Sunday, December 13, 2015
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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Nick Kroll and John Mulaney don’t so much portray their characters Gil and George as allow themselves to be taken over by them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:28PMUnder John Doyle’s direction, this revival of the musical based on Alice Walker’s novel forgoes sumptuousness in favor of vivid character development.
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Monday, December 7, 2015
Michael C. Hall stars in Ivo van Hove’s New York Theater Workshop production of this sequel to “The Man Who Fell to Earth.”
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Starring a bouncing Super Ball of energy named Alex Brightman, this is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s friskiest musical in decades.
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No play opening on Broadway this fall has had a more fraught back story, though star power always guaranteed a commercial slam dunk.
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John Jesurun’s multimedia production at at La MaMa, a work in progress since the late ’90s, views soap-opera conventions through a hallucinatory lens.
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Eric Tucker’s Bedlam theater troupe performs this show from Steven Sater and Burt Bacharach at the New Ohio Theater.
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This New Group production, directed by Cynthia Nixon, portrays a group of gay New Yorkers for whom life was once truly a cabaret.
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The German playwright Maria Milisavljevic considers topical questions of European national identities in this play, at Theaterlab.
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In this Broadway adaptation of Stephen King’s thriller, Bruce Willis infuses his captive bedridden character with a wisecracking stoicism.
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From its opening scene, Ivo van Hove’s revival of Arthur Miller’s play evokes an acute sense of dread and a relentless aura of grim predestination.
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Directed by Phyllida Lloyd and starring Harriet Walter, this production of two condensed Shakespeare plays reveals the desperation behind the bravado.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMThis play at the Signature Theater centers on a group of mostly Jewish detainees in Vichy France who struggle with denial, choices and fundamental questions of identity.
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The playwright John Pollono is a deft practitioner of the sort of twist-in-the-tale narratives that are mostly associated with O. Henry and W. Somerset Maugham.
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The Mobile Shakespeare Unit’s streamlined tale of two sets of separated twins comes to the Public Theater.
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Mr. Bacon stars in Keith Reddin’s adaptation of Cornell Woolrich’s crime story that also became a Hitchcock classic.
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Mike Bartlett’s prize-winning play comes to Broadway from London with its cast, Shakespearean stylings and free verse intact.
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Destiny never releases its grim stranglehold on the characters in this play, based on Émile Zola’s novel, which represents Ms. Knightley’s Broadway debut.
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Stiff drinks and sexy demons in a mazelike setting aren’t necessarily our critic’s cup of tea. But his attitude is: If you go to immersive theater, you may as well immerse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:28PMGob Squad’s production at the Public Theater stars a group of 9-to-14-year-olds who age into their 70s and beyond onstage.
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Four actresses, each taking a turn in the spotlight, portray Elizabeth I, using the queen’s own letters, prayers and speeches.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Two women of opposing temperaments share a room in a retirement home, in David Lindsay-Abaire’s play, from the Manhattan Theater Club.
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This solo performance piece by Pat Kinevane at the Irish Arts Center has a freshly risen corpse as its narrator, and she has a story to tell.
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The Keen Company’s revival, a stage adaptation of Graham Greene’s frolicsome 1969 novel, is on Theater Row.
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The show explores life in the White House for the likes of Amy Carter, Tricia and Julie Nixon, and Susan Ford.
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