Wednesday, June 27, 2018
John Doyle's resurrection of a famously problematic show, starring Anika Noni Rose, finds the fatalism " and universality " in its music.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Monday, June 18, 2018
Ruben Santiago-Hudson's elegantly staged interpretation of this tale is good-looking and well-spoken, though lacking in fatal passion.
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Thursday, June 14, 2018
This formulaic musical of uplift, about elderly dancers, provides the pleasure of reacquaintance with Donna McKechnie and Georgia Engel.
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Edward Albee's 1962 masterwork is made over with a whole new set of party games in Kate Scelsa's punch-drunk satire for the Elevator Repair Service.
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Thursday, June 7, 2018
Monday, June 4, 2018
Friday, June 1, 2018
Majority rule (mostly). One play per playwright. How we put together the 25 Plays list, and a bid to remember notable writers and favorite works that missed the cut.
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Mart Crowley's epochal 1968 comic drama at last makes its Broadway debut, in Joe Mantello's entertaining but disconnected production.
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This labored adaptation of a James short story, starring Tony Yazbeck, features a boldface creative team that includes John Kander and Susan Stroman
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This initial, mind-frisking comedy from Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks festival is a reminder of the particular pleasures of warm-weather goofiness.
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Erin Markey's disciplined performance piece, a collaboration with Emily Davis, examines the dissolving boundaries of intense intimacy.
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Kieran Knowles's gripping play about the Sheffield Blitz, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival, focuses on the interdependent lives of four steel workers.
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In this highly adrenalized production of Eugene O'Neill's harrowing family portrait, everybody seems to be acting as fast as possible.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Clare Barron's glorious new play, at Playwrights Horizons, examines the anguished and ecstatic inner lives of a middle-school dance team.
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This rambunctious riff on an ancient Greek comedy, at St. Ann's Warehouse, considers the crazier consequences of the quest for utopia
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This master farceur's play, believed to be his 81st, charts social changes through six decades in a single stately home, inhabited by people as silly as they are sad.
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Our chief critics offer reaction to the nominations, which were hard on jukebox musicals and "Frozen" but good to "My Fair Lady" and "Carousel."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PM[SHARE]May is a good month to venture away from Times Square blockbusters. "Our Lady of 121st Street" and "Long Day's Journey Into Night" are Off Broadway highlights.
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George C. Wolfe's entertaining production allows the large ensemble, including Mr. Washington, to charm one another and play to the crowd.
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This exuberant revival of Tom Stoppard's 1974 comedy of the intellect, starring Tom Hollander, is one of the sweetest and strangest defenses of art.
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Lucy Thurber's compassionate but clunky play follows the bids of two young men from the Bronx to win scholarships at a New England college
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J.K. Rowling's ever-popular boy wizard is all grown up in this enthralling two-part play, directed with seamless magic by John Tiffany.
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In the Irish Repertory Theater's solid revival of Conor McPherson's Christmas classic, the Devil sits down for Yuletide wassail and a game of cards.
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Amelia Roper's portrait of disparate " and desperate " lives in a Swiss hotel becomes an indictment of moral blight in the 21st century.
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