Friday, August 21, 2015
In Abi Morgan’s “Splendour” at the Donmar Warehouse, Sinead Cusack plays a dictator’s wife who drinks shots with her guests at the palace in a revolution-torn city.
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A throbbing, infectious production of Euripides’ “The Bakkhai” stars Ben Whishaw as Dionysos; and Rory Kinnear plays Joseph K, Kafka’s bewildered and shame-stained hero, in “The Tr…
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This dark play features grotesque festivities that are staged in New York after society has become only a shadow of what it once was.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37PMNew York won’t be quite the same helluva town after Sept. 6, when this happy revival closes. Misty Copeland, the reigning It girl of American ballet, joins the cast Tuesday.
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Jane Anderson’s new play, a Shakespeare & Company production in Lenox, Mass., is about the headaches of rearing a truly gifted child: Joan of Arc.
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Sunday, August 9, 2015
This revival of Eugene O’Neill’s play centers on people who assume false roles that allow them to function in their daily lives.
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In its move to Broadway, the show about America’s founding fathers is proof that the musical is not only surviving but evolving in ways that should allow it to thrive.
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The British troupe Cheek by Jowl infuses Alfred Jarry’s satirical drama with the kind of angry adolescent sentiment that gave birth to it.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Carey Perloff’s heavy-breathing drama at the Williamstown Theater Festival centers on two newspaper colleagues on the brink of an affair.
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The Potomac Theater Project presents an earnest pair of feminist plays by Caryl Churchill and Howard Barker.
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Encores! presents a concert revival of Andrew Lippa’s version of a lurid 1920s poem about a gathering full of sex, drugs and violence.
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Ms. Maxwell, a five-time Tony nominee, says that the play, set in 16th-century Venice and produced by the Potomac Theater Project at Atlantic Stage 2, will be her last.
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This work, under the direction of Garry Hynes and performed by Ireland’s Druid Theater Company is a seven-hour adaptation of “Richard II,” “Henry IV” and “Henry V.”
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The magicians perform many familiar tricks in their show at the Marquis Theater, but they also demonstrate a 21st-century edge.
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Monday, July 6, 2015
This play by Daniel Goldfarb focuses on an older author (Eric Bogosian) who becomes obsessed with having a child, to the dismay of his wife (Jessica Hecht).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:09PMDaniel Fish’s excavation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic at Bard College asks that we listen with virgin ears to the show that changed the Broadway musical.
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Encores! Off-Center summer series revives Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s 1982 musical with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ellen Greene, returning to her signature role.
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Monday, June 29, 2015
Douglas Carter Beane’s new play, at Lincoln Center, draws on his memories of working at a community playhouse as a teenager.
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William Finn and James Lapine’s musical, revived at City Center, stars Jonathan Groff as a composer who learns that he needs immediate, possibly fatal surgery.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Sunday, June 21, 2015
“Ada/Ava,” from Manual Cinema and playing at 3LD, lets the audience in on the secrets behind the shadows in this spectral story of loss.
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This show, which takes its title from “King Lear,” is a deceptively jolly account of a traumatic chapter in the life of the actor Edward Petherbridge.
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The play, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is set in the magazine industry and explores its tense culture.
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This Shakespeare in the Park production about a duke living in exile features well-known names and the unpredictability of the weather.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMThe Atlantic Theater presents two early Mamet one-acts, “Prairie du Chien,” from 1979, and “The Shawl,” from 1985.
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