Friday, July 19, 2013
In “The Master and Margarita,” an adaptation of the Russian masterwork at Bard College, the Devil pays a troublemaking visit to 1930s Moscow.
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A slew of London revivals, from “Othello” to “Private Lives” to “Passion Play,” focus on the idea of married people misbehaving.
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“The Castle,” Howard Barker’s 1985 play, is making its New York debut in a smart and rowdy production from the Potomac Theater Project.
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In London, John Doyle has made an honest musical out of “The Color Purple,” and an academic makes a deal with the Devil in “The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.” &…
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Kenneth Branagh returns to Shakespeare in a fast-paced “Macbeth” at the Manchester International Festival.
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Impressive new productions of “Othello” at the National Theater and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Shakespeare’s Globe.
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Friday, June 28, 2013
“Mission Drift,” an American import at the National Theater, has plenty of show-biz spark as it makes the case that United States isn’t a nation of endless and reach and opportunity.&n…
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As the title character in this revival of Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy “The Cripple of Inishmaan” Daniel Radcliffe does something unusual for a star: he blends into the scenery and th…
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“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which opened on Tuesday night at Theater Royal, Drury Lane, is jammed with games and gadgets.
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Lucy Kirkwood’s hit play “Chimerica” at the Almeida Theater portrays the culture clash between a rising and a waning superpower (China and America) in a story that moves faster than a …
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“The Two-Character Play,” a late-career work by Tennessee Williams, is revived Off Broadway, with Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif in the title roles.
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There is an air of erotic effortlessness in John Rando’s production of “On the Town” in Pittsfield, Mass.
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“Roadkill” is an unsettling site-specific theater piece about sex trafficking that is staged on a bus and in a town house in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
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There’s enough plot in Eric Rosen and Matt Sax’s “Venice,” the action-flooded new musical at the Public Theater, to fill a whole year in a Marvel comics series. &nbs…
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Sam Yates’s revival of J. B. Priestley’s “Cornelius,” a play about the Depression in Britain, explores an era that speaks to our times.
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In “Reasons to Be Happy,” the playwright Neil LaBute returns to the two couples who fought their way through his earlier “reasons to be pretty.”
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A spate of (mostly male) lack of clothing on stage this season is a reminder that being nude is not the same as being naked.
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“Far From Heaven,” at Playwrights Horizons, is a musical adaptation of Todd Haynes’s film about Eisenhower-era repression.
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“The Giacomo Variations,” starring John Malkovich, pairs scenes from the memoirs of Giacomo Casanova with arias from Mozart’s operas.
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“Peter and the Starcatcher,” a prequel to the classic Peter Pan story, and “Murder Ballad,” about a dangerous love triangle, won’t make a natural double feature, but they are sibli…
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The National Theater’s production of “This House,” a re-creation of British parliamentary politics in the 1970s, will be shown in a live screening at selected theaters on May 16. …
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“The Memory Show,” a musical, reflects the tensions of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease — and being someone with Alzheimer’s disease.
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“Bunty Berman Presents ...,” about a financially beleaguered Bombay movie producer trying to scrape together the money and momentum for a comeback, provides one of the immortal lessons o…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Encores! production of Rodgers and Hart’s “On Your Toes” features the killer legs of Irina Dvorovenko of American Ballet Theater and Christine Baranski’s well-honed musical-comed…
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