Tuesday, April 23, 2013
“Here Lies Love,” the exciting new poperetta conceived by the musician (and former Talking Head) David Byrne, sets a new standard for audience participation.
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A great actress and a fine, trenchant script are struggling to assert themselves at the Walter Kerr Theater, where Colm Toibin’s “Testament of Mary” opened on Monday night. …
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Despite its violence, “Orphans,” a revival of Lyle Kessler’s 1985 play starring Alec Baldwin, Tom Sturridge and Ben Foster, has a soft touch.
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“The Assembled Parties” is an elegy to a breed of woman, a style of living and a genre of theater of which only vestiges remain in New York.
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Nathan Lane in “The Nance,” by Douglas Carter Beane, plays a character who shines for the camera and wilts offstage.
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The blood runs warm in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s vibrant production of “Julius Caesar,” now at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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“Matilda the Musical,” a British import adapted from Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel, is a tale of empowerment told from the perspective of the most powerless group — little children. &…
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A factory owner and a drag performer combine efforts in “Kinky Boots,” the new Broadway musical from Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper.
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David Harrower’s “Good With People” is running at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off Broadway series.
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In the Nora Ephron play “Lucky Guy,” at the Broadhurst Theater, Tom Hanks makes his Broadway debut playing the newspaper columnist Mike McAlary.
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
The Encores! concert production of “It’s a Bird ... It’s a Plane ...It’s Superman” is given a pitch-perfect staging by John Rando at City Center.
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The new “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” on Broadway at the Cort Theater, is more faithful to Truman Capote’s novella than the 1961 film was, yet far more melancholy.
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Playing a pop goddess in “The Bodyguard,” the new musical based on the 1992 movie that starred Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, Heather Headley gives great diva.
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James Graham’s “This House” finds suspense in the wheelings and dealings of Parliament; Heather Headley shines as a pop goddess in “The Bodyguard”; and William Boyd tries his hand …
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“The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time,” a play adapted from the novel about a boy who appears to have Asperger’s syndrome, has opened at the Apollo Theater in London.
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“Trelawny of the Wells” is a portrait of the Victorian era in theater; Betty Buckley brings her distinctive gifts to “Dear World,” a revival of a notorious ’60s flop.
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Rupert Everett stars as Oscar Wilde in “Judas Kiss” and Rowan Atkinson plays a teacher of English in “Quartermaine’s Terms.”
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In tour-de-force performances, James McAvoy is a war-traumatized Macbeth and Kate O’Flynn is a girl aching to flee her bleak home town in “Port.”
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
“The Audience” is a sort of starched-bosomed nanny of a play, offering the artistic equivalent of nursery food and equally digestible history lessons.
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
“Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” wants to be reassuringly old-fashioned and refreshingly irreverent, sentimental and snarky, sincere and ironic, all at once.
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Vanessa Redgrave plays a Polish survivor of the Holocaust in “The Revisionist,” written by her co-star, Jesse Eisenberg.
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John Doyle’s version of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Passion” comes across as a pulsing collective fever dream.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMVanessa Redgrave plays a Polish survivor of the Holocaust in “The Revisionist,” written by her co-star, Jesse Eisenberg.
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Edie Falco stars in “The Madrid,” a new play by Liz Flahive about a kindergarten teacher who leaves her job and family without so much as a goodbye.
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A new production of "The Glass Menagerie" has a critic remembering other oft-seen plays that felt brand new thanks to a director's interpretation or unusual casting.
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