Vineyard 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...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01AMMs. Moss returns to Broadway, portraying a successful professional wondering if she can have it all in this 1988 Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMThe Pearl Theater Company’s “The Winter’s Tale” plays out as a tipsy dinner party that skids toward tragedy over dessert.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMMarc Palmieri’s half comedy and half tragedy, at Axis Theater, follows a landscaper turned playwright who hires some New York professionals to stage his work in his Long Island garage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMThe coming season brings exciting challenges for new artists working on and off Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:49PMTrav S.D.’s play, at La MaMa, is based on the life of Adah Isaacs Menken, a flamboyant liar and theater star of the mid-1800s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:49PMPublic Theater, New YorkThis exuberant and original new musical mashes up genres from rap to operetta, creating a flawed but glorious portrait of the face on the $10 billIn a letter to Georg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01AMA professor at Brooklyn College has helped to turn out some of the city’s most wildly inventive young playwrights by shooing them out of their comfort zones.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMBrooklyn Academy of Music, New YorkLaughter in the dark rings loudly in this uncut, immaculately cast and virtuosically staged five-hour version of O’Neill’s excoriating drama Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSheila Callaghan’s volatile new work touches on beauty and body image, intimacy and alienation, art and commerce, fantasy and reality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Josephine and I,” Ms. Jumbo’s new solo show, tells the story of Josephine Baker, the St. Louis-born performer who became a legend in Paris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:14PMAt 76, the actor is currently climbing a theatrical mountain: the five hours of Eugene O’Neill’s bleak The Iceman Cometh. Yet he can’t resist – the playwright’s work, he says, is �…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:38PMThe play “The Listeners” centers on two drifters, contradictions and shifting identities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PMAnton Dudley’s “City Of” focuses on four Americans stumbling around Paris, and a gargoyle named Pierre.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Human Symphony,” Dylan Marron’s new play, is performed by six audience members taking instruction from MP3 tracks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:44PM“Shesh Yak,” created by Laith Nakli, is set four years ago during the first heady days of protest during the uprising in Syria.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:39PMThe star of Orange is the New Black proves that she’s a real theatre actor, but for all the fine performances, this is a tepid revival of a second-rate play Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:47AMJonathan Christenson’s “Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe” opens at New World Stages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PM“Da,” Hugh Leonard’s semi-autobiographical work, is a memory play with a spectral turn as a son is visited by his father’s ghost.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMSt Ann’s Warehouse, New YorkHaving played in London and Scotland, this stage version of the Swedish book and film has lost none of its eeriness – or its brutality Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMThe Harold and Miriam Steinberg Centre for Theatre, New YorkA lo-fi version of Stephen Sondheim’s classic, currently in the cinema, manages to be both lucid and moving – despite the odd …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00PMMaggie Bofill’s domestic comedy “Winners” stars Grant Shaud and Florencia Lozano as a couple with relationship and peanut butter problems.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Rasheeda Speaking,” by the Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson, is a dark comedy about racism both covert and obvious, and stars Tonya Pinkins and Dianne Wiest.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:47PMCaps Lock Theater’s immersive, site-specific “Mrs. Mayfield’s Fifth-Grade Class of ’93 20-Year Reunion” enlists its audience members as classmates.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:34PMNederlander Theatre, New YorkDrab sets, bad politics and wince-inducing stereotypes sink this threadbare production, in which Tony Danza steals scenes but can’t save themThe first rule of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00PMThe Under the Radar theater festival at the Public Theater features Reggie Watt’s “Audio Abramovic” and Marie-Caroline Hominal’s “The Triumph of Fame.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:11PMIn Andrew Schneider’s inventive, astounding and inexplicably shirtless “Youarenowhere,” part of the Coil festival, digital marvels synchronize with analog dance and personal revelation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:35PMSamuel J Friedman theatre, New YorkThe play may fixate on physics, but the chemistry between the two leads is potent enough to move an audience to tearsIf the science at the center of Nick P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00PMPrototype festival, New YorkKansas City Choir Boy, the singer’s show with composer Todd Almond, has wayward charisma and shades of The Odyssey and Kurt Weill – but there’s no erotic ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AMIn “My Voice Has an Echo in It,” by the Temporary Distortion multimedia theater company, four band members play for six hours in a room-size box walled by mirrors.
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