The artistic director of the boundary-pushing New York experimental theater company won a $300,000 prize. Here are the Group’s landmark productionsElizabeth LeCompte, the artistic director…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04PMManhattan Theatre ClubAn exclusively Asian cast, whose members also take on white roles, brings humor and poignancy to a loosely autobiographical play from Qui NguyenThe playwright Qui Nguye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07PMLincoln Center Theater, New YorkSamuel D Hunter’s latest adeptly questions five young evangelical Idahoans about to embark on a missionary stint in the Middle East without dismissing themI…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28PMPublic Theater, New YorkThe Oscar-winner delivers an electrifying performance as a restless woman in postwar England but the play lacks a sense of place, time and purposeFor Susan Traherne, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07PMBroadhurst Theatre, New YorkThe hacks are cynical, the laughs regular, the Hecht and MacArthur play a familiar joy. But it is Lane’s entrance as Walter Burns that really stops the pressIf …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AMAs we enter another season of A-listers treading the boards, is attaching a movie star to a stage production a reason to cheer or boo?Do you worship at the altar of Cate Blanchett or kiss a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:58AMThe musical, being revived by the Keen Company, finds some affection in this early work by Mr. Larson.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:15PMRoundabout Theatre Company, New YorkTwo narcissistic 60s children go to war with their disgruntled offspring in Mike Bartlett’s hilarious and scathing state-of-the-nation family play“All…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04PMCelebrity performances and monologues highlighted Hillary Clinton’s sway within the industry in a musical-themed night in New YorkIf swing state equivocators come across for Hillary Clinto…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMTwelve years after it opened in London, Punchdrunk’s take on Macbeth is still packing them in in New York – with a bar and restaurant attached. Has success tarnished the magic – or doe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45AMTravelling through brothels, strip clubs and red-light districts around the world, the performer channels the other’s experiences into a new show about sex workFor Sell/Buy/Date, her first…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:57AMIn-depth look at the hit Broadway musical has an impressively starry lineup but doesn’t give us a truly behind-the-scenes peek at the creative processNow that Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AMAmerican Airlines theatre, New YorkJumpy actors and an unusual vocabulary are among many jarring elements in a scattered adaptation that never gets out of the woods“I don’t know what to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25PMLyceum Theatre, New YorkThe comic creations of Nick Kroll and John Mulaney hilariously skewer theatrical conventions in an uproarious show that makes Broadway feel like the place to beGil Fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16PMRoundabout Theater Company, New YorkThe songs are a zippy treat, but the clunky dialogue and air of old-time predictability may leave audiences with reservationsWith Holiday Inn, a wan jukeb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36PMMr. Borle, who won Tonys for his parts in “Peter and the Starcatcher” and “Something Rotten!,” soon stars in a “Falsettos” revival and as Willy Wonka on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMA take on a classic by Jules Verne at the New Victory Theater uses actors, props and projections to teach children and adults about threats to ocean life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:46PMGolden Theatre, New YorkEquipping the audience with headphones offering 3D sound, McBurney embarks on a mind-expanding journey into the Amazon jungle – and storytelling itselfThe director,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07PMMCC Theater, New YorkJudith Light elevates Neil LaBute’s mildly sensational material about a transgressive relationship into a reasonably compelling character studyWho would distrust Judit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:08PMBy happy accident, the veteran actor Denis Arndt makes his Broadway debut in Simon Stephens’s “Heisenberg.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:52PMNew York Theater Workshop, New YorkA new drama imagines the slave rebellion leader’s final night in prison before being hanged. The result is a static two-hander in which the leads fail to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12PMThe Broadway legend won over fans as the emcee in Cabaret and he gained more admirers when he came out at age 82 – now he explains why theater is still sexyAnton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMThe play, by Winsome Browne and Brad Rouse, also samples a bit of Milton as it tells its tales.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:51PMA stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Iwuji is finally playing Hamlet, in a production inspired by Black Lives Matter and which is being performed in homeless shelters and prisonsFor …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:37PMBrian Quijada and Sonya Kelly are performing in plays they have written that illustrate the hoops people go through when they join another culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:51PMStarring in the revival of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” Mr. Schreiber doesn’t see himself as a womanizer: It’s “an awkward, uncomfortable mismatch.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:56AMThe performer is embarking on an ambitious project – a 246-song marathon performance that seeks to sum up a new, queer vision of AmericaA couple of weeks ago, Taylor Mac spent the evening …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14PMPlaying a well-to-do couple, the stars bring out the lacerating qualities in an Edward Albee play that has barely datedEdward Albee wrote as though he’d filed every typewriter key down to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20PMMs. Ryan plays a rapacious woman who ages from 19 to 64 in the course of the drama “Love, Love, Love,” which begins performances on Sept. 22.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:15AMBrooklyn Academy of Music, New YorkStretching to well over three hours, three interpretations of the myth of Phaedra turn into a rugby ruck of postmodernismIt’s tough to feel too much pity…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45PMPlaywrights Horizons, New YorkCan turtle soup heal the rift between a father and son? This play about the emotional uses of food is poignant, but its philosophical maxims are too sweetWe eat…
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