Friday, September 11, 2015
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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2015
"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 Hotel."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2015
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 07:28PM[SHARE]David 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 You Like…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, August 21, 2015
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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 20, 2015
A throbbing, infectious production of Euripides' "The Bakkhai" stars Ben Whishaw as Dionysos; and Rory Kinnear plays Joseph K, Kafka's bewildered and shame-stained hero, in "The Trial."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2015
This dark play features grotesque festivities that are staged in New York after society has become only a shadow of what it once was.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37PM[SHARE]New York won't be quite the same helluva town after Sept. 6, when this happy revival closes. Misty Copeland, the reigning It girl of American ballet, joins the cast Tuesday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:51PM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
Jane Anderson's new play, a Shakespeare & Company production in Lenox, Mass., is about the headaches of rearing a truly gifted child: Joan of Arc.
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Sunday, August 9, 2015
Thursday, August 6, 2015
In its move to Broadway, the show about America's founding fathers is proof that the musical is not only surviving but evolving in ways that should allow it to thrive.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2015
The British troupe Cheek by Jowl infuses Alfred Jarry's satirical drama with the kind of angry adolescent sentiment that gave birth to it.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Carey Perloff's heavy-breathing drama at the Williamstown Theater Festival centers on two newspaper colleagues on the brink of an affair.
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Thursday, July 16, 2015
Encores! presents a concert revival of Andrew Lippa's version of a lurid 1920s poem about a gathering full of sex, drugs and violence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Ms. Maxwell, a five-time Tony nominee, says that the play, set in 16th-century Venice and produced by the Potomac Theater Project at Atlantic Stage 2, will be her last.
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This work, under the direction of Garry Hynes and performed by Ireland's Druid Theater Company is a seven-hour adaptation of "Richard II," "Henry IV" and "Henry V."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2015
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Monday, July 6, 2015
This play by Daniel Goldfarb focuses on an older author (Eric Bogosian) who becomes obsessed with having a child, to the dismay of his wife (Jessica Hecht).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:09PM[SHARE]Daniel Fish's excavation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic at Bard College asks that we listen with virgin ears to the show that changed the Broadway musical.
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