Sunday, May 13, 2012
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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In “Protected,” a series of odd characters turns up at the front door of a man who is new in the witness protection program.
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In “Tally’s Folly,” a man from St. Louis crosses half of Missouri to propose to a woman who initially wants no part of him.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PM“The 39 Steps,” the Hitchcock thriller about spies and murder, is at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick.
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Darko Tresnjak is directing John van Druten’s “Bell, Book and Candle” at the Hartford Stage through April 29.
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
The revival of “Red” by John Logan focuses on the relationship between the artist Mark Rothko and a fictional assistant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:09AMIn an almost-solo revue, Maureen McGovern, best known for her Oscar-winning theme songs in two 1970s disaster movies, reminisces.
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In “The Soap Myth,” written by Jeff Cohen, a Holocaust survivor’s belief that the Nazis made soap from the bodies of Jews is met with scholarly skepticism and a denier’s dismissal.
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Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties,” at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, is an elegant but highly challenging production with verbal gems.
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A new production of “Damn Yankees” at the Paper Mill Playhouse is a first-rate, frequently thrilling revival of the age-old story of a man who sold his soul to the Devil.
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The Schoolhouse Theater’s harrowing production about alcoholism, directed by Pamela Moller Kareman, follows J. P. Miller’s original TV script, not the 1962 film.
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Half of “Rated P for Parenthood” at the Westside Theater is sweet and wistfully funny, and the other half is a demographically opportunistic mash-up.
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Mr. Kissel also wrote books on Broadway subjects, including a book of New York City theater walks and a biography of the producer David Merrick.
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In “Poetic License,” at 59E59 Theaters, a father is about to be named poet laureate of the United States while his daughter’s boyfriend has something other than romance up his sleeve.
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“Good Goods,” by Christina Anderson, is being staged at Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven through Feb. 25.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:14PMThe George Street Playhouse’s production of “Red” may be a two-man, one-act play about the painter Mark Rothko and his assistant, but quiet and reflective it is not.
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“Jitney,” one of August Wilson’s 10 plays about the 20th-century African-American experience, is at the Two River Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01AM“Sty of the Blind Pig” at Hartford Theaterworks is a solid, poignant production that feels like a tableau vivant of saddened people left behind.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
“Boeing-Boeing” is at the Paper Mill Playhouse. The appeal of the play today is the amusing look at the peculiar customs of a misguided era.
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In Cate Ryan’s “Picture Box,” a black man who helped raise a white child was truly considered one of the family.
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A piece of art that might be one of Jackson Pollock’s acclaimed drip paintings brings together an unlikely couple in “Bakersfield Mist,” presented by the New Jersey Repertory Company.
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Neil Bartlett has adapted “A Christmas Carol” for the stage using only Dickens’s original text; the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey performs it through Jan. 1 at Drew University.
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“Irving Berlin’s White Christmas,” based on the 1954 movie musical and featuring Lorna Luft in a supporting role, runs at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J., through Dec. 24.
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Brian Dennehy is back at the Long Wharf Theater in a one-act play, “Krapp’s Last Tape,” by Samuel Beckett.
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Mr. Pockriss, who wrote the music for midcentury pop hits like “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” also worked in musical theater for decades.
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Madeleine George’s clever new play, now having its world premiere at Two River Theater Company, opens a window onto what one character in the play likes to call “alternative kinship stru…
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“Phaedra Backwards,” in its world premiere, is Marina Carr’s reworking of the Minotaur legend, starting from the end.
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