Thursday, June 16, 2011
I would like to thank the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for helping make the Tony Awards watchable again.
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The mega-expensive musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is no longer the ungodly, indecipherable mess it was in February. It’s just a bore.
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Carey Mulligan is a woman facing insanity in a stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s “Through a Glass Darkly.”
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“Lysistrata Jones,” a new musical by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn, is a modern riff on Aristophanes’ bawdy comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThis production of “The Illusion,” adapted by Tony Kushner from a work by the 17th-century French playwright Pierre Corneille, trafficks in a special, baroque brand of magic.
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I am proposing a little list that matches stars in search of redemption with stage roles tailor-made to their particular skills and images.
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As you watch the stars of a Kennedy Center revival of “Follies” put on glittery costumes and make like comics from a Broadway of yore, you realize just why the show is one of the greates…
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Monday, May 9, 2011
“By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” imagines the back story of one of those talented black actresses seen on 1930s movie screens almost exclusively in the roles of maids, slaves or mammies.
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The long-awaited new play by Tony Kushner is a densely textured portrait of a Brooklyn family losing its (strictly secular) religion.
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Derek Jacobi helps make Michael Grandage’s production of “King Lear” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music a true entertainment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMAn extraordinary, active empathy pervades every one of Tony Kushner's plays, extended even to those who would not appear to be his allies.
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Donna Murphy plays an elderly Yiddish actress with a secret from the Holocaust in the Roundabout Theater Company’s “People in the Picture.
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“The Normal Heart,” Larry Kramer’s 1985 play about the AIDS epidemic, comes to Broadway in a revival with a top-notch cast.
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There’s little that’s transporting in the somber new Broadway revival of John Guare’s “House of Blue Leaves.”
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“Black Watch,” a group portrait of Scottish soldiers in Iraq that was first seen here in 2007, returns to St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.
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Mark Rylance plays a roaring wreck of a hero in “Jerusalem,” Jez Butterworth’s state-of-the-nation comedy about Britain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMNew Yorkers will be happy to learn that they can still catch a performance of Bruce Norris's "Clybourne Park," this year's Pulitzer Prize winner for drama, in a much-lauded production in a b…
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Monday, April 18, 2011
The Belarus Free Theater, now performing three plays in repertory at La MaMa, should be seen by everyone who wants confirmation of the continuing relevance and vitality of theater.
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“War Horse,” the hit London play about the horrors of World War I, and its captivating star come to life at Lincoln Center.
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Punchdrunk, a British site-specific theater company, has taken over three abandoned warehouses to enact the sorry sights of the murderous Macbeths’ career in a movable orgy titled “Sleep…
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“The___________ With the Hat,” Stephen Adly Guirgis’s vibrant and surprisingly serious new comedy, is at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.
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“Catch Me if You Can,” the new Broadway musical by much of the team behind “Hairspray,” is full of elaborate deceptions and corkscrew twists, but not many surprises.
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Sutton Foster stars in Kathleen Marshall’s rousing Broadway revival of Cole Porter’s willfully silly musical “Anything Goes.”
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“Marie and Bruce,” Wallace Shawn’s 1979 portrait of marital misery, has been revived at the Acorn Theater.
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