Monday, August 26, 2013
In “Still Jewish After All These Years,” at Stage 72, Avi Hoffman offers songs and life lessons from decades in the Yiddish theater.
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Dave Hanson’s play is about two understudies waiting for their chance to go on in Samuel Beckett’s famed “Waiting for Godot.”
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Jacques Deval’s 1933 play about displaced Russian nobility is a European screwball comedy, but it also is much more.
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D’Artagnan and his friends, united as ever, fight for honor and a comically played Louis XIII in Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of “The Three Musketeers,” now at the Hudson Valley Shakespea…
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Almost half a century after his death, Joe Orton, who would be 80 now, has the power to shock even worldly 21st-century theatergoers. His “Loot” is at the Westport County Playhouse. …
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“Me and Jezebel,” at the Snapple Theater Center, is based on Elizabeth Fuller’s memoir of a time in 1985 when Bette Davis came to her home to stay and stay and stay. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Let It Be: A Celebration of the Music of the Beatles,” at the St. James Theater, winds its way from the band’s Liverpool days to the last album, and back again.
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Friday, July 19, 2013
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
“Bill W. and Dr. Bob,” a play about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, is produced by the Hazelden treatment center, but is 99 percent preachiness-free.
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A “Midsummer’s Night” production by the Classical Theater of Harlem in Marcus Garvey Park has piquant multicultural touches.
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“Fallen Angels,” the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey’s newest indoor production, explores the sexual double standard of a bygone era.
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Friday, June 21, 2013
In George Kelly’s 1924 comedy “The Show-Off,” now at the Westport Country Playhouse, a North Philadelphia family is terrified their daughter will marry the no-account Aubrey. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:56PMJames Wesley’s “Unbroken Circle,” at St. Luke’s Theater, stars Eve Plumb in a Texas comedy-drama with a whiff of “August: Osage County.”
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Theater Breaking Through Barriers presents six short plays by Bekah Brunstetter, Samuel D. Hunter, Neil LaBute and others featuring characters with disabilities.
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Noël Coward’s witty leading man is the sole center of attention in Two River Theater Company’s production of “Present Laughter.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:22PM“Becoming Dr. Ruth,” at TheaterWorks Hartford, details the life, with its hardships, of the famous on-the-air therapist.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:49PMThe Schoolhouse Theater’s lighthearted production of “Last of the Red Hot Lovers,” which first opened on Broadway in 1969, brings back those days with a clear eye and a warm heart.&nbs…
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The Irish comedy “The Playboy of the Western World” is being staged at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater in Madison, through June 23.
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Stephen Burdman’s staging of Chekhov’s “Seagull” in Central Park requires the audience to get up and stroll en masse to a new location several times.
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The celebrities that pop up throughout Rita Moreno’s memoir include Marlon Brando, Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy.
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In “Marcellus Shale,” townspeople of Rock Valley (site of fracking) try just to sit back and enjoy the monthly checks from the gas company, but that isn’t always easy. …
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Joshua Conkel’s comedy “I Wanna Destroy You” involves a face-off with New York characters flaunting unappealing values and a sense of entitlement.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:50PMA film star invades the dumpy studio of an acting coach who fails to recognize her in “Class,” a one-act play by Charles Evered at Penguin Rep Theater.
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Friday, May 10, 2013
It is often said that A. .R. Gurney writes about a dying breed. But the characters in “The Dining Room,” the Westport Country Playhouse, are very much alive onstage. &nb…
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