David Auburn’s version of “The New York Idea” updates a 1906 comedy of mores.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:30PMMore than perhaps any other Broadway costume designer of the past half century, she understood that for a certain kind of show, nothing less than all-out dazzle would do.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:58PMShakespeare with a small cast, multiple roles for each actor and streamlined scenes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PMIbsen’s “John Gabriel Borkman,” from the Abbey Theater of Ireland, is in production at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMAudiences will surely find something wonderful in each of the five performances at the center of Jon Robin Baitz’s new play, “Other Desert Cities,” at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMLa Mama, the East Village theater Ellen Stewart created and led, is not a 1960s relic; it continues to produce unexpected and even prophetic art.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:30PMThe idea of theater as an act (and an instrument) of political defiance is a strange one these days to most Americans.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:37PMThe British monologist Daniel Kitson comes to know a dead man through his correspondence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00PM"Diciembre," at Under the Radar Festival, is a witty, sharply focused vision of a time well past celebration.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMBrian Bedford, who seems to pick up a Tony nomination whenever he steps foot on a Broadway stage, has returned to portray Lady Bracknell in “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:30AMIn its performance of “Being Harold Pinter,” the Belarus Free Theater confirms the power of a single playwright to inspire those who are addressing abuses of power.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:29PMCritics and writers for The New York Times write about shows and performances they are looking forward to seeing on New York stages in 2011.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PMIn a year that recapped some of New York theater’s least appealing aspects, a few productions made us remember the singular power of theater to astonish.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:19PMSometimes a familiar line or phrase can be heard in new ways thanks to an actor’s unexpected interpretation.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:34PMThe performance artist John Kelly channels Egon Schiele in his reprise of “Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte,” at La MaMa.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:05PMA cycle of a dozen plays follows foreign involvement in Afghanistan, its results and the lack thereof.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:05PMWhy good productions of Shakespeare and Pinter require actors to speak the same language.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:37AMThe Kneehigh Theater’s adaptation of “The Red Shoes” presents a raw view of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:16PMIn first-rate productions of two Harold Pinter plays, five performers quietly send off distress signals with a fluency that leaves you grinning at such stylishly realized discomfort.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMThe road to salvation is flat and narrow in “The Break of Noon,” Neil LaBute’s single-tone study starring David Duchovny.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMKelli O’Hara plays the big-hearted telephone operator in a revival of “Bells Are Ringing.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMJohn Guare’s historical comedy “Free Man of Color,” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, tosses up bright balls of allusion and prays they’ll land in a coherent pattern.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMIn scenic design these days, the biggest thing in the theater is film - or to be precise, digital projections.
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