This show grew out of Israel Horovitz’s radio play of the same name, inspired by an Alaskan avalanche that buried a man in a cabin under 30 feet of snow.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMChristopher Bayes, who teaches physical acting at Yale, has trained a generation of comic performers, including many in “The Servant of Two Masters.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMWith girlfriends acting as ironic courtside commentators, Andy Bragen’s play examines a highly charged pastime for two men entering middle age.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMMr. Oliver, who stars in “Attorney Street,” the latest installment of his solo trilogy, takes a melancholy stroll around his former neighborhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMJohn Fleck veers into gothic horror spoof in his solo show, “Blacktop Highway,” at Dixon Place. With video and puppetry, it is gory and gleefully dark.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMIn this program of two one-act plays at Here, the company Eagle Project examines how natural disasters take their greatest toll on minority residents.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMThis MJ Kaufman play centers on a transgender character who finds solace in an enormous tree as he deals with issues of identity, intimacy and family.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54PMHarrison David Rivers’s new play, at the National Black Theater, pits Kansas siblings against each other in a bid for a Columbia graduate’s heart.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PMSean Holmes’s contemporary take on Sean O’Casey’s drama set during the 1916 Easter Rising offers no illusions of heroism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:10PMThe new multimedia piece, at the Abrons Arts Center, was based on the producer Anne Hamburger’s experience with placing her son in wilderness therapy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMThe highlight of “Inner Voices,” a program of three musical monologues presented by Premieres at TBG Theater, is “The Pen,” sung by Nancy Anderson.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMThis adaptation of the Jean Genet play puts two pairs of actors — one male, one female — in the title roles as servants yearning for freedom.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMThe new piece from the dance and theater company Witness Relocation is a meditation on middle age that does not want to go gentle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMThe play, written by and starring Lisa Lampanelli, is a patchwork of standup comedy and monologues that are only loosely sewn together.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:34PMThis play features Kevin Augustine as a broken-down heavenly father who is better at making promises than answering prayers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PMJoan Plowright & Amanda Plummer played "Jo" to great acclaim, add REBEKAH BROCKMAN to that list since her memorable & assured performance is the chief attraction of Austin Pendleton's produc…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PMOrganizers of the summer festival, which has been produced for 20 years, say the hiatus will be used to reconsider the festival’s mission.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:21PMA woman and a man conjure ever-morphing, wildly different ideas in this show from Forced Entertainment, part of the Crossing the Line Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMThe play, at the Abrons Arts Center, is adapted by Joshua William Gelb from the 1866 New York stage spectacular of the same name.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMShelagh Delaney’s play, once a hit in the West End and on Broadway, is revived by Pearl Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:51PMThe Public Theater’s Mobile Unit took on the challenge of presenting this play in a nontheatrical space in Harlem; now the cast will continue it in a theatrical one.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:51PMSpencer Lott’s play shines in its wordless moments as it follows the decline of a 76-year-old widower with Alzheimer’s disease.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:49PMHershey Felder plays that “telegenic ham” Leonard Bernstein in “Maestro,” a solo show with songs, at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:43PM“Underground Railroad Game,” opening at Ars Nova, is a squirm-inducing comic play concerning the legacy of slavery.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMEllen McLaughlin’s adaptation of Euripides’ tale has its New York premiere at the Flea; the impetus for her work was the Bosnian War.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMWhat is true and what is a cultural expectation in this play about a Chinese dissident keep the audience guessing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:47AMThis brisk production from the company Motherlode concerns a village tempted by a stranger to move to new homes down the road.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:20PMA critic revisits the festival for “The Box Show,” “Thud!,” a new “Cyrano,” “Night of the Living N-Word!!” and “Roadkill.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMA dozen-show dive into the New York International Fringe Festival, which has nearly 200 shows on offer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:39PMArtists in the New York International Fringe Festival used their creativity to secure rehearsal locations that wouldn’t break the bank.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PMSarah DeLappe’s play focuses on coming of age, the closed ranks of a longtime unit and the loneliness of being an outsider.
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