Sunday, May 29, 2011
Two River Theater Company’s production of “Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” comes through as a moving and entertaining evening.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21PMNeil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23rd Floor,” being staged in Croton Falls, was inspired by Mr. Simon’s early television career working for Sid Caesar.
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Mr. Conaway, who earned praise as Kenickie, John Travolta’s bad-boy sidekick in the film version of “Grease,” was known to have an addiction to alcohol and drugs.
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A lovely evening doesn’t stay that way in Yasmina Reza’s play “God of Carnage,” now at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:16PMIt is hard to think of another stage musical that piles one blissful number on top of another with such escalating force, and the production at the Gateway Playhouse serves it up well.
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Judy Rosenblatt, starring in this revival about Peggy Guggenheim, a rich woman who did what she wanted, has the most important quality for the solo role: attitude.
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“Italian American Reconciliation,” at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, is an operatic comic romance about a man who regrets divorcing his wife.
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“Beyond Therapy,” Christopher Durang’s absurdist comedy about searching for a love connection through the personals, is the season-opener at the Westport Country Playhouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMWhen “Curtains,” about a murder mystery on the set of a show, made it to Broadway, its star won a Tony Award. Now, it’s at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
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Matt Schatz’s play about the designing of the World Trade Center comes with a shadow of doom and futility.
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The Crossroads Theater’s new production of “A Raisin in the Sun” is as strong, textured and unrelenting as it must have been when it opened on Broadway in 1959.
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The leader of a suburban book club sells it to television as a reality show in “Reading Under the Influence: The ‘Real’ Westchester Women’s Book Club.”
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The play “A Steady Rain,” focused on two regular-guy big-city police officers, runs through May 8 in Hartford.
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In George Bernard Shaw’s domestic comedy, written 15 years after Ibsen’s feminist shocker “A Doll’s House,” love, practicality and social equality in Victorian times are explored.
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Andrew Gerle’s play, based on John Marchese’s memoir, tells of how a very different father and son work together to renovate a home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:25PM“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” at the Paper Mill Playhouse is a colorful, cartoonish version of the musical set in ancient Rome.
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“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” at the Paper Mill Playhouse is a colorful, cartoonish version of the musical set in ancient Rome.
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Although he is mostly heard rather than seen, Jesse is the focus of and the reason for Lisa Loomer’s “Distracted,” now having its New Jersey premiere. This is a Dreamcatcher Repertory …
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“Divine Rivalry,” at Hartford Stage, stylishly recreates a tale of dueling murals, pitting Leonardo da Vinci against Michelangelo.
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“Puma,” having its premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, takes a melodramatic look at the four-decade relationship between Marlene Dietrich and Erich Maria Remarqu…
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“Mercy and the Firefly,” having its world premiere at Luna Stage, goes for shock value with a story about a Roman Catholic nun with a secret who returns to her hometown.
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“En el Tiempo de las Mariposas,” at Repertorio Español, presents the story of the Mirabal sisters and their opposition to the Dominican dictator.
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In “Green,” by Chris Harcum, one of the last human beings in the universe is arrested for being poor and artistic.
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Melissa James Gibson’s play “This” offers a tale of friendship, sex, jealousy and grief overlaid with a quiet optimism.
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