Booth Theater, New YorkThe actor does not entirely inhabit the part of Erie, a melancholy gambler, in this lavish Michael Grandage production of a minor Eugene O’Neill workWhat small bliss…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMDan O’Brien’s play examines his friendship with the photojournalist Paul Watson after Mr. Watson won a Pulitzer for images of a dead American soldier.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25AMWith “Pericles” at Theater for a New Audience, Mr. Nunn is directing his 35th play out of 37 by Shakespeare.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMSt Ann’s Warehouse, New YorkLike a folksy Waiting for Godot, this play, co-written by Rylance with the poet Louis Jenkins, is intensely charming in its cock-eyed humanityIf Samuel Beckett …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:09PMThe stage director Jack O’Brien reflects on his friendship with Mr. Nichols and the interviews for this documentary, which runs Monday on HBO.
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31PMThis Russian production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music plants actors amid the audience to heighten a sense of trepidation and exasperation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:39PMShakespeare’s comedy gets a party setting by an English troupe that specializes in wild versions of classic texts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:10PMMs. Jah is slim and not quite 5-foot-2, but on stage she looms larger. Especially when she’s holding a machine gun.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:49PMDeconstructing Eugene O’Neill’s take on Aeschylus’ “Oresteia” cycle, Target Margin mostly strips the stage and places the audience at a remove.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:41PMLydia R Diamond’s play, set during Barack Obama’s 2008 victory, plays with ideas of race and academia but fails to join the dots in this unrooted dramaHas a play ever boasted a cast of c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:44PMThe Pulitzer prize-winning writer’s latest sees him tackle his own youth with an at times predictable yet bracing tour of a small Catholic boarding schoolManhattan Theater Club, New YorkHa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32PMThis performance presents seminal events and issues of the period, but leaves many others untouched.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:14PMSiblings try to decide how to honor the memory of their brother, who died on Sept. 11, in Nick Gandiello’s affecting if overwrought drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMRobert Askins drew on his evangelical Texas upbringing to create a comedy about a teenager tormented by an evil puppet. As the play hits Britain, will he quit his day job mixing margaritas i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMA Brooklyn warehouse becomes a 1970s tropical resort in a sensuous Third Rail stage production that aims for immersion – but ultimately feels forcedHow quickly an orgy can pall.That’s on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AMA Nigerian couple embrace and rebuff life in America in Mfoniso Udofia’s play, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PMMr. Shepard comments on his play, soon to have its third major production in New York; his upbringing; and the limitations he finds in his own oeuvre.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMSam Shepard’s play has had two major New York productions; a third is coming to the New Group. Cast members in each have something to say about it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMThis play, an adaptation of Margery Williams‘s 1922 book, features the bond between a boy and a stuffed toy he receives for Christmas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:39PMSamuel J Friedman Theatre, New YorkUnfocused, anemic and astonishingly trivial, the only audience members likely to be scandalised by this adultery drama are those who need to get out moreTh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56PMIn Anna Moench’s play a woman gives up her job to accompany her husband to a seminary, where she must learn to be a docile homemaker.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PMDorothée Munyaneza uses spoken word, song and movement to revisit the genocide that forced her to flee her home as a 12-year-old.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:14PMAmerican Airlines Theater, New YorkMichael Frayn’s play about a disastrous attempt to stage the farce Nothing On is one of the funniest ever – but at times the cast seem to be acting in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26PMThe piece by the Australian company Ranters Theater is said to be based on a series of conversations with strangers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03PMSt Anne’s Warehouse, New YorkMusic’s eclectic spin on minimalism the high points of composer Donnacha Dennehy and playwright Enda Walsh’s collaborationThis small inn on the Irish coast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AMClove Galilee revives a show she developed with her mother, Ruth Maleczech, a founder of the experimental theater company Mabou Mines, who died in 2013.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:09AMMs. Lewis, a Broadway veteran, is replacing Tonya Pinkins, who quit the production last week because of creative differences with its director, Brian Kulick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:10PMThe new 18-day theater festival, which begins on Jan. 13, in the combined effort of several Brooklyn theaters seeking broader exposure for local work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:38PMThe differences between Tonya Pinkins, the lead actress, and Brian Kulick, the director, were touched by racial perceptions and diverging visions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:04PM“Skeleton Crew,” set in 2008, is the last in her trilogy of plays about Detroit.
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