Wednesday, May 20, 2015
The Public’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit, which usually performs at places like prisons, returns home with its brisk production of Shakespeare’s tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMSecond Stage, New YorkAmanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski star in a morning-after drama where they talk endlessly without saying anything of substance Continue reading...
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In just two hours, Series A of the marathon races from Manhattan to Brooklyn, from a port town in Kenya to the capital of Idaho, from the 1950’s to right now.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMCreated by the puppeteer James Godwin, this show centers on an I.T. expert and shaman trying to protect a city amid a toxic swamp.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:11PMThursday, May 14, 2015
Ariel Stess’s play at the Bushwick Starr, centered on the family of a building company owner, abounds in wordplay.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMPaloma Young, a Tony Award-winning costume designer, assembled clothing that could cushion the spanks in “Permission,” a comedy about spousal corporal punishment.
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George Bernard Shaw’s 1905 play pits a Salvation Army officer’s “blood and fire” and against her munitions manufacturer father’s “money and gunpowder.”
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
The inaugural production by Ms. Kempson’s company, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf. Co., is a consideration of how stories are told and who gets to tell them.
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This Vampire Cowboys show relies on westerns, samurai stories, action movies, blaxploitation flicks and vampire chillers.
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s drama, at Two River Theater in New Jersey, is less a play than a poignant, often powerful polemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMTuesday, April 28, 2015
British imports dominated the awards announcement, with The Curious Incident or Wolf Hall likely to win best play. But where is Hugh Jackman’s nomination? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:41AMMonday, April 27, 2015
The Public theater, New YorkHathaway gives a heightened performance as a drone pilot and director Julie Taymor turns up all the dials, in a chilling play about the effects of killing by remo…
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Friday, April 24, 2015
Samuel J Friedman theatre, New YorkLisa D’Amour’s play about life in a hopeless motel is an orgy of tinsel and beer with no sight of a story Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:59AMLyceum theatre, New YorkThis musical treatment of Dürrenmatt’s revenge satire has star turns from Rivera and Roger Rees, but a romanticised plot plays weakly beside its macabre twists Con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:46AMThursday, April 23, 2015
Though it features a twerking Bard and a song called I Hate Shakespeare, this new comedy about his rival playwrights is too nice to be truly iconoclastic Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
The Broadway Theater, New YorkMore overblown than overwhelming, this melodramatic musical has minimal impact despite some good songs – and Lara’s wig is ridiculous Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PMMonday, April 20, 2015
“Emily Climbs” seems like a singular story, but it’s actually two stories told by three actors playing the same character.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:03PMCircle in the Square Theater, New YorkBased on a graphic novel memoir about growing up gay in a funeral home, this smart, sophisticated Broadway musical includes one astonishing performance …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:53AMSunday, April 19, 2015
In this solo show at 59E59 Theaters, Matthew Zajac returns to Poland to spool back the lost threads of his father’s life.
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“Se Llama Cristina,” by Octavio Solis at the Intar Theater, puts its two main characters through a series of flashbacks to reveal more of their calamitous pasts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:16PMLincoln Center, New YorkIt takes a while to get to know the saturnine King, but this rapturous revival will have the audience whistling a happy tune Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMThursday, April 16, 2015
Classic Stage Company, New YorkWith a constantly shifting emotional landscape and little sense of pacing or plot, this Hamlet is hard work Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:53AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
Lunt-Fontanne Theater, New YorkHarvey Weinstein has spent millions trying to make a film about Peter Pan’s author fly on stage – but though the child stars shine, the music is leaden Con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15PMMonday, April 13, 2015
Palace theater, New York CityChristopher Wheeldon’s retread of the 1951 musical may falter in its pacing but it’s funny and sometimes divineLet’s get some uncomfortable truths out of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:47AMSunday, April 12, 2015
The drama, written and directed by Aya Ogawa for the Play Company, shows how the simulated can adjoin, infuse or ultimately replace the actual.
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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…
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