Wednesday, October 17, 2018
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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Richard Bean’s comedy about a wayward attempt to fix a snooker match tickles its audiences into contentment.
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This congested revival, directed by Austin Pendleton, features a mismatched cast of four and some classic Williams dialogue.
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Stefano Massini’s poetically cadenced portrait of the life and death of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya lets facts speak for themselves.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMIn a piece she describes as “sort of a play,” the poet and singer journeys through her past, with a little help from her children.
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Mikel Murfi’s virtuoso performance about the life and death of a redoubtable woman is a many-tongued wonder of Irish storytelling.
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Richard Nelson’s emotionally transparent interpretation of a Chekhov masterwork, starring a brilliant Jay O. Sanders, makes us hear a classic anew.
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This combination of a classical tragedy and a contemporary discussion group finds a mirror for Ferguson, Mo., in ancient Thebes.
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In the most promising plays opening this fall, the family drama opens its living room to an invasion of political anxieties.
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They are often Broadway sensations, but jukebox musicals rarely get good reviews. We invited our critics to stop snarking and tell us what they want.
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Ben Brantley and his London counterpart Michael Billington find much that’s enthralling about the state of playwriting in their countries.
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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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