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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:38AMReviews of three productions at very small theaters in London, notably the two-character drama "Constellations," starring Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:09AM“Matilda,” the hit musical in London, follows Roald Dahl’s young character as she fights a sadistic headmistress.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:27AMCynthia Nixon stars in Manhattan Theater Club’s revival of “Wit,” Margaret Edson’s play about a terminally ill English professor.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:30AMKevin Spacey cuts like a buzz saw in “Richard III” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:46PMAudra McDonald brings thunder to “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,” a stripped-down version of the original opera, at the Richard Rodgers Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMCan film and theater live happily together in the same room? More and more recently these two separate (and arguably equal) art forms are attempting to practice cohabitation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PMThe monologuist Daniel Kitson returns to St. Ann’s Warehouse with a one-man show about two people who never knew each other in 19th-century England.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMIn Gob Squad’s “Super Night Shot,” part of the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater, passers-by are enlisted to appear in an instant film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:49PM“Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech,” a triptych of short plays that is being performed as part of the Under the Radar festival, is written and directed in hypnotic sty…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PMA look at some of the theatrical offerings of 2012, including Kevin Spacey in “Richard III,” Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis in “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” and a revival of “Me…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24PM“Lysistrata Jones” is a throwback to the perishable good-time musicals in which peppy kids delivered of-the-moment jokes and lively dances.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMThe fantasy of Hugh Jackman: your dream lover, your gay best friend, and no embarrassing meltdowns.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMThe talented creators of “Once,” a musical inspired by the 2006 film starring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, faced a big problem that they’ve only partly resolved.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMJohn Turturro and Dianne Wiest star in Andrei Belgrader’s heartbreakingly funny production of Chekhov’s “Cherry Orchard,” at the Classic Stage Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMThe electrifying Cillian Murphy seems to inhabit every millimeter of the wasteland in which he has been let loose in “Misterman,” Enda Walsh’s one-man play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM“Elective Affinities,” a one-woman show with Zoe Caldwell, explores an aristocratic character with a warm demeanor and a chilly heart.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMFrank Wildohorn’s “Bonnie & Clyde” is a modest, mildly tuneful musical biography of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:09AM“Wild Animals You Should Know,” by Thomas Higgins, centers on an erotically charged relationship among Boy Scouts at a wilderness camp.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM“Seminar,” a new comedy by Theresa Rebeck, concerns aspiring novelists who sign up for classes with a celebrated fiction guru, played by the droll Alan Rickman.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMRichard Eyre’s revival of Noël Coward’s “Private Lives,” which stars Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, is frothier, broader and sillier than its immediate Broadway predecessor.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:28PM“Burning,” Thomas Bradshaw’s Off Broadway debut, is a tale of rampaging erotic impulses and misplaced artistic ambitions, set in the 1980s and the present.
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