Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
You root for Daniel Radcliffe, who stars in the revival of Frank Loesser’s “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” though Rob Ashford’s production is charm free.
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John Douglas Thompson stars as Macbeth, and Annika Boras as his wife, in Arin Arbus’s production at the Duke on 42nd Street.
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“The Book of Mormon,” a collaboration between the creator’s of “South Park” and the composer of “Avenue Q,” is that rare thing: an old-fashioned, pleasure-giving musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMLanford Wilson reflected the disenchantment that came to pervade the United States in the 1960s and 1970s but his work exuded a sentimentality that seemed to come from an earlier time.
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The Transport Group’s exceedingly intimate revival of “Hello Again” rips the shirts (and dresses) off its characters’ backs.
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Propeller, the British theater troupe that routinely turns Shakespeare into a donnybrook, pumps “Comedy of Errors” full of testosterone at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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“Arcadia,” Tom Stoppard’s tale of two centuries in pseudopastoral England, is propelled by genuine, panting passion.
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There’s so much flying going on in the theater these days you wonder if an aviator’s license won’t soon be mandatory for participation in show.
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“Peter and the Starcatcher” brings to the stage Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s popular prequel to “Peter Pan.”
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Good People,” a very fine new play starring Frances McDormand and Tate Donovan, is one of the more subtly surprising treats of this theater season.
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At the closet-sized Finborough Theater, a novelist with a double life discovers that a knighthood comes with blackmail attached in "Accolade."
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Mary Shelley’s monster is birthed onstage in London by the Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle, who has a keen sense of the trappings of life in this world.
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Keira Knightley, Elisabeth Moss and Rebecca Hall have taken to the London stage and audiences are lining up.
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Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” returns, the “South Park” team tries Broadway, and Chris Rock turns up in a play.
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Geoffrey Rush, who plays the title character in Gogol’s “Diary of a Madman” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, reminds us that it’s a fine, fine line that divides the lunatic from the…
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When something goes wrong during a show, the illusion of reality that has been created on stage can fall apart before your eyes.
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“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is not only the most expensive musical ever to hit Broadway; it may also rank among the worst.
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This seldom-seen Jacobean drama, based on an actual incident in 17th-century England, been given an insightful production by the Red Bull Theater company at Theater at St. Clement’s.
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A fresh and affecting Classic Stage Company production of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” features Jessica Hecht, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard.
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“Gruesome Playground Injuries” is a blood-spattered twig of a play from the up-and-coming dramatist Rajiv Joseph.
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