Monday, May 25, 2015
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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Lost in the Stars,” part of the City Center Encores! series, revives the 1949 musical, an adaptation of the novel “Cry, the Beloved Country.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMNathan 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 05:58PMIn “Interviewing the Audience,” Zach Helm selects theatergoers to share some personal details with the audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMFor the centennial year of Tennessee Williams’s birth a few enterprising companies are attempting rehabilitation of his unsuccessful later works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMAnyone 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 me…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe 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,…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn “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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn Bryony Lavery’s play “Beautiful Burnout,” at St. Ann’s Warehouse, amateur boxers have dreams of bigger things.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Public Theater’s new production of “Timon of Athens,” the inaugural Shakespeare Lab presentation from the company, stars Richard Thomas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn Bryony Lavery’s play “Beautiful Burnout,” at St. Ann’s Warehouse, amateur boxers have dreams of bigger things.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Public Theater’s new production of “Timon of Athens,” the inaugural Shakespeare Lab presentation from the company, stars Richard Thomas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe decision to move long-running Broadway hits to Off Broadway has both its inspiring and dispiriting sides.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMA new staging of “The Merchant of Venice,” from Theater for a New Audience, stars F. Murray Abraham as Shylock.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMAdapted from the indie movie, this musical at the La Jolla Playhouse in California is chipper and polished but oppressively cute.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn “Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony” the tart-tongued comic combines insider access to the world of the famous (or at least the pseudo-famous) and her willingness to be frank about …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMFour plays at two New York festivals, Under the Radar and Coil, offer a range of themes, styles and even language.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMCritics 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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In Susan Stroman’s “apocalyptic vaudeville” at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Mac play two survivors passing the time.
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In Emily Schwend’s play, a journalist staking out a barn with ghost hunters seems to undergo a sudden change in personality.
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The play, by Robert Askins, author of “Hand to God,” takes a comedic look at Christian Domestic Discipline.
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The original characters in this moving Pulitzer Prize-winning drama reprise their roles in this staging at the Barrow Street Theater.
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Annie Baker’s play, which had a short, controversial run at Playwrights Horizons, is reopening at Barrow Street Theater.
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In this play, an artist in South Africa is dogged by apartheid as he paints boulders and stones to brighten a dry landscape.
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This season, shows like “Disgraced,” “Airline Highway,” “Hand to God,” “Skylight” and “The Visit” portrayed the plight of the poor, the dominance of the rich and the ange…
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Friday, May 1, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
The central characters in John Ford’s play, from Red Bull Theater, are about as star-crossed from the get-go as you could get.
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