Monday, July 25, 2011
Lily Rabe and Josh Hamilton play a contemporary Nora and Torvald Helmer in the Williamstown Theater Festival production of “A Doll’s House.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:43PMSunday, July 24, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
The new musical “Death Takes a Holiday” finds the Grim Reaper visiting the living and breaking into song.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMSunday, July 17, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Rupert Goold’s “Romeo and Juliet,” the second production in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s repertory season at the Park Avenue Armory, utterly fails to stir the heart.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMMonday, July 11, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
With “As You Like It,” the Royal Shakespeare Company begins a six-week residency at a transformed Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:37PMThursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Cirque du Soleil goes back to its tried-and-true formula for its new show, “Zarkana,” at Radio City Music Hall.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMThursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
For while the Broadway season was a bountiful one in many ways - what's this, almost a dozen new musicals? - it was pretty thin on significant leading roles for women.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25PMWednesday, June 8, 2011
For “Theater for One” a single actor and a single audience member are sequestered in a plush red booth in Times Square for a one-on-one performance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PMIn Tanya Saracho’s play “Enfrascada,” a betrayed woman and her friends talk about love and dabble in the supernatural.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:49PMTuesday, June 7, 2011
The story of the Shaggs, a bad band that became something of a legend, is based on an actual footnote in rock ‘n’ roll history.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:15PMThursday, May 26, 2011
“The Best Is Yet to Come” is a revue tribute to Cy Coleman, whose songwriting career does not make for easy anthologizing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:37PMWednesday, May 25, 2011
Parenthood is considered from both the hypothetical and actual perspectives in “Cradle and All,” a slight but mostly satisfying comedy by Daniel Goldfarb.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMMonday, May 23, 2011
“Sleeping Beauty Wakes,” a musical that sets the fairy tale in modern times, finds the heroine enamored of a hospital orderly with his own sleep problems.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:11PMThursday, May 19, 2011
“Knickerbocker,” a new play by Jonathan Marc Sherman, delves into a man’s angst over his impending fatherhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMThe Broadway musical and opera inhabit distant cultural spheres, but two recent productions represented a notable — and unfortunate — point of contact.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:01PMInspiring bouts of irrational fear may be among the ancillary ambitions of Sleep No More," an immersive production from the London-based Punchdrunk company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:14PMThursday, May 12, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Small stirrings of the heart and mind evoke delicate musical responses in “A Minister’s Wife,” a chamber musical based on “Candida,” George Bernard Shaw’s comedy about the myster…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMFriday, May 6, 2011
Arthur Laurents stands alone as a writer who owes his lasting fame to his authorship of two great musical books.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:00PM“Carson McCullers Talks About Love,” Suzanne Vega’s mixture of nightclub act and theater piece at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is a funky ramble through McCullers’s life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:00AMSunday, May 1, 2011
David Ives’s “School for Lies,” at Classic Stage Company, is a glittering, freewheeling rewrite of Molière’s “Misanthrope.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMThursday, April 28, 2011
Watching the stage adaptation of “Autumn Sonata” at the Yale Repertory Theater is a bit like looking at the Ingmar Bergman movie through the wrong end of a telescope.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PM 
