Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Enda Walsh’s play, which had its U.S. premiere at the Irish Arts Center, stars two sisters who play different versions of the same character.
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Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga head to Broadway in “Macbeth,” while “Fat Ham” and “Misdemeanor Dream” aim to lend contemporary context to classic plays.
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Happenstance Theater traps five pretentious aristocrats in a comedy of bad manners that could use more luster and more bite.
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In the film version of “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” about a composer who dreams of Broadway, a “Rent” die-hard discovers more to love in musical theater.
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… Some never to return. This new Cold War musical about the Soviet-American space race pays tribute to the pups who preceded the cosmonauts.
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Dave Harris’s hip-hop triptych exploring racism and capitalism is meant to be a biting satire, but it has little force behind it.
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The playwright directs and stars in her new play for Atlantic Theater Company’s Stage 2. It’s less a traditional narrative and more of a series of flirtations with discomfort.
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A classic text by the 10th-century Saxon nun Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim inspires two new plays being performed as a double bill at 59E59 Theaters.
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The musical “Hadestown” and the opera “Eurydice” aim to offer new twists on a Greek myth. But when it comes to their heroine, they only go so far.
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Thursday, December 23, 2021
Two shows with Broadway aspirations, “Once Upon a One More Time” and “A Strange Loop,” represent opposite extremes of what a big, mainstream production can be.
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No apologies from our critic-at-large, who found plenty of movies, plays and TV series to nourish the culture nerd within.
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The new family-friendly musical, adapted from the hit movie, ends up cowering in the original film’s shadow.
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Digital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child’s first fireworks.
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Domhnall Gleeson is surrounded by an eccentric cast of characters in Enda Walsh’s surreal play at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
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Will Eno’s inward-looking incarnation of “Peer Gynt” steps out of Ibsen’s shadow just as Ibsen shrugged off elements of the original fairy tale.
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The new musical, based on the 2008 film and delayed by the pandemic, debuts at the Public Theater. But its story of a white professor helping immigrants feels out of step with the moment.
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Her prescient 1955 play about racism in the theater world is reaching the big stage. And it’s anything but a period piece.
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Livestreamed productions of “Hamlet” and “Macbeth” from London reflect the vital role directors have in redefining these classic characters.
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Keenan Scott II’s play, incorporating slam poetry, prose and songs, aspires to be a lyrical reckoning with Black life in America.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PMIn Tiago Rodrigues’s show, audience members learn a Shakespeare sonnet together — line by line, over and over.
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson brings his tender and vibrant autobiographical show to Broadway, honoring the woman who not only raised him but also kept a cast of misfits in line.
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The Bedlam theater company returns with another adaptation of Jane Austen, but the production misses all of the source material’s subtle wit.
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The African Theater, which had its first performance on Sept. 17, 1821, is both an inspiration and a cautionary tale.
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John Pollono directs and stars in an adaptation of his play that adds depth to the original text but also struggles in its translation from stage to screen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06AMIn new musicals about Princess Diana, Cary Grant and Michael Jackson actors get a chance to embody icons while spotlighting their individual talents.
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These worthy and adventurous lockdown experiments too often give short shrift to the relationship between a script and how an audience takes it in.
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The annual summer festival in Massachusetts has tried to adapt amid the pandemic and calls for more diversity onstage.
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Harold Pinter’s one-act play, starring Daniel Mays and David Thewlis as hit men, is available to stream live via the Old Vic Theater.
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