Sunday, October 9, 2016
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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This play, by the Classical Theater of Harlem at 3LD Art & Technology Center, finds Egyptian royalty behaving like divas in the 15th-century B.C.
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This program of three short plays by Horton Foote stars the wonderful Hallie Foote, the playwright’s daughter, and returns to his fictitious Harrison, Tex.
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Simon McBurney’s astonishing one-man show, from the British troupe Complicite, immerses the audience in an aural landscape where time and space collapse.
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Judith Light performs this Neil LaBute monologue about a schoolteacher racked with regret over an inadvisable decision.
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This shocking play from the Philadelphia-based Lightning Rod Special troupe is about finding ways to speak to one another about an unspeakable American institution.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMNathan Alan Davis’s contemplative and largely inert play depicts the famous leader of a slave uprising as a biblical martyr and prophet.
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Richard Nelson portrays life in a political season as a bewildering mirage for an extended family that finds itself in reduced circumstances.
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Throughout his work, Edward Albee insisted that our most primitive instincts kept asserting themselves in even the most civilized settings.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Theatergoers will have two chances to check out the playwright: productions with Diane Lane and with Ms. Blanchett in her Broadway debut.
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Performed by four puppet-wielding, stricken-looking men in their 20s, Eoghan Quinn’s play at the Origin’s 1st Irish festival is giddily endearing.
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This spoof from Gerard Alessandrini, the creator of “Forbidden Broadway,” takes aim at “Hamilton” and its place in the battlefield of musicals.
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Ellen McLaughlin, who played the celestial messenger in “Angels in America” on Broadway, brings her “Trojan Women” to the Flea Theater’s resident actors.
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A hip, cuddly and cunningly sadistic musical adaptation of the 1993 Bill Murray movie has just opened in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:21PMProductions of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “The Threepenny Opera,” “Show Boat” and “Guys and Dolls” are fun and fresh diversions.
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Mr. Rylance’s portrayal in “Twelfth Night” is, hands down, our chief theater critic’s favorite Shakespeare performance. The actor tells us how he developed the role.
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Several productions this summer offer grim but engrossing plots — even the farces, which are propelled by the characters’ lies, adding a sting to the laughter.
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Mr. Eisenberg and Scott Elliott, the show’s director, discussed the play and the differences between American and British audiences.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016
The chief theater critic of The New York Times discusses onstage politics and recommends a new “King Lear” with Glenda Jackson, among others.
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Plays like “Richard III” and “The Spoils” evoke the fickle alliances and megalomaniacs associated with “Brexit” and real-life politics.
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Ben Brantley is covering what’s happening on British stages during the next few weeks and is looking for input from audience members.
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Time is a crucial element in this drama, which captures the narrative grip of J.K. Rowling’s prose in a staging at the Palace Theater in London.
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Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” and the memoir “One Writer’s Beginnings” are being staged at the Studio Theater at Theater Row.
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In this musical, Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole riff on the beauty market rivalry between Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:02AMSecrets are revealed — perhaps your own — in this production, starring Daniel Radcliffe, at the Public Theater. It’s a magic show for the online age.
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J.T. Rogers revisits the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, creating personal catharsis and illumination from an international drama.
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