Monday, April 23, 2012
“The Lyons,” Nicky Silver’s acerbic comedy about an aging dysfunctional family, features Dick Latessa as the father who’s dying, and Linda Lavin as the mother who seems O.K. with tha…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMTR Warszawa’s troupe brings “Festen” to St. Ann’s Warehouse, with a set that — appropriately enough — conjures the hotel from “The Shining.”
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A poker game provides one of the few moments approaching excitement in the torpid revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
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Bruce Norris’s “Clybourne Park,” a sharp-witted comedy of American uneasiness, is on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater.
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“One Man, Two Guvnors,” a splendidly silly import from London, is an adaptation of Goldoni’s 18th-century “Servant of Two Masters.”
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“In Masks Outrageous and Austere” is a late Tennessee Williams play that appropriates themes and characters from earlier works.
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“Peter and the Starcatcher,” directed on Broadway by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, delivers locomotive Steampunk in the origin story of Peter Pan.
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Michael Grandage’s revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “Evita” at the Marquis Theater is stately, sincere and sober-sided.
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As befits a play about Judy Garland, a woman known for liberally mixing her pills, Peter Quilter’s “End of the Rainbow” is a jolting upper and downer at the same time.
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“Newsies the Musical,” based on a 1992 Disney movie about the 1899 New York newsboy strike, teems with defiant ragamuffins, anthems and back flips.
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In “’Tis Pity She’s a Whore,” all the action takes place in bed in a way that might surprise the playwright, John Ford.
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Ethan Lipton recreates the anxieties and epiphanies of an unemployed worker in his new show, “No Place to Go,” at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater.
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“Once,” based on a hit movie about two musicians, an Irishman and a Czech, who fall in love, reaches Broadway after an Off Broadway run.
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In “Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman,” starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, the director Mike Nichols has created an immaculate monument to a great American play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:11PMThe return of "Gatz" to New York provides a chance to examine other attempts to capture the essence of books on stage.
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“The Kreutzer Sonata,” an adaptation of Tolstoy’s novella by the Gate Theater of London, comes to La MaMa.
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Sidney Goldfarb’s “Hot Lunch Apostles” at La MaMa is set in a destitute age — the 21st century — in which people will do anything to put food on their tables.
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“Edward Albee’s The Lady From Dubuque” opened in a scintillating revival at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
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Nina Raine’s play “Tribes” concerns a family whose deaf son brings home his girlfriend, who is losing her hearing.
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The musical “Carrie,” a famous Broadway flop, has been revived at the Lucille Lortel Theater, in a production that is characterized by, uh, good taste.
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In “Hurt Village,” an African-American family preparing to leave a shabby apartment in a housing project for a newer home encounters plenty of barriers, inside and out.
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Life is a dream-smothering joker in Eugene O’Neill’s bleak drama “Beyond the Horizon,” at the Irish Repertory Theater.
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Amid theater’s smaller, potent plays about the working and middle classes, thank goodness there’s still room for glittery musicals about Evita Peron, Judy Garland and Jesus Christ.
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“Early Plays,” three Eugene O’Neill seafaring one-acts, are directed by Richard Maxwell for the Wooster Group at Ann’s Warehouse.
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“I Killed My Mother” is the tale of a Romanian orphan who grew up in a strict institution where she had one friend, a boy who taught her the art of turning people into stone.
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In “And God Created Great Whales,” Rinde Eckert reprises his role as a composer who is losing his memory and struggling to finish an opera based on “Moby-Dick.”
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In a revival of Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive,” Norbert Leo Butz stars in one of the most discomfiting love stories to emerge from the American theater.
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The first production of this season’s Encores! series, Stephen Sondheim and Gorge Furth’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” comes across as oddly quaint and self-conscious.
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