Monday, December 4, 2017
A revised version of a musical memoir from the Bengsons affectingly reimagines commitment-phobia in existential terms.
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This narcoticized production of Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s play, starring a drug-glazed Chloë Sevigny, revisits a dirty old New York of yore.
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The Hypocrites’ blithe production of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic offers the perfect restorative alternative to holiday drudgery.
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Ivo van Hove’s hypnotic adaptation of Ayn Rand’s notorious 1943 novel speaks to the primitive narcissist in all of us. (Mr. Trump, are you listening?)
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Revivals of plays by Ibsen and Wilde, and a new work about the young Karl Marx, find strong women chafing under the yoke of dominating men
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New musicals on London’s stages include a merciless and compassionate “Follies,” a revitalized “Young Frankenstein” and a timely saga of an aspiring drag queen.
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Sarah DeLappe’s remarkably assured first play, a group portrait of a girls’ soccer team, is now at Lincoln Center Theater.
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017
A stage adaptation, directed by Ivo van Hove, confirms the prophecy of a 1976 movie about populist rage and manipulative technology
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New plays from Mike Bartlett and James Graham pose E.M. Forster’s newly urgent question of who inherits England
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Everett Quinton’s frantic revival of an intergalactic farce from 1967 reveals Charles Ludlam as a pioneer of cultural recycling.
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This singularly seductive show, based on an Israeli film, finds the ecstasy in ennui in a small desert town.
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Ayad Akhtar, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Disgraced,” explores the shady side of 1980s Wall Street in an economics lesson of a play.
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“Brigadoon” appears (briefly), Amy Schumer steps onto Broadway and an acclaimed musical returns to a bigger stage.
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Vinyl sings across the decades in the Wooster Group’s transcendent presentation of a 1965 album of songs from a Texas chain gang.
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Richard Nelson’s murmur of a play is set at a momentous time in the Manhattan theater world of the 1950s.
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David Harrower’s remarkable play, depicting a romantic triangle in a desolate, premodern world, finally receives its New York premiere.
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A powerful Clive Owen is the best thing about the didactic revival of David Henry Hwang’s breakthrough look at sexual delusion and East-West relations.
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Anna Ziegler’s new drama enters the heads of two players at the U.S. Open as they struggle toward match point
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This futurist play, starring Cristin Milioti, imagines a world in which reality (or the nonvirtual kind) is in retreat
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Portraying mother and son in a fierce revival of Harvey Fierstein’s comedy, Mercedes Ruehl and Michael Urie are in peak form.
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Friday, October 13, 2017
Heather Christian communes with — and possibly exorcises — the spirits of the dead in a truly one-of-a-kind performance piece
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An astonishing Lars Eidinger is a hunchback to remember in Thomas Ostermeier’s Halloween treat of a production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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The experimental theater troupe’s rendition of “Measure for Measure” is frenzied but not especially insightful.
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A definitive revival of the musical “Merrily We Roll Along” and a new play about Andy Warhol and Truman Capote dissect the discontents of celebrity.
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Titans of literature and politics are asked to look deep into their souls and admit their bad faith in Scott Carter’s careful debate of a play.
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Max Posner’s tender yet unforgiving new play considers a son’s inability to love a mother who has dementia.
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Karin Coonrod’s inventive production of Shakespeare’s notorious comedy has five actors playing the moneylender. It sounds gimmicky but it works.
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A new immersive musical set in a Korean hit factory moves to the beats of satire, soap opera and everything in between.
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