Thursday, January 5, 2017
The play, by the company 600 Highwaymen, incorporates audience members to deliver a meditation on human connection.
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The theater critic Charles Isherwood offers a look at outstanding Broadway and Off Broadway offerings in January.
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The New Yiddish Rep presents a revival of the 1907 Sholem Asch play that scandalized New York with its portrayal of prostitution and same-sex romance.
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This revival features a scene that can take away the breath of anyone who was touched by an illness that started claiming mainly gay men.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016
This classic musical, directed by Bartlett Sher, is timely and shines on all fronts. It closes on New Year’s Eve.
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Sunday, December 18, 2016
“Life Is for Living,” a tribute from Simon Green and David Shrubsole, combines songs with snippets of Coward’s letters and diaries, and some verse.
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This stage adaptation of the 1992 Whitney Houston film, at Paper Mill Playhouse, features lots of Houston hits but characters of minimal dimensions.
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Pia Scala-Zankel’s play, a Vertigo Theater production at the New Ohio Theater, follows youths living on the streets of New York in the 1980s.
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An opulent setting, tinkling crystal and perfectly cooked beef is on tap for guests of this intimate production based on a James Joyce Story.
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Monday, December 5, 2016
“Longing Lasts Longer,” Ms. Arcade’s solo show at St. Ann’s Warehouse, laments a changed New York and frets about group-mind control.
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This gorgeous heartbreaker of a musical, starring Ben Platt and directed by Michael Greif, has tragedy at its core but is anything but a downer.
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The music freshens the material in this show at the Longacre Theater, with a book by Chazz Palminteri, who also wrote and starred in the original solo play.
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In this delightful musical, members of a school choir compete for one spot in the land of the living after they are killed when the title contraption malfunctions.
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On the heels of an extended run in Chicago, this musical about the afterlife of a school choir, comes to the Lucille Lortel Theater.
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This whimsical dance-theater work from Phantom Limb, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is part of a trilogy focused on “environmental concerns.”
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At 59E59 Theaters, a stage version of the novel and its Oscar-winning 1980s movie version includes most of the film’s memorable moments and more sexual frankness.
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This Theater for a New Audience production of Carlo Goldoni’s 18th-century farce struggles as it tries to employ contemporary humor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMThe Q Brothers have concocted another mash-up of rap and Shakespeare. And the laughter grows, right along with the stack of corpses.
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Dave Malloy’s pop opera is both the most innovative and the best new musical to open on Broadway since the hit musical about one founding father.
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Athol Fugard has directed his own masterwork at the Signature Theater, which returns to the stage at a time when it feels painfully pertinent.
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Jordan Seavey’s play follows a couple who comes together, breaks apart and just about everything in between.
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Kristin Chenoweth’s concert show, “My Love Letter to Broadway,” displayed her enthusiasm, playfulness, superb voice and entertaining choice of material.
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In Lynn Nottage’s latest play, the bonds among working-class friends and family unravel as the local economy falls apart.
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In this comedy-drama by Jenny Rachel Weiner, two women in Carson, Nev., establish an internet bond, though one of them has assumed the guise of a man.
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The theater critic Charles Isherwood offers a look at adventurous new musicals, a revival he calls nearly “perfect,” Sutton Foster, and Shakespeare.
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Red Bull Theater’s impressive production of Shakespeare’s late tragedy doesn’t skimp on the election metaphors.
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