Thursday, October 9, 2014
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Lisa Dwan plays all the roles in “Not I,” “Footfalls” and “Rockaby,” short Beckett plays that are part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival.
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Regardless of the size of the role, Marian Seldes, who died Tuesday at 86, made her theatrical performances memorable, with precision and flourish.
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Simon Stephens adapts Mark Haddon’s best-selling novel in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”
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“The Country House,” a Donald Margulies play inspired by Chekhov, stars Blythe Danner as an aging actress presiding over a crowded home.
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Romola Garai and Rosemary Harris bring Tom Stoppard’s aristocratic Crewe sisters and old British imperialism to New York in “Indian Ink.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “The Old Man and The Old Moon,” at the New Victory, a man who keeps the moon stocked with light leaves his post, causing havoc.
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Those who saw, or performed in, “You Can’t Take It With You” in high school should not let that trauma taint the Broadway revival of that show.
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“The Money Shot,” Neil LaBute’s new play, depicts two actors who are trying to negotiate an explicit scene.
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“Scenes From a Marriage,” a play adapted from a 1973 TV mini-series, uses three sets of actors to portray the same couple.
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In “The Valley of Astonishment,” Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne explore the world of people with synesthesia.
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In “Dry Land,” two girls on a high school swim team form a complicated friendship as one of them faces the terrible fact of a pregnancy.
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Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson bring to full-blooded life the angst of bright and sullen young things in a Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s “This Is Our Youth.”
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Works at the FringeArts festival in Philadelphia deal with the many ways both nature and human relationships can go wrong.
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“Red Eye of Love,” like “The Fantasticks,” is about a boy, a girl, crushable ideals, minimal scenery and tinkling piano music.
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Blythe Danner plays the high bohemian matriarch of an artistic clan in “The Country House,” the new play by Donald Margulies.
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Kieron Barry’s “Tomorrow in the Battle,” at Stageworks/Hudson, follows powerful, self-destructive Londoners in a romantic triangle.
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After more than three years on Broadway, “The Book of Mormon” retains its peppiness and devotion to the musical comedy spirit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:57PMIn “Dead Behind These Eyes,” the theater company Sister Sylvester lends a mike and a soundtrack to a set of characters inspired by John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger.”
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The musical “Finding Neverland,” about the creator of Peter Pan, is making test flights at the American Repertory Theater.
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Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert engage in intense, whiplash physicality in a rip-roaring production of the Jean Genet play, directed by Benedict Andrews, at City Center.
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A revamped version of the musical “The Visit” at the Williamstown Theater Festival stars Chita Rivera as a billionaire who returns to her hometown, carrying a lethal grudge.
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Daniel Sullivan’s fast-moving if stiff-jointed production of “King Lear,” starring John Lithgow, opened at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
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“Between Riverside and Crazy,” a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, centers on a retired policeman threatened with eviction and his extended family and friends.
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The Rock and Anvil Boxing Gym has been assembled at 59E59 Theaters for the New York premiere of Brett Neveu’s “The Opponent.”
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A theater critic imagines a clash of the greatest versions of Shakespeare’s melancholy prince, as portrayed by John Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and others.
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Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell star in Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love” at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts.
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Three plays with particularly passionate women are running in London: “Medea,” “Bakersfield Mist” (with Kathleen Turner) and Noël Coward’s “This Was a Man.”
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London productions, like “Wolf Hall,” “Bring Up the Bodies,” “Handbagged” and “The Crucible” prove there’s nothing so enthralling as gossip.
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The Oscar-winning film that pondered the sexual and writing habits of William Shakespeare is adapted for the stage in “Shakespeare in Love: The Play.”
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