Tuesday, November 7, 2017
This film from Tom Gustafson, based on a 1993 Off Broadway show, has a formidable cast of Broadway names but wants for dramatic traction.
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This spirited riff on the long-running HBO hit displays affection for its subject, tempered with a keen eye for its shortcomings.
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Friday, August 25, 2017
With “The Suitcase Under the Bed,” the Mint Theater Company presents one-acts by Teresa Deevy, a proto-feminist finally receiving her due.
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The words and tunes that Woody Guthrie, the Dust Bowl troubadour, made famous are at the center of this high-spirited show at the Irish Rep.
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This revival of J. B. Priestley’s 1932 comedy depicts a busy Saturday in the life of a harried, financially imperiled aristocrat.
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This multimedia production examines the people and backstage dramas that went into the making of “Casablanca” in 1942.
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The show employs video, puppets and action figures, as well as actors, to tell its familiar story, about a boy abandoned by his vacationing family.
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Honor Molloy explores rage, dissolution, sexual perversity and family history with a bleak and penetrating acuity in this play at Origin’s 1st Irish Festival.
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Seth Panitch’s play, an hourlong exercise in puerile scatology, is built around men’s room graffiti, sight gags and comic riffs.
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The Drilling Company’s brave ensemble, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, exuded an energy eclipsing the ambient sounds of the city.
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This music and theater piece at BAM Fisher evokes the historic 1945 night on which the poet Akhmatova stayed up discussing literature and life with Isaiah Berlin.
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This play, by Sharman Macdonald, rides the waves of a turbulent mother-daughter relationship in a production by Fallen Angels Theater Company.
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This Caridad Svich adaptation of Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel features romance and farce set in 1950s Peru.
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The play, a bisexual romantic triangle at the Acorn Theater that takes on ambivalence, is written by Scott Elmegreen and Drew Fornarola.
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Thursday, January 28, 2016
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
At the Cave at St. George’s Church in Manhattan, a troupe called the Representatives depicts the secret tribunals of gay students in 1920.
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This play, inspired by “The Slave Ship: A Human History,” by Marcus Rediker, brings to life a 19th-century scene of moral and physical conflict.
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This show, at Theater 80 in the East Village, is from the creators of “Bayside! The Musical! The Saved by the Bell Musical Parody!” and stars Perez Hilton.
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Sunday, October 4, 2015
Adam Seidel’s serio-comic play at the Cherry Lane Theater mixes romance, absurdism, satire and a touch of “Dexter.”
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A production by the Drilling Company at Bryant Park has sweetened some of the aftertaste of this play about a husband breaking the will of his hot-tempered wife.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
In this play, two astronauts deal with Wongo Weed and big-haired natives after landing on a planet ruled by women.
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New York Times writers review five shows that made their debuts in the early days of this year’s New York International Fringe Festival.
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The movie, written and directed by Charlie Levi, follows a group of Angelenos dealing with problems, among them the death of a child.
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