Thursday, December 13, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Friday, November 30, 2012
“Then She Fell” is an immersive theater experience at a former hospital that incorporates scenes and characters from Lewis Carroll’s writing and life.
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Monday, November 19, 2012
The plays in New York theaters are full of meaning, and delivering a holiday message, hostile or tender, is as easy as buying a ticket.
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Brian D’Arcy James and Kate Baldwin star in “Giant,” a musical adaptation of Edna Ferber’s multigenerational novel of a Texas family, with a soaring score by Michael John LaChiusa.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA love triangle and a narrator, with songs and murder, take the stage in “Murder Ballad,” at Manhattan Theater Club.
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An engaged couple takes a last swing at the wild side while visiting an awards ceremony for cinematic pornography in the Broadway premiere of “The Performers.”
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“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” turns out to be a loving rejection of pretty much everything Chekhov stands for in the popular imagination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Mies Julie,” adapted and directed by Yael Farber, transposes Strindberg’s 1888 tale of love, class and madness into contemporary South Africa.
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“Ivanov,” Chekhov’s 1887 drama, features a melancholy title character played by Ethan Hawke in the Classic Stage Company production.
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In “Checkers,” a play by Douglas McGrath, Anthony LaPaglia is Richard Nixon, fighting to stay on the 1952 presidential ticket, and Kathryn Erbe plays his wife, Pat, as an innocent victim…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMAs it did in 1977, the musical “Annie” arrives in a battered city and economically uncertain country, but this time with Katie Finneran as a Miss Hannigan who has glimmers of a conscienc…
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“Sorry,” the third in Richard Nelson’s to-the-moment explorations of the Apple family on the days of historical events, opens at the Public Theater.
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A new staging of “The Heiress,” adapted from a Henry James novella, stars Jessica Chastain in a bluntly drawn outline of the title character.
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In Jon Fosse’s drama “A Summer Day,” Karen Allen returns to the New York stage as a woman who can’t get over the disappearance of her husband long ago.
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“Neutral Hero,” the playwright-director Richard Maxwell’s new play, is set in a small Midwestern town and depicts the coming-of-age journey of an anonymous, commonplace character.
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The frolicsome comedy “5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche” at SoHo Playhouse seems destined to attract a cult following.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
In “A Celebration of Harold Pinter,” performed by Julian Sands and directed by John Malkovich, the focus is on poetry, but the production also indirectly honors Pinter as an apostle of t…
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In “Helen & Edgar,” his one-man show at Theater 80, Edgar Oliver tells of coming of age in Georgia with his sister and their mother, who would fretfully ask them, “I’m not like a gro…
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Douglas Hodge, the Tony-winning star of “La Cage aux Folles,” takes on the witty, civilized hero with the big nose in the latest Broadway revival of “Cyrano de Bergerac.”
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In “Harper Regan” Mary McCann stunningly plays a working wife and mother who runs away from her job and her family when she suddenly feels mortal shadows are closing in on her.
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“The Best of Everything” is based on Rona Jaffe’s 1958 novel of workplace sexual politics (and sexual sex).
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
“Grace,” Craig Wright’s tale of a Christian entrepreneur in Florida, stars Michael Shannon and Paul Rudd.
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