Monday, February 29, 2016
In this tuneful production by Lauren Worsham and Kyle Jarrow, friends gather at the start of the new year to retell and play out a fairy tale of their own.
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In the play, by Simon McBurney at the Barbican Theater in London, audience members are asked to put on headphones and listen closely.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:27PMClare Barron’s play at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn recalls the anguishing mysteries of sex and love during adolescence.
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Friday, February 19, 2016
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Some unpleasant emotions are at the heart of “Hughie,” “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” “The Crucible” and “Hold On to Me, Darling.”
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This revival of the award-winning American gothic play stars Amy Madigan and Ed Harris as parents in a dysfunctional Illinois farmhouse.
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In this revival, Ms. Smith plays Fanny Brice, the role that sent Barbra Streisand soaring into the stratosphere in the 1960s.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2016
This Manhattan Theater Club play depicts a self-worshiping, caustic pupil who intrigues and frustrates his boarding-school teachers.
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The company begins a two-season project devoted to the writer, starting with “Drunken With What,” which excavates “Mourning Becomes Electra.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:39AMBedlam theater company’s version of the Jane Austen novel expands and magnifies Austen’s delicate comic worldview without cracking a single teacup.
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Friday, January 29, 2016
These two plays — “Tonight With Donny Stixx” and “Dark Vanilla Jungle,” playing in repertory at Here — consist of monologues by people who have committed unspeakable crimes.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Richard Greenberg juxtaposes a generational then and now to consider how little we know about the lives that shape our own.
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This final work in Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit trilogy is a deeply moral and deeply American play, with compassion for people trapped by circumstances.
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Banana Bag & Bodice’s new production at the Bushwick Starr owes a debt to Beckett but is exuberantly American.
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Though best known for the “Die Hard” and “Harry Potter” movies, he was even more compelling as a serpentine seducer onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:35PMThe one-man play, by Chris Thorpe, looks at confirmation bias, and tries to make the audience truly consider another person’s competing viewpoint.
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Mr. Oluo and a team of performers manage to be expansive and engaging in this musical memoir at the Public Theater.
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Frank Boyd plays a hard-core music obsessive in this piece, staged as if it were a live radio show at the Coil Festival.
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In this play, at La MaMa Downstairs, Silvia Calderoni takes on many guises and expounds on the inadequacy of our vocabulary.
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Thursday, January 7, 2016
This show from France, part of the Under the Radar Festival, reinvents a creation myth, tracing the evolution of human consciousness.
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Silvia Calderoni, a longtime member of this boundary-defying international theater company, examines gender in an autobiographical show.
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Mr. Lee, who stepped in as His Majesty in September, invests his character with a wit and poignancy and an electric attraction to Kelli O’Hara’s Anna.
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With help from the singer Sheryl Crow and the director Kathleen Marshall, Barry Levinson has made a musical of his 1982 buddy film that promotes its female roles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:09PMThis play, written by Jordan Harrison and directed by Anne Kauffman, centers on an 85-year-old woman who gets help from a re-creation of her dead husband.
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Ms. Hoffman, in the role Carol Burnett originated in 1959, is a vocal slapstick artist of both speech and song, shifting registers and styles with madcap virtuosity.
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