Anne-Marie Duff talks about taking on the burning Lady Macbeth.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMWomen playing male roles in Shakespeare is a time-honored tradition, about to be refreshed in “Julius Caesar,” coming to St. Ann’s Warehouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25PMSome famous examples of actresses who have played important male roles in Shakespeare plays over three centuries.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMThe actor Ray Fisher plays Muhammad Ali in Will Power’s “Fetch Clay, Make Man,” at New York Theater Workshop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:14PMIn Daniel Pearle’s debut play with LCT3, young Jake — never shown onstage — has an affinity for dressing like the Little Mermaid, among others female heroines.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMNell Benjamin, the author of “The Explorers Club,” and Jennifer Westfeldt, who plays the lead role, say their own experiences with male condescension helped them shape the play’s heroi…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMKristine Nielsen has a long history with the playwright Christopher Durang, and now she has a Tony nomination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:13PMWalter Kerr Theatre, New YorkThe Testament of Mary, a monologue scripted by novelist Colm Tóibín from his novella of the same name and performed by Fiona Shaw, boasts the most unusual pre-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PMPublic theatre, New YorkImelda Marcos, the shoe-crazed wife of ex-Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, loved the nightlife. A habitué of Studio 54, she installed a disco ball in her New Y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:53AMIn her first visit to New York, Marisol Valles Garcia watches a “poetic impression” of her life story, which includes four months as the police chief in a community controlled by drug ca…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:51PMAl Hirschfeld theatre, New YorkMost New Yorkers would hesitate to don the dazzling footwear displayed in the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots. When you live in a city of potholes, sloping si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:57AMBroadhurst theatre, New YorkNora Ephron's Lucky Guy is a profane love letter to the lost, rollicking world of New York tabloid journalism. It is also a tribute to its real-life fallen son, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:50AMKathryn Hunter finds her simian side in the solo show “Kafka’s Monkey.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00PMRichard Rodgers theatre, New YorkDoes Broadway need another revival of Tennessee Williams's Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, its third in three years? Perhaps not. But when an actor such as Scarlett J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:08AMGerald Schoenfeld theatre, New York"Always be closing." That maxim of salesmanship seems positively caustic when projected on to the curtain during the Broadway revival of David Mamet's Glen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMMusic Box theatre, New YorkKatie Holmes, the celebrity divorcee and box office draw, is a lovely and slender young woman, even when garbed in the drab midwestern wear required of Theresa Reb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMFor Quiara Alegría Hudes, whose Pulitzer Prize winner, “Water by the Spoonful,” begins a run in New York this month, writing plays keeps her tethered to her family and hometown, Philade…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMClassic Stage Company, New YorkLast summer, at least three different Uncle Vanyas bestrode New York stages. Recent years have also witnessed fields of cherry orchards, a small flock of seagu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:01PMWe're used to complaining about unscripted interruptions – but sometimes the external world can affect a play in a good wayBack in the summer, just at the close of DruidMurphy's devastatin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58AMThe novelist Ayad Akhtar is confounding expectations in his screenplays and his debut play, “Disgraced,” set for the Claire Tow Theater.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMFrom the sweaty solidarity of baking auditoriums to fireflies flickering at dusk outside, summer theatre has a special allure. And then, of course, there's aircon ...For a while, the Ice Fac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMWith the production of its 13th and last play, the playwrights’ collective 13P is on the cusp of dissolving.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:41PMIt may not always be deliberate on the part of the playwright, but plays that plunge you into theatrical confusion can be a pleasureLast week, I found myself in familiar environs – in the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AMThe way a character is introduced in the new play "3C" gets Alexis Soloski thinking about the art of the stage arrival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:52PMIt was a weak year for musicals but an excellent one for plays, with Corden scooping the best actor award from a remarkable shortlist. But it was host Neil Patrick Harris who stole the showI…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21AMVenus in Fur is the latest play to tempt audiences into ogling its scantily clad cast. Now stage stars are being rated on sex appealA woman with long, blonde hair and a heavily lipsticked mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMFrom Ricky Martin on Broadway to Ashlee Simpson and Melissa Etheridge, many pop stars struggle in the theatre. Maybe it's time they steered clearRicky Martin has jaunty hair, shockingly whit…
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