Wednesday, November 12, 2014
City Center, New YorkThe stage is set for a thriller, but David Auburns play, while accurate in its portrayal of human relationships, never delivers a knockout blow Continue reading...
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In Nikkole Salter’s “Carnaval,” three men travel to Rio de Janeiro, in an exploration of black masculinity and friendship.
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Emily Padgett and Erin Davie star as the performers Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, in the Broadway revival of the musical “Side Show.”
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Two African-American executives, caught in an elevator during a building crisis, discuss matters of class and sex as well their own threatened physical safety.
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Genet’s “The Maids” is reconceived with a little help from the professionals — professional housekeepers, that is — at Abrons Arts Center.
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Friday, October 31, 2014
Old Sound Room, a company built by recent Yale School of Drama grads, has adapted spooky yarns plucked from Neil Gaiman’s “Fragile Things.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:19PMAmerican Airlines theatre, New YorkThe shows stars give complex and endearing performances, but this is an emotionally distant revival of Tom Stoppards heart-wrenching play Continue reading.…
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In “The Dreary Coast,” an immersive theatrical work from Jeff Stark, Hades, king of the underworld, sits enthroned on the banks of the Gowanus Canal.
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Neil Simon Theatre, New YorkThe folk-inflected songs are full of vigour and Jimmy Nail proves distractingly charismatic in this industrial musical Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AMNeil Simon Theatre, New YorkThe folk-inflected songs are full of vigour and Jimmy Nail proves distractingly charismatic in this industrial musicalAfter suffering 10 years of writer’s block…
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Lyceum theatre, New YorkA posse of TV talent tackles a Pulitzer prize-winning drama that asks difficult questions of religion, assimilation and individuality Continue reading...
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James Dickey’s 1970 novel, “Deliverance,” has been given the theatrical treatment by the Godlight Theater Company.
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Kimber Lee’s “brownsville song (b-side for tray),” at the Claire Tow Theater, explores a teenager’s death.
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“Inner Voices” consists of two solo musicals: one about an artist whose friend is dying of AIDS in the next room, and the other about a famous writer in the process of going blind.
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Mark Dendy, a Broadway choreographer, structures his autobiographical piece “Labryinth” around the myth of Theseus, combining confession with dance, video and songs.
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Not even Nathan Lane and a slew of vulgar jokes can save this play about plays from Terrence McNallys sour scriptF Murray Abraham: I am afraid of nothing on stage Continue reading...
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The Assembly’s “That Poor Dream” is an expressive, uneven update of Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations.”
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“The Killing of Sister George,” a 1964 black comedy, features a radio actress whose personality is at odds with her sweet on-air character.
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Ethel Barrymore theatre, New YorkAlex Sharp delivers a star turn in an amped-up staging of Mark Haddons bestselling novel Continue reading...
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The Bushwick Starr, a dingy, elegant but strangely welcoming performance space in Brooklyn, has become a bright spot on the Off Off Broadway map.
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Films of different genres and eras run through “Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature,” presented by Big Dance Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Scott Elliss revival of the 1936 play, starring James Earl Jones, will melt the hardest hearts with its strange central family Continue reading...
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Self-effacing in person, Romola Garai, making her New York theater debut in Tom Stoppard’s “Indian Ink,” is drawn to strong-willed characters on the stage and screen.
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In “A Sucker Emcee,” Craig Grant, known as muMs, recounts his ups and downs in rhymed couplets while a D.J. plays hip-hop.
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In “riverrun,” a solo show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Olwen Fouéré plays the character who personifies the River Liffey in “Finnegans Wake.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:11PMEveretts shtick is a little samey, but theres something deeply gratifying about a woman celebrating her appetite for sex and rocknroll Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMWednesday, September 17, 2014
A houseful of immigrant women, three of whom work the same, numbing factory job, are at the center of “To the Bone,” a play by Lisa Ramirez at the Cherry Lane Theater.
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In “Ndebele Funeral,” at 59E59 Theaters, a woman afflicted with AIDS prepares to die in a South Africa beset by bleak realities.
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Kenneth Lonergans breakout play revived with three young stars in a cruel to be kind portrayal of disillusioned youth Continue reading...
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The playwright and director and some of the actors in the coming revival of “Love Letters” answer questions about the lost art of the title.
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