Sunday, April 15, 2012
“Peter and the Starcatcher,” directed on Broadway by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, delivers locomotive Steampunk in the origin story of Peter Pan.
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Michael Grandage’s revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “Evita” at the Marquis Theater is stately, sincere and sober-sided.
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As befits a play about Judy Garland, a woman known for liberally mixing her pills, Peter Quilter’s “End of the Rainbow” is a jolting upper and downer at the same time.
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“Newsies the Musical,” based on a 1992 Disney movie about the 1899 New York newsboy strike, teems with defiant ragamuffins, anthems and back flips.
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In “’Tis Pity She’s a Whore,” all the action takes place in bed in a way that might surprise the playwright, John Ford.
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Ethan Lipton recreates the anxieties and epiphanies of an unemployed worker in his new show, “No Place to Go,” at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater.
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“Once,” based on a hit movie about two musicians, an Irishman and a Czech, who fall in love, reaches Broadway after an Off Broadway run.
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In “Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman,” starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, the director Mike Nichols has created an immaculate monument to a great American play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:11PMThe return of "Gatz" to New York provides a chance to examine other attempts to capture the essence of books on stage.
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“The Kreutzer Sonata,” an adaptation of Tolstoy’s novella by the Gate Theater of London, comes to La MaMa.
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Sidney Goldfarb’s “Hot Lunch Apostles” at La MaMa is set in a destitute age — the 21st century — in which people will do anything to put food on their tables.
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“Edward Albee’s The Lady From Dubuque” opened in a scintillating revival at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
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Nina Raine’s play “Tribes” concerns a family whose deaf son brings home his girlfriend, who is losing her hearing.
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The musical “Carrie,” a famous Broadway flop, has been revived at the Lucille Lortel Theater, in a production that is characterized by, uh, good taste.
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In “Hurt Village,” an African-American family preparing to leave a shabby apartment in a housing project for a newer home encounters plenty of barriers, inside and out.
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Life is a dream-smothering joker in Eugene O’Neill’s bleak drama “Beyond the Horizon,” at the Irish Repertory Theater.
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Amid theater’s smaller, potent plays about the working and middle classes, thank goodness there’s still room for glittery musicals about Evita Peron, Judy Garland and Jesus Christ.
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“Early Plays,” three Eugene O’Neill seafaring one-acts, are directed by Richard Maxwell for the Wooster Group at Ann’s Warehouse.
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“I Killed My Mother” is the tale of a Romanian orphan who grew up in a strict institution where she had one friend, a boy who taught her the art of turning people into stone.
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In “And God Created Great Whales,” Rinde Eckert reprises his role as a composer who is losing his memory and struggling to finish an opera based on “Moby-Dick.”
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In a revival of Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive,” Norbert Leo Butz stars in one of the most discomfiting love stories to emerge from the American theater.
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The first production of this season’s Encores! series, Stephen Sondheim and Gorge Furth’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” comes across as oddly quaint and self-conscious.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:01PMIn London the stages are filled with rulers who are mad, bad and dangerous to know, from Richard II to King Ubu.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMMy nostrils received a vigorous work-out during my recent theater-going binge in London, especially in more intimate theaters.
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The zippy new National Theater production of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" is a clear reconception, while the Young Vic's hot-and-sticky new interpretation of "The Changeling," a Jacobean…
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Several current British productions, including “Lovesong,” “Travelling Light” and “The Kreutzer Sonata,” feature characters who recall earlier times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:17PMGod save the king, as portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the Donmar Warehouse's production of "Richard II," because he sure isn't up to saving himself.
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Abi Morgan's "Lovesong" is playing at London's Lyric Hammersmith Theater, which is probably the wettest house in town, given all the tears being shed there.
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