Monday, April 16, 2018
Sunday, April 15, 2018
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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Monday, April 9, 2018
Friday, April 6, 2018
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 kindly?"
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2018
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
The 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?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Reality and identity are mutable things in "Distant Observer: Tokyo/New York Correspondence," by Takeshi Kawamura and John Jesurun, at La MaMa.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2018
Sunday, March 11, 2018
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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 4, 2018
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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2018
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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]Monday, February 19, 2018
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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Monday, February 12, 2018
Friday, February 9, 2018
Monday, February 5, 2018
From a historical drama to an updated Restoration comedy classic, Washington, D.C., theaters make a case for evening the playing field.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:11PM[SHARE]Friday, February 2, 2018
This smart, troubling piece of documentary theater spends time with men cordoned off from regular society, and those who believe they can be redeemed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 28, 2018
Thursday, January 25, 2018
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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:26PM[SHARE]Friday, January 19, 2018
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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Monday, January 15, 2018
Sunday, January 14, 2018
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Four women have sued the company and its artistic director, Albert Schultz, accusing him of sexual misconduct and creating a "culture of fear."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 27, 2017
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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