Friday, April 10, 2015
The RSC’s six-hour production lands with a bang on Broadway – thanks to Ben Miles’ intricate portrayal of Tom Cromwell as a bruiser with brainsWinter Garden Theater, New York Ladies, g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AMThursday, April 9, 2015
At 82, Chita Rivera is back on Broadway, starring in the Kander and Ebb musical “The Visit” as a rich woman set on revenge.
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Neil Simon Theater, New York The girls are now above the age of consent, but there’s still not much else to thank heaven for in this awkward stage version of the 50s film Continue reading.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00PMBooth Theater, New YorkA sock puppet turns Satanic in this savage, profoundly irreligious satire which is at its funniest when it’s at its most purile, and contains a masterful central per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:05AMMonday, April 6, 2015
The “Z” in the title stands for zombies in this gory riff on a Shakespeare tragedy by Melody Bates, at the New Ohio Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMPlato and Dante are name-dropped in this dance-theater piece staged by Dan Safer, but love and lust set the play’s libidinous heart aflutter.
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Golden Theatre, New YorkDavid Hare’s play is about the state of the nation and matters of the heart, as two former lovers with differing political views are reunited 20 years after their a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:23AMGolden Theatre, New YorkDavid Hare’s play is about the state of the nation and matters of the heart, as two former lovers with differing political views are reunited years after their affa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:23AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
Famous for his indie film roles, the actor is finally giving his Hamlet in a manner intended to bust apart its over-familiarity: ‘I’m trying to play Stairway to Heaven in a way somebody …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:56AMTuesday, March 31, 2015
Twelve years after it opened in London, Punchdrunk’s take on Macbeth is still packing them in in New York – with a bar and restaurant attached. Has success tarnished the magic – or doe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AMMonday, March 30, 2015
A neo-folk musician, Mr. Irving sets up in New York apartments and between songs tells stories of his travels so far.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PMThe theater’s first all-ages play, staged in a formerly vacant storefront, is a lightly absurdist take on a coin laundry.
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Music Box Theater, New YorkStarring Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss, the Pulitzer-winning play, which suggests that professional success and family life are mutually exclusive for women, now seem…
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An actor plays Thomas Cromwell, a character who is “devious, charming, playful, occasionally perverse, sometimes honorable.”
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Characters in Aaron Landsman’s play at the Chocolate Factory reflect on an inexorable act they failed to prevent.
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Belasco theatre, New YorkMitchell’s extraordinary performance – a far cry from Neil Patrick Harris’s crowd-pleasing turn – brings a darker edge to the role he created 20 years ago“…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AMAmerican Airlines theater, New YorkSet on a train, this musical boasts screwball gags and an alluring pair of leads in Peter Gallagher and Kristin Chenoweth, but lack of memorable tunes make…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AMThursday, March 12, 2015
Siblings spar about the fate of their neighborhood in New Orleans in “Brothers From the Bottom,” a play at the Billie Holiday Theater.
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In Mr. Netanyahu’s drama, a Jewish couple shies from recognizing just how much life is about to change as the Nazis rise in Germany.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMJoe’s Pub at the Public Theater, New YorkCush Jumbo performs Jospehine Baker with such passion that it comes to seem less like homage and more like invocation Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01AMMonday, March 9, 2015
This adaptation of Georg Büchner’s challenging fragment of a play, by No-Win Productions, teeters between reality and fantasy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25PMGerald Schoenfeld theatre, New YorkThe star shows dignity and grace in the lead role of Peter Morgan’s play, directed by Stephen Daldry Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:14AMTuesday, March 3, 2015
Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E Newhouse, New YorkAn actor with a face built for discontent animates a drama about a young interracial couple whose family keep butting into their low-w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMMonday, March 2, 2015
In this play at the Irish Arts Center, Mr. Murfi’s cobbler has to deliver goods to a customer, and the audience gets to hear his internal monologue.
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This experimental play by William Burke, whose cast includes dogs played by humans and real dogs, forces you to look at the nature of communication a little differently.
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Ms. Barfield’s new drama at City Center explores a long-term relationship from start to finish, but not necessarily in that order.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:39PMThe actor once struggled to move on from American Pie-type roles, but now he is digging deeper as he costars in the Broadway revival of The Heidi Chronicles Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PMVineyard Theater, New YorkWith characters created by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, this show has good jokes for Brooklyn aficionados but never generates real heat Continue reading...
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