The Palace Theatre, New YorkAn eclectic selection of original songs, written by everyone from John Legend to Aerosmith, meshes awkwardly with vibrant production design in this entertaining y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PMIn this Public Theater Mobile Unit production, streamlining Shakespeare makes the plot turns and mood swings hard to comprehend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMPershing Square Signature CenterSeth Zvi Rosenfeld draws on a real and frightening event from the bicentennial year but his play feels like an early draft, stronger on sensation than insight…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMThe Ripe Time adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story focuses on an unnamed housewife who finds exhilaration in sleeplessness
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PMThe comedian stars alongside Keegan-Michael Key and Laura Benanti in Steve Martin’s mixed bag of sitcom humor and raunchy jokesBooth Theatre, New YorkSteve Martin’s lump of sight gags, o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMHe-said, she-said ambiguities are certainly dramatic. But they also ignore hard truths that we need to hear right now.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33AMSusan Miller’s sweet but softhearted play finds old friends challenged when the photographer among them wants to display group images taken over 40 years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04PMA pair of magic shows set in unusual sites have even jaded New York audiences happily losing their minds.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18AMToggling between the years 2017 and 73, this play about American Jews on a trip to Israel seems confused about what it is trying to say.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMThe Bedlam production of the J.M. Barrie classic is both too childish to tell the story properly and too adult to access its wonder.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMGerald 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 10:04PMHollywood’s “contempt and dismissiveness” toward women has led her to Broadway. In “The Parisian Woman,” she‘ll be onstage for every minute of every scene.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMJames Presson’s overstuffed play aims to meld outsize teenage passions with Jacobean tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMA year after filing for bankruptcy, a beloved cultural institution returns to Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMThis production of a minor play by Camus, about a bullied populace whose civil liberties are curbed, hits some Trumpian notes, but not too hard.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMThe Pulitzer prize winner’s stock market morality play zips by with speed but suffers from confused characterization and frustrating ambiguity Vivian Beaumont Theater, New YorkAyad Akhtar,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18PMIn works like “School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play,” Jocelyn Bioh aims to tell stories that buck expectation and defy stereotype.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AMA revival of David Henry Hwang’s audaciously imaginative play lands on Broadway but with the delicate poise between illusion and truth unbalancedCort Theatre, New YorkMost theater is a sed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06PMLuis Alfaro’s “Oedipus El Rey” puts sex and violence front and center as it considers the fate of a young man shaped by the prison system.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMPing Chong creates a deceptively warm multimedia production about a very cold place.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMTwo productions that draw on the Bard: an “As You Like It” with echoes of the refugee crisis and a goofy musical based on “Measure for Measure.” In this case, fun wins.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:04PMDavid Greenspan has been rehearsing his solo take on the epic “Strange Interlude” for four years. Now it’s show time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24PMThis adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s word-drunk fantasy is notable less for its violent themes than for its often-shirtless cast.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18AM“Beckett in the City: The Women Speak” powerfully articulates a theme of powerlessness in four short plays staged at a secret location near the Irish Arts Center.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AMGetting in character for “The Last Match,” the cast gets a tennis lesson from a former pro before taking the stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AMLoosely inspired by a true story, Dan McCormick’s play “The Violin” follows a lost Stradivarius that falls into greedy hands.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24AMSet in a real home, an unnamed woman cooks while she relates piercing tales about the horrors in Syria.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThe New Yiddish Rep production revisits Ionesco’s absurdist story about ordinary people seduced by fascist overtures.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMThe actress is back to starring as an Edwardian matriarch in “Time and the Conways,” which begins performances on Sept. 14 in New York.
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