
In his long-running Village Voice comic strip and in his many plays and screenplays, he took delight in skewering politics, relationships and human nature.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AM[SHARE]This film from Tom Gustafson, based on a 1993 Off Broadway show, has a formidable cast of Broadway names but wants for dramatic traction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PM[SHARE]This spirited riff on the long-running HBO hit displays affection for its subject, tempered with a keen eye for its shortcomings.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:04PM[SHARE]With "The Suitcase Under the Bed," the Mint Theater Company presents one-acts by Teresa Deevy, a proto-feminist finally receiving her due.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PM[SHARE]The words and tunes that Woody Guthrie, the Dust Bowl troubadour, made famous are at the center of this high-spirited show at the Irish Rep.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]This revival of J. B. Priestley's 1932 comedy depicts a busy Saturday in the life of a harried, financially imperiled aristocrat.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PM[SHARE]This multimedia production examines the people and backstage dramas that went into the making of "Casablanca" in 1942.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PM[SHARE]The show employs video, puppets and action figures, as well as actors, to tell its familiar story, about a boy abandoned by his vacationing family.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PM[SHARE]Honor Molloy explores rage, dissolution, sexual perversity and family history with a bleak and penetrating acuity in this play at Origin's 1st Irish Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:14PM[SHARE]Seth Panitch's play, an hourlong exercise in puerile scatology, is built around men's room graffiti, sight gags and comic riffs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PM[SHARE]The Drilling Company's brave ensemble, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, exuded an energy eclipsing the ambient sounds of the city.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:10PM[SHARE]This music and theater piece at BAM Fisher evokes the historic 1945 night on which the poet Akhmatova stayed up discussing literature and life with Isaiah Berlin.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:22PM[SHARE]This play, by Sharman Macdonald, rides the waves of a turbulent mother-daughter relationship in a production by Fallen Angels Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54PM[SHARE]This Caridad Svich adaptation of Mario Vargas Llosa's novel features romance and farce set in 1950s Peru.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:30PM[SHARE]The play, a bisexual romantic triangle at the Acorn Theater that takes on ambivalence, is written by Scott Elmegreen and Drew Fornarola.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:07PM[SHARE]The blustery character Jerry F. Wolfert returns in this sendup of 1970s and '80s Hollywood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PM[SHARE]Ellen Maddow's comedy explores the vicissitudes of cheek-by-jowl urban housing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]At the Cave at St. George's Church in Manhattan, a troupe called the Representatives depicts the secret tribunals of gay students in 1920.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:57PM[SHARE]This play, inspired by "The Slave Ship: A Human History," by Marcus Rediker, brings to life a 19th-century scene of moral and physical conflict.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:09PM[SHARE]This show, at Theater 80 in the East Village, is from the creators of "Bayside! The Musical! The Saved by the Bell Musical Parody!" and stars Perez Hilton.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:26PM[SHARE]Adam Seidel's serio-comic play at the Cherry Lane Theater mixes romance, absurdism, satire and a touch of "Dexter."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:36PM[SHARE]A production by the Drilling Company at Bryant Park has sweetened some of the aftertaste of this play about a husband breaking the will of his hot-tempered wife.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:16PM[SHARE]The film, directed by Mora Stephens, finds a straight-arrow prosecutor with an out-of-control libido.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:04PM[SHARE]In this play, two astronauts deal with Wongo Weed and big-haired natives after landing on a planet ruled by women.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PM[SHARE]“The Internet” is a multimedia show about the search for love, or at least dates, in a wired world.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]New York Times writers review five shows that made their debuts in the early days of this year’s New York International Fringe Festival.
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