Thursday, October 4, 2012
Entrance applause can break the illusion, and the emotional momentum, that actors are working hard to sustain.
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A locked-down New York is the setting of Adam Rapp’s new play, “Through the Yellow Hour,” now at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
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The Goodman Theater in Chicago has revived Tennessee Williams’s “Sweet Bird of Youth,” starring Diane Lane and Finn Wittrock.
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“Habit,” an art-theater project from David Levine, takes place in a structure within the Essex Street Market; audiences look through its windows or walk in.
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Jake Gyllenhaal makes his New York stage debut as the wastrel uncle to an overweight, affection-starved teenage girl in Nick Payne’s “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMEvery so often - and more frequently on stage than in film - the interiority of artistic creation is translated into a visible, physical language that raises goose bumps.
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“Job,” Thomas Bradshaw’s latest play, hews close to the Bible and eagerly dives into forbidden subject matter.
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“Chaplin: The Musical,” at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, describes the life behind the Little Tramp in terms of rags to riches to heartbreak.
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“Silent,” a play written and performed by Pat Kinevane, is about a homeless Dubliner who believes he has become invisible and inaudible.
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That 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.”
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
The lovers in Philip Ridley’s play never leave their own private world. And they keep reinventing it, with a savage spirit of competition.
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In 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.
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Richard 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.
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“Into the Woods,” the 1987 musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, is staged in Central Park in a revival by the Public Theater.
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“Bullet for Adolf” at New World Stages, by Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman, explores ethnicity as a shifting and surprising equation.
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In 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.
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The 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.
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Olympia Dukakis stars in Shakespeare & Company’s jolly, quirky and unusually cozy production of “The Tempest.”
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Love has no dignity in the Sydney Theater Company’s glorious production of “Uncle Vanya,” starring Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving.
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“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.
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The 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.
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In 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.
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In 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.
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In Dominic Dromgoole's production of Shakespeare's 1599 portrait of a young king at war, light and shadow are always intermingled.
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