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Sunday, August 21, 2016
This upbeat, fluffy production of the jukebox musical is playing at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport.
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The director Michael Arden tries new takes on the musical by imagining the characters as participants in a scientific experiment.
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Despite the over-the-top costumes, the musical at the Patchogue Theater for the Performing Arts has a dark underside.
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A serious comedy set in Atlanta examines the lives of a group of Jews and how they relate to their own religion and to each other.
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“The Underpants,” the comedian’s adaptation of a German farce, shows a sweet young housewife struggling with lust in 1910.
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Jonathan Tolins’s comedy, having its world premiere at the Bay Street Theater, explores a range of loaded dichotomies through spirited dialogue.
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The show at the John W. Engeman Theater reinforces a sense of nostalgia for the 1920s, when a smart girl’s “modern” goal was to marry for money.
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In this production, Andrea McArdle and Sally Struthers are surrounded by an outstanding cast, a sparkling nautical set and fine musical accompaniment.
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The audience sits with the cast at an intimate production at Guild Hall of Conor McPherson’s play, with wry humor, bloody fights and philosophical musings.
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The Tony-winning musical, now at the Engeman Theater at Northport, explores racial tensions in the 1950s music industry in the South.
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In Yasmina Reza’s comedy, what seems like social banter takes a combative turn as two sets of Brooklyn parents discuss a violent episode involving their sons.
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A musical version of a classic Christmas movie brings the search for the truth about Santa Claus from the screen to the the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport.
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From the first finger snaps, the production at the John W. Engeman Theater in Northport, tailored to a non-Broadway stage, retains the show’s emotional urgency.
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The adaptation of “Saturday Night Fever: The Musical” in Bellport hews to the popular 1977 film but adds three more songs.
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The play by Sandy Rustin, set in 1923 England and inspired by Noël Coward and perhaps Oscar Wilde, continues through Sept. 6 at the John W. Engeman Theater.
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The Gateway production of the show, which won 10 Tony awards, has two actors alternating in the lead role of a boy who loves ballet.
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An imagined meeting of the five presidents who attended Richard Nixon’s funeral, written by Rick Cleveland (“The West Wing” and “House of Cards”).
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There is a lot to enjoy in this bubbly, bodacious production of the “The Producers” now at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport.
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Alena Smith’s play, directed by Bob Balaban in its world premiere in Sag Harbor, tells of a journalist and her friends coming of age as the Occupy Wall Street movement develops.
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Monday, May 25, 2015
This production of "My Fair Lady" at the John W. Engeman Theater has the familiar satirical contrast between wealth and poverty, and a few departures.
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“A Chorus Line,” the 1975 musical about the trials of auditioning, is being performed with high energy at the John W. Engeman Theater.
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“Zima!” — an outdoor performance by an East End dance theater company specializes in original site-specific works. In Montauk on Feb. 28, it will start at the gazebo downtown and end a…
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“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” will run at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport through March 8.
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