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.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:20PMProductions of the comedies “Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense” and “The Importance of Being Earnest” operate on the “it’s only a play,” calling attention to the artifice …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PMA new production of “Richard III” at Trafalgar Studios in London offers a bureaucratic functionary of a leader, portrayed by Martin Freeman.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PMAn earthy production of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” starring Richard Armitage, is playing at the Old Vic in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:30PMBen Brantley reports on “Richard III” with Martin Freeman and a revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s “A Small Family Business.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:39PM“Let the Right One In,” at the Apollo Theater in London, turns your emotions inside out in a way you probably haven’t experienced since you were a teenager.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:01AM“Great Britain,” Richard Bean’s satire about the phone-hacking scandal that brought down a newspaper, opened on Monday night at the National Theater amid gleeful expectations.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:07PM“Randy Newman’s Faust: The Concert” is getting a one-night-only Encores! Off-Center production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:17PM“The Old Woman,” based on a novella by Daniil Kharms, stars Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:03PMR. C. Sherriff’s 1928 play “Journey’s End,” based on his memories of life in the trenches, anticipates the absurdism and existentialism of Beckett.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:05PMCherry Jones plays a character who runs a bed-and-breakfast that becomes an early shelter for battered women in the earnest, thoughtful drama “When We Were Young and Unafraid.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMJack O’Brien’s pleasure-filled production of “Much Ado About Nothing” in Central Park pits Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater as Shakespeare’s sparring partners Beatrice and Benedick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Ayckburn Ensemble,” a medley of plays by Alan Ayckbourn at 59E59 Theaters, offers a rich opportunity to explore the sadness of his antic consumerist characters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMIn “Fly by Night,” the new musical at Playwrights Horizons, a New York sandwich maker finds himself drawn to two sisters with very different goals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Village Bike,” Penelope Skinner’s play at the Lucille Lortel Theater, centers on a lonely pregnant woman whose growing obsession with sex takes her and other characters to dark pl…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMRob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh’s staging of “Macbeth” at the Park Avenue Armory is a speeding juggernaut for two intermissionless hours.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Arrivals & Departures,” part of a trio of Alan Ayckbourn plays running in rep as part of Brits Off Broadway, is a comedy that delves into counterterrorism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “Early Shaker Spirituals,” the genre-bending Wooster Group pays plain-spoken tribute to the Shakers, inflection for inflection.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Brits Off Broadway festival is celebrating this peerlessly fertile writer’s three-quarters of a century with a repertory of three productions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:55AMLinda Lavin stars as an actress who descends on her daughter’s break from the city in Nicky Silver’s “Too Much Sun,” at the Vineyard Theater.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40AM“Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!,” the latest incarnation of the long-running satirical revue, addresses signs of a theater season notably lacking in fresh material.
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