Sunday, October 30, 2016
Red Bull Theater’s impressive production of Shakespeare’s late tragedy doesn’t skimp on the election metaphors.
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This revival of William Finn and James Lapine’s show has so much vitality that it feels as fresh and startling as it did back in 1992.
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Dig beneath the usual stories of broken marriages and adolescent angst, and we discover wells of darkness that seem to have no bottom.
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Qui Nguyen’s raucous comedy about Vietnamese refugees in America in 1975 smartly nails the dissonance of immigration.
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David Hyde Pierce stars in this bleak new play by Adam Bock, which swerves suddenly from the mundane to the shocking.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:22PMThis new play by Samuel D. Hunter centers on a group of 20-somethings who are exploring their problems as they prepare for a mission to the Middle East.
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In “Letter to a Man,” based on the diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, Mikhail Baryshnikov plays the early-20th-century ballet great who became schizophrenic.
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Thursday, October 13, 2016
Chris Gethard’s solo show grapples with his uncomfortable if often mordantly funny relationship to depression.
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In Leegrid Stevens’s play, a dead, zombielike father plays on as his squabbling family surveys its present and re-enacts its past against a video-game background.
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Sunday, October 2, 2016
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
This year’s Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival featured works by Williams and Eugene O’Neill, including a searing “Desire Under the Elms.”
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The thought-provoking new show from the Civilians is a collage of testimonials drawn from people with a particular point of view on, or relationship with, mortality.
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Our critic Charles Isherwood prizes epic theater. Here’s his take on two inspired long-form works coming to an end in New York at roughly the same time.
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In this Nilo Cruz play, Father Monroe grapples with the intimate feelings he shares with a woman whose family attends his church.
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The avant-garde production, which borrows from several sources, includes a talking dog, scenes from Hitchcock and mind-numbing dialogue.
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This play from the Atlantic Theater Company tells how the singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe and a protégée, Marie Knight, met and established their act in 1940s Mississippi.
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Sarah Jones, Anna Deavere Smith and Lynn Nottage all have new works onstage this fall that grapple with the toughest issues in contemporary culture.
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Julia Cho’s drama about family, food and mortality, at Playwrights Horizons, focuses on the invisible barriers that spring up between people.
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This Tony-winning 1959 musical about New York’s colorful, corruption-fighting mayor gets an Off Broadway revival from the Berkshire Theater Group.
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Professional and amateur actors and civic and cultural groups join in this contemporary musical adaptation from the Public Works program by the Public Theater.
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With “Hamilton” still the toughest ticket in town, why not try the “Forbidden Broadway” spoof “Spamilton” at the Triad Theater.
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Leslye Headland (“Bachelorette”) has written a dark drama about infidelity and its unforeseen consequences, now playing at Second Stage Theater.
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This musical, at Barrington Stage Company, finds some goofy pleasures in the story of an actress who chases down criminals.
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Two plays, Tom Holloway’s “And No More Shall We Part” and Wendy Wasserstein’s “An American Daughter,” close this theater festival’s season.
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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Stratford and Shaw Festivals bring rewards to actors and audiences by showcasing a wide variety of shows.
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The playwright Lucy Teitler brings tangy wit and barbed portraiture to this tale of multiple engagement parties.
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Mr. Houghton, who died Tuesday, founded a Signature Theater whose seasons have focused mostly on a single playwright — a radical, fruitful approach.
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