A group of men all named Josh Cohen went to a new off-Broadway musical The Other Josh Cohen. It's a common Jewish name. One of them thought the show was about him, for good reason.
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SOURCE: economix.blogs.nytimes.com at 05:58PM“Almost, Maine,” a regional theater standard, is a world of love played out in vignettes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:15PMThe Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater uses Plato’s texts as a basis for “The Republic, or Dinner With Socrates,” at La MaMa E.T.C.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PMSidney Frances Bateman’s 1856 play “Self,” at the Metropolitan Playhouse, offers timeless humor centered on social climbers.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:00PMHelen Sneed’s “Fix Me, Jesus,” at Abingdon Theater, delves behind a panic attack.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMEd Bullins’s “In the Wine Time,” a drama from 1968, is full of bad advice for its orphaned young hero.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AMIn the play “And Miles to Go,” a longtime teacher deals with problems at a New York high school.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:29PMThe Pearl Theater Company is reviving George Bernard Shaw’s “You Never Can Tell,” a subversive comedy of errors about men and women’s negotiations over independence and marriage.&nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMThree characters are trapped in reveries and in search of what is real in “The Awake,” by Ken Urban.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMIn Fraser Grace’s “Breakfast With Mugabe,” the president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, sees a psychotherapist, and colonialism is put on the couch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:13PMAdrian Bunting’s play recalls the 1809 protests over ticket prices at the Covent Garden Theater in London.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:22PMFrom the immense lineup of shows in the New York International Fringe Festival, staff members at The Times play some hunches and make some picks to see.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMIn John S. Anastasi’s “I Forgive you, Ronald Reagan,” a family is permanently scarred by the 1981 air traffic controllers’ walkout.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:52PMIn this musical starring Susan Blackwell a ragtag high school volleyball team and its once-disgraced coach fight for respect.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21PMIn this musical by Eli Bolin, Sam Forman and Rob Ackerman, a ragtag high school volleyball team and once-disgraced coach fight for respect.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:47PMChinese-American siblings struggle with pressures from their mother and their snarky online milieu in “a cautionary tail,” at the Flea Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:47PMIn “Rantoul and Die,” an assistant manager at a Dairy Queen in a depressed Illinois town tries to clean up her personal life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00PMIn “Bureau of Missing Persons,” a former schoolteacher who had a mental breakdown after losing one of her fourth graders on a class trip, goes on a quest that takes her to a cave in Mosc…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMIn the Mint Theater’s revival of “A Picture of Autumn,” N. C. Hunter’s 1951 play, a family struggles with elderly parents who cling to their crumbling mansion.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:57PMRhea Leman’s “Gorilla” builds a play around corporate team-building exercises.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PMJohn Patrick Shanley is the featured playwright in the first series of Ensemble Studio Theater’s annual marathon of one-act plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PMAn unhappy couple in the South take new lovers in “Different Animals,” Abby Rosebrock’s comedy at Cherry Lane Theater Studio.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:20PM“This Side of Neverland,” featuring two one-act plays by J. M. Barrie, has a feminist message.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PMThe work of a Yiddish poet and a klezmer composer are combined in “The Megile of Itzik Manger.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:57PMA lust triangle is the framework for “Apple,” a play by Vern Thiessen fueled by bathos, tragic illness, coincidences, alcoholism and tearful confessions of star-crossed love. …
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