Wednesday, December 7, 2016
“The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart,” at the McKittrick Hotel, is a rambunctious yarn imported from Scotland.
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Dan LeFranc’s sweet and scary, lackadaisical and hypnotic play centers on a pending divorce and baby-boomer couples with a lot of time on their hands.
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In this play, ideas and emotions jostle for position as a soccer team of teenage girls chatter and loosen up before playing.
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A dark comedy about a girls’ soccer team, a trilogy of plays in the year in the life of a family, a crash course on Manhattan and a bit of hedonism is on tap.
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Simon McBurney’s hypnotic one-man show or Cate Blanchett’s daredevil acting? There are also cast albums like “Bright Star” and “A New Brain.”
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At the Vineyard Theater, Nicky Silver shows a pair of newlyweds, their damaged gay son almost a half-century later and growing empathy for mothers.
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Sutton Foster’s Charity is vaguely aware that becoming a doormat for men was a bad career choice in this revival at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24PMIn delivering his plea to Mike Pence after the show, the Broadway actor Brandon Victor Dixon was also speaking to Donald J. Trump, meeting directness with directness.
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Stripped of its cinematic distractions, this Off Broadway adaptation directed by John Doyle comes across as blunt and bland.
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This one-man show revolves around a man who has apparently simply dialed a wrong number and then stays on the line to talk. And talk.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMSuzan-Lori Parks’s phantasmagorical theater piece is a sepulchral parade of images that have distorted and swallowed up the history of African-Americans.
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An early work by Ms. Parks, “The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, a.k.a. The Negro Book of the Dead,” opens Signature’s season.
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Melissa Errico stars in an adaptation of this midcentury musical that includes elements of thievery, racism and whimsy.
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In “Kings of War,” the director Ivo van Hove adapts five history plays into a conflagration of corruption, factionalism and political viciousness.
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Anna Deavere Smith’s new performance piece explores the cursed intersection of two American institutions, the school and the prison, in a racially divided nation.
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Edgar Oliver’s performance piece delves into life’s evanescence, from the father he never knew to a cracked curb on the Lower East Side.
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Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber star in this adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’s 1782 novel full of duplicity and score settling.
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Both plays in “Two Class Acts” by A.R. Gurney look at how Hellenic-studies students and instructors explore the effect of changing times on tradition.
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Eternity is downright cozy in Daniel Alexander Jones’s hearts-and-flowers-themed exploration of life and what lies beyond in this Soho Rep production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30PMIn this gala performance, Mr. Gyllenhaal plays the French painter Georges Seurat at work. It’s another musical night to remember at City Center.
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Rachel Weisz plays Susan Traherne, the radioactively unhappy center of this play, revived by David Leveaux at the Public Theater 34 years after opening there.
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Nathan Lane and a deep cast star in this revival of a 1928 stage classic about journalism, now at the Broadhurst Theater.
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A pair of soul mates obliviously advance from the ages of 19 to 64 in Mike Bartlett’s play, set in London.
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Diane Lane stars in this terminally confused production of Chekhov’s play, about a woman who faces a changing reality when she returns to her childhood home.
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The play, making its transfer to Broadway with Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt, finds a potentially psychotic American woman meeting a British butcher.
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Monday, October 10, 2016
This stupendously entertaining play centers on the comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who have created geriatric alter egos as roommates.
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This play from the Mad Ones company would send you bolting for the exit, screaming, if it weren’t so funny and unexpectedly touching.
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