thursday, May 10, 2018
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
