Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Visionary stylist or one-trick pony? With "Network" on Broadway and "All About Eve" on the horizon, the multimedia-mad stage director is ready for his close-up.
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Offerings at the festival include a riff on "Uncle Vanya"; a "Frankenstein" adaptation highlighting a mother's grief; and an intimate tale of displacement.
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Marin Ireland blazes furiously as an emotional terrorist in Abby Rosebrock's emotionally congested comic drama, set in a Southern rehab center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04PM[SHARE]An eclectic opening weekend included sketches and songs by Nigerian women, two unsettling monologues and a punk-rock reminiscence (with mixtape to follow).
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Monday, December 10, 2018
Sunday, December 9, 2018
This extraordinary, London-born work of immersive theater places its audience at the fraught and energetic center of a migrant camp in France.
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Ivo van Hove's stage adaptation of the 1976 film presents a pricelessly demented affair between a has-been anchorman and the cameras that love him.
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It was a year when classics were reincarnated in deceptively modest interpretations, conventional story forms were tossed aside and strong voices roared.
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Monday, November 19, 2018
In this garrulous play of ideas, the author of "The Real Thing" and "The Coast of Utopia" takes on the essence " and ethics " of being human.
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Hansol Jung's industriously imaginative play uses visions of winged flight to explore the loneliness of two ambivalent lovers in Seoul.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PM[SHARE]John Doyle's inventive revival of Brecht's 1941 satire about Adolf Hitler is more impressive for theatrical ingenuity than topicality.
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This one-man show, about the anxieties of impending fatherhood, makes a seductive case for seeing a comedian live in the age of Netflix.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PM[SHARE]Mr. Sanders, a veteran of four decades of stage and screen work, is giving the performance of his career in his first appearance in Chekhov.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Patricia Ione Lloyd's macabre domestic comedy suggests that for African-Americans, every day is a potential horror movie in the making.
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Thursday, November 1, 2018
In this brisk and entertaining revival of Harvey Fierstein's Tony-winning play, Michael Urie and Mercedes Ruehl are mesmerizingly larger than life.
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Ngozi Anyanwu's tender new play, directed by Awoye Timpo at the Vineyard Theater, considers the nature of memory in the aftermath of a tragedy.
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This impeccably acted revival presents Kenneth Lonergan's poignant comic drama about dementia as a memory play in more ways than one.
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Jaclyn Backhaus's cheerfully instructive play follows a young Punjabi-American woman, a descendant of a notorious pirate, who opens a bar in Wisconsin.
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Jez Butterworth's great, sprawling drama of rural Northern Ireland during the Troubles bares a culture's contradictions through riveting storytelling.
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In Jane Anderson's satisfyingly old-fashioned play about Joan of Arc's mom, Ms. Close shows the stuff of which great stage stars are made.
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David Greenspan's tone poem of a play, at the Bushwick Starr, considers time, death, family and the ways in which we recall our dead.
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This bill of short comedies, early and late, allows fans of Gurney to chart the evolution of theater's foremost chronicler of a waning caste.
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