Sunday, April 13, 2014
The Brits Off Broadway festival brings a double bill of “A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity” and “Clean” to 59E59 Theaters.
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Ed Sylvanus Iskandar needed four dozen playwrights to create “The Mysteries,” almost six hours of brand-new Bible stories based on an English medieval tradition.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Dan Hoyle’s solo show “The Real Americans” channels America’s just plain folks with compassion and respect, even as it comments on our national inability to understand one another.&n…
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Billed as a comedy, “The Shape of Something Squashed” means in part to gibe the ruthless self-absorption of successful artists, but it also offers a portrait of an actor as an almost inv…
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“London Wall,” a 1931 office comedy by John van Druten, depicts the limited choices available to working women then.
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The singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke, who wrote “My Mother Has 4 Noses,” performs it at the Duke on 42nd Street.
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In its world premiere at Irish Repertory Theater, “Transport” floats along on the strength of a fiddle- and flute-filled score, but lacks emotional depth.
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In “Sotto Voce,” an 80-year-old recluse is led by a researcher into reliving her first love, who was a passenger aboard an ill-fated ship of Jewish refugees in 1939. &nb…
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In “Actress Fury,” a dance-theater piece at the Bushwick Starr, three performers join in playing a single striving actress.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:37PMIn “The Wong Kids” at LaMama’s Ellen Stewart Theater, siblings find super powers to fight off the bullies.
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“Have I No Mouth,” part of P.S. 122’s Coil Festival, puts a mother, a son and their psychotherapist on stage in an exploration of loss.
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In “I Could Say More,” a play written by and starring Chuck Blasius at the Hudson Guild Theater, a writer’s beach house party devolves into tumult.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
“La Divina Caricatura” at La MaMa finds Lee Breuer and Mabou Mines exploring an interspecies love story.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
In “Black Wizard/Blue Wizard,” a musical and a battle, two forces vie for the chance to defeat the Great Mediocrity.
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In “Mary-Kate Olsen Is in Love,” Grace is a 27-year-old who craves distraction from her disillusionment, and that’s when the Olsen twins arrive.
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In “The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence,” now at Playwrights Horizon, Madeleine George explores how people have tried to circumvent the uncertainty of relationships with techno…
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“This Is My Office” is a semiautobiographical solo play in which a man contemplates the complicated relationship he had with his father.
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“Water,” from the British companies Filter Theater and Lyric Hammersmith, pours creative light and sound into a multicharacter tale about the environment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMDavid Harewood, Orlando Bloom and other actors tell how they meet the technical demands of performing Shakespeare.
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The New York International Fringe Festival, which opened on Friday, relies on a jury of curators to assemble its lineup, which leads some critics to argue that it’s not exactly a “fringe…
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Decades before he took on the chairmanship of the National Endowment for the Arts, Broadway producer Rocco Landesman approached his friend Robert Brustein about doing a musical at Brustein�…
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The details of Medford playwright Kirsten Greenidge’s “The Luck of the Irish’’ are artistic inventions, but Greenidge’s inspiration was her own family history: …
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Friday, September 9, 2011
Kirk Lynn wondered if it would be possible to make a play composed largely of questions asked of the audience, infusing genuine, unscripted responses into a theatrical experience. Melanie Jo…
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Leonard Bernstein kept coming back to his musical “Candide’’ over the decades, reworking and adding to his original 1956 score. Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation premiered …
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WELLFLEET - Brenda Withers was raised to be a nice person, civil and well-mannered. In a lot of ways, she thinks, this holds her back.
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