Monday, July 11, 2016
J.T. Rogers revisits the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, creating personal catharsis and illumination from an international drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:25PMThe series of short plays, written in 1917, have a macabre tone, unfolding as a bright catalog of carnage and vivisection.
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This teeming revival of Elizabeth Swados’s 1978 musical melds a pack of 25 young actors into one vital, desperate voice.
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This absurdist spoof explores notions of masculinity in a Wild West saloon, without its cast cracking up. The audience needn’t worry about the same.
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Mr. Houghton started Signature in 1991, devoting each season to the work of a single dramatist. A cancer diagnosis has led him to resign.
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This playful show masterfully provides a multidimensional portrait of a city in perpetual upheaval and a man who is nearly crushed by it.
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A comic strip format is among the delights of this drama, part of the Summerworks festival of new plays by Clubbed Thumb at the Wild Project.
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Janet McTeer plays one disturbed dude in Phyllida Lloyd’s all-woman production for Shakespeare in the Park.
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Thursday, June 9, 2016
Matthew Broderick is a man haunted by his wife’s ghost and seeking help from a therapist whose life eerily mirrors his own in Conor McPherson’s play.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016
This play depicts the scabrous wit of a woman and a man who get to know each other when their cancer-afflicted mothers share a hospital room.
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This play at Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater conjures a fractious family in a hospital setting, a limbo populated by apes, and a wartime romance.
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Friday, May 27, 2016
Philip Ridley’s juicy little thriller starts previews this week at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off Broadway Festival.
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John Doyle has done his imaginative best to tame, through shrinkage, one of the great, shape-shifting monsters of world theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:02PMTheater for a New Audience has paired these two suspenseful dramas in repertory through June 12 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn.
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Sunday, May 22, 2016
The actresses who replaced Jennifer Hudson in “The Color Purple” and Kelli O’Hara in “The King and I” brought a new feistiness to the roles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PMThe collection of three short vintage works at the Pershing Square Signature Theater includes Edward Albee’s “The Sandbox.”
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William Francis Hoffman’s play at Rattlesticks Playwrights explores family bonds and inadequacies as the central characters deal with their situation in rural Illinois.
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Presented by the Manhattan Theater Club, Penelope Skinner’s account of British family life in a not too distant time bears a disquieting resemblance to today.
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David Hare’s drama shows Wilde before and after his imprisonment for homosexuality, illustrating love as a force both sacred and profane.
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Encores! revives a 1965 romantic work that features music by Richard Rodgers on the wane, and Stephen Sondheim on the rise.
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Sunday, May 8, 2016
Monday, May 2, 2016
Beneath the rowdy humor, there is always the sense of a desperate emptiness in Richard Bean’s comedy about the rhythms of a blue-collar workday.
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“A Streetcar Named Desire,” directed by Benedict Andrews, is a brave take on a classic play that envelops the audience in a timelessly primeval world.
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