Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Squonk Opera, a multimedia troupe of infinite jest with an imagination to match, is determined to blur the lines of our sensory responses to music with its “Mayhem and Majesty.” &nb…
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“Sunset Baby,” by Dominique Morisseau, is about two generations of urban outlaws struggling to stay afloat in the lower depths.
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart star in repertory productions of Harold Pinter’s “No Man’s Land” and Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” at the Cort Theater. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Regular Singing,” the final installment of Richard Nelson’s Apple Family cycle of plays, takes place on the day of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.…
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“La Belle et la Bête,” a retelling of the fairy tale at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, features video projections and dialogue to furrow your brow.
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Character takes a back seat in Jack O’Brien’s new production of “Macbeth,” starring Ethan Hawke, at the Vivian Beaumont.
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Margaret Colin and Reed Birney are among the cast of “Taking Care of Baby,” a British play that is having its American premiere at City Center.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center contributes to the four-singer, four-dancer revue of Stephen Sondheim tunes, “A Bed and a Chair,” at City Center.
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“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder,” on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater, finds the comedy (and the song) in serial homicide.
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With Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon in the leading roles, Samuel Beckett’s “All That Fall” comes to the New York stage.
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All the characters are not what they seem in Tim Carroll’s staging of “Twelfth Night” and “Richard III,” running in repertory on Broadway at the Belasco Theater. &…
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“The Jacksonian,” a lurid new play on Theater Row, revolves around the night of a murder at a seedy Mississippi motel.
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Bruce Norris’s “Domesticated” explores the endangered marriage of a disgraced politician in New York and the wife he does wrong.
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Julie Taymor takes on Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and inaugurates the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, the first proper home for the Theater for a New Audience. &n…
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Wallace Shawn has written and stars in “Grasses of a Thousand Colors,” a nasty and erotic fairy tale at the Public Theater.
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Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz star in a Broadway revival of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal,” a drama of love and perfidy among the literati.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
“The Landing,” a chamber musical by John Kander and Greg Pierce at the Vineyard Theater, tells three stories that tap into innocence and regret.
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“Fun Home,” a heartbreaker of a musical, in which one woman tries to solve the mystery of who her father really was, is based on a memoir by Alison Bechdel.
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The frivolous queen of France in David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette” appears to have undergone a downsizing in Soho Rep’s staging.
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Over the last three decades, the National Theatre has come to feel like a homeThe chief theatre critic of the New York Times, Ben Brantley regularly attends National Theatre productions. If …
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A South Dakotan takes on her inner Elvis, and channels support from Theodore Roosevelt, in the TEAM company’s new buddy comedy at the Bushwick Starr.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:21PM“Honeymoon in Vegas,” a musical that just opened at the Paper Mill Playhouse, is set in a surreal time-warp version of that city while evoking classic Broadway tradition. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:20PMThe Menier Chocolate Factory will present “Merrily We Roll Along,” Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1981 musical, Wednesday in movie theaters.
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The Classic Stage Company’s production of “Romeo & Juliet” is Tea Alagic’s interpretation of the Shakespeare classic, featuring a sumptuous and seething Lady Capulet. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Model Apartment,” Donald Margulies’s drama from 1995, returns in an impeccably mounted Primary Stages production.
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“The Model Apartment,” David Margulies’s drama from 1995, returns in an impeccably mounted Primary Stages production.
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“Honeymoon in Vegas,” a musical that just opened at the Paper Mill Playhouse, is set in a surreal time-warp version of that city yet evokes classic Broadway tradition. &…
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