Tuesday, March 1, 2011
The Public Theater’s new production of “Timon of Athens,” the inaugural Shakespeare Lab presentation from the company, stars Richard Thomas.
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In “The Hallway Trilogy” by Adam Rapp, a nondescript passageway in a Lower East Side tenement becomes a carnival of the desperate, the grotesque, the outrageous.
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The Wooster Group’s production of “Vieux Carré,” a Tennessee Williams play, is a ready-made aesthetic mashup that presents Williams at his most poetic in one scene, and his most frank…
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Ms. Smith's performance in "Downton Abbey" was particularly worth cherishing because she has been absent from the stage and seen only infrequently on film since undergoing treatment for brea…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:30PMAnyone who has had the good fortune of seeing Ms. Smith at the theater can only hope that she will find the stamina — or maybe it’s just the desire — to return to the medium.
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For the centennial year of Tennessee Williams’s birth a few enterprising companies are attempting rehabilitation of his unsuccessful later works.
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Nathan Louis Jackson’s drama “When I Come to Die,” about a prisoner who doesn’t die from his lethal injections, is remarkably free of sensation and sentimentality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMIn “Interviewing the Audience,” Zach Helm selects theatergoers to share some personal details with the audience.
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Friday, February 4, 2011
“Lost in the Stars,” part of the City Center Encores! series, revives the 1949 musical, an adaptation of the novel “Cry, the Beloved Country.”
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A conversation about the size and structure of the not-for-profit theater world is a necessity at a time when the collapsed economy has left organizations scrambling for funding.
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“The Whipping Man,” an atmospheric period drama by Matthew Lopez, has few equals in its arresting strangeness.
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Olympia Dukakis stars in this Roundabout Theater Company revival of Tennessee Williams’s fitfully moving but often preposterous 1963 play “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.”
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“The Old Masters,” by Simon Gray, depicts a showdown in Italy in 1937 between the art historian Bernard Berenson and the leading art dealer Joseph Duveen.
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“The Walk Across America for Mother Earth” is a playful but perceptive comedy by the downtown writer and performer Taylor Mac.
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Biology is destiny, and destiny is biology in “The How and the Why,” a new play by Sarah Treem at the McCarter Theater.
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Brian Bedford’s Lady Bracknell drives an effervescent Broadway production of “The Importance of Being Earnest,” which he also directs.
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“Blood From a Stone,” written by Tommy Nohilly and starring Ethan Hawke, is a worthy but wearying new play.
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
Billie Joe Armstrong, the Green Day frontman, brings a jolt of rock-god electricity to the Broadway musical “American Idiot.”
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Adam Bock’s “Small Fire” at Playwrights Horizons, about a woman who falls victim to a mysterious disease, has a crisp economy and precise focus.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30PMTo review or not to review? Or rather, when to review? That is a question lately debated in reference to "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
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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Most of the best work this year — on Broadway and (mostly) off — was freshly minted. Here’s a Top 10 list that contains no revivals.
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