Monday, September 9, 2019
Sunday, September 8, 2019
JoAnne Akalaitis’s show at N.Y.U. Skirball assembles messenger speeches from Ancient Greek drama, with a nod to the present.
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Kevin McDonald, once part of the Canadian comedy troupe, plays for audience nostalgia in ‘Kevin McDonald: Alive on 42nd Street.’
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The uptick in hauling older scripts, from Tootsie to Moulin Rouge, to the stage has left playwrights with many hurdles
Here is a question from Tootsie, the Broadway musical about an out-of-w…
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Is the fringe ready for the brash standup who used to get paid in nachos and chicken wings? We meet one half of 2 Dope Queens as she fills her shoes with sweat
What does Phoebe Robinson want…
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A post-apocalyptic Peter Pan story with book, music and lyrics by Jim Steinman is a masterpiece of overstatement. But try not to sing along.
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This fluid and nonlinear adaptation of Richard Wright’s novel is brisk, but its theatrics upstage its implications.
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The second program of “Summer Shorts 2019,” at 59E59 Theaters, is a patchy evening including a contribution by Neil LaBute.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMAn adaptation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” makes a picnic of pentameter, and decadent dining accompanies William Blake in “The Devouring.”
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Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge grapple with love, grief and vulnerability in “Sea Wall/A Life,” paired one-act plays on Broadway.
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Jacqueline Novak’s show, a stand-up comedy set that inclines toward theater, offers a personal and intellectual history of oral sex.
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Friday, July 12, 2019
This play, a response to the rise in the deaths of journalists, is a reminder that imprisonment can happen to anyone.
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After starring together in “The Last Five Years” and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott had a “fracture” in their relationship. How do you set that…
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In his musical memory play at the Public Theater, he’s no longer being indirect about the violence that shaped, and shadowed, his life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMWhat happens when the “Mindfreak” unplugs? A little less gore and a tribute to a magician who came before him. Plus: boob jokes.
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Chana Porter’s absurdist take on “Peer Gynt” finds a young woman trying on new identities but finding that none quite fit.
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John Lennon and Sam Shepard wrote sketches. The cast was unclothed. And it went on to a two-decade Broadway run. An oral history of one of theater’s unlikeliest hits.
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Julia Jarcho’s new play is a squirmy, sinister meditation on female desire, with a whiff of ancient Greece.
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Linda Gross Theater at the Atlantic Theater Company, New York
The latest from Spring Awakening’s Duncan Sheik is a lush and emotionally impactful production with a smart book from Pulitzer…
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The upfront standup took down Trump with a blistering routine at the White House correspondents’ dinner. But she won’t joke about him again
Here are some things the comedian Michelle Wol…
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With most of the awards landing in predictable hands and a host who failed to add the requisite pizzazz, the annual Broadway love-in felt rather flat
The 2019 Tony awards began with James Co…
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In this untidy but often poignant drama, Carla Ching brings together the young and the rootless in Southern California.
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The Broadway powerhouse talks about trusting Sondheim, hearing others sing her songs and waiting to be taken seriously
Cafe Luxembourg, the closet-sized New York bistro Bernadette Peters cho…
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Assaulting the audience with its ‘twerking gone wrong’, Okwui Okpokwasili’s dance-theatre hybrid draws on difficult memories of her childhood
Okwui Okpokwasili wants to shake you. Up a…
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Sarah Einspanier’s play centers on beleaguered public defenders trying to find ways to nourish themselves and maybe one another.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMThe intrepid young actors from Shakespeare & Company perform on a four month tour, not unlike the traveling players from Elizabethan times.
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The film star is nominated for a Tony for “All My Sons,” a play with which she has a personal connection.
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Laura Eason’s adaptation of the Jules Verne novel is a reminder of how to make stage magic from simple elements.
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The Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s production synthesizes dramatic narrative with chamber music and some fantastic puppetry.
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Dave Malloy, the “Great Comet” composer, unpacks three songs from “Octet,” his (yes) a cappella musical about digital addiction.
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