Sunday, October 30, 2016
Friday, October 28, 2016
Both plays in "Two Class Acts" by A.R. Gurney look at how Hellenic-studies students and instructors explore the effect of changing times on tradition.
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Eternity is downright cozy in Daniel Alexander Jones's hearts-and-flowers-themed exploration of life and what lies beyond in this Soho Rep production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30PM[SHARE]In this gala performance, Mr. Gyllenhaal plays the French painter Georges Seurat at work. It's another musical night to remember at City Center.
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Rachel Weisz plays Susan Traherne, the radioactively unhappy center of this play, revived by David Leveaux at the Public Theater 34 years after opening there.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Diane Lane stars in this terminally confused production of Chekhov's play, about a woman who faces a changing reality when she returns to her childhood home.
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The play, making its transfer to Broadway with Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt, finds a potentially psychotic American woman meeting a British butcher.
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Monday, October 10, 2016
This stupendously entertaining play centers on the comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who have created geriatric alter egos as roommates.
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This play from the Mad Ones company would send you bolting for the exit, screaming, if it weren't so funny and unexpectedly touching.
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This play, by the Classical Theater of Harlem at 3LD Art & Technology Center, finds Egyptian royalty behaving like divas in the 15th-century B.C.
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This program of three short plays by Horton Foote stars the wonderful Hallie Foote, the playwright's daughter, and returns to his fictitious Harrison, Tex.
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Simon McBurney's astonishing one-man show, from the British troupe Complicite, immerses the audience in an aural landscape where time and space collapse.
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Monday, September 26, 2016
This shocking play from the Philadelphia-based Lightning Rod Special troupe is about finding ways to speak to one another about an unspeakable American institution.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PM[SHARE]Nathan Alan Davis's contemplative and largely inert play depicts the famous leader of a slave uprising as a biblical martyr and prophet.
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Richard Nelson portrays life in a political season as a bewildering mirage for an extended family that finds itself in reduced circumstances.
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Throughout his work, Edward Albee insisted that our most primitive instincts kept asserting themselves in even the most civilized settings.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Theatergoers will have two chances to check out the playwright: productions with Diane Lane and with Ms. Blanchett in her Broadway debut.
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Performed by four puppet-wielding, stricken-looking men in their 20s, Eoghan Quinn's play at the Origin's 1st Irish festival is giddily endearing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PM[SHARE]Sarah's DeLappe's exciting play about a high school soccer team creates a buzz of personalities whose thoughts and emotions move at warp speed.
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This spoof from Gerard Alessandrini, the creator of "Forbidden Broadway," takes aim at "Hamilton" and its place in the battlefield of musicals.
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Ellen McLaughlin, who played the celestial messenger in "Angels in America" on Broadway, brings her "Trojan Women" to the Flea Theater's resident actors.
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Sunday, August 14, 2016
Mr. Rylance's portrayal in "Twelfth Night" is, hands down, our chief theater critic's favorite Shakespeare performance. The actor tells us how he developed the role.
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Several productions this summer offer grim but engrossing plots " even the farces, which are propelled by the characters' lies, adding a sting to the laughter.
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