The Atlantic Theater presents two early Mamet one-acts, “Prairie du Chien,” from 1979, and “The Shawl,” from 1985.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMThis new play by Dave Malloy, who wrote “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,” is set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMAnne Washburn makes a theater piece out of the chaos that characterizes the tech rehearsal of a play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:34PMKate E. Ryan’s play at the Wild Project revolves around three women at a store in a New Hampshire town that has seen better days.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMA woman of unusual force barrels into the life of a butcher in his mid-70s in “Heisenberg,” a play by Simon Stephens about an unlikely pairing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMIn this play, Mr. Eisenberg plays a self-centered character who wants to win of love of an engaged woman whom he’s been smitten with since childhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMIn this production at City Center, Ms. Parker plays a woman who alters destiny when she kisses a stranger on the neck in a London train station.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:30PMIn Jerry Lieblich’s play in Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks series, questions of who’s playing whom become as giddy as a “Who’s on first?” routine.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:31PMThe real-life spouses Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley lead a new cast in the acclaimed musical about a family dealing with bipolar disorder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMZach Braff stars in “Trust,” a New Yorker-cartoonish comedy that seems to be based on the premise that we all have feelings of worthlessness and urges to control and be control…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMA select company of actors at the Berkshire Theater Festival is very much savoring Edward Albee's words in a first-class revival of "A Delicate Balance."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn The Memory Show, the young composer Zach Redler has written a score that follows the patterns of minds grasping, often in vain, for clarity, conviction and lost time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMA site-specific production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is performed for an audience of two dozen in an East Village town house.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMAt the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, a “Troilus and Cressida” that doesn’t shortchange the title characters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMSometimes performers make you see familiar characters in new ways.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMHedda and Hamlet, Nora and Blanche. Once in a while, an actor will shake your preconceptions of these classic characters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMBroadway this season is the land of second chances for celebrities looking to reignite their careers and for plays that failed miserably in their first outings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe saggy production of Edward Albee’s larky comedy of ideas “Me, Myself & I” at Playwrights Horizons reminds us that plays can sometimes lose their sense of purpose.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“The Sun Also Rises (The Select),” Elevator Repair Service’s entertaining if slightly under-par adaptation of Hemingway’s boozy novel, is part of the Philadelphia…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMLooked upon as a theater workshop inhabited by some very brave and talented souls, Ivo van Hove’s production of “The Little Foxes” bears definite dividends.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMCharles Busch sends up some old films, and serves up a Mother Superior with a journalistic past, in his new comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe acrobatics of love are performed in high style in “Brief Encounter,” which is surely the most enchanting work of stagecraft ever inspired by a movie.
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Lee Hall’s drama “The Pitmen Painters” explores the meaning of art through a group of aesthetically adventurous miners in Northern England during the 1930s and ’4…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMCherry Jones and Sally Hawkins star in Doug Hughes’s revival of the Shaw play “Mrs. Warren’s Profession,” about a prosperous madam re-entering the life of her dau…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Gatz,” a work of singular imagination and intelligence, chronicles one reader’s gradual but unconditional seduction by a single, ravishing novel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMDavid Mamet’s 1977 play, “A Life in the Theatre,” opened in an ill-advised Broadway revival starring Patrick Stewart and T. R. Knight.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThere’s not a show in town that more astutely reflects the state of this nation than “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” the rowdy political carnival that opened on Broadway.
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