The four actors in the new Spanish-language play based on Gabriel García Márquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera” portray characters over many decades, making them symbols.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:08PMIt’s difficult to make out a lot of what is happening in “Ich, Kürbisgeist,” which has its own dialect, but it is still, somehow, powerful.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:57PM“How to Break,” a new play by Aaron Jafferis and the Mixing Texts Collective, tells the story of two teenagers in a hospital who are united by their illnesses and their love of hip-hop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMMuch of “Blood Play,” in which the characters start as caricatures and grow more rounded, is spent in the basement of a couple’s new house.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:15PMIn “Motel Cherry,” a new play by Peggy Stafford, a group of travelers congregate in a dumpy roadside motel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:29PMChris Tanner’s “Etiquette of Death” closes La MaMa’s 50th-anniversary season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:45PMConfinement was a theme of several works in this year’s Queer New York International Arts Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PMIn “Amelia,” written by Alex Webb and performed on Governors Island, a woman journeys through the wartime South in search of her soldier husband.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:55PMThe legacy of vaudeville, burlesque and cabaret is celebrated in Spiegelworld’s new tent show “Empire.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn Yair Oelbaum’s play of fractured narrative, part of the Whitney Biennial, two single mothers search for a lost daughter.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:26PMIn Paul Durcan’s “Give Me Your Hand,” two actors read poems inspired by a visit to the National Gallery in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:52PMThe director Daniel Fish will present a theater piece based on the words of David Foster Wallace at the Chocolate Factory in Queens.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMJoyce Hokin Sachs’s play “Eternal Equinox” at 59E59 Theaters concerns a fraught 24-hour interlude in the lives of the Bloombury artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:44PM“Leave the Balcony Open” at 3LD Art & Technology Center is about college students grieving and healing after two deaths.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMJohn Jesurun’s “Stopped Bridge of Dreams” has a voice that’s mad, poetic and unsettling.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00PMIn “Leo,” Tobias Wegner seems to walk on walls thanks to acrobatics and sleight of hand.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Turkish play “Lick But Don’t Swallow!,” about a reluctant angel sent to join the cast of a low-budget skin flick, is running at La MaMa as part of the Under the Radar festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:09PM"Looking for a Missing Employee," based on a true story about the troubling disappearance of a Lebanese government official, is the long overdue and too-brief American debut of the actor and…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00PMMore female playwrights have come to Broadway, but at least one of them, Theresa Rebeck, seems to accept a glass ceiling in ”Seminar.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:27PMA good man is hard to find, especially in this city. But is it harder or easier to find one than to find a good bar? Grant James Varjas answers these eternal New York questions in his latest…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:28PMMac Wellman’s enigmatic play “3 2’s; or AFAR” covers ground from physical theater to Heidegger at Dixon Place.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:32PMThe people passing by, the noises of the street and even the weather influence the events of “The Love Letter You’ve Been Meaning to Write New York.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:22PMThe Ensemble Studio Theater’s festival is a showcase for the work of minority women.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:15PMUnannounced, Popeye & Cloudy, a k a Fred Jones and Paul Marino, are performing Shakespeare on New York City subway cars.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:26PMKara Lee Corthron’s “Julius by Design” centers on a couple grieving for their only child, Julius, who was killed seven years ago during a bungled home invasion.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:43PMIn “Manipulation,” by Victoria E. Calderon, a woman is trapped by circumstances and the people around her, against the backdrop of a Latin American revolution.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:27PMPerformance Space 122 is closed for a multiyear renovation. There is much to gain, but something will also be lost.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:59PMTarget Margin Theater’s delightfully homespun production of “The Tempest” has a lighthearted, mischievous touch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:45PMMabou Mines’s revival of “Peter and Wendy,” intended for age 10 to adult, left one young audience member wanting more, and one older one not particularly satisfied.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMAnne Bogart directs Charles Mee’s script in the Siti Company’s “Under Construction,” which suggests that, like the title, America is a work in progress.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19PMJohn Kelly renders “The Escape Artist” at Performance Space 122 with the assistance of re-creations of paintings by Caravaggio.
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