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…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PM“The Good Boy,” Michael Bonnabel’s solo show about his experience as a hearing son with deaf parents, is at Abingdon Theater.
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“Kunstler,” at Pace University, takes a journey through William Kunstler’s most famous cases, including those of the Chicago Seven, the Attica prison-riots inmates and the American Ind…
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“The Mountaintop,” at TheaterWorks Hartford through May 5, takes place in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel on April 3, 1968, the night before the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assass…
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In “Abundance,” by Beth Henley at Hartford Stage, two wives discover the humor and cold horrors of the 19th-century unexplored West.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:57PMMark S. Hoebee directs the Paper Mill Playhouse’s production of “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” a play based on a 1967 film written by Richard Morris.
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John Shévin Foster’s “Plenty of Time,” at the Castillo Theater, is a journey through time via two people who meet just once a year.
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In “Futurology the Musical,” astronauts from the future travel through time to intervene when an aspiring young actress-singer is on the verge of being corrupted by a showbiz lizard.&nbs…
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A mistaken husband’s rage has consequences in a new production of “The Winter’s Tale,’ directed by Rebecca Taichman, at the McCarter Theater Center.
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“Rich Girl” asks a timely question for fans of Henry James’s “Washington Square”: What if suspicious Victorian parents could have Googled their daughters’ suitors?
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In “The Little Flower” Anthony Lo Bianco sets out to demonstrate what made Fiorello La Guardia, who ran New York City from 1934 through 1945, so beloved.
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“The Norwegians,” C. Denby Swanson’s extremely odd and delightful comedy at the Drilling Company, is about two Scandinavian hit men in Minnesota.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:43PMThe Keen Company revives “The Old Boy,” A. R. Gurney’s 1991 tale of class-consciousness, money, loyalty and resistance to change.
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Music, wrestling, pratfalls: an “As You Like It” at the New Victory Theater that aims to charm adolescents.
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The early Sam Shepard play, known for its violently dark humor, is at Long Wharf Theater Stage I until March 10.
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“Two Trains Running” is one of a series of plays by August Wilson about the African-American experience in the 20th century.
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A widower vacations in London with hopes of sexual adventure but winds up finding something else among an assortment of endearing characters in “Off the King’s Road,” a play by Neil Ko…
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More than a play about three sex tourists, “Carnaval” reveals backgrounds and secrets, and adds serious tension at the end.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PMA production of John Cariani’s “Almost, Maine” at TheaterWorks Hartford does a lovely, witty job of showing off its romantic but unsentimental heart.
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Bryonn Bain has written and performs “Lyrics From Lockdown,” a solo show that’s the story of his unjustified 1999 arrest and detainment by the New York Police Department.
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
Based on a true story, “Airswimming” chronicles the lives to two women institutionalized for giving birth out of wedlock in 1920s England.
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“The Future Is Not What It Was,” by Michael Rabe, playing at Walkerspace, refers to the future but is set “in a world not unlike our own, where society’s moral compasses have been br…
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Penny Fuller plays a widow left in deep debt in a musical adaptation of the play “13 Things About Ed Carpolotti.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PM“Flipside” delivers 28 Patti Page hits in less than two hours from two performers with warm and lovely voices.
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“The Best of Enemies,” at the George Street Playhouse, recounts the unlikely friendship between Claiborne Paul Ellis, a Klansman, and Ann Atwater, a civil rights activist.
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Four shows that recently opened in New York — “Golden Age,” “Golden Boy,” “Golden Child” and “The Golden Land” — have similar titles but little else in common.
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Alexandra Silber, Hunter Foster and Arielle Jacobs star in “Inner Voices,” an evening of three one-act solo musicals.
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“Stones in His Pockets,” by Marie Jones, at Hudson Stage, depicts villagers hoping their bleak lives will benefit from a film.
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