“Job,” Thomas Bradshaw’s latest play, hews close to the Bible and eagerly dives into forbidden subject matter.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Chaplin: The Musical,” at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, describes the life behind the Little Tramp in terms of rags to riches to heartbreak.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Silent,” a play written and performed by Pat Kinevane, is about a homeless Dubliner who believes he has become invisible and inaudible.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThat hard-hitting satirical revue of Broadway musicals, “Forbidden Broadway,” is back with new routines and targets.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMTwo London imports arrive this month: Nick Payne’s “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet,” and Simon Stephens’s “Harper Regan.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMStella Adler, the great acting teacher, is presented verbatim, discussing eminent American playwrights.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03AMThe lovers in Philip Ridley’s play never leave their own private world. And they keep reinventing it, with a savage spirit of competition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn Sam Shepard’s murky new play, “Heartless,” a male academic with an unsettled life finds himself in a house full of unsettling women, most notably one played by Lois Smith.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMRichard Nelson’s production of “A Month in the Country,” at the Williamstown Theater Festival, features a younger leading lady than is traditionally cast in the play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08PM“Into the Woods,” the 1987 musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, is staged in Central Park in a revival by the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Bullet for Adolf” at New World Stages, by Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman, explores ethnicity as a shifting and surprising equation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn praise of risk-taking in the theater: To give audiences views of things they've never seen before, great actors and actresses go out on a limb.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:05PMThe Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s production of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” brings to mind the fast-paced escapist fare of Depression- and wartime-era Hollywood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:27PMOlympia Dukakis stars in Shakespeare & Company’s jolly, quirky and unusually cozy production of “The Tempest.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:31PM“Dogfight,” a musical at Second Stage Theater based on the 1991 film of the same name, follows a group of young Marines as they celebrate their last evening stateside.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Broadway revival of “Fela!” is about a lot of individual performances — every single dancer, singer and band member — forming a collective whole in which singular style is never …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMPlaywrights throughout the ages, as different as Brecht and Thornton Wilder, have adapted choruses to their own latter-day purposes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:28PMIn Britain the Belarus Free Theater’s “Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker” depicts sex as a magnet for political repression, while Philip Ridley’s “Mercury Fur” prepares a party…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:57PMJoe Penhall's new play "Birthday" offers a childbearing role reversal that targets sexual stereotypes, medical services and the nature of marriage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:30PMIn attending “You Once Said Yes” in Camden, you are given a backpack and sent into the streets, with no further directions than, “Turn right.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:30PMA particularly violent London season of well-known revivals includes a noteworthy “Duchess of Malfi” and a popular “Sweeney Todd.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:26PMTimed to coincide with the Olympics, this adaptation of the Oscar-winning film "Chariots of Fire" stirs the air without raising any adrenaline.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:59AMIn Dominic Dromgoole's production of Shakespeare's 1599 portrait of a young king at war, light and shadow are always intermingled.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:38AMIn Philip Ridley's play "Mercury Fur," a gruesome party assembles in a rubble-strewn London apartment
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMDanny DeVito and Richard Griffiths reveal the raw hostility at the core of Neil Simon's "Sunshine Boys."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40AMThe Baby Boom generation seems to have aged into a Baby Bust cohort on the London stage, where privileged youth remain spoiled.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PM“Forbidden Broadway,” the satirical revue that kept theater vultures sated for nearly three decades before closing in Manhattan in 2009, is returning this summer with plenty to spoof.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PMBen Brantley on "Sweeney Todd" and other London shows in which the on-stage death toll is unusually high.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:28PMBen Brantley on "The Physicists" at Donmar Warehouse and "South Downs" and "The Browning Version" at the Harold Pinter Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:57PMBen Brantley on new plays by Ella Hickson ("Eight") and the Belarus Free Theater ("Minsk 2011").
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