Thursday, August 17, 2017
An exquisite multidisciplinary performance piece blurs the senses in considering the life and work of this Dutch artist.
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Theater has quickly taken on the Trump presidency. Whether what’s onstage can change minds or spark action is open to debate.
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Stage adaptations of “Bat Out of Hell” and “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾” allow the middle-aged to retreat to the age of innocence.
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The president is spending 17 days in New Jersey and New York. A few of our critics weigh in with recommendations of shows to watch (besides the news).
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Plays in London spanning more than a century suggest how much and how little has changed for British women.
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On London stages: A new look at the rise of a media mogul, and two anniversary revivals that explore a nation tilting between hedonism and despair.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMPolitical plays by Suzan-Lori Parks and Michael Moore, Harold Prince’s hit anthology and New York premieres from Simon Stephens and Bruce Norris.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMWednesday, July 26, 2017
The Irish playwright Conor McPherson weaves an American tale of nomads out of the Bob Dylan songbook in this play at the Old Vic Theater in London.
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Monday, July 24, 2017
Andrew Scott’s portrayal in a London production of “Hamlet” almost banishes other performances from memory.
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This exuberant musical out of Toronto, adapted from the poems by Edgar Lee Masters, presents an all-souls hootenanny.
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Sam Gold’s funny and heartbreaking production treats Shakespeare’s daunting masterpiece with disarming familiarity.
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One night a week, Donna Murphy takes over the title role in “Hello, Dolly!” from Bette Midler. Alternates, like her, and replacements can help make or break a hit show.
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A British theater troupe considers the uses and abuses of psychological experimentation in “Opening Skinner’s Box.”
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Dominique Morisseau’s new play at Lincoln Center plunges us into the fatalistic worldview of the mother of an African-American teenager.
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Dominique Morisseau is one of the theater’s most penetrating voices. In her latest play, she focuses on issues of class and education.
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An often irritating British-born adaptation of George Orwell’s novel suggests that all facts are alternative.
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Our chief theater critics went to see the interactive performance piece on the same night, expecting to have vastly different experiences. They didn’t.
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In this impeccably realized play by Abe Koogler, four mismatched characters reach out to each other in a New Mexico desertscape.
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Third Rail Projects turns the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center into a haunted house of theatrical ego.
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A.R. Gurney’s passion for theater spilled over the edges of his work, from “The Dining Room” through “Love Letters”
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Kirsten Childs’s musical at Playwrights Horizons is a picaresque tale about a young woman and her unusual protector.
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In James Ijames’s play “Kill Move Paradise,” four young black men try — and fail — to understand how and why they died.
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In Alex Borinsky’s “Of Government,” life keeps taking the most unexpected turns for a group of eccentric women.
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An actor and a playwright mesh seamlessly in Christina Masciotti’s “Raw Bacon From Poland,” starring Joel Perez as a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Thursday, June 1, 2017
Red Bull Theater’s rollicking production of this Gogol play finds the cathartic value of satirizing bad behavior.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMJune brings a comedy for those who prefer to be weirded-out; a show for theatergoers with itchy feet; and Kevin Spacey in the role of Clarence Darrow.
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The cast of a new adaptation has such masters of mayhem as Michael Urie, Arnie Burton, Stephen DeRosa, Michael McGrath and Mary Testa.
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In this reimagined version of Shakespeare’s tragedy, the Prince of Denmark becomes the Prince of Persia.
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