Sarah DeLappe’s play focuses on coming of age, the closed ranks of a longtime unit and the loneliness of being an outsider.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMReviews of “Newton’s Cradle,” “Dust Can’t Kill Me,” “Camp Rolling Hills” and “Ludo’s Broken Bride,” all part of this annual gathering.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:08PMUneasy relationships feature in the three one-act plays in Series B of this 59E59 Theaters festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMOwen McCafferty’s rage-filled, mournful play, an Abbey Theater in Dublin production, is about terrorism, civil war and the damage that remains after the hatred cools.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:38AMIn this musical about the complex relationship between four singers, the actors raise most of the characters above the level of the script.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMLisa Wolpe’s one-woman show, “Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender,” weaves together memoir and passages from the playwright’s work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:40PMNatalie Margolin’s play centers on three female college roommates whose bonds are tested by the strict rules they use for dating in the digital age.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:34PMThis play wants to be many things, most of all a commentary on the American Dream, but it is dreamlike in the wrong way.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:20PMIn just four years, Eric Tucker and Andrus Nichols’s New York-based company has become a critical darling. It’s also keeping them busier than ever.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:56PMIn this outdoor production of a Shakespeare classic, audience members follow the actors around through the park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:38PMBy performing it multiple times in rapid succession, flexCO turns a 17th-century farce inside out.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:08PMThe Radio City show’s aim seems to be selling tickets to people who would rather sit back and watch a sanitized simulation of the city.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01PMIn “The Iceman Lab, ” a four-act rethinking of “The Iceman Cometh” at Here, the mood at that depressing saloon has really livened up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:09PM“The Taming of the Shrew,” now at the Delacorte Theater, reminds women of their duty to their husbands. Here’s a take from a critic — and how some female directors view it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:22PMThis play, directed by Kristin Marting, emphasizes love and mourning through a collage of real online posts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:20PMDeploying visceral images and sounds, this production at Montclair State University is a radical transfiguration of the Moses story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMArguments among intellectuals take precedence in Mac Rogers’s play, set in Czechoslovakia in the years after World War I and overstuffed with ideas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMThis Jonathan Brielle musical retells the story of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle as a couple and as early-20th-century iconoclasts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PMRoles were spread around this year, but women are often still playing victims. Our critics discuss what worked, what didn’t and what they hope to see.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:57AMSigrid Gilmer blends time travel with runaway slaves in this comedy at the Robert Moss Theater, which features a heroic yet human Harriet Tubman.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:22PMMr. Albo’s new solo show, at Dixon Place, relates his immersion in the world of clinics and blood tests when he agrees to help his best friend become pregnant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:40PMThe Irondale Ensemble explores four plays that he was writing in 1599.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:05PMThis sung-through show at Axis Theater, from Randy Sharp and Paul Carbonara, looks and sounds good, but the story is a murk of confusion.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:02PMCreated with the director Rebecca Taichman, “Indecent” is inspired by Sholem Asch’s Yiddish play “The God of Vengeance.”
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