Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s squishy, misbegotten “Antony and Cleopatra” resets Shakespeare’s tragedy on the island of Hispaniola during the reign of the French.
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Even the jerks become likable in Fiasco Theater’s charming production of “Measure for Measure,” one of Shakespeare’s creepiest plays.
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In Craig Lucas’s new play, “Ode to Joy,” Kathryn Erbe and Arliss Howard play lovers who bond over a tidal wave of vodka.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn the Young Vic’s production of “A Doll’s House,” at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn, Hattie Morahan brings out Nora’s manipulative side.
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Kelli O’Hara confirms her position as one of the most exquisitely expressive stars in musical theater in “The Bridges of Madison County” on Broadway.
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Caryl Churchill’s new play, “Love and Information,” unfolds with miniplots that deal with the ways we lust for, process and reject knowledge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe stage keeps looking to the screen for its musicals — this season, “Rocky,” “Aladdin” and “Bullets Over Broadway.”
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In Charles Busch’s “The Tribute Artist,” a female impersonator assumes the identity of his dead landlady to keep his coveted Greenwich Village apartment.
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The 1962 musical “Little Me,” starring Rachel York, Judy Kaye and Christian Borle, begins the season for the Encores! concert revival series.
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Three plays onstage in London — “Ghosts,” “Blurred Lines” and “The Pass” — are rooted in sexual hypocrisy and double standards.
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The playwright Christina Masciotti puts together a father and college-age daughter in the gentle comedy “Adult” at Abrons Arts Center.
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Jude Law, David Tennant and Tom Hiddleston have recently lent a screen-god glow to Shakespeare’s portraits of uncommon men, creating the hardest tickets to get in London. …
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In its breezy blandness, Thomas Bradshaw’s new play, “Intimacy,” is neither your everyday sex comedy nor a sendup of one.
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Sam Mendes sets his “King Lear,” starring Simon Russell Beale at the National Theater, in a modern dictatorship.
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The Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of the famously hard-to-stage musical “Candide” suggests that life may just be endurable — as long as we have the pluck to put on a show abo…
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Hilary Mantel’s best-selling novels about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII have been adapted for the stage at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PMA revival of Jez Butterworth’s 1995 “Mojo,” with Ben Whishaw, and three Beckett monologues “Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby” are reminders of the complex artistry required to distill words…
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Two dark new London musicals, “Stephen Ward,” about the 1963 Profumo scandal, and “American Psycho,” show men and their libidos behaving badly.
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In “King Lear” at the BAM Harvey Theater, Frank Langella manifests a tyrant’s reflexes in a multitude of keys.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA desperate life blazes amid devouring shadows in the Roundabout Theater Company’s intensely stylish revival of “Machinal.”
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“Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” traces the singer-songwriter’s bumpy road to stardom, song by song by song.
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The young company Bedlam Theater is presenting two four-actor plays — Shaw’s “Saint Joan” and Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” — in repertory at the Lynn Redgrave Theater. &…
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THE WEEK AHEAD
The Red Bull Theater, which has demonstrated a stylish affinity for Grand Guignol, seems the proper troupe to exhume Orton’s improper attack on conventional pieties.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:34PMThe Red Bull Theater, which has demonstrated a stylish affinity for Grand Guignol, seems the proper troupe to exhume Joe Orton’s “Loot.”
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Several current productions, from Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie” to Harold Pinter’s “No Man’s Land,” navigate the malleable landscape of recollection. &n…
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From the Off Broadway musical “Fun Home” to the star-crossed “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” Times writers offer a few last-minute theater picks.
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The Dublin writer Conor McPherson has directed his own play “The Night Alive,” with Ciarin Hinds, presented by the Atlantic Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMFrom “The Glass Menagerie” to “Matilda,” Ben Brantley exults in an embarrassment of riches that poured forth this year on and off Broadway.
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Squonk Opera, a multimedia troupe of infinite jest with an imagination to match, is determined to blur the lines of our sensory responses to music with its “Mayhem and Majesty.” &nb…
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