Thursday, February 20, 2020
Controversies have dogged Ivo van Hove’s production of West Side Story, surrounding injuries, protests, and bold cuts to the material (the dropping
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Alice Birch’s beautiful, aching play depends on the careful delivery of synchronised and overlapping dialogue from characters in three time periods who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PMBest known for its revivals of musicals and the classics, the not-for-profit Roundabout Theatre Company branched out into new work more than
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Director and adaptor Simon Stone’s contemporary take on Medea shrinks the tragedy to such an individual level that the deeper questions surrounding
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By the numbers for 2019:174 shows seen (down from 203 last year)27% of work seen by artists of color (up from 25% last year) 62% of work seen by underrepresented artists (up from 50% last ye…
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Inspired by Alanis Morissette’s debut album, this new musical uses her music to explore serious subjects – rape, addiction, transracial adoption and
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Jack Thorne’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol does not reinvent Charles Dickens’ festive fable but it delivers an enjoyable holiday experience complete
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Neither a fully formed musical nor a staged concept album, this adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, featuring music and
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Playwright Adam Rapp’s Broadway debut, The Sound Inside, is a slippery mystery featuring a subtle central performance from Mary-Louise Parker. Parker plays Bella, a
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With its religious idolatry, white dress purity, red rose lust, and Sicilian superstition, Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo is an unlikely comedy.
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In his Broadway debut, Slave Play, Jeremy O Harris sharply explores how white supremacy interferes with interracial relationships today. Harris plunges the
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Jack Thorne’s compassionate new play, Sunday, is more experimental and complex than at first blush. With explosive dance breaks and Gatsby-style narration,
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UK audiences were introduced to the Public Theater’s Public Works programme through Kwame Kwei-Armah’s production of Twelfth Night at the Young Vic
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Finnish artists Essi Rossi and Sarah Kivi set out to educate themselves and the audience on women, sex, and desire in Ejaculation:
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMWatching Glory Die makes clear from its title where it is going to go. Based on a true story about a young
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Getting a brief glimpse of the shattered, abused child within the aggressive adult woman standing before us is a remarkable achievement of
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A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego walks a wobbly line between poking fun at the oversensitivity of men and expressing
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Physicalising the exhausting, throbbing struggle when parts of your mind do battle with each other, Passengers is a probing look at both
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AMSadie Clark’s Algorithms is a romcom with more com than rom. Using movie references, pop music, and online dating as its framework,
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Wild Swimming is an anachronistic romp tackling history, gender politics and art. With fourth-wall breaking, audience assistance and improvised elements, the work
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Parental neglect is no laughing matter, but when a parent is brainwashed into a cult it’s not your typical desertion story. That
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For decades in Canada, Indigenous women went missing and were murdered with little government response or action. Tara Beagan’s play Deer Woman
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:28PMIn Ireland, the eight amendment referendum didn’t just change the law around abortion; in Rachel Trezise’s Cotton Fingers, it inspired a teen
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Encores!, a concert series reviving Broadway hits, has brought back the likes of Chicago. Nicole Serratore meets Anne Kauffman, the artistic director
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Adapted from Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees is a coming-of-age story that portrays African-American faith and community with
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The Off-Off-Broadway theatre has provided a testing ground for a string of plays that have hit the Great White Way. Artistic director
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When Susan Sarandon finally ceases her persistent upbeat chatter in Jesse Eisenberg’s new play Happy Talk, the resulting awkward silence does not
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With Tony nominations out this week, there’s an abundance of talent to celebrate. But this year, rather than the attention being drawn
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This new screen-to-stage musical adaptation of Tim Burton’s ghoulish 1988 film feels like two different musicals have been fused together. On one
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