She conjures a ‘Tempest' with a twist in her new film, but Julie Taymor is at the center of a very different maelstrom with her mega-budget Broadway musical, ‘Spider-Man'
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SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PMTheater 4the People’s new play, about a crumbling church and the people trying to hold it together, takes place in a church on the Upper West Side.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:51PMJess Burkle’s larkish adaptation of Molière’s “Don Juan,” at the Pearl Theater, features modern colloquial language and a loud-spoken costume.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMDon Nguyen’s play at Anderson Hall was inspired by a newspaper article about H.I.V.-positive women in Vietnam, but is most successful when it strays away from the source material.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMFive young New Yorkers are featured in Ping Chong + Company’s new work of interview-based theater at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in Long Island City, Queens.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:03AMThe death by poison of the “Ziegfeld Follies” beauty in Paris in 1920 is the subject of an immersive theater piece at the Liberty Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe new Theater Breaking Through Barriers production at the Clurman Theater opens with a dead body in a wheelchair.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMThe show employs satire without the bite of meanspiritedness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe characters in a new play say almost nothing, an exercise in mindfulness that was both challenging and relieving for its writer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PMTuta Theater Chicago brings a work by the French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce to 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:16PMMs. Mirza’s play — full of emotions, conflicts and other military-related issues — intends to educate theatergoers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:13PMTheater is always full of chance-taking and excitement, never more so than the first time a show has a preview.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:15PMFerenc Molnar’s play, a romantic comedy that came to Broadway in 1922, revolves around a tenderhearted Budapest clothier and his road back to happiness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:23PMThe play, which examines the aftermath of a mass shooting at a choir rehearsal, uses local choruses who volunteer to be a part of the show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:34PM“The Nomad,” from Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney, follows the journey of a Western woman who finds freedom posing as a man in North Africa.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMMs. Henley’s play, in a revival by the Actors Company Theater, is a rare western in which women are the stars.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:02PMIn a revival of this Clifford Odets play, directed by Dan Wackerman, the protagonist dreams of a less soul-sucking life, yet lacks the courage to try to build one.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:30PMRonald Keaton portrays Winston Churchill in reflecting on that former British prime minister’s anecdote-rich life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:40PMIn “Texas in Paris,” Lillias White and Scott Wakefield play very different singers on a music tour in France.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PM“Zero Hour: Tokyo Rose’s Last Tape” focuses on a young Japanese-American who becomes branded as an Axis propagandist.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:55PMAn Off Broadway production of the bio-musical about Shlomo Carlebach will close on Sunday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:57PMHalley Feiffer’s new play, “I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard,” focuses on an actress and her better-known father, a situation she knows firsthand.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMIn the play “Wyoming,” a family gets uncomfortable reminders when a son arrives for Thanksgiving.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:17PMThe Broadway veteran Tom Hewitt plays a disarming psychopath in “Another Medea,” a monologue written by Aaron Mark.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:40PM“The Woodsman,” an ambitious production from James Ortiz, uses spare dialogue, omnipresent music and fanciful puppets to tell the Tin Man’s back story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PMIn Amir Reza Koohestani’s “Timeloss,” two actors, former lovers, rehash an argument that’s both scripted and real.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:05PMThe Talking Band, a SoHo based avant-garde theater company that produced its first show 40 years ago, remains active and vital.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:44PMJeremy Chess, the producer of “Soul Doctor,” hopes for success as the play moves to an Off Broadway stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PM“Burning Bluebeard,” a play set around a 1903 theater fire, has become a tradition in Chicago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:40PM“Cafe Society Swing,” a revue wrapped around a bit of New York history, traces the demise of the Greenwich Village jazz club Cafe Society.
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