Thursday, August 16, 2018
This wan resuscitation of the 1990 movie about a Cinderella prostitute is likely to make you nostalgic for Julia Roberts’s original performance.
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Roslyn Ruff gives a wondrous performance in the Williamstown Theater Festival revival of the Carson McCullers play.
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This high-energy, high-anxiety musical, a hit on social media even before it opened, reflects the metabolism of its teenage audience.
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The movie that heralded the jukebox musical has been reinvented as a jukebox musical on its very own terms at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston.
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This radiant Public Works production of Shakespeare’s comedy of identity asks us “to see through the eyes of another.”
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Marcus Gardley’s loquacious and freewheeling answer to a Lorca classic is set in a fascinating moment for race relations.
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This confused musical combines 1980s pop hits with a Renaissance romance, while considering the importance of being nonbinary.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMCarson Kreitzer and Matt Gould’s exciting new musical dares to dream big as it follows the making of the artist Tamara de Lempicka in Jazz-Age Paris.
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This tone-deaf rock-opera remembrance of the twilight of Studio 54 features characters named Steve Rubell and The Artist. (Psst! That’s Andy Warhol.)
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This comedy of dismay by Alan Bennett, author of “The History Boys,” portrays a geriatric ward (of singing, dancing patients!) in an uncaring Britain.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMThe Comédie-Française’s mesmerizing adaptation of Luchino Visconti’s film charts the fall of a family steel dynasty during Hitler’s rise to power.
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In the National Theater’s adaptation of Stefano Massini’s play, three wondrous actors become multitudes.
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Fiery performances by Lia Williams in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and Adrienne Warren in “Tina” newly illuminate familiar female characters.
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Crowd-drawing revivals of “Killer Joe” and “The Lieutenant of Inishmore” find two movie matinee idols transformed into mindless sociopaths.
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Dennis Kelly’s one-person drama examines the role of gender and violence through the eyes of a mother of young children.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMJohn Doyle’s resurrection of a famously problematic show, starring Anika Noni Rose, finds the fatalism — and universality — in its music.
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David Ireland’s bruising drama presents a Northern Irish variation on a very topical archetype — the angry white male under siege
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Third Rail Projects’ latest theater piece is an ingenious combination of walking tour and voyage into the past.
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s elegantly staged interpretation of this tale is good-looking and well-spoken, though lacking in fatal passion.
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Jackie Sibblies Drury’s ruthless comic drama about perceptions of race artfully plays the cat to an audience of white mice.
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This formulaic musical of uplift, about elderly dancers, provides the pleasure of reacquaintance with Donna McKechnie and Georgia Engel.
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Edward Albee’s 1962 masterwork is made over with a whole new set of party games in Kate Scelsa’s punch-drunk satire for the Elevator Repair Service.
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Thursday, June 7, 2018
David Byrne’s speculative play places two theories of human evolution in dialogue in a probing blend of fact and speculation.
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Lauren Yee’s global-vision take on the classic underdog sports story features BD Wong as a Chinese basketball coach with a secret.
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Majority rule (mostly). One play per playwright. How we put together the 25 Plays list, and a bid to remember notable writers and favorite works that missed the cut.
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Mart Crowley’s epochal 1968 comic drama at last makes its Broadway debut, in Joe Mantello’s entertaining but disconnected production.
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This labored adaptation of a James short story, starring Tony Yazbeck, features a boldface creative team that includes John Kander and Susan Stroman
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This initial, mind-frisking comedy from Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks festival is a reminder of the particular pleasures of warm-weather goofiness.
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Erin Markey’s disciplined performance piece, a collaboration with Emily Davis, examines the dissolving boundaries of intense intimacy.
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Kieran Knowles’s gripping play about the Sheffield Blitz, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival, focuses on the interdependent lives of four steel workers.
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