Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Deanna Jent’s drama “Falling” examines how an 18-year-old boy with autism disrupts the equilibrium of a family’s relationships.
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In “Mary Broome,” a comedy by Allan Monkhouse, known for his acerbic take on the English bourgeoisie, a man leading a life of privilege is suddenly thrust into poverty.
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“Independents,” a musical held over from the New York International Fringe Festival, alternates between stoner comedy and romance, until dramatic storm clouds gather.
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Dan O’Neil’s’s eco-comedy uses a 1918 Expressionist play as its base for a comedic look at the energy industry.
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The musical “Sweet Charity” gets a Latin makeover in the director Julio Agustin’s production at the New Haarlem Arts Theater, and it’s called for.
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A dancing couple contend with the frustrations of New York in a “I ♥ Bob,” a live-action cartoon by the Parallel Exit troupe at the Joyce SoHo.
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In “Probation,” written and directed by Yoshvani Medina, a disillusioned Cuban in Miami wonders if he’s better off where he came from.
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The Irish Repertory Theater adaptation of “Man and Superman” has winnowed the George Bernard Shaw play to two acts from four yet retains Shaw’s wit and animation.
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“You Are in an Open Field,” by the New York Neo-Futurists troupe, is a stew of 1980s-style video games, role-playing games and “nerdcore” hip-hop.
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“The Ash Girl,” staged by the Pipeline Theater Company, applies several hard-edge themes to the Cinderella story.
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Dozens of songs provide the basis for Cirque du Soleil’s “Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour,” coming to Madison Square Garden.
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Adapted from a graphic novel by the comic artist Juliacks, “Swell” describes a college-age woman coping with the death of her sister.
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“The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos” is a musical satire with everything but zombies. Wait, it’s got them, too.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
A musical spoof of 1970s Irwin Allen films, “Disaster!” also draws heavily from that decade’s deep well of corny pop tunes.
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In “History of the World,” Judith Malina’s new play at the Living Theater, the audience is taken on a dizzying flight through the course of Western civilization.
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“Bunny Lake Is Missing,” adapted from a 1957 mystery, portrays a woman desperately searching for her 3-year-old daughter.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Critics and writers for The New York Times recall their favorite moments onstage in 2011, some of them happening in the smallest and most offbeat of places.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Foul-mouthed grit and working-class angst are the prevailing moods in two taut solo shows at this year’s Brits Off Broadway series.
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In “__ Done Broke,” at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, D. J. Mendel plays a drunk who ruefully recalls better days.
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Randall Colburn’s “Verse Chorus Verse,” at the Cherry Lane Studio Theater, is a bitter valentine to the legacy of grunge.
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Sunday, October 9, 2011
“Cheerful Insanity” is a repertory production of two confessional plays, “Callous Cad” by Tom X. Chao and “Penetrating the Space” by Kim Katzberg.
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There isn't much at the center of "Winner Take All (A Rock Opera)," but there's a lot surrounding it, all delightful.
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"Le Gourmand, or Gluttony!" is a fanciful operetta about the 18th- and 19th-century food critic Grimod de la Reyniere, from the troupe 3 Sticks.
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Ali Kennedy-Scott is a whirlwind, an irrepressible bundle of energy, spine and spirit, in her one-woman show.
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Mark Sam Rosenthal toggles between two personas in his one-man Fringe Festival show. “I Light Up My Life.”
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Black Moon Theater Company’s production of Oscar Wilde’s “Salome,” at the Flea Theater, teeters between severe modernism and Wilde’s verbal flourishes.
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