Wednesday, February 22, 2017
This dark musical by Greg Pierce and John Kander examines the ordeals of a teenager trying to recover from a drugged captivity.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s take on a stark 15th-century morality play includes characters like Stuff, Death and Love.
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Martín Zimmerman’s play, starring Marin Ireland, approaches the subject of American gun violence from a startlingly original perspective.
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Fear festers, burrows and blooms in Caryl Churchill’s short and wondrous play that plumbs the depths of 21st-century terrors.
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In this Tracy Letts play, an Everyman suddenly realizes he doesn’t believe in God and goes about re-examining all aspects of his life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThis Richard Maxwell production at the Abrons Arts Center could be described as a sugar-free version of the new Hollywood musical.
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The author Katherine Rundell has repurposed some of Saki’s anarchic short stories for a 21st-century theater audience.
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Maura Tierney, Kate Valk, Scott Shepherd and the Wooster Group recreate a firestorm of a panel discussion in the timely and time-bending piece.
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The pared-down revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical relies more on Glenn Close’s astounding performance than the original lavish production could.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Lucas Hedges stars in this highly physical production about two dog-owning brothers who are short on social skills and living in a squalid suburban London apartment.
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This unsettling and imaginative production from Bela Pinter and Company looks back at state surveillance, sexual desires and the folk dancing scene in Communist Budapest.
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With soaring language and an improvisatory jazz spirit, Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s revival brings lives shaped by privation to throbbing life.
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Set in a women’s prison, this production is the third and last installment of the director Phyllida Lloyd’s series of Shakespeare plays for Donmar Warehouse.
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A revival of Martin McDonagh’s play features Marie Mullen as the mother, Mag; almost 20 years ago she played Maureen, Mag’s daughter.
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In this emotionally raw play from the Belarus Free Theater at the Under the Radar festival, three women relive their incarceration and interrogation.
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Our critics Ben Brantley and Wesley Morris talk about listening to the playwright, a great chronicler of the 20th century.
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Cate Blanchett stars in this Sydney Theater Company production of a Chekhov work, which features an eruption of runaway hedonism at a birthday party.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThe play, by Keith A. Wallace, follows an African-American boy, Jamal, who from childhood on learns to keep his head up.
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The action in this piece at the Under the Radar festival unfolds both on a screen and below it, as you watch illusion-makers work with video, shadow puppets and scrims.
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The married performers Shaun and Abigail Bengson fall in love and contemplate mortality in this concert-style memoir at the Under the Radar festival.
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You can get there in a handbasket, but the route proposed by “The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart” is a lot more fun. And drinks are served.
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Daniel Craig is the Iago to the Othello of David Oyelowo in this breathless interpretation of Shakespeare’s taut portrait of lives razed by jealousy.
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Thursday, December 8, 2016
The show, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek, abounds with signs of new and exciting life in the contemporary American musical.
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This play at the Public Theater, based on Cheryl Strayed’s book, is a handkerchief-soaking meditation on pain, loss, hope and forgiveness.
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