Monday, May 25, 2015
Critics and writers for The New York Times write about shows and performances they are looking forward to seeing on New York stages in 2011.
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The responsibilities of being an audience member rarely weigh as heavily as in "I'm Not the Stranger You Think I Am," where short plays are performed in a 4 feet by 8 feet mobile structure.
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After staging versions of "The Great Gatsby" and "The Sun Also Rises," a company tackles part of a notoriously difficult American classic.
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Mr. Callow, the popular British character actor, portrays Pauline, who is trying to find a connection with her father who still thinks of her as his son.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Neil LaBute offers shocks as well as comforting pats on the arm in this play about the morning after a one-night stand, at Second Stage Theater.
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This play about adolescent growing pains is a guilty memoir of a work by A. R. Gurney, revived at the Pershing Square Signature Center by the Signature Theater and Jim Simpson.
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" to "An American in Paris," the Broadway season was filled with identity crises.
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In Lemon Andersen's play about versifying behind bars, a convict can secure his status by being able to chant and riff in the form that gives the show its title.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
With this show at La MaMa, an attack on institutionalized killing, Belarus Free Theater displays its customary razor-sharp commentary.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]The 1968 musical adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel "Zorba the Greek" is the final offering of this season's Encores! series of musicals in concert.
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Five Indian women describe their experiences of sexual abuse in Yael Farber's harrowing documentary drama at the Lynn Redgrave Theater.
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Ms. Rivera stars as a wealthy woman who returns to her Swiss hometown with a tempting proposal of murder in this macabre, long-gestating musical.
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Unchecked enthusiasm and puns abound in this Broadway-does-the-Renaissance frolic, which namechecks pretty much every musical you've ever heard of.
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Sunday, April 19, 2015
This portrait of a girl and her father, adapted from Alison Bechdel's graphic novel of a memoir, occupies the place where we all grew up, and will never be able to leave.
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
Bartlett Sher's revival at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, starring Ken Watanabe and Kelli O'Hara, balances epic sweep with an intimate sensibility.
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The musical at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, based on the 2004 movie about the creator of Peter Pan, heightens the screenplay's life-affirming messages.
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Revisiting a very old theme in this big fat musical of a wedding, with all the trimmings (and Tyne Daly starring), by Brian Hargrove and Barbara Anselmi.
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Based with a wink on John Buchan's 1915 novel and Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film, this comedy at the Union Square Theater has a cast of four but too many characters to count.
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Richard Eyre's production of the classic Ibsen play, at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, allows the audience to feel the full, bruising force of the drama.
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The riveting two-part stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel's best-selling novels about Henry VIII and his chaotic court is at the Winter Garden Theater.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015
Stephen Daldry's revival of David Hare's play, starring Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, plays off the dramatic duality of ex-lovers who are irresistibly drawn to each other.
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Sunday, March 29, 2015
"Twelfth Night (or What You Will)" and "What You Will (or Twelfth Night)" create worlds in which sexual desire and gender are always changing direction.
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