Thursday, February 21, 2013
Women — from real life and fiction — will be the leading characters of several prominent Broadway productions (like “Ann,” “The Testament of Mary” and “Matilda the Musical”) …
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Romeo Castellucci’s “On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God” contemplates the end of a human life with visceral detail.
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In the gorgeous new production of “The Glass Menagerie” at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., something both momentous and commonplace has happened.
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Friday, February 8, 2013
In “Clive,” by Jonathan Marc Sherman, Ethan Hawke plays the title character and also directs the New Group production of an update of Brecht’s “Baal.”
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
The topic at hand in “Women of Will” is the burning issue of pants versus dresses, which assumes genuine urgency.
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“Fiorello!,” the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning 1959 musical, opened the 20th anniversary season of Encores! musicals in concert.
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Some theater companies performing Off Broadway are using disabled actors, sometimes deliberately making a point of their disabilities
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Lyle Kessler’s “Collision,” presented by the Amoralists troupe, follows a college student’s efforts to enlist others in a plot.
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“The Suit,” at the Harvey Theater, retells a story about adultery and pitiless punishment by the South African writer Can Themba.
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The Nalagaat Theater, which is made up of performers who are both deaf and blind, offers an optional dinner in their performance piece “Not by Bread Alone.”
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Scarlett Johansson confirms her promise as a stage actress of imposing presence in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMBelarus Free Theater offers a scathing mosaic of its home city with “Minsk, 2011,” at the Under the Radar festival at the Public Theater.
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“Seagull (Thinking of you)” is a play that blurs boundaries: between actors and their roles, male and female, fiction and reality, past and present, parody and sincerity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PM“Midsummer,” written and directed by David Greig, is a rom-com in theatrical form centering on a long, wild weekend in Edinburgh complete with theft, bondage and drinking.
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“I, Malvolio,” a one-man show by Tim Crouch (with a little audience assistance), takes a “Twelfth Night” character out of context for the fun of it.
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“Opus No. 7,” from the Dmitry Krymov Lab of Moscow, probes memory, ancestors, Mother Russia and the case of Dmitri Shostakovich, at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
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Physical attractiveness is a running theme in the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of “Picnic,” William Inge’s 1953 drama, at the American Airlines Theater.
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“Ganesh Versus the Third Reich,” in which that Hindu deity seeks to redeem the ancient swastika symbol from the Nazis, raises questions about the nature and abuses of power.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:40PMA critic kept his promise not to see theater for several weeks at the end of the year, but favorite stage performers crept into his life thanks to their roles on film and television.
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
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Friday, November 30, 2012
“Then She Fell” is an immersive theater experience at a former hospital that incorporates scenes and characters from Lewis Carroll’s writing and life.
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Monday, November 19, 2012
The plays in New York theaters are full of meaning, and delivering a holiday message, hostile or tender, is as easy as buying a ticket.
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