Monday, December 15, 2014
“Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” David Hare’s stage adaptation of the best-selling book by Katherine Boo, makes its premiere at the National Theater in London.
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In “Assassins,” at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London, set in a carnival in some backwater of hell, you may find yourself staring down a gun barrel.
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Charles Isherwood’s Top 10 in theater reflects year noteworthy for the diversity of its subject matter and for the originality of its writing and staging.
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Kristin Scott Thomas plays the emotional lead in “Electra,” the Greek tale about a woman and familial revenge.
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Ayad Akhtar’s “The Invisible Hand,” at the New York Theater Workshop, examines the relationship between the power of the almighty dollar and modern terrorism.
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In “The Illusionists” at the Marriott Marquis Theater, seven magicians perform with the accompaniment of a band, laser beams, digital video screens and more.
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“Send for the Million Men” uses original text, historical documents and “spontaneous storytelling” to explore the stories of Sacco and Vanzetti.
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A semi-staged version of the Stephen King-John Mellencamp musical, “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,” stopped in New York on Monday during a national tour.
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“Little Dancer,” the new musical directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, features a ballerina with street cred.
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In Sharyn Rothstein’s “By the Water,” a couple whose house was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy have to decide whether to rebuild or move away.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02PMIn “Straight White Men,” personal issues come to the surface when a widower and his three sons gather for the holidays.
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“Everybody Rise: A Celebration of Elaine Stritch,” brought out the bright lights of New York Monday night in tribute to the longtime star who died in July.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014
“Basetrack Live” draws from video testimonials, photography and a website to recount the experiences of Marines in Afghanistan and their families stateside.
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A man and a woman, both facing crises, keep slightly uncomfortable company in David Auburn’s small-scale and sleepy new play, “Lost Lake.”
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In “You Got Older,” a daughter returns home to tend to her ailing father while sorting through her own issues of love and desire.
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Norm Lewis and Vanessa Williams lead the impressive singers in the New York Philharmonic’s unusually pallid staging of “Show Boat.”
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In Sarah Ruhl’s new play, “The Oldest Boy,” at Lincoln Center, Buddhist monks want to take an American child to India because they say he is the reincarnation of a revered teacher.
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Second Stage’s middling revival of “Lips Together, Teeth Apart” doesn’t fully excavate the rich seams of feeling in one of Terrence McNally’s finest plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe playwright Sarah Ruhl returns to her roots as a dramatist, and to Lincoln Center Theater with the premiere of her new play, “The Oldest Boy.”
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Suzan-Lori Parks’s new play reimagines a turbulent turning point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens.
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“The Last Ship,” a bleak musical with a score by the rock star Sting, is about an English shipbuilding town in decline.
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A dinner party becomes a verbal jousting tournament in Ayad Akhtar’s terrific, turbulent drama “Disgraced.”
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“Billy & Ray,” a play written by Mike Bencivenga and directed by Garry Marshall, looks at the film “Double Indemnity” and its writers, Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler.
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Joely Richardson plays Emily Dickinson in a new production of “The Belle of Amherst,” directed by Steve Cosson at the Westside Theater.
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“Employee of the Year,” part of the Crossing the Line festival, follows a woman’s tragedy and her search for her birth mother.
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Monday, October 13, 2014
In “Jacuzzi,” four people talk about their problems but at least two are careful not to divulge everything.
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