Monday, May 25, 2015
“Orange, Hat & Grace,” a romantic interplay between a middle-aged woman and a goofy young yokel, resembles an R-rated update of a Ma and Pa Kettle movie.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMSarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando” at the Classic Stage Company cannot be accused of taking any undue stylistic or thematic liberties.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThere’s nothing wrong in the new musical “We Have Always Lived in the Castle” at the Yale Repertory Theater, and that’s exactly the problem.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Michael Frayn play “Alphabetical Order” depicts the frantic antics at a withering daily newspaper in the British provinces.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe promise of “Now Circa Then,” a new comedy by Carly Mensch, is never fully realized in its intermingling of the past and the present.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMA.R. Gurney’s play “Office Hours” makes a gentle plea for the enduring worth of Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and other dead white males as writers whose works illuminate hu…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMNatasha Lyonne and Halley Feiffer star in Kim Rosenstock’s comedy about a big cat escaped from the zoo and other depressing variables of life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Hotel Savoy,” a site-specific theater piece by Dominic Huber, presents a host of unsettling tableaus, very loosely based on Joseph Roth’s 1924 novel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMAttending “Time Stands Still” can feel like eavesdropping on two cherished friends at their most vulnerable and emotionally exposed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMWar and the moral responsibility of those who bear witness to it are themes in “The Deer House,” a dance-theater work from Jan Lauwers and Needcompany at the Brooklyn Academy o…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe journalist-performer Lawrence Wright takes to the stage to shed light on the thorny conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“The Language Archive,” at the Laura Pels Theater, is about a linguist who cannot manage to verbalize elemental emotion in any of the many languages he speaks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Lombardi,” the new play based on a biography of the legendary football coach, suffers from a lack of a strong focus on its central character.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway” is basically a cover-band concert at the Neil Simon Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMWith revivals of Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” and Chekhov’s “Seagull,” the Goodman Theater in Chicago has pessimism on its mind.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMJulia Stiles plays a 19-century actress playing the role of Persephone in the multimedia Ridge Theater production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMKander and Ebb’s musical, “The Scottsboro Boys,” which dares to present ugly American history as bawdy burlesque, opens on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMKander and Ebb’s musical, “The Scottsboro Boys,” which dares to present ugly American history as bawdy burlesque, opens on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMAmid the homey detail in Will Eno’s play “Middletown” is a prickly awareness of the awesome mystery of existence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMRichard Nelson’s new play, at the Public Theater, concerns an election-night family dinner in which siblings confess to shifts in their political disposition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Long Story Short” is a snappy recap of human civilization as seen through the skeptical eyes of a standup comic, Colin Quinn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn “After the Revolution,” a fine and fiercely well-acted new play by Amy Herzog, the members of the Joseph clan are happier to argue the legacies of Stalin than to explore the…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMPee-Wee Herman, the adorable man-child in the skinny suit and red bow tie, has parked his playhouse on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMMy reaction to “Gatz” moved from full emotional engagement to a wondering admiration at the bracing beauty of Fitzgerald’s writing, to a distanced appreciation of the th…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMWere it not for the gorgeous costumes, Ping Chong’s “Throne of Blood” would be as boring to look at as it is to listen to.
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