Monday, May 25, 2015
The 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[SHARE]“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 05:58PM[SHARE]Looked 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 05:58PM[SHARE]The 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The 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…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Cherry 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[SHARE]“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 05:58PM[SHARE]David 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 05:58PM[SHARE]There’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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The production of "Gatz" has stirred memories of other shows adapted from well-known literary works. And it has made me appreciate how hard it is to capture a novel's sensibility on stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The production of "Gatz" has stirred memories of other shows adapted from well-known literary works. And it has made me appreciate how hard it is to capture a novel's sensibility on stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Finishing the Hat,” a self-portrait of Stephen Sondheim as an obsessive lyricist, is about a dynamic, unending process: it’s about finishing, not having finished.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]In the Second Stage Theater’s revival of Arthur Kopit’s “Wings,” Jan Maxwell plays a woman whose perceptions are splintered after a stroke.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Penelope,” from the Druid Theater, tells the story of the men trying to woo the title character after her husband, Odysseus, goes off to the Trojan War.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Penelope,” from the Druid Theater, tells the story of the men trying to woo the title character after her husband, Odysseus, goes off to the Trojan War.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Angels in America” returns for a revival by the Signature Theater Company in a production that feels cozier, more accessible and less startling than it did when it opened in N…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Shakespeare’s Globe production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” at Pace University, treats this low-rent farcical war horse with a little respect.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Lisa Kron’s “In the Wake” at the Public Theater is a more conventionally naturalistic play than Ms. Kron’s memoir pieces, “Well” and “2.5 Min…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Lisa Kron’s “In the Wake” at the Public Theater is a more conventionally naturalistic play than Ms. Kron’s memoir pieces, “Well” and “2.5 Min…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Shakespeare’s Globe production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” at Pace University, treats this low-rent farcical war horse with a little respect.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The musical adaptation of “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” at the Belasco Theater on Broadway, has a serious case of attention deficit disorder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Annie Baker’s distinctively bittersweet sounds of silence are echoing throughout the Boston Center for the Arts, where three of her plays are being performed, with considerable skill …
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