Monday, May 25, 2015
This production at the Yale Rep makes it clear why August Wilson’s 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama was showered with honor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn “Green,” by Chris Harcum, one of the last human beings in the universe is arrested for being poor and artistic.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Mercy and the Firefly,” having its world premiere at Luna Stage, goes for shock value with a story about a Roman Catholic nun with a secret who returns to her hometown.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Puma,” having its premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, takes a melodramatic look at the four-decade relationship between Marlene Dietrich and Erich Maria…
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The playwright, who is also a lawyer, delivers an informed script in this one-act drama about a crime family and a prosecutor’s efforts to make a deal.
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Sophisticated stagecraft and the contributions of artists with 21st-century sensibilities have worked their magic on some dangerous midcentury mores.
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Deb Margolin talks about cancer, motherhood and dull parties in her solo show at the Cherry Lane Theater.
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Friday, April 10, 2015
With “Brownsville Song,” the New Haven venue seeks to draw in people who might feel a connection to the tale of a teenager shot by a gang member.
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Monday, February 16, 2015
In his solo show at the SoHo Playhouse, Baba Brinkman considers the need for, and consequences of, religious belief.
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Monday, February 2, 2015
New York Shakespeare Exchange is presenting “Titus Andronicus,” a gory tragedy set in ancient Rome, at Here.
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With “Private Lives,” now in Hartford, Noël Coward wrote about ex-spouses who are reminded how the “ex-” got there.
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Sam Harris stars in “Ham: A Musical Memoir,” based on his book “Ham: Slices of a Life,” at Theater 511 at Ars Nova.
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Dael Orlandersmith’s solo show, “Forever,” at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, tells the story of her broken upbringing.
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In his solo show, “My Son the Waiter: A Jewish Tragedy,” the comedian Brad Zimmerman draws on his long climb to the stage.
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In “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” his play now at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Steve Martin finds a balance of silliness and seriousness.
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The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater’s “A Christmas Carol, Oy! Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa” is essentially Dickens’s original tale, with a few dashes of multiculturalism.
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Drag queens are among the cast of characters in “Fabulous! The Queen of the New Musical Comedies,” a play set on a cruise ship.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Rachel Tucker talks about her role in “The Last Ship,” and about growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Saturday, November 1, 2014
In ‘Annapurna,’ by Sharr White, a middle-aged American named Ulysses is frying sausages in his trailer and sounding like a cowboy, not a former English professor.
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“Our Town” and “Hamlet,” two of the English language’s most popular and most frequently performed dramas, are both currently being staged in Connecticut.
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“The God Game,” produced by Hudson Stage, considers whether answering a call to higher public office means betraying private beliefs.
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Stormy weather for one family in “Extreme Whether,” a coproduction of Theater Three Collaborative and Theater for the New City.
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The Irish Repertory Theater presents “Port Authority,” Conor McPherson’s award-winning play about three troubled men, at the DR2 Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:15PMIn “Intimate Apparel,” at the Westport Country Playhouse, intricate plotting carries a lonely African-American across the boundaries of color and class.
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