The New York International Fringe Festival, now in full swing, features glimmers of talent and skill amid the amateurism and malfunctioning air-conditioners.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PMMr. Ridley, whose controversial play, “Mercury Fur,” opens this week Off Broadway, follows his art across many forms: photography, film and children’s novels among them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:51PMMr. Ridley, whose controversial play, “Mercury Fur,” opens this week Off Broadway, follows his art across many forms: photography, film and children’s novels among them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMShakespeare in the Park, New YorkSex, sleaze and leather jerkins all feature in Daniel Sullivan’s farcical take on ancient Britain, which despite its shortcomings manages to succeed despit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMSignature Theatre, New YorkThe latest offering from Annie Baker focuses on things both seen and unseen, and benefits hugely from the playwright’s feel for character and dialogueMaybe the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMMichael Friedman and Daniel Goldstein’s new chamber musical examines a family’s past.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:22PMThe play, at the Second Stage Theater, is a fictionalized version of a workshop for prison inmates.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AMThe second part of this series comprises three plays centering on an intimate encounter, a dictator and a man stuck in his comfort zone.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMA journalist has called for a return to the days when theatregoers would put on their best outfits – but given that most people consume culture at home, showing up with pants on probably s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AMThis play centers on a pining Soviet locomotive who is dragooned by circus impresarios for some challenging tasks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMThis annual festival features plays by Neil LaBute, Vickie Ramirez and Matthew Lopez.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMNew York City Center, New YorkThomas Ostermeier’s present-day production works against the text, which is exciting in the first half but makes the tragedy unmotivated and unlikelyThomas Os…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMThe Transport Group brings to the stage a play inspired by an essay and directed by Jack Cummings III.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:49PMIn Jesse Freedman’s update of the Euripides tragedy, at the Ice Factory Festival, the citizens of Thebes gather and make music at a college-town sports bar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:30AMCherry Lane Theater, New YorkIn a show invisibly directed by Jerry Seinfeld, the comedian riffs entertainingly on New York’s history, but his grouchy schtick winds up staleThe comedian Col…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20PMThis pair of actors, increasingly cast in Shakespeare in the Park productions, have built a chemistry onstage and off.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:28AMJoel Paley and Marvin Laird’s musical, about a little girl determined to secure a part in a school play, is revived at St. Luke’s Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:13PMThe actress, who has a recurring role on “The Americans,” plays a sports agent in the Fernanda Coppel play at Second Stage Uptown.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:50PMMr. Gold, a director, and Ms. Baker, a playwright, whose new show, “John,” opens next Wednesday, have been longtime collaborators with a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award between them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:31PMMarquis Theatre, New YorkEven when they hint at how to do their tricks, the magic double act, celebrating 40 years together, still manages to daze and bemuse“We pulled a rabbit out of a ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AMPan Asian Repertory Theater’s production of this show promises a fresh approach to the material in this wartime musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21AMThe Weeds and The West Wing star, currently on Broadway, reflects on the stage: had this been a film, ‘they wouldn’t have cast me’In Simon Stephens’s two-character play Heisenberg, n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PMWilliamstown Theatre FestivalVeering from melodrama to realism to pornography, William Inge’s play flummoxes both actors and audience as it careers to an unintentionally comic conclusionWh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:09PMThe acclaimed Irish troupe condenses “Richard II,” “Henry IV, Part 1,” “Henry IV, Part 2” and “Henry V” into a seven-hour marathon performance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:27PMLincoln Center Theater, New YorkIt stars Patti LuPone in a gold lamé gown, but this story of a young gay man discovering life in the theatre lacks nuance and heartPatti LuPone is now in her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:56PMManhattan Theater Club, New YorkThe jokes about pickles might be contemporary, but everything else is wearyingly familiar in Melissa Ross’s play about three sisters gathering for a weekend…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMFlea Theater, New YorkMarried for 23 years, Tony Shalhoub and Brooke Adams pour themselves into Beckett’s drama about a couple trapped in an implacable, sun-baked presentTony Shalhoub and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMThe folk musical, at the South Street Seaport Museum, is set in the 19th century and centers on Percy, the son of a whaler.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMThe star of Clueless and other 90s films left the spotlight – but continued to take meaty theatre roles, like her current one in new play Of Good StockIt’s been more than 20 years since …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10PMAs the National Asian American Theater Company readies a revival of “Awake and Sing!,” a founder talks about the casting barriers her troupe is trying to surmount.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:46AMAmerican theatre's Wasserstein prize for young, female writers has failed to find a winner. I'm not surprised – but is it really a gender issue?The playwright Wendy Wasserstein had some ta…
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