Wednesday, April 29, 2015
With this show at La MaMa, an attack on institutionalized killing, Belarus Free Theater displays its customary razor-sharp commentary.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe 1968 musical adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel “Zorba the Greek” is the final offering of this season’s Encores! series of musicals in concert.
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Five Indian women describe their experiences of sexual abuse in Yael Farber’s harrowing documentary drama at the Lynn Redgrave Theater.
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Ms. Rivera stars as a wealthy woman who returns to her Swiss hometown with a tempting proposal of murder in this macabre, long-gestating musical.
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Unchecked enthusiasm and puns abound in this Broadway-does-the-Renaissance frolic, which namechecks pretty much every musical you’ve ever heard of.
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Ms. Fleming, the opera star, heads the cast of Joe DiPietro’s Broadway comedy as a tantrum-throwing egomaniacal opera star.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMLes 7 Doigts de la Main, philosophizing acrobats with a gift for subverting metaphors, upend and mock the laws of physics.
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This portrait of a girl and her father, adapted from Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel of a memoir, occupies the place where we all grew up, and will never be able to leave.
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
Bartlett Sher’s revival at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, starring Ken Watanabe and Kelli O’Hara, balances epic sweep with an intimate sensibility.
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The musical at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, based on the 2004 movie about the creator of Peter Pan, heightens the screenplay’s life-affirming messages.
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Revisiting a very old theme in this big fat musical of a wedding, with all the trimmings (and Tyne Daly starring), by Brian Hargrove and Barbara Anselmi.
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Based with a wink on John Buchan’s 1915 novel and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 film, this comedy at the Union Square Theater has a cast of four but too many characters to count.
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Richard Eyre’s production of the classic Ibsen play, at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, allows the audience to feel the full, bruising force of the drama.
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The riveting two-part stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s best-selling novels about Henry VIII and his chaotic court is at the Winter Garden Theater.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015
Stephen Daldry’s revival of David Hare’s play, starring Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, plays off the dramatic duality of ex-lovers who are irresistibly drawn to each other.
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Sunday, March 29, 2015
“Twelfth Night (or What You Will)” and “What You Will (or Twelfth Night)” create worlds in which sexual desire and gender are always changing direction.
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In this play at the Kitchen, three characters represent a multiple-choice way of dealing with life, and death.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PMThis interactive piece of street theater guides participants on a meticulously plotted tour of New York City and their own herd mentality.
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Scott Ellis’s revival of this 1978 musical about dueling egos on a train between Chicago and New York knows that when it comes to being hyperbolic, there’s no people like show people.
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Sienna Miller and John Cameron Mitchell, taking over roles played by other well-known actors, have given their characters new interpretations and new life.
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In this solo show, the British actress Cush Jumbo plays both a version of herself and the boundary-crossing, Paris-conquering Josephine Baker.
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Peter Morgan’s history-skimming chat show about a monarch and her prime ministers is about as close as most of us are going to get to a cozy tête-à-tête with Queen Elizabeth II.
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In his Broadway debut as an actor and playwright, Mr. David plays a character not unlike his TV persona who gathers with his family at his father’s deathbed.
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Sunday, March 1, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
In Christina Masciotti’s play at the Bushwick Starr, a retired Pennsylvania pretzel-factory worker talks just to hear herself talk, even though she’s deaf.
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This coruscating play, restaged at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, is a modern examination of a slave-era melodrama.
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