Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Cate Blanchett stars in this Sydney Theater Company production of a Chekhov work, which features an eruption of runaway hedonism at a birthday party.
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The action in this piece at the Under the Radar festival unfolds both on a screen and below it, as you watch illusion-makers work with video, shadow puppets and scrims.
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The married performers Shaun and Abigail Bengson fall in love and contemplate mortality in this concert-style memoir at the Under the Radar festival.
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You can get there in a handbasket, but the route proposed by "The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart" is a lot more fun. And drinks are served.
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Daniel Craig is the Iago to the Othello of David Oyelowo in this breathless interpretation of Shakespeare's taut portrait of lives razed by jealousy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2016
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
This play at the Public Theater, based on Cheryl Strayed's book, is a handkerchief-soaking meditation on pain, loss, hope and forgiveness.
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Dan LeFranc's sweet and scary, lackadaisical and hypnotic play centers on a pending divorce and baby-boomer couples with a lot of time on their hands.
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Thursday, December 1, 2016
A dark comedy about a girls' soccer team, a trilogy of plays in the year in the life of a family, a crash course on Manhattan and a bit of hedonism is on tap.
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Simon McBurney's hypnotic one-man show or Cate Blanchett's daredevil acting? There are also cast albums like "Bright Star" and "A New Brain."
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At the Vineyard Theater, Nicky Silver shows a pair of newlyweds, their damaged gay son almost a half-century later and growing empathy for mothers.
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Sutton Foster's Charity is vaguely aware that becoming a doormat for men was a bad career choice in this revival at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24PM[SHARE]In delivering his plea to Mike Pence after the show, the Broadway actor Brandon Victor Dixon was also speaking to Donald J. Trump, meeting directness with directness.
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
This one-man show revolves around a man who has apparently simply dialed a wrong number and then stays on the line to talk. And talk.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]Suzan-Lori Parks's phantasmagorical theater piece is a sepulchral parade of images that have distorted and swallowed up the history of African-Americans.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2016
An early work by Ms. Parks, "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, a.k.a. The Negro Book of the Dead," opens Signature's season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PM[SHARE]Richard Nelson's "Women of a Certain Age," Part 3 of a cycle, at the Public Theater, focuses on a family gathering on the night of voting, and what comes next.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 6, 2016
Friday, November 4, 2016
In "Kings of War," the director Ivo van Hove adapts five history plays into a conflagration of corruption, factionalism and political viciousness.
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Anna Deavere Smith's new performance piece explores the cursed intersection of two American institutions, the school and the prison, in a racially divided nation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Edgar Oliver's performance piece delves into life's evanescence, from the father he never knew to a cracked curb on the Lower East Side.
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