Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Amy Heckerling’s amiable but limp adaptation of her classic 1995 film suggests a peppy fan club putting on its own makeshift show.
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This gnomic tale from the fabled director portrays a man expiating a patricide outside a prison’s walls.
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This extraordinary, London-born work of immersive theater places its audience at the fraught and energetic center of a migrant camp in France.
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Ivo van Hove’s stage adaptation of the 1976 film presents a pricelessly demented affair between a has-been anchorman and the cameras that love him.
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It was a year when classics were reincarnated in deceptively modest interpretations, conventional story forms were tossed aside and strong voices roared.
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Martin Moran’s radiant memoir of a play recalls an experience of sexual abuse with a sense of luminous mystery.
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In this garrulous play of ideas, the author of “The Real Thing” and “The Coast of Utopia” takes on the essence — and ethics — of being human.
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Hansol Jung’s industriously imaginative play uses visions of winged flight to explore the loneliness of two ambivalent lovers in Seoul.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMJohn Doyle’s inventive revival of Brecht’s 1941 satire about Adolf Hitler is more impressive for theatrical ingenuity than topicality.
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This one-man show, about the anxieties of impending fatherhood, makes a seductive case for seeing a comedian live in the age of Netflix.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMIn Oliver Butler’s revival, Will Eno’s reputation-making monologue of masochistic bleakness suddenly feels a lot less shocking.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMMr. Sanders, a veteran of four decades of stage and screen work, is giving the performance of his career in his first appearance in Chekhov.
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The one-ton, 20-foot marionette is impressive, but the $35 million musical he stars in doesn’t even succeed as camp.
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Patricia Ione Lloyd’s macabre domestic comedy suggests that for African-Americans, every day is a potential horror movie in the making.
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Garry Hines’s very funny interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s best-known work finds the kinetic cartoon humor in existential futility.
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In this brisk and entertaining revival of Harvey Fierstein’s Tony-winning play, Michael Urie and Mercedes Ruehl are mesmerizingly larger than life.
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Ngozi Anyanwu’s tender new play, directed by Awoye Timpo at the Vineyard Theater, considers the nature of memory in the aftermath of a tragedy.
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This impeccably acted revival presents Kenneth Lonergan’s poignant comic drama about dementia as a memory play in more ways than one.
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Jaclyn Backhaus’s cheerfully instructive play follows a young Punjabi-American woman, a descendant of a notorious pirate, who opens a bar in Wisconsin.
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Jez Butterworth’s great, sprawling drama of rural Northern Ireland during the Troubles bares a culture’s contradictions through riveting storytelling.
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In Jane Anderson’s satisfyingly old-fashioned play about Joan of Arc’s mom, Ms. Close shows the stuff of which great stage stars are made.
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Portraying a celebrated art historian with two resentful sons, Ms. Channing finds the anguished heart in a didactic comic drama.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMDavid Greenspan’s tone poem of a play, at the Bushwick Starr, considers time, death, family and the ways in which we recall our dead.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMThis strident satire from the filmmaker behind “Happiness” and “Wiener-Dog” is perfectly staged — and all too obvious.
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This bill of short comedies, early and late, allows fans of Gurney to chart the evolution of theater’s foremost chronicler of a waning caste.
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A stripped-down, communal version of the 1943 musical reveals a great complex work of theater, with chili and cornbread included.
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Bill Irwin blurs the lines between clown and dramatic actor in an insightful anatomy of the works of Samuel Beckett.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMIn this multimedia performance piece, Angelica Page delivers a portrait of a poet for whom being “nobody” was anything but a pleasure.
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Conor McPherson’s bleak tale of a Minnesota boardinghouse in the Great Depression finds a luminous transcendence in the Dylan song book.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMIn the baggy, emotionally fraught play, Heidi Schreck considers her ever-changing relationship with a seminal document.
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