Saturday, November 17, 2012
“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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“Soulographie: Our Genocides,” a series of 17 plays by Erik Ehn, is being presented at La MaMa, the first time they have been presented as a group.
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Ari Brand, who has a starring role in the Off Broadway adaptation of Chaim Potok’s “My Name Is Asher Lev,” talks about the play and his “Broadway Bound” disappointment three years …
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
In “Venus in Fur,” by David Ives, a seemingly idiotic actress arrives late to an audition and ends up turning the tables on an arrogant theater director.
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“One Slight Hitch,” a play by the comedian Lewis Black, is having its New Jersey premiere at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
“Satchmo at the Waldorf,” based on a biography of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout, opened in New Haven on Oct. 3.
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Wendy MacLeod’s sensitive comic drama “The Water Children” has been updated and includes references to the likes of John Boehner and Rick Santorum.
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“American Night: The Ballad of Juan José,” at the Yale Repertory Theater, isn’t exactly a play or musical; it feels like an absurdist history pageant.
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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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