Saturday, October 6, 2012
“Vita and Virginia,” a play about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West that is adapted from two decades of their correspondence, is at Luna Stage in West Orang…
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Suzan-Lori Parks directed “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize play, in the shining first production of the 2012-13 season of the Two River Theater Company in Red Bank.
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“Sounding Beckett,” directed by Joy Zinoman, features three Samuel Beckett plays written rather late in his life.
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“Harbor,” at the Westport Country Playhouse, starts as a horror story of houseguests who swear they are staying only one night but refuse to leave, then the tale takes surprising turns.
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Keith Lee Grant directs an intimate chamber version of “Dreamgirls,” Michael Bennett’s 1981 R&B musical about the rise of a 1960s girl group.
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The message of “Cougar the Musical” is that relationships between older women and younger men are a great idea.
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Written by Ido Bernstein, the show explores the culture of aggressive masculinity in contemporary Israel.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
A Shakespeare work that has been performed only twice on Broadway is at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater at Drew University in Madison, N.J.
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“The 39 Steps,” at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, N.Y., is a perfect example of the company’s fabulous sense of play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:29PMKaroline Leach’s “Tryst,” playing at TheaterWorks Hartford, City Arts on Pearl, is a story of a con man and a spinster that delivers psychological twists and turns.
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“Tiny Bubbles,” at the Medicine Show Theater, follows a gay man whose roommate has decided to give up drinking.
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In “Tartuffe,” a comedy by Molière being staged at the Westport Country Playhouse, a family struggles to free its patriarch from his thrall to a religious charlatan.
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The musical "Central Avenue Breakdown" follows a family of jazz musicians and their move to Los Angeles in 1943.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
The comedy “Hell: Paradise Found” at 59E59 Theaters, written and directed by Seth Panitch, makes the argument for why it’s better to end up in hell than in heaven.
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Ms. Holm was 25 in 1943 when she was cast as Ado Annie in “Oklahoma!,” and in 1947 her performance in “Gentleman’s Agreement” garnered her the Oscar for best supporting actress.
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Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors” is performed outdoors at the Greek Theater at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morris Township, through July 29.
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In the New York Classical Theater’s “panoramic” production of “Twelfth Night,” the cast moves to a new spot for nearly every scene, and the audience follows.
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In Neil Simon’s comedy “The Odd Couple,” Felix is as morose and finicky as Oscar is cheerful and easygoing; when he moves in, he turns Oscar’s relaxed home into a bastion of neatness.
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“The Ahh Factor,” by Bruce Graham, and works by A. R Gurney and Neil LaBute highlight six plays about dealing with disabilities in “More of Our Parts,” at the Clurman Theater.
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The Westport Country Playhouse puts on a moving production of the play “The Year of Magical Thinking,” which Joan Didion adapted from her memoir of dealing with the death of her husband.
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“Once on This Island,” a fairy tale with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty, is at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
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In a happy spoof of what was once a serious piece of fiction, the moors of Devon, England, are a comedy location.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:26AM“My Wonderful Day,” one of Alan Ayckbourn’s lesser-known but not-less-funny comedies, is the final production of the Two River Theater Company’s 2011-12 season.
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Susan Charlotte’s “She’s of a Certain Age” is being presented by the Cause Célèbre at the Beckett Theater.
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“My Name Is Asher Lev,” adapted from the novel by Chaim Potok, is being staged at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven through May 27.
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The Westport Country Playhouse’s production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods” offers a new look at characters like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood.
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