Wednesday, October 14, 2015
The show explores life in the White House for the likes of Amy Carter, Tricia and Julie Nixon, and Susan Ford.
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Ms. July, a self-conscious practitioner of self-consciousness, has an improbable gift for turning the initially irritating into the charming.
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Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell tear up the scenery (and each other) in Daniel Aukin’s definitive revival of Sam Shepard’s drama.
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Starring Julie Atlas Muz and Joey Arias, this spooky production blends surreal projections, hoisting harnesses and puppets to depict the 1915 founders of the Abrons Arts Center’s playhouse.
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Monday, October 5, 2015
This Atlantic Theater Company revival of Caryl Churchill’s play is set in the Victorian age (for its first act) and in 1979 (for its second).
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Discussing Mr. Friel’s work, Ben Brantley reflects on the elusiveness of great art and the pain of the artist who creates it.
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Ben Brantley and Anthony Tommasini weigh in on the debate set off by the Metropolitan Opera’s decision to forgo darkening makeup in its latest production.
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Elevator Repair Service takes on a script that appears to pose seemingly insurmountable difficulties for a stage director.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMHearing words in a new way is part of the experience of “Reread Another,” a 1921 avant-garde play by Gertrude Stein.
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Ivo van Hove’s doom-steeped production stars Juliette Binoche as the fatally rebellious daughter of the house of Oedipus.
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Two people who almost had an affair 20 years ago have another chance in Christopher Shinn’s “An Opening in Time” at Hartford Stage.
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This deadpan drama by the shock artist Thomas Bradshaw is more of a slice-of-life narrative than his previous ventures into new frontiers of outrage.
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Friday, September 18, 2015
Megan McGinnis and Paul Alexander Nolan star in a musical about pen pals from Jean Webster’s 1912 novel best known as a 1955 movie with Leslie Caron and Fred Astaire.
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A humorously made-over Greek chorus is one of the twists in Anne Washburn and Rachel Chavkin’s version of Euripides’ play.
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Monday, September 14, 2015
Playing Rosalind Franklin, a lone woman among male researchers in London, Ms. Kidman projects relentless determination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:15PMBen Brantley on two versions of “The Oresteia,” part of the current fashion for Greek tragedy on London and New York Stages.
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Thursday, September 10, 2015
So many plays and musicals are being revived so soon after their previous runs that it’s best to appreciate the opportunity rather than curse the production.
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Friday, September 4, 2015
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Monday, August 31, 2015
Timberlake Wertenbaker’s “Our Country’s Good” has been given a big, handsome and somewhat literal-minded revival at the National Theater.
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“Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical,” with its focus of dreams of the future, has many parallels to “Billy Elliot: The Musical.” Then, also in London, there is the Hitler-era “Grand…
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015
This production in London frames Mr. Cumberbatch like a saint in an old-master painting, reflecting the fervor surrounding his star turn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:28PMDavid Suchet plays Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest” at the Vaudeville Theater and, across the river, Michelle Terry is the cross-dressing heroine of “As …
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In Abi Morgan’s “Splendour” at the Donmar Warehouse, Sinead Cusack plays a dictator’s wife who drinks shots with her guests at the palace in a revolution-torn city.
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