Thursday, February 9, 2012
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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:01PMIn London the stages are filled with rulers who are mad, bad and dangerous to know, from Richard II to King Ubu.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMMy nostrils received a vigorous work-out during my recent theater-going binge in London, especially in more intimate theaters.
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The zippy new National Theater production of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" is a clear reconception, while the Young Vic's hot-and-sticky new interpretation of "The Changeling," a Jacobean…
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Several current British productions, including “Lovesong,” “Travelling Light” and “The Kreutzer Sonata,” feature characters who recall earlier times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:17PMGod save the king, as portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the Donmar Warehouse's production of "Richard II," because he sure isn't up to saving himself.
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Abi Morgan's "Lovesong" is playing at London's Lyric Hammersmith Theater, which is probably the wettest house in town, given all the tears being shed there.
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Reviews of three productions at very small theaters in London, notably the two-character drama "Constellations," starring Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:09AM“Matilda,” the hit musical in London, follows Roald Dahl’s young character as she fights a sadistic headmistress.
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Cynthia Nixon stars in Manhattan Theater Club’s revival of “Wit,” Margaret Edson’s play about a terminally ill English professor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMBen Brantley sees "The Mousetrap" in London for the first time to see how the longest-running play in modern history is holding up.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
A new production of Athol Fugard’s “Road to Mecca” stars Rosemary Harris as a sculptor in 1970s South Africa.
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Jay Scheib’s “World of Wires,” at the Kitchen, is part of a performance trilogy about the mind-scrambling overlap of natural and technology-generated worlds.
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Audra McDonald brings thunder to “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,” a stripped-down version of the original opera, at the Richard Rodgers Theater.
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The monologuist Daniel Kitson returns to St. Ann’s Warehouse with a one-man show about two people who never knew each other in 19th-century England.
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In Gob Squad’s “Super Night Shot,” part of the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater, passers-by are enlisted to appear in an instant film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:49PM“Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech,” a triptych of short plays that is being performed as part of the Under the Radar festival, is written and directed in hypnotic sty…
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“Alexis. A Greek Tragedy,” a production of the Italian troupe Motus at the Under the Radar festival, is an invigorating portrait of youthful rebellion in contemporary Greece.
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A look at some of the theatrical offerings of 2012, including Kevin Spacey in “Richard III,” Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis in “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” and a revival of “Me…
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
“Lysistrata Jones” is a throwback to the perishable good-time musicals in which peppy kids delivered of-the-moment jokes and lively dances.
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A new version of “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever” appears to have given everyone who appears in it — including its charismatic star, Harry Connick Jr. — a moaning case of the dee…
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The talented creators of “Once,” a musical inspired by the 2006 film starring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, faced a big problem that they’ve only partly resolved.
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John Turturro and Dianne Wiest star in Andrei Belgrader’s heartbreakingly funny production of Chekhov’s “Cherry Orchard,” at the Classic Stage Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMThe electrifying Cillian Murphy seems to inhabit every millimeter of the wasteland in which he has been let loose in “Misterman,” Enda Walsh’s one-man play.
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“Elective Affinities,” a one-woman show with Zoe Caldwell, explores an aristocratic character with a warm demeanor and a chilly heart.
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Frank Wildohorn’s “Bonnie & Clyde” is a modest, mildly tuneful musical biography of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
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